SUMMARY:

• Results oriented IT, Software Development and Project Management executive with exceptional leadership skills and an extensive technical background.
• Innovative leader with over 20 years experience solving business problems with technology, focused on keeping IT simple, scalable and sustainable.
• Excellent strategic planning capability with comprehensive technical knowledge to align customer business needs, determine project resources, operational requirements, cost benefit analysis and potential risks.
• Experienced Program/Project Manager; able to manage on - shore and off-shore cross-functional teams to design, develop, implement, manage business solutions.
• Proficient in Windows, Unix, and Storage Systems administration; experienced Software Engineer.
• Earned several awards for Exceptional and Exemplary Performance.
• Participated in and won two ACM Programming Contests.
• Developed cloud solution to solve business problems; awarded patent for RACE Cloud.
• Created an SAS Performance Analysis system; caught and identified performance problems before integration.
• Conceptualized and developed the Security Testing Platform ecosystem - a secure environment for Data Governance Security work.
• Served as Program Manager, Architect, Technical Lead, Business Analyst and Lead Engineer, developing solutions for protecting Confidential Engineering intellectual property worldwide.
• Worked with a 3rd Party cloud storage partner providing guidance on defining enterprise-level architecture and security feature requirements that would help sell and secure their solution to give them a market advantage.

EXPERTISE IN:

IT and Software Development

Systems Design ~ Management ~ PMO ~ Process Improvement ~ DevOps

Strategic Planning

Technology Management

Relationship Management

Business Analysis

IT Systems Engineering

Software Development

Change Management

IT Security

Business Optimization

Cross - Team Collaboration

TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES:

Cloud Services/ Virtualization/ Networking: RACE, Amazon Web Services, CIAC, vCloud Director, VMware (4,5,6), vSphere, VirtualBox, Parallels, Confidential Catalyst (4500, 6500), Nexus 5000, SDN

Operating Systems / Software: Windows, Unix including FreeBSD, Linux (Redhat, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu, CEL), OSX, Solaris (SPARC and x86), AIX, HP-UX, OSX, iOS, IBM Mainframe, Python, C, Unix Shells, Perl, Java, VB, C#, .NET, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, SAS, IIS, Apache, Visual Studio, Citrix, Load Runner, RiskVision, Git, Subversion, Rally, JIRA, MS Project, Jenkins, Box REST API, OAuth, MapR, Big Data, Splunk, Patrol, Samba, Nagios, DLP, Cacti, ITIL, SAS, Rexx, 370 Assembler, Filemaker, ServiceNow

Servers/ Storage: Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle/Sun, Confidential UCS, SAN, NAS, iSCSI, FC, NFS (2,3,4), CIFS, Netapp, EMC, Sun Storage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic, unbiased and objective technical and advisory services to assist organization in redesign of their network emulation testing software improving flexibility, productivity, and overall performance.
• Business Optimization: After analyzing and interpreting technical and financial data, developed project plans, technical assessments and business process improvement plans that streamlined processes, reduced complexity, and increased profit margin.

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Manager / Security Architect / Program Manager / Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Held various roles of progressive responsibility.
• Led large agile projects focused on creating secure IT and software DevOps environments and optimizing business processes.
• Provided vision and innovation for product strategy and technical direction for current and future projects.
• Monitored Confidential Security utilizing custom and industry standard software tools.
• Hands-on technical lead and lead engineer managing direct reports and support teams.
• Systems Architecture: Invented and managed a state-of-the-art security platform for internal tool development as well as a customer story of how Confidential creates secure environments for themselves.
• Program and Project Management: Managed skilled team of experts; leading the research, analysis, evaluation, and solution implementation to protect Confidential Engineering intellectual property worldwide.

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

Performance and Capacity Manager / Solutions Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined the next generation capacity management solution.
• Supported over 60,000 managed servers that made up the CapMan system.

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, NC

IT Enterprise Infrastructure Architect / Cloud Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined and managed the definition, direction, and solution implementation of Confidential Cloud solution and use.
• Led global technical and business teams to define program scope and coordination to ensure successful Cloud strategy.
• Cross-functional Team Management: Liaised with executive management to gain a full understanding of project needs, goals, and direction. Defined target architecture, project road map, principles for project teams.

Confidential, Cary, NC

Director, Enterprise Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Held various roles of progressive responsibility.
• Drove Enterprise Solutions for SAS which included IT, Software Development, Application Solutions, Architecture and Standards, Security, PMO, Documentation, Quality Testing, and DevOps operations.
• Invented and managed an on-demand global private/public/hybrid cloud environment that generated $2+ billion per year in sales; created/supported 24x7 business applications; created a business model to support 300% annual growth.
• Led initiative to improve the Development Process of infrastructure, software, tools, and processes used by global SAS Research and Development teams to build and deliver products; generated increase in productivity without affecting workflow and allowed SAS to triple their rate of market releases.