EXECUTIVE PROFILE:

• COO/CTO/Certified Technical Architect (PMP & CISSP) with 18 years executive management experience and large project execution from project acquisition through entire sales cycle to project implementation on multiple multimillion - dollar contracts with exceptional technical documentation skills for RFI/RFP responses utilizing Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart for describing complex technical architectures
• Highly Successful Contract Negotiations (RFP Responses), Business Development (Pre and Post Sales), and “Hands-on technical” Project Management (PMP) with interaction at the Executive C-level, technical personnel (Mentoring and Staff Training Capabilities)
• End-to-End “Hands-on” Enterprise Implementations and assessments for cloud strategic enterprise engagements utilizing Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Adoption Frameworks, Storage Area Networking from multiple disk subsystem vendors, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Data Center and Server Room Management(calculating power and HVAC requirements), multiple Medical and Business Systems, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, and Amazon Web Services, Cisco LANs/SANs/WANs, Citrix NetScaler, Wireless, DMZ, Cisco and Checkpoint Firewalls, Knowledge and Content Management, Customer Support Databases based on Remedy and Heat (ITIL), Enterprise Distribution Systems (Microsoft System Center) and VDI initiatives for desktop management, and many other IT Enterprise Projects (four large scale PC Deployments) and lead on Microsoft .Net Software Development Efforts
• Hands-on highly technical implementations for Disaster Recovery (DR) Systems based on Tivoli Storage Manager, Commvault, entire SAN architectures (Brocade, Cisco, and Extended SAN, IBM DS Mid-range SAN, XIV, SVC, EMC VNX, Isilon, and Data Domain, HP EVA, HP SVSP, & NetApp) many vendor virtualized storage solutions both for disk and tape, Server hardware (pSeries, i386 platforms, Blade Architectures), to advanced technical software such as Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) for Microsoft Exchange and SQL (VSS), AIX, DB2 (split mirror), and Oracle.
• Application of governance policies across any IT enterprise environment with profound comprehension and creation of security policies (CISSP) and engineering for commercial institutions (PCI compliance) and in accordance with Federal Regulations - FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA (Risk Assessments) and Confidential Regulations - DITSCAP and DIACAP, author of the Computer Security and Policy Program for Confidential, DR policy and implementations with validation to federal and legal requirements.
• Technical Director and Senior Technical Architect actively engaged in management of all Business and Technical Aspects of IT Enterprise Contracts valued at $30 million with 48-60 IT personnel (hiring manager - contract and direct employees). Directly responsible for the RFP creation through actual commencement of operations not excluding day to day and month to month delivery of contract deliverables for multiple contracts simultaneously.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Security Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the complete Azure Confidential implementation for Confidential performing all engineering tasks and deliverables for the conversion of internal users to Confidential and designing all future Confidential implementations.
• Large scale hands-on direct permissions solely responsible in Microsoft AD, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Exchange Online for the entire Confidential migration.
• The technology is still offered by Microsoft in preview.
• Designed and created all PowerShell scripts for the entire migration.

Chief Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all aspects of a full-service IT company and successfully led the acquisition and successful execution of contracts with Microsoft providing training, service desk, and technical expertise in Microsoft Azure and CRM for the State of Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico Women, Infant and Children program.
• The Microsoft contracts required in-depth customer service design and expertise in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, single sign on Microsoft technology of Confidential and B2C, among the entire Azure suite.
• Also, charged with scaling business including Latin America initiatives all requiring significant technical cloud experience and acquired multiple contracts providing in-depth technical architecture and implementation skills.
• Implementations include Citrix ADC NetScaler in Azure with Application Firewalls and end to end encryption, Oracle Data Guard in Azure with landing zone design and data migration, IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot technologies with IBM v7000 and v5030 and other SAN environments (EMC VNX Certified) or DR hardware in IBM ProtecTier and EMC Data Domain, full scale Checkpoint implementations built in AWS, Cisco ASA firewall implementations, Microsoft Teams and Office 365 implementations with Intune for large scale mobile environments, VMWARE, Hyper-V, and in-depth virtualization implementations with large scale SAN backends for Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and other database environments (JBASE).
• Consulting short and long term engagements continued from Oct 2006 where the primary responsibility was a lead Disaster Recovery and Enterprise Infrastructure architect advising on multiple disaster recovery solutions across multiple Storage Area Network environments including Data Domain, IBM SAN, and EMC SAN hardware and Enterprise backups solutions such as Spectrum Protect, TSM, Commvault, and Netbackup, and others involving targeting Azure and AWS.

Director, Senior IT Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide lead engineering support and consultation for Confidential accounts with significant travel national and many remote support engagements as an infrastructure Architect.
• Primarily assigned to IBM and multiple federal, commercial, and education institution accounts executing intricate DR, Storage, and Server designs and implementations across the IT spectrum for complete end to end customer engagements.
• For example, multiple engagements include designing and implementing Tivoli based application solutions producing entire DR infrastructure design and implementation, LAN based and LANFREE server farms targeted to virtual tape and physical tape libraries across multiple client platforms, HP UNIX, Linux, Aix, Sun, and Windows, Exchange 2010 to 2003, DB2, Domino, and Microsoft SQL Servers, and VMWARE based scenarios.
• Disaster recovery design and implementation ranges from TSM Fastback through more advanced TSM technologies such as TSM Flashcopy Manager 2.2.1 in Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Exchange, and IBM DB2. SAN infrastructure solutions include Brocade and Cisco end to end fibre channel solutions with storage such as IBM SVC or HP SVSP for virtualized storage with backends from most SAN vendors such as IBM (DS series, XIV, SVC), HP (EVA, SVSP), and NETAPP.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed Strategic Technology Plans for executive staff as the lead consultant encompassing the entire Enterprise architecture. Completely redesigned, implemented, and maintained the Enterprise distribution system based on Microsoft SMS for automated deployment of software along with the creation of an Enterprise Engineering Process (EEP) for effective change management (ITIL assessments).
• Revamped customer support databases (Heat and later migration to Remedy) designing the systems from the ground up to include full technical documentation.
• Led all Disaster Recovery processes maintaining the entire SAN infrastructure and Tape Library system based on Tivoli Storage Manager and Commvault. Designed, implemented, and maintained LAN-free backups, storage management and data retention policies including scripting for Tivoli Storage Manager.
• Redesigned, implemented and maintained the data center, server rooms, and the server farm to include the evaluation, selection, and implementation of Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage as a few examples of the many Enterprise projects employed across the six ½ years of employment.
• The BAMC network consists of 5000 users/systems, and is part of a much larger network consisting of 60,000 users.

Technical Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for various technology related contracts and all aspects of contract management including all customer relations, human resources, finances (Budget, P&L, AR and AP, contracts), work schedules, managing SOW/PWS, etc., along with full technical oversight.
• Provide technical guidance to senior executive management for any IT related questions found in a 900 million plus IT Confidential contracting company.
• Depended on to fully develop technical execution plans for new and existing business, meeting all customer’s expectations and contractual obligations for contracts valued at over 30 million across a five year span.
• Analyzed RFP’s and developed complete responses as the technical consultant.
• Responsible for selecting, training, developing, and managing performance of direct reports in area of specialty; mentoring, coordinating, planning, and providing direction for staff in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable legal requirements.
• Managed 48-60 personnel including help desk support, network engineers, Microsoft engineers, software developers, design graphic artists, VTC engineers, with active customer and vendor management