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Senior Technical Program Manager  ·  Houston, TX

Ondrey
Lawson

"Building systems that scale — in the cloud and in the community."

15+ Years Experience Cloud Infrastructure R&D Operations Co-Founder
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About Me

TPM. Engineer.
Entrepreneur.

I'm a Senior TPM with 15+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and enterprise platform engineering.

I've worked across companies like HashiCorp (an IBM Company), VMware, Deloitte, and Honeywell — building the operational scaffolding that keeps high-stakes platforms running at scale.

I hold an MBA from UNT and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin. Beyond tech, I'm co-founder of Phrostbite Italian Ice — a catering and events business I've grown from $9K to over $135K in annual revenue.

I care about culture, craft, and community — whether that's shipping reliable infrastructure or serving up Italian ice at a neighborhood event.

15+
Years of Program Leadership
40%
MTTR Reduction at HashiCorp
$135K+
Annual Revenue, Phrostbite
$16M+
Cloud Cost Savings Driven

Career Timeline

Where I've
Made an Impact

HashiCorp / IBM Jan 2025 – Present
Senior Technical Program Manager, R&D Operations
  • Led company-wide incident.io rollout, cutting mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 40%
  • Built Snowflake operational dashboards improving cross-team efficiency by 25%
  • Established Sev0 incident protocol and led $5M+ ARR escalation program
VMware Dec 2021 – Jul 2024
Senior Technical Program Manager
  • Drove Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) deployment velocity up 35% across enterprise accounts
  • Led Azure replatform initiative improving provisioning efficiency by 15%; supported $10M+ migration revenue
Deloitte Jun 2019 – Nov 2021
Technical Program Manager
  • Delivered $4M Azure IaaS profit impact and $12M in GCP cost savings for federal clients
  • Implemented ML-based yield optimization achieving 30% improvement across target programs
Honeywell Sep 2014 – May 2019
Program / Project Manager
  • Led cross-functional program delivery in industrial and aerospace technology divisions
Samsung Jun 2011 – Jul 2014
Early Career — Engineering & Program Management
  • Foundational engineering and program coordination experience in consumer electronics

Capabilities

Skills &
Expertise

 Program Management
Risk & Roadmap Planning Stakeholder Alignment OKRs Agile / Scrum Cross-functional Leadership Incident Management
 Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Terraform HashiCorp Stack DevOps
 Tools & Platforms
Jira Confluence Snowflake GitHub incident.io Tableau
 Business & Operations
P&L Ownership Revenue Operations Vendor Management Escalation Management Executive Reporting

Ventures

Phrostbite
Italian Ice

What started as a side project became a full-fledged Houston catering and events business. I co-founded Phrostbite Italian Ice and have grown it from $9K to over $135K in annual revenue — handling everything from operations and logistics to brand strategy.

Phrostbite has been featured on CNN International in a story about the real impact of gas prices on small businesses — a nod to both the hustle and the media presence we've built.

From private parties to community events and corporate catering, Phrostbite is where program management meets passion.

Visit Phrostbite
$135K+
Annual Revenue
CNN
International Feature
$9K
Where It Started
HTX
Houston Proud

Education

Academic
Foundation

Master of Business Administration
University of North Texas
Business strategy, operations, and leadership
BS, Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Systems thinking, engineering fundamentals

Contact

Let's
Connect

Whether it's a new opportunity, a collaboration, or just a conversation — I'm always open to connecting with interesting people.

LinkedIn oelawson@gmail.com Phrostbite Italian Ice
Houston, Texas