SUMMARY:

• Business/Systems Analysis - Experienced in translating requirements into technical specifications.
• Strong technical skills, business intelligence, and a full understanding of the needs. Interface between technology teams, support teams, and business units
• Strategic Management - Experienced in vendor management, contract negotiations and strategic financial analysis to increase efficiencies and reduce costs while maintaining solid rapport with business partners.
• Team Leadership and Budget Management - Expertise in leading and building cohesive cross functional teams and collaborating with senior executives in improving operations and starting up new business locations while overseeing staff and managing budgets.
• Process Improvements - Devised and implemented processes, procedures, systems and internal controls to strengthen operations, increase productivity and enhance customer satisfaction.
• 100% success rate of all projects and initiatives assigned and supported by executive management.
• Integration of various departments, vendors and groups to successfully achieve commitments.
• Successfully obtain support of owners, stakeholders and corporate management regardless of objections and perceptions.
• Completed all consultant contracts successfully.
• Successfully designed and managed technically complex infrastructures.
• Optimized IT infrastructures through various new technologies including virtualization, clouds, SANs, networking and physical consolidations. Reduced Costs.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Platforms: Various Linux Distros, VMware, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, VirtualBox, Novell, OS400, DOS, Citrix, KVM, Server Containers (Snap, Docker), Oracle, Sequel, MySQL, DB2, AD, NDS, LDAP, AS/400.Palo Alto, Juniper, SQL, Oracle, Apache2, IIS.

Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet, FDDI, VPN, PGP, PKI, SMS/SQL, SSH, Cloud, Frame Relay, MPLS.

Equipment: IBM, SUN, HP, Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, EMC, Dell.

Tools: & Experience Blue Coat, Check Point, Anti-Virus, Desktop/server virtualization, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Visio Exchange, GroupWise, Lotus Notes Network design, build and installation - Server design, build and installation - General application development written in various languages for accounting, inventory, web sites, and interfaces.

Languages include: Basic, C, Python, JavaScript. Data-Centers, Business-Offices and Call -Centers of 10 to 25,000 user build-outs Working with Real-Estate, Facilities, General Contractors, Vendors and Municipalities.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Project ManagerIT Architect Business/Systems Analyst

Program ManagementDesign and BuildVendor/Financial Management

Team LeadershipStrategic Planning/AnalysisRelationship Building

Budget ManagementCost Control/ReductionProcess Improvements

Change ManagementSolve Business ProblemsBusiness Development

KNOWLEDGE:

• Utilize the system development life cycle (SDLC) sequential processes; System Investigation, System Analysis, System Design, Programming, Testing, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance, PMI.
• Manged projects phases with: Solutions / Opportunities, Migration planning, Implementation / Governance oversight, Execution / Control, Change Management and Closure.
• Decision making and critical thinking extensive experience understanding of the issues related to the decision - making process; ability to analyze situations fully and accurately, and reach productive decisions.
• Lead e inclusive and diverse teams who are empowered to speak freely and act with integrity. leads effective change extensive experience recognizes the need for, takes personal accountability to adapt, and leads others through organizational change.
• Drives for results demonstrates energy and a desire to succeed; follows through on commitments; pushes self and others to deliver exceptional results.
• Establishes vision and purpose extensive experience creates a compelling vision of the future and translates it into action, linking others' contributions to its success.
• Research and maintain current industry and working knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations to ensure emerging technologies and knowledge are applied to design and evaluate new information technologies for business environments in order to improve work productivity and accuracy.
• IT architecture subject matter expertise knowledge of and ability to design and improve organizational it structures and blueprints in order to better support business operations and efficiently achieve organizational objectives using the open group architecture framework (TOGAF) extensive experience knowledge of and ability to use this universal framework released by 'the open group' to effectively plan, develop and govern enterprise architecture.

WORK HISTORY:

Solutions/Technical Architect

Confidential, Cranberry TWP, PA

Responsibilities:

• Developed architectures for Business, Information Systems and Technology groups. IT architecture subject matter expert.
• Analyze and designed techniques to solve business problems using information technology.
• Translate business needs to develop solutions from design to technological product.
• Responsible for developing cost analysis, design considerations, staff impact improvements and implementation timelines.
• Lead design and integration of overall architecture of proposed systems with clients. Improved technical environments throughout the organization to provide optimized solutions and optimize business requirements utilizing various technologies and supporting physical and virtual machines environments.
• Coordinated with project management group to provided architectural oversight for all project phases as needed. SME: VMWare, SUSE, Oracle, Microsoft Server, Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, F5, RSA, MS-Office, Exchange, Visio, Multi-media.

Manufacturing Support

Confidential, Irwin, PA

Responsibilities:

• Content Management System (CMS) migration from previous database and document system as a result of company acquisition.
• Process management, scheduling, component assembly improvement.

Sr. IT Project Manager

Confidential, Cranberry Township, PA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.
• Managed IT projects of various size, complexity, costs and duration.
• Identify the organizational improvements needed, design systems to implement those changes, and train and motivate others to use the systems.
• Complex integration's of technology and business functionalities
• Managed virtual and co-located teams throughout the United States
• Project teams of up to 30 members including internal and external resources
• Manged up to 20 projects annually
• Worked directly with Legal ententes, Regulatory agencies, mandates, standards and unions
• Third party vendor relationships including Telecom, Construction, Trades, Unions, and municipal regulators
• Direct communications with Executive and Senior Management Very experienced with Manage, Direct, Coach, Support and Delegation leadership styles
• Developed SOW, RFP and RFI Thorough understanding of Security, including Physical, Operational, Access Control, Cryptography, Network, Business Continuity Planning, and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Thorough understanding of project management disciplines, including Project Management Institute (PMI), Design - Build, Design-Bid-Build, and Management Contracting
• Track record of increasing responsibility in secure network design, systems analysis and development, and full life-cycle project management
• Designs of main distribution frame (MDF), intermediate distribution frame (IDF), Low Voltage wiring, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Condition (HVAC), electrical requirements, rack placement, wall fields, rack layouts, UPS, and generators
• Expertise in Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Windows, Linux, and UNIX including design and build, administration, and operations
• Expert knowledge with database systems, office applications, web-based and cloud computing
• Administrative experienced with; Networks, Servers, PBX, Desktop, Mobile, disk-farms, software installation, security, communications, build-outs, maintenance, support and troubleshooting.

Sr. Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed, implemented and documented enterprise server solutions.
• Provided administrative and engineering support.
• Designed and implemented various departmental computer environments.

Sr. Systems Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• planning, design, implementation and documentation of various departmental computing environments to support business functions.
• Novell, Windows and OS2 servers supporting vertical and standard offices.

System Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• designed, implemented and documented new computer environment for 300 users as part of Confidential 's world-wide environment.
• Designed and implemented a data center.