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Andrew Pella

Technical Product & Program Leader | Enterprise Technology | Infrastructure & Operations

Oregon, United States

Summary

Technology leader with experience spanning technical product management, program leadership, enterprise infrastructure, IT operations, observability platform product leadership, endpoint services, mobility, digital workplace, automation, and AI-assisted operations. Career combines hands-on engineering and architecture with senior individual-contributor Product Owner and Product Manager leadership.

Experienced leading large-scale technology transformation from requirements and technical evaluation through proof of concept, pilot, implementation, deployment, production operations, modernization, and lifecycle management. Work has ranged from nationwide infrastructure deployments across more than 450 locations to global enterprise platforms supporting approximately 50,000–65,000 users and mobility environments encompassing approximately 70,000 managed devices.

Experience

Senior Product Manager

Product Owner / Product Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Salesforce · September 2021–October 5, 2026

Product and portfolio leadership for four SRE teams covering Logging, Monitoring, Tools Development, and Incident Management, serving approximately 50,000 internal users.

  • Led product and portfolio planning while managing approximately 50 intake requests per week across four independent backlogs and roadmaps.
  • Built and maintained the combined SRE roadmap used for quarterly leadership and executive reviews, integrating priorities, capacity, commitments, metrics, KPIs, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
  • Held product responsibility for Splunk, Logstash, New Relic, Grafana, PagerDuty, OpenTelemetry collectors, incident workflows, and technical-tool development.
  • Led an OpenTelemetry client-reporting initiative from feasibility and development testing through production dual-run, security validation, and full production deployment across macOS and Windows clients, reducing client-side overhead and complexity while satisfying security requirements.
  • Coordinated product owners, Logging, client engineering, security, and operations teams through requirements, implementation, blocker resolution, validation, and transition of production ownership.
  • Designed and built a governed AI-assisted operational workflow that gathered team updates, identified blockers, and initiated follow-on work while retaining human approval, source traceability, validation, access controls, exception handling, failure routing, and audit records.
  • Led implementation of the AI-assisted workflow across all four SRE teams using Claude CLI, ChatGPT, Codex, Slack, MCP, Linear, and GUS.

Senior Product Manager

Product Owner / Product Manager, Enterprise Mobile and Windows Services

Salesforce · March 2020–September 2021

Product direction and delivery for global mobile-device and Windows services supporting approximately 65,000 users across Windows, iOS, and Android, including enterprise endpoint and digital-workplace services.

  • Owned product workflows for Windows OS patching, OS configuration, user-access services, and enterprise mobility.
  • Converted strategic roadmaps and stakeholder requirements into prioritized delivery work across engineering, security, architecture, operations, support, and partner organizations.
  • Managed intake, requirements, backlog, dependencies, delivery coordination, operational readiness, service delivery, platform maintenance, and status reporting.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Client Engineering

Salesforce · October 2012–March 2020

Hands-on technical and architectural responsibility for Salesforce's greenfield AirWatch implementation and later AirWatch-to-Workspace ONE migration.

  • Led the initiative from requirements and architecture through proof of concept, pilot, phased production rollout, integrations, operations, vendor coordination, and lifecycle support.
  • Designed and coordinated infrastructure and integrations involving application servers, databases, load balancing, network access, email and calendar, identity, certificates, VPN, Wi-Fi, applications, content delivery, security, privacy, and compliance.
  • Led the hands-on AirWatch-to-Workspace ONE migration across approximately 70,000 managed devices without requiring device re-enrollment and with minimal user disruption.
  • Expanded enterprise mobility capabilities through Android Enterprise work profiles, enhanced device configuration, application catalogs, security controls, and usage intelligence.

IT Specialist

Portland Rescue Mission · June 2012–October 2012

Sole IT specialist responsible for servers, networking, telephone systems, workplace technology, hardware, software, printing services, user access, and technical support.

  • Completed the Office 365 deployment and provided limited Microsoft 365 administration in support of the organization's cloud email and collaboration environment.
  • Implemented role-based access controls and an organizational badging system.
  • Updated and patched servers and network devices, administered Active Directory, and resolved infrastructure and end-user issues across the organization.

Technical Consultant

HP · September 2010–June 2012

Continued technical architecture, enterprise client-computing, and third-tier engineering responsibilities after HP assumed responsibility for technology services supporting the Con-way environment.

  • Designed and implemented Group Policy and Citrix controls for enterprise client environments.
  • Supported production handheld technology used for freight scanning and tracking, dock loading and routing, shipment-status updates, and exception handling.
  • Provided governance for the vendor-managed AirWatch environment, approving device configurations, management policies, and software deployments.
  • Supported handheld provisioning, application readiness, troubleshooting, repair and replacement, lifecycle management, tracking, and reporting.
  • Supported weigh-in-motion deployments and the network and handheld configurations required to connect mobile devices to scales and capture freight weights.
  • Led technical work and coordinated resources, assignments, delivery performance, vendors, and support-process development without direct people-management responsibility.

Senior Systems Analyst

Con-way, Inc. · February 2004–September 2010

Technical architecture, engineering, project leadership, and enterprise client-computing responsibilities supporting a nationwide less-than-truckload transportation operation.

  • Helped introduce mobile handheld technology into freight operations for scanning and tracking, dock loading and routing, shipment-status updates, and exception handling.
  • Interviewed business leaders, defined requirements, evaluated vendors, developed a shortlist, and helped select devices for operational pilots.
  • Supported the handheld initiative from evaluation and pilot through phased rollout and broad production adoption while establishing configuration, troubleshooting, spare-device, repair, replacement, remote-management, tracking, and reporting practices.
  • Partnered with operations teams on weigh-in-motion technology, ensuring network and handheld connectivity and validating device configuration required to capture freight weights.
  • Authored requirements for a national thin-client replacement, evaluated vendors and devices, developed the shortlist, made the technical recommendation, and participated in final selection.
  • Worked with business, networking, and application teams on infrastructure modernization, including migration from legacy serial connectivity and Frame Relay toward TCP/IP LAN/WAN connectivity and wireless networking.
  • Managed the nationwide deployment vendor across more than 450 locations at a planned deployment pace of approximately 25 sites per week.
  • Coordinated network and site readiness, equipment delivery, installation, user communications, service-desk preparation, cutovers, and operational continuity.
  • Supported an initial deployment of more than 5,000 devices across the nationwide environment and established imaging, support, break-fix, repair, replacement, and vendor-escalation processes.
  • Provided third-tier support and led Technical Architecture team work, project execution, resource coordination, assignments, and delivery performance without direct people-management responsibility.
  • Worked directly with executives to gather requirements and develop proof-of-concept pilots.

Systems Analyst

Con-way, Inc. · February 2000–January 2004

Created the Distributed Systems Administration team charter and helped establish structured environment and service-management processes.

  • Coordinated with application developers, change-control teams, and management to define requirements, operating processes, service-level agreements, and team responsibilities.
  • Established structured change, release, and environment-management controls with separate development, testing, preproduction, and production environments.
  • Helped establish Distributed Systems Administration as a formal participant in enterprise development, change management, release coordination, and deployment processes.

Senior Support Engineer

Entex · 1995–February 2000

Windows, Mac, and Microsoft-server break/fix support across Tektronix and later the Con-way environment.

  • Supported execution of the Banyan VINES-to-Microsoft Exchange migration at Tektronix.
  • Later worked in the Con-way environment and helped manage Microsoft Exchange servers as part of a team.

IT Support Specialist

Portland Energy Conservation, Inc. · 1986–1995

Sole IT employee supporting desktops, laptops, Mac systems, local-area networking, email, printing, and telephone systems.

  • Created and maintained spreadsheets, databases, and operational reports using Microsoft Excel, Borland Quattro Pro, Borland Paradox, and SAS.
  • Used reporting and data tools to support energy-program analysis, project tracking, and customer-data management.

Selected projects

OpenTelemetry Evaluation and Production Deployment

Product Owner/Product Manager-led OpenTelemetry initiative progressing from feasibility and development testing through production dual-run, security validation, and full production deployment across macOS and Windows clients.

Northstar Ridge

Public AI-assisted operations product case study designed and built by Andrew Pella beginning in August 2026.

Agentic Career Workflow

Public case study demonstrating progression from GenAI assistance to structured AI workflows and a governed agentic operating model.

Education

College coursework and individual study; no degree awarded.

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