Julie Elrod
About
Julie Elrod is from Seattle, Washington, United States. Julie is currently Network Procurement Officer at Megaport, located in Greater Seattle Area. Julie also works as Board Member at Clara M Carlucci Foundation, a job Julie has held since Jan 2024. In Julie's previous role as a Edge Development at Stealth Startup, Julie worked in Seattle, Washington, United States until Sep 2025. Prior to joining Stealth Startup, Julie was a VP of Strategic Sourcing at PacketFabric and held the position of VP of Strategic Sourcing at Seattle, Washington, United States. Prior to that, Julie was a Director of Sourcing at PacketFabric, based in Greater Seattle Area from Sep 2020 to Nov 2022. Julie started working as Senior Director, Infrastructure Sourcing, Global IP Network (GIN) at NTT Ltd. in Greater Seattle Area in Jun 2019. From Jun 2018 to Jun 2019, Julie was Telecommunications Consultant at Path Connect Consulting, LLC , based in Seattle, Washington. Prior to that, Julie was a Director of Sales at NTT America, based in Redmond, WA from Nov 2015 to Jun 2018. Julie started working as Service Provider Manager at NTT America in Greater Denver Area in Jun 2014.
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Julie Elrod's current jobs
• Network and Data Center - EMEA • Data Center - APAC
Julie Elrod's past jobs
• Lead migration of all network inventory management processes into a system that enables effective inventory tracking, cost management, and carrier and data center vendor spend reporting. • Audited inventory, renegotiated contracts, and maximized link utilization, saving 23% in annual costs. • Manage a four-member team and drive review of each POP within data center to evaluate profitability. • Oversaw team to assess capacity based on network utilization and support large complex deals. • Formalize a POP build process, establishing guidelines for revenue with sales and creating cost modeling templates.
• Owned procurement for all network and data center requirements for any new build (space and power for POP deployments) and backbone connectivity (dark fiber, 100G lit services, spectrum, transit) across North America, EMEA, and APAC. • Evaluated vendors, including costs and diversity of network; negotiated MSAs. • Created processes for third-party procurement requirements, including service orders and billing. • Consolidated and audited network and data center inventory for greater cost management. • Evaluated network inventory management platforms and drove internal implementation of Network Capacity Solutions platform.
• Responsible for life cycle management for all global transport and data center requirements (dark fiber, lit services, and data center) within IP transit business unit. • Owned a $90M annual COGS budget as well as departmental OPEX; supported vendor management reporting for ~50 vendors. • Directed a 12-member team to achieve a 32% annual reduction in network costs via annual RFP process.
• Worked with client to provide recommendations on network deployment for dark fiber, colocation, IP transit, and transport.
• Led a team of six account managers and one sales engineer to sell IP transit for a Tier 1 IP global IP transit provider. • Improved bookings by 65% in a year after taking over team to drive sales process.
• Worked with 12 service provider partners in NA and EMEA to drive IP transit business from data center colocation customers. • Reduced inter-site connectivity by 50% with one of largest data center operator globally.
• Managed 10x network capacity growth while maintaining same cost basis across multiple intra and inter-regional routes. • Oversaw eight sourcing managers and service delivery personnel; negotiated contracts and MSAs with carrier providers.
• Implemented carrier report card process to identify carriers' performance in areas such as operations, billing, and pricing. • Owned negotiations and procurement of all network and backbone connectivity within US, reducing annual costs by 15%. • Streamlined credit dispute process (SLA violations) for outages and late delivery credits - realizing ~$200K in annual credits.