SUMMARY:

• A results - oriented Sr. IT Leader with extensive experience as a global business strategist and technology thought leader.
• Creative visionary with proven accomplishments in identifying mission-critical business needs and delivering solutions that enables business strategies to be realized
• Full breadth of experience in complete life-cycle deployments with Cloud Computing (Private/Public/Hybrid), Virtualization, Networking, Networked Storage, Relational Databases, NoSQL, and Application arenas for Business, Finance, and Technology
• Dynamic management career with strong leadership, hands-on problem-solving, planning, team-building and project management skills
• Demonstrated expertise in recruiting, developing, motivating and retaining a diverse staff that deliver significant results
• IT acquisition manager/director of over $702 million dollars in company acquisitions
• Generated an overall annual cost savings of $250k by efficiently managing a PBX to Hosted VoIP transition solution globally
• Achieved $500k average annual savings by transitioning an 8x5 IT Service Desk to a 24x7x365 hybrid outsourced solution
• Reduced 520 labor hours per year by delivering automation to labor intensive financial reports
• Developed and released several companywide IT policies and procedures to further help define IT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Cloud Architect

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Responsibilities:

• Leading and supporting the State CTO and GM through a statewide Cloud First initiative to move and migrate 85% of all applications to a cloud platform by 2018
• Leading and supporting the statewide Cloud Governance program to align an overall cohesive cloud approach and strategy throughout the Confidential
• Heading the State cloud architecture design and implementation phases to accommodate multiple cloud providers (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer) while minimalizing and centering on single-panes of glass for overall management and evading cloud lock
• Working with the State Enterprise Architecture Team to develop solid, repeatable and secure cloud blue prints as approved baseline architectures

Principal Consultant Architect

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for compiling and assembling pre-sales and delivery strategy documents and presentations for IT Modernization and Cloud Practice solutions
• Responsible for architecting scalable cloud solutions with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS services for customer’s build-outs, while focusing on Infrastructure-as-Code (Automation) to allow environment standardizations and speed of environment duplications
• Acting Confidential Cloud Practice resident Amazon AWS SME (subject matter expert) for customer engagements
• Responsible for the Confidential Infor Practice multi-tenant cloud architecture and supporting environments at a senior level capacity

IT Director of Global Infrastructure Services

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of the IT operations with a staff of 17 worldwide
• Set all IT Operations staff roles and responsibilities with current year goals and objectives
• Prepared and completed the FY16 Confidential and Confidential budgets for all of IT Infrastructure totaling $7 million dollars
• Managed all aspects of the four worldwide datacenters that supported internal business systems
• Reduced the remote offices IT Infrastructure footprint by centralizing technology solutions, which saved the company over $400K annually and eliminated duplicated systems
• Sponsored and managed the global rollout of ServiceNow for all IT incidents, projects, and change control, which replaced an out of date unsupported on premise point solution
• Sponsored and managed the Microsoft Office 365 project that eliminated 3 different email platforms globally with an annual savings of $200K
• Developed and implemented the on-and-off-boarding HR/IT process policies company wide
• Developed and implemented the global desktop standards policy which cut the overall time to customer in half

Mobility Architect / Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project management and architecting the citywide Wi-Fi mesh network to deliver a secure and solid wireless infrastructure
• Oversaw all deployment configurations from test to production environments
• Led and met with forward facing customers to understand frontend user interface designs and usability
• Led all security testing efforts inside and outside of the architecture
• Managed all wireless vendors and professional service contracts
• Responsible for writing up Mobility related Council Action items including vendor RFP’s
• Architected a new VPLS mesh topology network to support the Citywide wireless network
• Architected the POC and production MDM and BYOD solutions
• Pilot program manager for the latest Mobility devices split across Microsoft/Android/OSX/IOS
• Managed the overall Mobility project budgets

Senior Director of IT Global Infrastructure

Confidential, San Diego/San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a yearly $10 million dollar IT Infrastructure budget
• Served as the IT acquisition director for the purchase of Sierra Wireless “AirCard Division” $138 million
• Built and led teams to specifically implement IT service management
• Focused on continuous improvement of IT Infrastructure functions
• Collaborated and guided teams to document and put into practice processes, roles, responsibilities, and continuous improvement of established methods
• Collaborated with International IT teams to implement processes globally
• Worked with other internal operational teams to ensure standardized processes
• Managed worldwide datacenters supporting all internal business units to enable significant scaling
• Managed IT Operations supporting all worldwide business units
• Managed 6 IT operations teams with a staff of 36 supporting all aspects of the infrastructure including storage management, server administration, disaster recovery, IT Risk Management, asset management, and desktop automation
• Partnered with internal business units to communicate and collaborate on strategy, capacity and operational aspects of managing the IT Infrastructure services

Director of IT DevOPS

Confidential, San Diego/San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all of IT DevOPS relating to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services within Amazon AWS and other cloud service providers
• Managed the IT DevOPS team and future growth based on company goals and objectives
• Managed and architected the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS (production, QA, stage, development) environments
• Lowered overall costs of services as the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS scaled worldwide while using AWS (Amazon) and other cloud service provider technologies based on customer demand and load
• Close working relationships with the Software Development, Quality Assurance, and Customer Service Teams to help support and deliver world class products
• Responsible for all outside IT vendor relationships and budget management
• IT merger acquisition manager to Confidential (Avaak acquired for $24 Million)

IT Systems Manager

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed all IT Partner datacenters worldwide. This key role in the business included managing every aspect of the data network within these remote data centers back to central colocations around the world. Managing and motivating eight remote team members to stay focused and driven to deliver cutting edge technologies to all business units
• Served as the IT acquisition manager for the purchase of the following companies: LifeSize $405M, Ultimate Ears $34M, Harmony Remotes $29M, Squeeze Networks $20M, WiLife $22M, and SightSpeed $30M
• Managed and execute IT migrations for AMR acquisitions to become SOX compliant within Confidential IT business standards
• Provided management support in resolving complex application and network issues
• Managed Security audits on network vulnerabilities (hardware and software layers) for PCI compliance
• Worked with VP’s across business units to deliver first class support into locations all over the world
• Managed and maintained all remote data centers (New build outs and existing)
• Led multiple technical projects that improved performance and business functionality by saving 100+ hours of labor staff time
• Managed deployments and migrations to cloud technologies using Amazon AWS services to save companywide financials by $2 million and create redundancy across the Confidential portfolio of applications (Squeeze Networks, Harmony, Vid, WiLife Alert, and all IDC applications)
• Managed and deployed VMWare Confidential to downsize total hardware count and to optimize server uptimes with VMotion and HA technologies

Senior Network Consultant

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, migrating, and implementing server side hardware and software in an environment with 150 plus production servers.
• Implemented and managed core Cisco routers, firewalls, and switches throughout the Confidential, which included 40 remote PTP sites and 30 site-to-site VPN’s
• Provided support in resolving application and network problems
• Architected and implemented a wireless solution (802.11x, GPRS / Edge, and UMTS technology) citywide for Police, Code Enforcement, and City Inspectors with Netmotion as an encryption/compression middleware software
• Responsible for SQL 7 and 2000 Database Administration
• Involved in Data Center server racking rollouts
• Worked with server management tools (NetIQ, Insight Manager, Solarwinds, and Attention)
• Prepared server images for production rollouts
• Responsible for VB Scripting - Domain login scripting for drive mappings, printers, and antivirus checking based on AD security group membership
• Troubleshot and replaced failed hardware from motherboards, SCSI Controllers, SCSI drives and all aspects of the server farm
• Supported Active Directory structures and layouts (GPO’s, OU’s, DNS, DHCP, and WINS)
• Supported 1000 + Terminal Server users

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA

Responsibilities:

• Architected and implemented new servers and storage solutions
• Responsible for all monitoring of the LAN/WAN network performance and traffic
• Implementing and maintaining Cisco routers and firewalls with multiple T1’s and Frame relay circuits
• Managed all network and server equipment backups
• Implemented TCP/IP core networking services using Windows Services
• Maintained and troubleshot Microsoft Exchange 5.5 servers
• Managed and programmed call flows for a high call volume call center with streamlined auto attendants and queue traffic call delivery
• Maintained IVR systems interacting with customers
• Responsible for purchasing and budgeting network and server hardware
• Initiated multiple technical projects that improved performance and business functionality
• Designed and installed a gigabyte backbone for the core server farm