đź‘‹ About Me
I’m Mark Anthony Franco, a senior service delivery and operations leader with 15+ years of experience delivering high-impact solutions across cloud platforms, customer success, and technical program management.
I’ve worked with iconic brands—Amazon, Xbox, Carnival, and HashiCorp—to lead large-scale modernizations, streamline onboarding journeys, resolve high-severity incidents, and develop systems that scale trust as well as performance.
I’m currently focused on roles where I can blend technical depth, customer empathy, and a strong sense of business impact—especially in cloud platform and technical account management environments like Google Cloud.
Executive Snapshot: Customer Success Champion leveraging solid technical foundation in network security and enterprise software with proven track record of successfully collaborating with customers on both technical and non-technical levels. Strong business acumen and sales experience, with passion for ensuring a top-quality customer experience.
Service management minded with commitment to customer service by managing relationships with existing clients, and strengthening client engagements through renewals and expansion. Deep focus on delivering outstanding client experiences, resulting in high product engagement and high customer retention, serving as a voice of the client to internal teams.
Ability to drive initiatives by collaboratively working across teams (Product Management, Sales, Engineering) and structuring approaches to new strategic opportunities, working across and with enterprise, B2B, and B2C organizations.
Driving exceptional customer experience, operational excellence, quality improvements, and performance for customers of some of the most iconic brands in the world—Walt Disney, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Amazon, Carnival, and more!
⚙️ Core Technologies & Tools
Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes, GitOps, AppDynamics
Data & Observability: SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, BigQuery
DevOps & Deployment: CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, feature flags, service networking
Customer Success & Delivery: Gainsight, CRM/CSM tooling, onboarding frameworks, QBRs, value realization
Soft Skills: Strategic stakeholder management, technical storytelling, incident leadership, cross-functional collaboration
⚙️ Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Vault
Monitoring & Observability: AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus
Data Analysis: SQL, Power BI, Tableau
DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes
Customer Success Tools: Gainsight, Salesforce
đź’Ľ Featured Experience
HASHICORP, San Francisco, CAÂ 04/2018 -Â 02/2023
Senior Customer Success Manager
Reduced onboarding time from 90 days → <30 days
Designed adoption playbooks adopted across all major products
Led strategic incident recovery for Vault enterprise clients
Microsoft, Redmond WA Â Â 06/2007 - 12/2011
Senior Manager, Infrastructure & Operations Manager (Xbox LIVE)
Directed a $12M data center cutover with zero downtime
Built telemetry-based cutover system using failover VIPs and shadow rollout
Coached engineering teams on invisible deployments
📜 Certifications
- Google Cloud Certified: Cloud Digital Leader (April 2024)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate – University of South Florida (March 2024)
- Certified Customer Success Manager – SuccessHACKER (April 2023)
- ISC(2) Cybersecurity Awareness Certification (May 2023)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (April 2023)