Expertise
What I can be trusted with.
A product. Booking and checkout. The environment they run on. A company-wide problem that cannot wait.
Complete products
Requirements through launch
I sit with the owners, shape what we are building, and take it to launch. They do not have to already know how to build. I turn a business need into something they can put in front of customers. They are not coordinating a designer, a developer, and a launch person. One person carries it through the messy middle.
Big-company scale
100,000 employees
Company-wide security response, in production in under 18 hours. At Dell I sat on conferencing and collaboration. If those systems broke, it came to me. I owned the systems and the process.
When leadership had to lock down outside Teams chat during a security response, I had a working company-wide approval path in production in under 18 hours. People requested access; it went to their VP once, not a thousand times; the company could keep doing business without leaving the door open. Executives and security were happy because it shipped and it worked.
I was also the security champion for a 40-person team. I drove the changes I could control and chased the ones I could not.
Infrastructure and security
Production
I can keep a product on the air and restore it if it breaks. I can see if something is getting sick before customers do, and I can see how people actually use it. Private data stays off the public internet even when the pieces live in different places, and I keep copies so we can get it back.
AI I can trust with private work
I built AI that keeps project context in-house — no dumping work into a public chatbot, no re-explaining the project every session. Company knowledge stays inside the building. People do not start from zero every time they open a new chat.
How I built itWhat colleagues say
Zane consistently sought out innovative ways to optimize processes. His creative thinking led to time-saving automations, reduced manual errors, and enhanced overall productivity. He was always willing to share his knowledge and remained focused on improved team member experiences.
Steaphanie Parson
IT Senior Manager at Dell · April 2024
On LinkedInZane made significant improvements to our services and processes, saving a considerable amount of manual work and increasing productivity of our team. Zane's work has had a high impact on the team's response time to customers and resource optimization for our team.
Athos Rothen
Enterprise Architect at Dell Inc · March 2024
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