Director of Operations · Sr. Technical Program Manager

Mitchell
Brackett

Director of Operations
Asia Northwest Cultural Education Association / Sakura-Con
Sr. Technical Program Manager (formerly)
Amazon · May 2019 – Jan 2026
📍 Everett · Snohomish County, Washington
12+
Years in Incident Management
30K+
Convention Attendees
$4M+
Budget Managed
900+
Customer Teams Supported
450+
Staff Managed
14
Hotel & Venue Contracts Negotiated
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Expertise

Where I create impact
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Infrastructure & Cloud

Created Amazon's standardized AWS regional-migration methodology, adopted by 1,100+ teams. Shipped an automated quota-sync tool that became an official AWS service. Ran HPC fleet operations across 3 AWS regions at 99.9% availability.

AWS Azure Cloud Migration Automation HPC
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Program Management

14 years driving complex, cross-functional technical programs across incident management, site reliability, and infrastructure automation. Standardized SLAs, metrics, and monitors across 2,000+ services, cutting customer-impacting issues 30% year over year.

TPM Incident Mgmt SRE SLAs / SLOs Stakeholders
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Large-Scale Operations

Director of Operations for Sakura-Con, a 30,000+ attendee convention. Managing ~450 staff, AV, IT, logistics, and a multi-million dollar budget across dozens of vendor relationships.

Event Ops Vendor Mgmt Budget Planning Staff Leadership
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Experience

Career trajectory
May 2019 → Jan 2026 Amazon

Sr. Technical Program Manager · Systems Development Manager

Progressed from Support Engineer through Technical Program Manager to Sr. TPM and Systems Development Manager — owning incident management, site reliability, and infrastructure-automation programs across Amazon's global retail and cloud organizations.

  • Created and owned the organization's first Customer Experience & Success program — one clear view of how well the org supported 900+ customer teams worldwide through a high monthly volume of major incidents; defined the KPI framework (MTTR, ticket SLA by type, incident count, 9-point peak-readiness checklist)
  • Established the org's first customer-satisfaction baseline on a 10-point loyalty scale and built a self-service SSO dashboard preloading each leader's services and KPIs; reported program health quarterly at Director level to secure a VP funding review
  • Created Amazon's standardized AWS regional-migration methodology — runbooks and reusable tooling — adopted by 1,100+ teams; launched a "migration boost" program (15 engineers) that cut migration time over 50% per service
  • Shipped an automated AWS quota-sync tool that became an official AWS service, saving ~16 hours per service migration (~17,600 hours in aggregate)
  • Drove incident-management best practices across 2,000+ Amazon Retail services — standardizing SLAs, metrics, monitors, and runbooks — reducing customer-impacting issues 30% year over year
  • Owned major sales-event coordination and incident programs across ~9 peak events a year — Prime Day, Prime Big Deal Days, and Boxing Day — keeping high-availability sites running worldwide
  • Oversaw HPC fleet operations and PLM strategy across 3 AWS regions, ensuring 99.9% availability for compute-intensive workloads
  • Designed an internal AI agent that mines customer interviews, meeting notes, and KPI data to surface recurring themes and point investment toward the highest-impact needs
May 2013 → Present ANCEA / Sakura-Con

Director of Operations

Executive leadership of convention operations for one of the largest anime conventions in North America, held at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Serving as a voting board member shaping organizational strategy and future direction.

  • Manage a team of ~450 staff across multiple departments to deliver Sakura-Con, a 30,000+ attendee annual convention
  • Negotiate block-rate contracts with 14 local hotels and partner with city officials to meet fire and life-safety codes
  • Manage multi-million dollar operational and production budget year-over-year
  • Build marketing and event platforms — including digital signage and vendor-booth layouts — to raise event visibility
  • Serve as a voting board member, helping shape the organization's strategy and direction
Dec 2012 → Feb 2019 Covestic (Xbox Services)

Xbox Live Operations Engineer (Tier 2/3) → Xbox Service Engineer

Progressed from 24/7 operations-center engineer to Xbox Service Engineer supporting Xbox Live production services at Microsoft's Xbox division, serving as technical lead on major hardware and infrastructure incidents.

  • Maintained Xbox Live production and test services on a 24/7 on-call rotation; served as technical resource on major incident bridges
  • Reverse-engineered and migrated legacy on-prem services to Azure, improving reliability and cutting infrastructure costs by roughly three orders of magnitude
  • Automated recurring operations in C# and PowerShell, cutting manual effort and speeding incident troubleshooting
  • Performed root-cause and crash-dump analysis, trained other analysts, and owned process documentation
Nov 2011 → Dec 2012 Atos

Lab Support Engineer

Managed daily maintenance of lab machines (WDS, ASI, batch scripting) and ~75% of VM hosts on Hyper-V / SCVMM, maintaining clean images for test efficiency.

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Selected Projects

High-impact work
Amazon · Migration

AWS Regional Migration Methodology

Created Amazon's standardized regional-migration methodology — documentation, runbooks, and reusable tooling — adopted by 1,100+ teams as the best-practice standard. Launched a "migration boost" program, onboarding 15 contract engineers to automate key steps across 1,100+ services.

Impact → Adopted by 1,100+ teams · Cut migration time over 50% per service
Amazon · AWS

Quota Sync → Official AWS Service

Identified a gap in quota synchronization across AWS services and built internal tooling that managed quota state at scale. It was productized and shipped as an official AWS service, expanding its reach to customers globally.

Impact → Shipped as official AWS service · ~16 hrs saved per migration (~17,600 hrs aggregate)
Amazon · Incident

Incident Management at Scale

Drove incident-management best practices across 2,000+ Amazon Retail services — standardizing SLAs, metrics, monitors, and runbooks — and led design and incident reviews to surface risk before launch and after events.

Impact → Reduced customer-impacting issues 30% year over year
Amazon · Events

Peak Retail Event Readiness

Owned major sales-event coordination and incident programs for Amazon Retail, keeping high-availability sites running worldwide across ~9 peak events a year — Prime Day, Prime Big Deal Days, and Boxing Day.

Impact → High-availability delivery across ~9 annual peak events
Amazon · AI

AI Agent for Customer Insight

Designed an internal AI agent that mines customer interviews, meeting notes, and KPI data to surface recurring themes and point investment toward the highest-impact customer needs — an early internal adoption of agentic AI tooling.

Impact → Steered investment planning toward highest-impact needs
Sakura-Con · Operations

Convention Operations at Scale

Built and refined the operational infrastructure delivering Sakura-Con — a 30,000+ attendee convention — including ~450 staff across departments, 14 hotel block-rate contracts, digital signage, and vendor-booth layouts.

Impact → Scalable ops for one of North America's largest anime conventions
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Skills & Tools

Technical depth
Reliability & Cloud
Incident Management
Site Reliability (SRE)
SLAs / SLOs & Metrics
Root Cause Analysis
AWS / Cloud Infra
Azure
Infrastructure Automation
PowerShell / C#
Python / Scripting
AI Agent Tooling
Program & Leadership
Program Management
Stakeholder Management
Dashboards & Reporting
Vendor & Budget Mgmt
Large-Scale Event Ops
Team Leadership
Executive Communication

Let's build something great.

Open to Senior or Principal TPM roles in incident management, site reliability, and infrastructure automation — as well as strategic partnerships in the convention and events space.