SUMMARY:

• Proven IT Business Leader who delivers digital change while guiding businesses into new operating models that increase efficiency through automation, reduce TCO with digital services, and allows teams to take on new customers and products. Resulting in higher customer satisfaction and retention, increased sales, improved margins, or positive KPIs for value chains across companies, geographies, cultures, and 5 different industries.
• Created a new Information Management and cloud strategy for 50+ business units of Confidential, which incorporated cloud, Big Data, digital, mobile, Internet of Things, robotics, and data science uses for business.
• Deployed the strategy in the Confidential Pipeline business unit
• For EnterWorks, created and managed all strategic corporate policies, risk mitigation processes, and change management processes to support cloud operations. created the strategic cloud business case to prioritize applications moving to the cloud.
• Methodologies: At Confidential Consulting, created a cloud transformation methodology to be used as the definitive guide for the sales team to engage customers to move IT into the hybrid cloud.
• Innovative: Developed and deployed an innovative HIPPA compliant cloud strategy for UTHealth’s 6 medical schools and 3 hospitals; worked with executives to define the future hybrid IT environment for operations, faculty, researchers, and medical students.
• In nine months consolidated Confidential ’s IT organization into 3 data centers, and two virtual environments after they acquired Confidential, creating the largest pipeline management company in North America, 2000 devices, Petabytes of data, 100s of applications and databases.
• Virtualized 600+ servers.
• Planned and executed a 1000 - mile data center move for 400+ servers and 300 TB of data over a 70-hour window, with financial penalties for schedule slippage, 99.5% restart success
• Also divested a copy of 40 applications for a new startup.
• Hires and mentors new team members and managers of teams
• Taught software engineering, database design, and object-oriented technologies, using Java and Microsoft technologies.
• At EnterWorks, responsible for IT security compliance to meet SOC2 and ISO 27001 certifications
• Completed in 18 months. defined and deployed the governance processes and gates to delegate authority from the executive level to responsible teams for publishing corporate information to all customers world-wide from their digital asset eco-system

TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION EXPERIENCE:

Managed Cloud Change for 10 Companies

Negotiated Managed Services Contracts

Cloud Governance and Cost Management

M&A Due Diligence and Execution

New Business Development

Enterprise Architecture TOGAF/Sys-Engr

SOC2 and ISO 27001 Certification

Product Management

Software Patterns, REST, MQ, and Containers

DevOps

Business Process Re-Engineering

Hires Talent, provide Leadership and Mentoring

On-Shore, Off-Shore and Out-Sourcing Coordination

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Director Product Management and Security

Responsibilities:

• Brought into the fast growth company to organize the product roadmap and to help customer deployments, DevOps, and operations leverage the cloud at the next level of operations.
• Streamlined and managed the software release management process in the cloud, manage issue escalation, and create a content delivery team. Created corporate cloud policies, risk mitigation processes, and change management processes to support IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments, sales grew from $25MM to $50MM in 24 months and was acquired.
• Created technical content for Gartner, Forrester, and IDC analysts that improved our standing with industry analysts, which in turn generated new business with several $10B+ companies.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Enterprise and Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed a hybrid cloud playbook as a reference plan for cloud engagements to support sales teams and to deliver cloud change in a consistent approach.
• At Confidential created a new 5 year Information technology strategy that was adopted by 50+ business units… at PG&E, created a cloud business case to prioritize moving 1000 applications to the cloud.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Enterprise and Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Brought in to work with the executive committee to create a HIPPA compliant hybrid cloud operating plan, and to manage high profile cloud projects.
• Standardized and collimated cloud operations for AWS, Azure, Google, and VMware clouds to meet HIPAA requirements.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Enterprise and Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• CenterPoint Energy, technical oversight for a new $140M+ active/active data center, managed Western Hemisphere 7x24 IT and cloud operations leading 20+ person team
• Conoco, new governance processes for external social media
• Confidential, managed current and target cloud architectures for Space Station ground based processes and systems supporting flight hardware logistics
• Confidential, business data architect for the Return to the Confidential .

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Manager Business Integration

Responsibilities:

• Manager a major system change to the commercial energy marketing systems critical for P/L of the energy business unit the system supports day-to-day commercial account energy marketing, trading, risk management, pricing, wholesale energy scheduling, mark-to-market forward valuation of deals, customer energy transactions, billing, and accounting data tie-outs.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected and deployed a new energy trading solution for California Independent System Operator Nodal Market, with 15 direct and indirect reports.