SUMMARY:

• Performance - Driven Portfolio/Program Manager with equal command of business protocol and cutting edge - technology management. Expertise in leading cross-functional technical teams in software, global infrastructure, software & hardware migrations and consolidations in cloud initiatives for high profile clients globally.
• Experience with Fortune 500 Companies to start-ups in data center/cloud-based architectures, data center site selection, banking, manufacturing, health care, and high tech companies. Highly skilled in Agile/DevOps transformation that drives improvements allowing technology companies to be more dynamic, competitive, and first to market.
• IT Portfolio/Program Management: Managed Data Center/Infrastructure Portfolios in Multiple millions of dollars in full- or near-full-life cycle technology programs in global infrastructure upgrades, private and public cloud initiatives, Intercloud exchanges and gateways, global data center consolidation/migration, enterprise technology refreshes, and green field data center build outs. Managed Database cloud services.
• Cloud Engineering: Led Cloud Services agile effort for Open stack efforts, proposed & drove continuous integration framework, delivered large multi-site implementations, big-data, cloud operations, and application migration strategies. Responsible End-to-End SDLC adoption and as well as Agile Project management transformations in OpenStack environments. Scrum mastered teams involved with Ecommerce applications.
• Financial Accountability: Saved employers thousands annually. Optimized and trained Project Management Office operations for employers since 1998. Led varied IT infrastructure development, ERP, critical facilities engineering & design, system controls & processes upgrades, and software design projects with a near perfect record of on-time and on budget adherence.
• Performance Management: Designed KPI metrics for the performance and savings of data center consolidations, Agile/DevOps transformations, and cloud initiatives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently leading the California Welfare network data center migration effort. The primary responsibility working with team and cross functional teams and act as point of contact to establish scope / guidelines, perform network infrastructure discovery, systems dependency analysis, determine business requirements, identify migration strategies, prepare site preparation schedules and provide ongoing program migration wave coordination cycles.
• Deeply involved in process of design, planning and execution of migration plan to migrate / decommission all network equipment in scope. Responsible for running network team engineering activities as a project manager for Ops related work for the DCT services.

Confidential

Cloud Infrastructure Services /Scrum Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure Services Team with the primary responsibility of Elastic Search, Kafka, Logstash and Kibana dependent hardware, application, and network migration from non-strategic to strategic data centers. Single point-of-contact for business and technology teams to establish scope / guidelines, perform infrastructure discovery and application dependency analysis, determine business requirements, identify migration strategies, negotiate schedules and provide ongoing program coordination. Deeply involved in process of design, planning and execution of migration plan to migrate / decommission all application instances and servers in scope. Responsible for running Operation’s team engineering teams as a project manager for Ops related work for the Cloud services. Worked on the Service Now CMDB application for a proof of concept study.
• Tracking all applications scheduled for migration and the customer coordination in change management. Leading weekly program status meetings with senior management, business and technology teams. Coordinate closely with SAs, DBAs, Middleware, Implementation Engineers, Network and Storage architects to ensure successful execution of migrations on time within budget with zero defects.
• Driving key data center migration programs to new cloud technologies involving message bus, Logging infrastructure elastic search and inventory discovery infrastructure, managing internal cross-functional teams, client and vendor project teams throughout the entire project life cycle (technology and application migration discovery, design and execution)
• Built and developed the execution repeatable process for the consolidation and migration of applications, servers, storage and networking. Devised elegant migration and upgrade techniques.
• Managing technical infrastructure teams and application teams to plan and execute migration cutover events for Tier 1 clients
• Managing the portfolio migration plans and wave event planning (i.e., run books, minute-by-minute execution plans)
• Leading development of the SDLC pipeline team for CI/CD.

Confidential

Program Manager/Scrum Master (Big Data Platform and Infrastructure)

Responsibilities:

• Driving Delivered on Project managed release commit process and prioritized completed features
• Driving Delivered on application migration within platform team.
• Managing on team agility by leaning out processes with Product manager and development
• Managing on improved feature release planning efforts with product management.
• Managing on interlocks with dependent teams to address dependencies and prioritized work within the group. Owned communication process for the team and contributed to bug resolution and QA planning efforts to define and agree upon definition of done.
• Achieved $5K in quarterly saving by leaning out scrum processes.

Confidential

Technical Infrastructure /Scrum Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Driving on environment build out efforts for Future state eDell projects
• Driving on costs reduction via virtualization strategy and decommission program.
• Driving on scrum agility models and metrics for development and operation teams
• Driving on Deployment agility transformation and supported quicker time to market goals
• Driving Delivered on new vendor log monitoring introductions with Ops - now active project
• Driving Delivered on Production Systems via SQL 2012 I/O performance and failover enhancements
• Driving on and designed automated scrum master dashboard with TFS and SQL reporting
• Created environment focused release planning process for Confidential
• Created Data Layer tech affinity discussions around performant scalable virtualized data availability
• Achieved $100K in cost reduction by H/W decommissioning efforts
• Achieved $100K in cost reduction by moving to database from physical to virtualization efforts
• Achieved $ 20K in cost reduction savings by creating scrum master dashboard

Confidential

Data Center/Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migrated 75 Customers from legacy data center to the new state of the virtualized ITIL .model
• Efficiency Improvement Milestone Ecommerce site with new development nonproduction environments and production environments on all levels - received company team
• Efficiency Improvement Milestone new distributed cache layer for Ecommerce team- received company team
• Bridged stakeholder requirements with technical and customer requirement to achieve the transformations goals
• Provided expertise and leadership on resource management and allocation, Asset Management risk mitigation, communications, project plans, project deliverables, actions/issue resolution, scheduling, contract negotiation, policies and procedures, project documentation standards, quality assurance, executive presentations, organizational structure, contract requirements and best practices
• Managed enterprise, and network architects globally to support the customer migrations.
• Developed repeatable process project methodologies and processes to achieve the highest level of quality and the least amount of customer interruption with strict disciplinary across multiple organizations and cross functional teams.
• Vendor management

Confidential

Service Delivery Manager Internet Data Center services

Responsibilities:

• Efficiency Improvement Milestone, Installed largest customer install for the Santa Clara facility 57 cabinets
• Design: Contributed to the design of the Santa Clara data center facility (Local exchange space & Power)
• Managed the SaaS multitier architecture services to include ERP, e-commerce, financial systems Management, network-based, integrated applications; streaming media; SAN, NAS/DAS and backup. Developed Key Performance Indicators (KPI) metrics to measure customer satisfaction and overall network performance.
• Driving Led all elements of the program lifecycle for multiple concurrent projects in partnership with project leadership. Applied project methodology (i.e. key practices in the phases of the project: scoping, planning, designing, build, deploy, project closure using critical thinking and leadership skills.
• Driving: delivery on Network implementation activities involving data center migrations.
• Managed: Presented technical Data Center tours for clients & Achieved $22 million in contract values

Confidential

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Driving Customer Data Center deployment process white paper (Contract $432,000) for just my part
• Driving Delivered on Data Center Financial Mitigation process for client rolling out data centers
• Driving Delivered on Project Management delivery presentations and tools for Senior Consultants.
• Driving Corporate LAN/WAN project ( ATM) to Netigy office branches)
• Driving Delivered on mobile server compression testing white paper
• Collaborated with construction teams and outside vendors
• Achieved 83%+ utilization and full bonus s
• Achieved $500K in billing revenue for company

Confidential

International Program Manager for Data Center Expansion

Responsibilities:

• Designed Delivered on Data Center build out in Germany
• Drove Site Selection activities with Real Estate company ( Colliers International) for other regions of interest.
• Drove Data Center Functional Test verification process for all Data center Tiers ( Power, HVAC, network, Server)
• Delivered on Data Center Financial Mitigation process and Budgeting for the CTO and CFO
• Created Business plans for each site and maintained European partnerships ( legal and financial)
• Delivered on Site Selection process with International Real Estate and Construction companies
• Achieved $300K in billing revenue for company