SUMMARY:

• Project Management: 10 years. Managed large, high profile projects for major corporations. Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute. Managed projects with international team members and vendors. Conducted feasibility studies and proof of concepts; wrote business cases, SOW’s and RFP’s. Experienced in waterfall, agile, RAD, and SDLC. Proficient with Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and Visio.
• Project Manager for an initiative to standardize and reorganize Active Directory administrative permissions to comply with SOX regulations. Permissions were consolidated to the root domain. Accounts in child domain administrative groups were removed. Service accounts were standardized and setup with specific local server rights and downgraded to local domain users. Accounts in child domains administrative groups were reduced down to a bare minimum.
• Project Manager for SAP purchase order automation using EDI. Managed internal and external resources to format SAP processes for EDI transmission to/from a vendor in China. The project standardized the purchasing workflow for four divisions eliminating the need to manually fax hard copy purchase orders.
• Project Manager for a server consolidation initiative using VMWare ESX software. Wrote business case and building permit for server consolidation and disaster recovery. The project resulted in cost avoidance by reducing the purchase of new servers and racks; reduction in power consumption; and KVM ports in the Datacenter. Total ROI is estimated at $1,182,000 over 5 years.
• Project Manager for Unicenter TNG Enterprise Management implementation. Designed the infrastructure in compliance with business needs. The objective of the project was to create an enterprise monitoring system to warn operators of system problems or potential problems. The successful implementation involved deploying and configuring agents for over 300 Intel based servers and over 40 UNIX based servers, resulting in an 85% reduction of unscheduled down - time; increased employee productivity and a reduction in staff. Operational savings are estimated at over $200,000 a year.
• Lead Engineer in the deployment of a new policy administration system for Confidential . The objective of the project was the migration of over one million customer account policies from the Mainframe to an N-Tiered Client-Server Distributed System. The result of the migration allowed product development to implement new products to market faster and more efficiently resulting in millions of dollars of new revenue. My responsibility as lead Engineer was to overcome the many technical challenges of changing platforms for the numerous applications that make up the Policy Administration System.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IT Management: 6 years. Managed IT operations at multiple sites. Change Manager for global IT operations. Managed Consultants, Network Administrators, Field Technicians and Help Desk Analysis. Managed internal MIS department. Skilled at developing new IT policies and procedures based on ITIL v3 specifications. Skilled at designing business workflows. Created and managed budgets, and conducted performance reviews.

Network Administration: 12 years. Microsoft Server 3.51, 4.0, 2000, 2003 and 2008. Skilled in design and implementation of SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, 2000 and 2005; Exchange 5.0, 5.5 and 2003; SMS 1.2 and 2.0; Site and Commerce Server 3.0. Experience with Linux Red Hat and SuSE; VMWare ESX; Veritas Backup Exec 8.5 and 9.0; McAfee ePO 3.0; Norton Anti-Virus Management Server; DNS; DHCP; Active Directory; IIS Server 4.0 and 5.0; Microsoft Clustering; SAN and NAS technology; Experience with VLANs, ACLs, NATing and Routing Tables on Cisco 2000 and 4000 Series Routers.

Programming: 5 years. Knowledgeable in Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.net, Silverlight, Borland and Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, and FORTRAN. Experience with building classes, structures and functions. Web-based programming experience with Visual Interdev, FrontPage and Macromedia Flash. Experienced in developing web-based user interfaces; middle-tier business logic; and backend databases.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV/Omaha, NE

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• IT Consulting
• Web Development
• Home Technology

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN/Las Vegas, NV

Adjunct Professor

Responsibilities:

• Instructor for various IT related courses

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Lead IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified and Proposed New IT Infrastructure Projects
• Managed IT Infrastructure Projects
• Change Manager for Client’s Global IT Infrastructure
• Managed IT Operations and Server/Network Infrastructure at Four Client Sites

Confidential,  Los Angeles, CA

Senior Network Administrator V

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT Infrastructure Projects
• Member of the Network Services Group Managing Over 100 Servers

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed Network Infrastructure Systems
• Member of the Network Services Group Managing Over 350 Servers
• Managed IT Infrastructure Projects