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    Sarah Thompson

    VP of Systems Operations, SpotX

    Denver

    Sarah brings over 15 years of experience in systems administration to SpotX. As the VP of Systems Operations, Sarah and her team are responsible for over 1,000 physical servers located in 4 separate data centers in 3 different countries. In addition to supporting the 5+ billion ad calls made each day, and ads served in 190+ countries, Sarah oversees the internal IT department which supports over 240 employees in 7 offices and 5 countries.

    Prior to SpotX, Sarah worked as a Systems Administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where she lead a group of systems and network administrators. Sarah’s time at NOAA entailed managing relationships with multiple government agencies and leading projects that involved HPC, massive virtualization migrations and maintenance of all production Linux and Unix to support NOAA and NWS research and data.

    Sarah graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Journalism and currently resides in the Denver Metro area with her husband and two kids.

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