IT Operations Leader · Bothell / Seattle

Robert
Casto

IT operations built to scale—and measured to prove it.

I lead service delivery, infrastructure, identity, security and endpoint operations. In sixteen years I have raised SLA performance from 76% to 96%, managed $5M in IT spend, and supported fleets of 1,000+ endpoints.

Leadership
Teams of up to 15
Operating scope
Nine domains, end to end
Experience
Since 2010
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01Selected results

Operational change
you can measure.

The work ranges from stabilizing daily service to scaling global operations. The common thread is a clear baseline, a system people can follow, and an outcome the business can see.

$5MIT spend managed
10US and Mexico team
150+SaaS tools governed
09Domains operated
02Domains

What I am accountable for, and what depends on it.

Explore how the areas I own depend on one another. Select a domain to see which operations are affected when it is unavailable.

Select a domain to trace its dependencies

Network and connectivity is the deepest dependency on the platform. A failure there degrades seven of the other eight domains. Only vendor, asset and spend is unaffected. Select any domain to model its failure.

Network & connectivity

Platform uptime and both ISP relationships, covering primary service, secondary service and failover. Name resolution and addressing within the platform’s OU are managed here.

Zscaler deployment and AV infrastructure refresh across 1,000+ users in the US and Mexico. Tessenderlo Kerley, 2023
Cloud firewall and MPLS rollout. StateServ, 2011

Vendor, asset & spend

Procurement through shipping, receiving and asset tracking, the vendor relationships that support it, and site assessments scoping requirements for new and existing facilities.

$5M IT procurement across CapEx and OpEx, with vendor negotiation and forecasting alongside Finance. Tessenderlo Kerley, 2023

Identity & access

Every account, group and permission on the platform, and the access changes required whenever a role changes.

Okta and Microsoft 365 identity through growth from 200 to 2,800 employees. Nextiva, 2016
IAM policy set with Infrastructure Security. Aircall, 2025

Endpoint fleet

Every server, workstation and peripheral on the platform, from build and configuration through monitoring to decommission.

Hardware lifecycle for 1,000+ global endpoints. Aircall, 2025
Windows 11 migration for 1,000+ users. Tessenderlo Kerley, 2023

Productivity platform

The Microsoft 365 tenant, licensing, mail, files and the collaboration stack the organization works in.

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Atlassian, Okta and Mimecast administration. Nextiva, 2016

Security & compliance

Accountable owner of the platform’s security and compliance posture against Anticimex Inc IT regional standards. Covers patching, endpoint protection, system health and audit readiness.

Zscaler zero trust deployment. Tessenderlo Kerley, 2023
Least privilege provisioning and audit readiness. SiteLock, 2016

Employee lifecycle

IT onboarding delivered with hiring managers and vendors, access changes on internal moves, and deprovisioning on exit.

Onboarding and offboarding across Google Workspace, Okta, Zoom and 150+ SaaS applications. Aircall, 2025

Service delivery

Every incident and request arriving by phone, portal or email, triaged, prioritized and resolved against defined SLAs.

SLA compliance raised from 76% to 96% within the first year. Tessenderlo Kerley, 2023
Help desk grown from 1 to 15 staff, with ownership of every P1 and P2. Nextiva, 2016

Documentation & tooling

Runbooks, standard operating procedures and technical documentation for platform operation, together with the internal dashboard I built and maintain for the team.

Access restricted. Documentation and internal tooling are maintained for the team rather than published.
03Tools

Built where no product
met the requirement.

Each of the following began as an operational problem in one of my roles.

saasguard

Aircall had no single view of which SaaS applications were in use, what they cost, or which accounts remained active after offboarding. saasguard reads Microsoft Graph and Entra ID and reports all three in one dashboard.

TypeScript
Microsoft Graph
Entra ID
GitHub
Sanitized summary · no company data published

Floorcraft

Desk assignment across a multi-floor office exceeds what a spreadsheet can hold once hoteling, hybrid schedules and multiple sites are involved. Floorcraft makes the floor plan the source of truth and tracks every reassignment.

React 19
TypeScript
Vite
floorcraft.space

slack-buddy

A conversational assistant for recurring IT questions that do not warrant a ticket. It answers within Slack, where staff already work.

Python
Slack API
GitHub

The platform dashboard

Built for Eastside Exterminators so that runbooks, procedures and current platform state are available to the team directly. Documentation that requires a request to reach it does not serve its purpose.

Built and maintained
in the current role
Internal · not public
Sanitized summary · no company data published
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04Experience

Sixteen years.
A wider operating scope.

The chart shows the full progression from frontline support to platform ownership. Four recent roles follow; the complete résumé carries every position and detail.

Eastside Exterminators

IT Leader
Jun 2026 to present
Bothell, WA
  • Sole accountable IT owner for the Eastside platform, covering service delivery, infrastructure, security and compliance in line with Anticimex Inc IT regional standards, policies and SOPs.
  • Build runbooks, technical documentation and SOPs to standardize platform operation, and drive continuous improvement across the local IT function.

Aircall

IT Operations Manager (Contract)
Aug 2025 to May 2026
Seattle, WA · Hybrid
  • Managed hardware lifecycle for 1,000+ global endpoints, covering procurement, configuration, shipping to remote employees and asset tracking. Worked directly with Finance and Procurement on budget forecasting and vendor decisions.
  • Built saasguard, a TypeScript dashboard on Microsoft Graph and Azure AD, to surface shadow IT, track SaaS spend and flag accounts that remained active after offboarding.

Tessenderlo Kerley

Service Management Office Lead, ICT
Apr 2023 to Sep 2025
Phoenix, AZ · On-site
  • Raised SLA compliance from 76% to 96% in the first year, primarily by rebuilding triage and escalation workflows that had run on informal processes for years.
  • Managed $5M in IT procurement across CapEx and OpEx, including vendor negotiations, contract renewals and annual budget forecasting with the Finance team.

Also held: ICT Procurement Management, Jul 2023 to Sep 2025

Nextiva

Help Desk Manager
Aug 2016 to Dec 2022
Scottsdale, AZ
  • Grew the help desk from 1 to 15 people as the company went from 200 to 2,800 employees, hiring and onboarding staff across multiple countries while continuing to run day to day support.
  • Served as primary escalation owner for all P1 and P2 incidents, leading response, coordinating across engineering and operations, and driving resolution across time zones.
See the complete 16-year résumé

What I work in

Leadership & service

  • ITSM
  • Incident Management
  • SLA Management
  • KPI Reporting
  • Help Desk Leadership
  • Vendor Management
  • IT Budgeting

Platforms & security

  • Entra ID / Azure AD
  • Okta
  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace
  • Intune
  • Active Directory
  • Zscaler
  • Mimecast
  • Zendesk
  • Jira

Automation & engineering

  • PowerShell
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Python
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • GitHub Actions
05Contact

Building or modernizing
an IT operation?

I bring hands-on technical judgment, calm service leadership and an operator’s focus on measurable results. Reach me directly through any of the following.