Drew Flint

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About Drew Flint

Systems thinker in pursuit of the wise solution. Entrusted with thought leadership and maintaining team engagement while ensuring that nothing critical breaks. Provides measurable returns to business, building infrastructure while creating bridges between departments. Designed, built, and stewarded the Plex Manufacturing Cloud’s growth from a trio of desktop servers to today’s 4 private cloud facilities and 2 public cloud failover regions. • >200K daily logins • >7 billion daily transactions • 178M annual revenue • >2,800 plants worldwide Motivated, dedicated technical mentor with a strong commitment to learning and adapting. Translates the abstract needs of nontechnical teams into concrete chunks of work, fostering on-target progress. Draws on a personal experience base (people, technical, financial, compliance) to guide a team’s journey away from common pitfalls and toward success. Specialties: Infrastructure lifecycle management (Storage, Servers, Network, Security, Database), disaster recovery/business continuity planning, vendor management, cost modeling, budget management, data warehousing (design, maintain), observability, alerting, thought leadership, critical situation management, continual improvement, mentoring (managers and engineers), team building, project management, FinOps, Microsoft Licensing