SUMMARY:

Results - driven Information Technology Management Professional offering extensive experience leading comprehensive Information Technology, Security Technology, and Telecommunications initiatives.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• C - Level On-Demand Web-Based Cloud-Computing Strategies
• Application & Network Stack Technologies
• Strategic Policy Development
• Leadership & Team Building
• Budget Planning & Analysis
• P&L Management Implementation Methodologies
• Executive Leadership & Customer Relationship Building
• Client Acquisition

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technology/Cyber Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leader of a green energy company specializing in the next generation wind power system that supports 25kw (kilowatts) to 12mw (megawatts) of power that is able to act as a standalone power system, tie to larger smart grid power system(s), or provide hybrid power system(s) for any client’s requirements.
• Development includes the full development of the control system, security, and the artificial intelligence (AI) for smart recovery and security monitoring.
• Led transformation of five different professional service engineering groups into one organization, resulting in restructured; internal costing model, the engineering bonus model, and provide knowledge transfer to the newly promoted Vice President of Services for the Chief Professional Services Officer ( Confidential ).
• Built from scratch an internal/external Vendor Management program to provide the correct vendors for product selection for internal, external, outside professional services, and for products for solutions sales.
• Further define Confidential SaaS business unit to expand their service delivery and security models for Confidential ’s external business customers.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance as a fractional CISO to convert a server-based application for their resort/hotel customers with kiosk for check-in, check-out, and client special service to a secure SaaS based Azure global cloud provided services for approximately 4500 existing server-based customers.
• Obtained Payment Processing Industries (PCI) certification for Ariane SaaS platform running within the Azure cloud environment.

Confidential, Clarke County, GA

Responsibilities:

• Researched, published, and presented for the county management of Confidential -Clarke County a white paper to provide them the direction needed to become a full-service IP based IoT based Smart County.
• Building a reliable communications platform”.
• This white paper looked at their existing county network infrastructure and gave them three options of how to migrate to where they would have a smart IP coverage for all county services needed for 88 square miles of their 130 square mile county.

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Responsibilities:

• Assisted their SVP of Operations to study the viability for a Supper Node SONIC IP based solution with full NOC management for collocation providers across North America to help them provide 10-100 Gigabit waves offering to the both collocation internal and external customers.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Director, Global Contract Compliance

Responsibilities:

• Direct/Manage Security programs for their selection of SIEM, IAM, PAM Carbon Black, log collection product (Splunk) and many other Security Solutions to improve and provide data visibility, SaaS solutions, identity management, and privilege access management of the Security/Data environment.
• Led the selection of industry-leading technology, provided best practices methods, and negotiated with vendors for the selection of solutions for Confidential, which resulted in $6.8M in savings in 1.5 years.
• Led the collaboration with other Engineering Groups, Security, Compliance Group, Security Operations Center (SOC), Operations, Network Operations Center (NOC), Accenture, Out-source Partners (IBM, PwC, ICS, Compliance Engineering and others), and Development teams worldwide.
• Managed Network/Security Engineering, Firewall Security, and Data Center Installation teams.
• Directed the disciplines of network engineering, firewall security, and security engineering tools, PCI 2.0/3.x changes needed for audit purposes for the network; security; and security tools, as well as data center equipment boarding and floor space management.
• Managed budgets accountability for Network Services & Security Engineering expenses, manufacture maintenance agreements, and vendor which resulted in a savings of $17.8 million in 2.5 years.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technology/Cyber Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Raised $28M in investment funding by developing the go-to-market data plan and building the product demonstration process.
• Product was a highly secured cloud SaaS service and software offering that is used by the Federal Government, Carriers, and Enterprise/Commercial customers.

Confidential, Norcross, GA

HP Networking & Security Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identified, recruited, hired, and trained senior networking engineers which ensured practice success.
• Developed a plan for NOC to become a Cloud Management and Security Management Center (SMC) during 2013 based on 60,000 elements or KPIs, which net $10.8M in company profit after expenses.
• Closed a $1M+ deal in 45 days that included a data center consolidation, voice make over, and cloud offering.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Directed a global data center consolidation project as a Senior Lead Consultant.
• Selected, relocated, and redesigned 38 data centers into two data centers which saved $20M per year in annual operational cost.
• Consolidated cloud-based information, voice networks, and corporate data network which delivered 99.999% reliability and produced $50M in annual savings.

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Director of Cisco Services

Responsibilities:

• Boosted profit $7 M by attaining Cisco Gold partner status with specializations in advanced unified communication, advanced security, advanced routing and switching, advanced data center networking infrastructure, and advanced Wireless LAN.
• Delivered a $28M increase in sales for Confidential, taking sales from $11M to $39M over two years.
• Directed numerous simultaneous projects: network design and reengineering, unified voice and call center design, security design and reengineering, data center design and equipment implementation.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Rectified Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) concerns by redesigning WAN, prepared network for IP voice, video, and global ERP deployment, brought web services and ecommerce in-house, renegotiated carrier contracts.
• Implemented a $10M ERP system and enabled global just-in-time (JIT) inventory which saved $3.6M.
• Conceived idea to utilize dark fiber from carrier hotel to handle voice, video and data traffic.
• Designed power requirements, back up and redundancy.
• Contracted engineer to execute collocation facility.
• Achieved a savings of several million dollars per year over using their internal legacy data center.