SUMMARY:

• Connecting IT to top - priority business goals
• Executing on critical system needs
• Streamlining IT organizations and operations
• Building exceptional teams
• Cutting costs and strengthening profits.
• Results-proven, ROI-driven IT technology and business visionary with 25+ years of consistent and repeated value leading the design, development, implementation and management of high-performance teams and technology solutions.
• Rare and valuable blend of qualifications including IT leadership, project management, IT infrastructure and enterprise security.
• Extensive background designing, implementing and managing Enterprise Level Technical Infrastructures.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Linthicum, MD

Server Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the IT infrastructure management, operations and maintenance of a 2.4 billion dollar credit union Data Center and branch offices.
• Specific functions include supervising departmental staff; Directing and overseeing systems engineering/administration; directing the procurement, upgrade and maintenance of all computer systems hardware, software, systems tools, storage arrays, and associated equipment;
• Develop, update, and test disaster recovery and business continuity policy and plans; Evaluate and/or design new systems, applications, networks or other technology tools that support credit union growth, enhance services to members and provide efficient processes for employees.
• Spearheaded effort to alter a previous technology decision with a better solution to replace the network core saving the credit union over $100,000.
• Lead the effort to identify capacity issues with the credit union’s storage arrays and selection resulting on over $400,000 in savings over the proposed consultant’s architecture.

Confidential, Towson, Maryland

Director

Responsibilities:

• Selected to participate in Confidential ’s President’s Leadership Institute, a prestigious honor awarded annually to 20 staff and 20 faculty.
• Formulated, presented high-ROI business case and won approval for new cloud hosting virtual infrastructure to executive management. Designed and implemented the infrastructure providing increased capacity, fault tolerance and greater IT agility for internal and external clients
• Transformed the DDC into a high performance, fully redundant cloud hosting provider exceeding 99.99% availability.
• Designed and managed the migration of a number of large infrastructure projects including cloud computing/virtualization, Data Center consolidation/migration and a new high performance Core Network for the Data Center.
• Built and managed an IT consulting practice that consulted to external clients on Long-Range IT planning, Disaster Recovery planning, IT operations, Security, Data Center Consolidation, and IT Outsourcing.
• Reduced hardware capital expenditures as a result by more than $500,000.

Confidential, Greenbelt, Maryland

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the $4,000,000 migration of a national law firm from traditional Confidential based phone systems to Cisco IP Telephony and Voicemail consisting of approximately 8500 phones.
• Identified and corrected an issue with the original equipment order that would have had a disastrous effect on the firm’s largest law office. The missing equipment was available for the install/cutover keeping the project on schedule and the customer happy.

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Data Center Manager/Technical Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Modernized UPI’s technology infrastructure (Data Center, Servers, Desktops, & Network) for UPI/IS supported administrative and clinical information systems serving over 2000 users.
• Designed, implemented and supported the replacement computing and storage subsystems used to provide scheduling and billing for the Confidential Campus in Baltimore and the University Hospital resulting in a dramatic increase in reliability, availability and performance

Confidential, Greenbelt, Maryland

Senior Systems/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered the mailbox migration process reducing the overall effort by over 25,000 hours.
• Received outstanding achievement award for project.

Confidential, Maryland

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered comprehensive systems/network engineering and integration services for small businesses in the Baltimore area.
• Engaged to design, install and configure a wide variety of wired and wireless-based Windows 2000/NT/Exchange 2000 LANs and MetaFrameXP servers.
• Also efficiently maintained/monitored system performance, security and configuration management.

Confidential, Greenbelt, Maryland

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as subject matter expert supplying extensive pre/post sales technical consulting, including requirements analysis, network design, documentation and installation.
• Designed, installed and configured Proliant based Windows 2000 servers/clusters, Exchange 2000, Confidential ’s SAN technology and Cisco/Nortel/Lucent LAN/WAN/Wireless.
• Received outstanding achievement award for Veterans Affairs project.

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided comprehensive systems engineering, integration and project management services in support of Confidential ’s enterprise network, consisting of Confidential (mainframe) and Windows NT/Winframe/Unix/Novell (mid-tier) in a mixed Ethernet/Token-Ring/ Confidential environment.
• Authored design/support documents, implementation plans and delivered technical training.
• Designed/implemented local Area Networks for the Health Care Finance Administration which included 14 remote regional offices consisting of 5000 users.

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Principle Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Authored requirements document and designed a new systems integration lab as part of a major Confidential .

Confidential, Towson, Maryland

Data Center Manager/Senior Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the Data Center, Information Technology Infrastructure and functions for the State of Maryland’s Confidential .
• Performed extensive systems engineering, integration and project management for Windows NT/Novell/ Confidential -based systems/clusters, storage sub-systems and related networks.
• Received Executive’s Award for outstanding company contributions.
• Re-engineered a 300 seat Confidential /DECNET based imaging system used by the State of Maryland, integrating the old system with emerging Microsoft Windows technology, TCP/IP and X-Windows. The new system allowed the organization to embrace Microsoft technologies while extending the life of the imaging system by four years.
• Migrated the organization to Microsoft Technologies

Confidential, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Data Center Manager/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Confidential ’s Data Center and provided in-depth systems engineering, integration, systems management and project management services for Confidential /UNIX/NT-based systems/clusters and storage sub-systems in a Pathworks/Windows NT environment.
• Received award for new LAN/WAN architecture design.
• Designed, installed and configured Digital Unix (True64) cluster as the platform for Confidential 's PeopleSoft implementation.
• Redesigned the Federal Student Loan computer infrastructure providing greater reliability and fault tolerance.

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland

Data Center Manager/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project/Technical Lead for the design, installation and configuration of Prudential Mid-Atlantic’s lights-out Disaster Recovery Data Center.
• Designed and implemented EDI capabilities between business unit, corporate Prudential and business partners.
• Project/Technical Lead for the design, installation and configuration of Prudential Mid-Atlantic’s migration from Novel to Microsoft Windows Server 3.51.