SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented, dynamic IT leader with over 15 years of challenging experience providing infrastructure, operational, and client services ideation and support for an array of scenarios, specializing in information security and risk management
• Dedicated, confident project manager who embraces complicated, large-scale ventures, understanding how to resource, communicate, and network in order to best coordinate all moving parts due to extensive, hands-on foundation in technology planning and development
• Systematic, open-mined collaborator who aims to foster empowered environments through effective organization, delegation, and guidance in order to achieve desired goals, and who listens to and supports colleagues’ efforts in order to establish impactful, productive relationships
• Proactive, captivating team leader who acts as a role model for others, taking responsibility for any consequences and who prioritizes the success of the company, always searching for ways to improve and maintain its ideals and reputation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Middletown, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed several new organizational leaders from aspiring talent within the operations organizations.
• Lead compliance initiatives related to NIST, CMMC, DFARS and internal/external audit requirements.
• Redesigned data center to better manage cable organization systems, legacy air conditioning replacements, and power redundancy
• Introduced IT Security Policy and quarterly IT Security Awareness training, featuring topics such as annual state of security updates, phishing, and protecting children online
• Worked creatively to reduce budget requirements over eleven years with a move to a cloud first mindset, resulting in management of a $4.7 million dollar CapEx/OpEx budget as of 2020.
• Directed and Implemented first disaster recovery and replication network between Middletown and Ann Arbor headquarters; resulting in complete data replication within allotted twelve-hours each evening
• Established US as Regional Center of Competency for the Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico) through visits to each subsidiary and creating framework to take over IT services of partner companies in order to standardize performance, reduce cost, and bring premier satisfaction to constituents
• Collaborated with Development, Manufacturing, and Sales to apply groundbreaking technology, PLCNext, which allowed generation of real-time machine analytics and alerts from manufacturing floor with company equipment, thus yielding immediate discovery of pneumatic leak and cost savings from day one
• Joined UL STP 2900-1 as contributing member to participate in new standard generation related to implementation of and security certification for UL products
• Presented on security topics, such as Americas Awareness Initiative, at two annual Global IT Leadership Meetings in Germany
• Migrated from Avaya to Cisco Phone System with video capability throughout US, producing annual cost savings starting in year three and $581,000+ cost savings in capital expenditures by year 10 due to extensive cost-analysis; reduced monthly telephone line expenses by over $5100 six months prior with full USA telecommunications contract renegotiation
• Participated as one of two in company’s annual EDGE (Executive Development of Global Expertise) program, successfully completing four modules and all capstone projects based on Confidential leadership principles in US, Germany, China, and Poland

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Professor and Curriculum Designer

Responsibilities:

• Educated non-traditional undergraduate students on concepts in computer and wireless networking, including LAN, wireless, and WAN technologies. Acted on curriculum design board for classes taught due to glowing recommendations from colleagues.
• Utilized technology to provide differentiated instruction and online learning system in order to meet individual requirements and support variety of learning styles and modalities; enhanced environment with live videos for online students
• Established collaborative learning environment for students, motivating them through bi-weekly phone calls to encourage dialogue and continued exploration of subject matter, as well as online discussion boards challenging them to solve classroom problems with real-life experiences
• Introduced remote labs for practical education, purchasing networking equipment, creating virtual labs for up 20 students, and operating out of home office

Confidential, Lititz, PA

Team Lead and Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered corporate-wide computer network for $14 billion dollar bank in five-state Mid-Atlantic region with BGP MPLS fully-meshed network
• Installed and upheld several pairs of Fortinet and Juniper Firewalls across the companies’ three data centers, minimizing security risks
• Coordinated implementation and conversion of systems during variety of bank acquisitions, including $3 billion dollar acquisition of Community Banks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Office (365, Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)  IBM Lotus Notes AWS  Azure  CompTIA Security+  CISSP  Cisco CCNA  Joomla Magento Trello GSuite HTML CSS CS HP Fortinet AB/Inform  Scopus  ScienceDirect  JSTOR Google Scholar Evidence-Based Management  Cloud and Distributed Computing  eCommerce Platform Management