SUMMARY:

• Multidimensional IT leader that builds relationships earns trust and collaborates with others to strategically and tactically solve the most complex Digital Transformation projects, architecture, ITO Strategies, Global foot print, and technologies.
• Extremely client - focused, visionary professional with an intuitive ability to define technology solutions that meet business needs.
• Ability to engage with cross- corporate stakeholders and drive to consensus decisions on enterprise architecture solutions and collaborate with project teams to implement these decisions.
• A driven, independent-thinker recognized for consistently delivering timely, complete, high quality, value-add results that ensure technology investment are tightly aligned with business objectives.
• Lastly, I have over 20+ years of experience (Last 10 years globally) working in the following industries: Financial, Insurance, manufacturing, retail, Healthcare, and Transportation.

SKILLS:

Management: Budget Management (P&l), Forecasting, Hiring, Attrition, Organizational Management, and annual reviews

NextGen Tech: Digital, Big Data, Automation, Cognitive computing, Cloud (Private and Public), IOT

Language: Ksh, Perl, Java, C, HTML, SQL, VB

Middleware: Syncsort, Torrent, DataStage, MQ

Database: Teradata, DB2 UDB EEE, Redbrick, Access, Oracle 8I for Linux, Database Appliance GrenPlum, Netezza, Big Data design

Big Data: Hadoop

Operating Systems: Windows 2012/2000/XP/2007, Aix, Sun/Solaris, HP-UX, NCR MP-RAS, Linux

Web Servers: IIS 5.0, Apache

Dev. Environment: Visual Studio

Version Control: SCCS, ClearCase

PM Tools: MS Project, SDLC and Waterfall Method, PeopleSoft, PlanView

Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet, Token Ring, Hubs, Routers, TME 10, Optivity, Cisco Prime, SAN, Cisco Nexus 7K,5K, 2K, MDS SAN switch, Brocade

General Tools: Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Visio, X-ware, Best/1, assorted UNIX and Capacity/Performance tools, DataStage Management, and Autosys, cloud360, Service Now, ITSM tools, ITOM, cloud elastic tools

Hardware: SP2 Silver Nodes/Winterhawk, P, X, I, Z -Series Hardware (MPP environment), BCU, HP 9000, HP ProLiant, Sun Enterprise series, EMC, STK Tape Library, Cisco, Bay Networks, NCR Complete Sever/DASD line, Sepaton, Spectra Logic, Confidential VSP/HUS/HCP/HDI, Confidential Flexpod, Vblock, and Confidential

Backup Software: TSM, Veritias, Netbackup

Managed Services: Offshore service delivery design/management, Service Desk

Arch Frameworks: TOGAF, ITUP ( Confidential Tivoli unified process), COBIT, CBM-IT

Hypervisor: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

Cloud providers: AWS, Azure, CTS (hybrid cloud), AWS-Glacier, Iron Mountain Storage Cloud.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understands the clients business and technology strategies, aligns current and future Confidential solutions to those strategies, and advocates client needs/interest within Confidential product portfolio planning activities
• Demonstrable strategic vision, describing a journey that brings real business value to the client
• I have strong business and IT strategy and planning skills, which include influence C-level executives and developing long lasting relationships as a trusted technical advisor
• Coordinates key technical participation between Client, SI, and Vendors
• I understand clients internal management alliance and shapes client thinking on technology direction
• Promotes innovation and thought leadership across the Organizations both Confidential and the Confidential Strategic Clients
• Lead client-level visioning sessions
• Lead a team of functionally aligned technical and solution architects
• Provides technical direction on key transition initiatives

Confidential

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Datalink Sales conference 2015 - Confidential Cloud initiative with Confidential
• Lead 2-day training session for our Global SI partners
• Oracle world 2016 - Confidential Oracle solutions
• Develop GTM ( Confidential ) strategies for our partners, and different industries
• Worked in a heavy matrix environment
• Support Pre-Sales as well interact with Engineering to develop long term product strategy
• Present our Converged portfolio and Cloud strategy to Sr. people in Confidential Strategic Accounts Globally
• Develop GTM Solution with our partners utilizing both Confidential product and the Partners products to develop Targeted solutions for our Partners.

Confidential

Director - Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manage/Mentor Jr architects
• Generate tools for both the Consulting practice and Large Deal Team
• Own RFP response
• Strategic and tactical technology planning
• Presentation to customer
• Solution vision
• Technology and Vendor Evaluation and selection
• PS Resourcing
• Influence Management (influence the customer on the Vision)
• Customer Relationship and communications
• Enterprise and Systems/Application Architecture
• Architecture modeling
• Strategic IT Consulting - Internal and External
• Vendor Management - Help developing System integration relationship with vendors.

Confidential

IT Advisory Architect

Responsibilities:

• First, it was a complete outsourcing deal worth over 500M for a large financial company in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Second deal, with a Global advertising company in Confidential worth over 300M, and our role was to help design their CEO strategic vision of creating a single IT organization out of the 500 LOB. My role was to lead Data center, Server, and Storage and directly partnered with an assigned CTO for each tower.

Confidential

Architect/Lead infrastructure Lead

Responsibilities:

• Set Long Term Architecture Vision
• Created/Owned Reference Architecture document (Quarterly Release)
• Yearly Reviews, promotion, demotions, staff attrition
• Managed 6 Jr architects, and 20 dotted line reports that represented Network, DC, Server Admin (UNIX - AIX, SUN, and Windows), Database Admin, and Storage and Backup.
• Managed GL, and 20 Million Hardware Budget, which included forecasting management/reviews with my CTO
• Resource management, Planning, and procurement
• Program management for 50 plus projects that ranged from $500K to $10M per year.