SUMMARY:

I am a Government security clearance and twenty - two years of cross-functional experience, focusing in: business and process improvement, analysis and strategy, customer support, change management, and business continuity.

AREAS OF EXCELLENCE:

• Leadership
• Business Improvement
• Relationship Building
• Influencing
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Budgeting
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• IT Strategy
• Topology Design
• Export Control & IT Security

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Strategy and Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and facilitate business improvement project delivery in Americas.
• Focal point for delivery issues and environment upgrades.
• Board approver for changes to business compute environment.
• Chair of Engineering IT engagement committee.
• Member of IT Executive group.
• Technical approver for Engineering IT renewals in US.
• Develops Engineering IT Strategy and high level roadmap annually.
• Roadmap adopted globally for mobile device implementation.
• Delivery of new 64-bit OS improved compute capability by 80% in analytical community for 2.4M cost savings per annum.
• Improvements to oversight of 3.2M budget reduced spend by 1.2M for 43% efficiency gain.
• Mitigated >200M in cost auditing sites being sold by Confidential to Confidential .
• Recovered 4 month slip in outsourcing supplier implementation through active engagement with project and facilitation of deliverables.
• Changes to agile environment improved engineering efficiency by 900K per annum.
• Deployed timekeeping on mobile devices to remove late metric. Initiated Six Sigma project to improve renewal processes and budgeting accuracy.
• Facilitated decommissioning of failing document management system and migration into global database, minimizing risk and standardizing record keeping in US.
• Kaizen to improve management of compute resources reduced yearly cost by 14M annually.

Confidential

Technology Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promotion to Technology Manager with seven specialists. Identified opportunity to increase efficiency to Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) lab; resulting in >30% improved performance of graphical and analytical capability; IT Organization adopted improvements for future deployments.
• Oversaw security model development for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) deployment. Designed simplified flowcharts to assist with business acceptance, surpassing traditional deliverables. Focal point for IT strategy, Infrastructure, IT security, Intellectual Property, and Export Control for Engineering Improvement Center (EIC) and regularly engaged locally and globally for recommendations on highly complex technical and conceptual issues.
• Improved Engineering financial portfolio processes for justification and budgeting, consolidating license renewals, recovering projected overspend in first year and an additional second year.
• Designed new budget to cover previously unrecognized expenses on departments for software packaging and maintenance, eliminating trend of department overspend.
• Managed Trent 1000 CX war room design, allowing project progression toward milestones until strategic delivery, facilitating the move of the Confidential work package to Indianapolis and securing 120 Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) of work to offset F136 program shutdown.
• Managed team, upgrading 2400 engineers, delivering three months ahead of schedule. Chair of Engineering IT Working Group, charged with employing innovative technologies to overcome competition.
• Invited to join the North American IT Executive Group and Gas Turbine Supply Chain (GTSC) IT Strategy Board, representing Engineering & Technology interests for North America.

Confidential

PLM Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Integral to the planning, design, and deployment of the PLM suite throughout the global Confidential estate.
• Focal point for all PLM related IT Security, Intellectual Property, Infrastructure, and Export Control concerns in North America.
• Commended on System Security Policy formatting, improving approval rate by 25%.
• Recognized for being crucial to the Phase I ADVENT win, due to 75% efficiency improvements in the Engineering Computational Development Laboratory; work completed in 1/4th the time. Integral to the North American XP upgrade project, coordinating application roll-out and testing, beating the project goal by more than a month.
• Demonstrated extensive knowledge of PLM and an ability to simplify highly technical documents in the creation and presentation of material to senior management and Government Security Committee, warranting compliments from other Directors and the Engineering Vice Presidents of Civil and Defense on ability to present very complex items in a simple, understandable manner.

Confidential

Network Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager overseeing research, design, implementation, documentation, and support of network topology, multi-platform servers, and workstations.
• IT Security site lead and Point of Contact for IT level purchasing, screening of vendors and customers.
• Implemented process improvements, reducing install time by 60%. Installed and configured a multi-switch managed fiber backbone, improving throughput by 450% on legs and 1000% over trunks.
• Architected network cabling and switching infrastructure for higher availability of crucial servers and applications.
• Installed and configured Internet activity monitoring programs and network bandwidth usage and connectivity programs, greatly increasing data availability and problem identification methods.
• Diagnosed current data and hardware protection strategies and implemented improvements, increasing network uptime, server availability, and data recovery by over 30%.
• Configured an explicit firewall for maximum security, closing several security holes and improving network integrity. Implemented an IP based security camera system 2 months ahead of schedule, allowing for remote interface by managers and security personnel.
• Architected dual-factor authentication VPN solution and secure file transfer server for remote data access by associates abroad.

Confidential

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided network administration and workstation support for multiple clients around Anchorage and at remote fly-in sites.
• Responsible for the architecture and implementation of new network topologies and server builds.
• Analyzed networks for prospective clients and diagnosed / managed points of IT Security risk.
• Created tools to query networks, cutting task completion times by up to 80%, relative to network size.