Big 5 Experienced IT Consultant

• IT Management Consultant with extensive experience in infrastructure technologies, business development, and program management. Results-oriented, collaborative team player with proven success in gathering and analyzing requirements, designing and implementing solutions, and the testing and supporting of production environments. Highly skilled at technical project management and team development.
• Self-motivated individual with expertise in leading, executing, and organizing engagements from inception through successful completion.
• Expertise in making strategic decisions, evaluating political situations, and relating complex / technical information t non-technical audiences.
• Skilled in creating deliverables designed t aid consulting teams in managing engagements and communicating effectively with clients, ensuring projects meet deadlines and remain on budget.

Areas Of Expertise

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior Executive Recruiter

• Developed and fostered long-term relationships with clients searching for skilled resources with experience in IT virtualization.
• Sourced, screened, and evaluated candidates for 10 IT clients across the continental US.
• Successfully placed over 25 resources in retained, contingent, and contract agreements over a one-year period.
• Created and maintained detailed job descriptions based on client's position requirements.
• Placed resources in roles t assist IT organizations with sales, pre-sales, consultant, and technical talent positions.

ACCELERA SOLUTIONS, Confidential

• Server, desktop, storage and application virtualization solutions for government and private industry clients
• Program Manager / Manager of Military Health Systems / Sales Engineer
• Developed and refined the Project Management Office PMO t link the sales and services portions of the organization.
• Managed concurrent client engagements for top tier customers in health care, banking, and IT.
• Leveraged previous consulting experience t enable improvements around project scoping and pricing methodologies t ensure successful project delivery.
• Developed and refined formalized Services-wide deliverable templates around statements of work, requirements analysis, solution design, and implementation deliverables.
• Responsible for increasing PMO revenue of 0 t a conservative estimate of 750k for 2013.
• Coordinated the PMO t achieve utilization of approximately 78 while maintaining engineer job satisfaction levels.
• Expanded initial 150k project with a CSC end-customer t a tally of 700k in implementation services in a 5 month period.
• Doubled services revenue for a second CSC end-customer from 150k t 300k in 3 months.
• Directly responsible for finding, closing, and then managing 4M in business with the organization's second largest client: The Army Contracting Command.
• Established and grew the Charleston region as the firm's second office. As a direct result of those efforts, the Charleston branch now maintains the company's largest client with engagements in three different regions and over 30M in revenue.
• Managed a client engagement for Military Health Services MHS that entailed the deployment of 300 servers globally across 25 main sites and 100 sub-sites.
• Helped design, build, and implement the next generation architecture for the deployment of MHS applications based on customer requirements.
• Managed Accelera resources for the MHS engagements in three different regions.
• Led recruitment efforts for a team with a current headcount of 25 and growing.
• Led the design, implementation, and deployment of a 20 server environment hosting a longitudinal data warehouse for the Washington, DC school district.
• Developed Accelera's program management best practices for project portfolios assisting in moving the organization from a 'contractor' model t a 'consultant' model.
• Defined and implemented Accelera's first managed services offering resulting in 1M in revenue in 2013.
• Entrusted t lead the strategic organizational redesign t create specialized business practice areas for VMWare, Citrix, Microsoft, Cloud, CyberSecurity, and Infrastructure Technologies.
• Enabled significant organizational growth by playing multiple roles in the organization and fulfilling critical needs:
• Deployed technical environments supporting proofs of concept, pilot environments, and production solutions for federal agencies, state and local government, and private industry clients at domestic and international locations.
• Developed and presented presentations t new customers, internal audiences, and the organization's executive committee.
• Directly involved in on-site pre-sales and sales meetings with customers in three different corporation locations over the last six years.
• Developed and maintained relationships with CSC, SPAWAR, StratusPeer, Codelynx, WINGS for Kids, and Prolegal.

CITRIX SYSTEMS, Confidential

• Global leader in software, hardware and professional services offerings focused on server based computing
• Principal Consultant
• Managed Citrix environment design and build efforts at Fortune 500 and government clients.
• Led professional services teams t implement complex technical solutions with budgets ranging 50,000 t 500,000.
• Participated in over 15 internal/external projects created 10 statements of work, defined project requirements with customers, and successfully led the resulting engagements.
• Completed MCSE Certification in less than three months, while 100 staffed and billable.
• Developed the Citrix Continuity of Operations COOP and Disaster Recovery DR statement of work templates utilized t secure government projects.

Confidential

Employed as an analyst, consultant, and senior consultant at tw of the Big 5 Consulting firms over 6 years.