SUMMARY:

Accomplished technology executive with extensive experience in managing all facets of infrastructure support. Expertise in strategic planning, technology development, and vendor management. Proven track record of providing a reliable computing environment while consistently reducing costs. Demonstrated proficiency in completing company - wide projects on time and within budget. Specialization in multi-million dollar projects and budgets pertaining to the application of ERP systems, data warehousing, messaging, groupware and internet technology platforms. Possess excellent leadership, management and communication skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

• Project Management
• Budget Management
• Configuration Management
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Change Management
• Data Integrity
• Disaster Recovery
• Global System Integration
• Information Lifecycle Management
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Network and Systems Security
• Research and Development
• Strategic Planning

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Server Environment: HP C7000 Blade Center, HP9000- D, K, L, N, V Class, RX2600, RP-3440, 4440,5470,7410,8420, and Superdome Servers. Teradata 4950, 5350 node systems, AS400- 170,720,820,I810, Sun E420,4000,5000,6000 and E10k, Sun OEM system. IBM Z09, 370/158, 3090-200J, ES9000-500, 640, 9672-R25, AIX - 520,550,570,590, 595,720,740,750,770 IBM 3650, 3755, Compaq 800-7000, Proliant 380,580-Servers.

Storage: EMC VMAX, DMX800,1000, 2000,3000-3 disk Storage Systems, CX300-700- NAS, CDL, Centera, Netapp 720, 740, 840, LSI and MTI arrays, HP XP256,512 disk arrays. IBM XIV, Netapp FAS3170, DS4243 SATA Disk Shelves.

Peripherals: IBM ADIC, Spectralogics, STK-8500, L700, 9940,9840, LTO1, LTO2,LTO3, Silo tape drives, Brocade 2800,3800, 3900,12000, Connectrix, Mcdata Switches and Bridges, Cisco and Nortel Switches and Routers, IBM 3211, 4245, 6161, 3800, 3835, 3900-001, 3900-OW1, and Xerox 8700 Laser printers.

Software: Oracle 7.3,8.0, HP-UX 10.20,11.00,11.i, Hp Open view, Solaris 2.6,2.7,2.8, Red hat Linux 6.2,7.2., Veritas Netbackup, Volume Manager,, Veritas San manager, EMC ECC control center, SAP R3,BI,CRM,SRM,APO,GXS(EDI),Vertex, Contentlink applications. Oracle, Sybase, Sql Databases, Informatica, IXOS, Cognos, PBS, Teradata. Artesia content management software. MVS/XA-ESA, ACFNSAK IMS, CICS, TSO/ISPF, ABEND AID, CA-View/Deliver (formerly Sar/Express), CA - 1,2,7,11,Jobtrac, Runtrac, Tlms, Sysview/Tmon/Omegamon, Panavalet, RACF, Pool dasd, CA-Unicenter TNG, EMC’s Volume logics, workload Analyzer, Srdf, Sdr, Time finder.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Sr. Project Manager, Infrastructure Outsourcing Services

Responsibilities:

• Migrated SAP SLD environments from AIX to Linux on a VMware cluster. . Reducing the overall cost of Hardware environment while sustaining and gaining some improvements to performance of the environment.
• Migrated SAP BW Application Servers in all environments from Linux physical to Linux on a VMware clusters. Reducing the overall cost of Hardware environment while sustaining and gaining some improvements to performance of the environment.
• Increased the SAP Linux growth capabilities by adding additional blade systems in the current SAP Cluster.
• Migrated successful SAP SRM prototype upgrade from version 4 to 7, along with upgrading its db2 database from 9.7 to 10.5, and migrating its environment to Linux Virtual Machine
• Migrated WB Stars Database Environments from AIX to Linux on a VMware clusters. Reducing the overall cost of Hardware environment while sustaining and gaining some improvements to performance of the environment. Coordinated all testing and cutover cycles with the functional teams as well.
• Migrated SAP ECC Application Servers in all environments from AIX to Linux on a VMware clusters. Reducing the overall cost of Hardware environment while sustaining and gaining some improvements to performance of the environment. Schedule and Coordinated all Benchmark, Performance, and Regression Testing prior to Production Cutovers.
• Upgraded all of SAP SRM environments from version 4 to 7, along with upgrading of its db2 database from 9.7 to 10.5. This included Performance and Functional testing thru-out the development life cycle.
• Upgrade and migrated the WB Production Airs Workday Payroll Application from its current to a newer application levels supported on Linux VMware cluster. The upgraded environment sustained g some improvements to performance of application in the environment. Coordinated all testing and cutover cycles with the functional teams as well

Confidential - Burbank, CA

Manager, Architecture & Infrastructure Technical Services

Responsibilities:

• Architected and coordinated the implementation of a Business Data Warehouse System utilizing Cognos. Established a new team to support the daily infrastructure management of the environment. Works towards extending the support team by incorporating an offshore vendor to manage operation support functions.
• Architected and coordinated the implementation of an Enterprise Portal environment for all landscapes across the SAP infrastructures.
• Reduced overall Storage cost across the SAP landscapes by implementing a data management program consisting of multiple projects that included BCV (Business Continuity Volume) Elimination, re-tiering of storage, data deletion of redundant and unused storage, Sap archiving re-platforming to lower tiered storage, and Db2 row compression. The reduction has reduced San storage costs by approximately 5 million a year with another index compression planned that is expected to yield another 1-2 million in additional yearly saving. The row compression implemented saved database from growing from 9 to 15 terabytes over this past year.
• Coordinated and validated multiple successful Disaster Recovery tests of the SAP Production environment. Migrated Disaster Recovery systems to Logical partitions on the QA landscapes giving the Disaster Recovery adequate resources while reducing the foot print and out of date infrastructure saving $600 thousand dollars in savings for Confidential .
• Assisted in architecture and implementation for moving development, quality assurance, production support, and production environments for SAP from their west coast location to east coast facility and refreshed the Aix, Linux and Windows Operating Systems and DB2 Database levels as well as the IBM servers to handle future growth as well.
• Managed the Architecture and Infrastructure teams that performed the successful upgrade of the SAP 3.1 BW and SEM systems into BI 7.0. This upgrade reduced the server footprint by consolidating the Planning functions modules in BI 7.0. This saved $500 thousand in annual Infrastructure cost.
• Managed the Architecture and Infrastructure teams that performed the upgrade of the SAP 4.6c R3 systems to ERP 6.0. This upgrade of a 12 terabyte database included a Unicode conversion and archiving of old tables which reduced the database to 9 terabytes as part of the upgrade.
• Re-architected the SAP ECC6 and BW Database Clusters from a complicated HA Tri-Cluster on expensive P5 technology to the latest P7 technology which simplified the HA Clusters, while providing Test HA Clusters at the non-Production and DR environments. This also reduced the cost by 1.2 million.
• Migrated our unified computing systems (UCS) from Project to Steady state Operations within 60 days while moving daily operations under a managed third party outsourcer and by reducing the permanent staffing resources by 70 percent.
• Manage 2000+ servers and oversaw a $30 million dollar annual budget.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Manager, North American Storage & System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Implemented New Storage Architecture and Infrastructure for Archival of Lotus Notes Environments Across Farmers and Zurich Sites.
• Key participant and contributor to the successful Disaster Recovery of all of the Mainframes systems for Farmers Insurance and Zurich Financials and their subsidiaries. In November 2005.
• Managed two million-dollar storage growth initiatives across both the mainframe and distributed systems for the 10 sites across North America. This was completed on schedule and on budget without system downtime or service interruption.
• Assisted in Architecture and implementation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse System utilizing IBM, and Informatica software solutions.
• Planned and implemented a Business Continuity solution using EMC SRDF Data Replication technology in April 2006. In the event of an unplanned disaster, this solution ensured continuous data protection and minimal data loss by replicating Farmer’s critical business data for our mainframe systems to a second data center located in Maryland.
• Effective in creating a positive and productive work environment.
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of an ILM storage solution, utilizing a storage service Catalog and manual charge back process. Using this process along with the refreshing, replacing, and consolidating of storage systems, created a more efficient state of the art storage environment for Farmers and Zurich.
• Responsible for reducing overhead costs by negotiating reduced hardware and software maintenance contracts and telecommunication fees for the enterprise.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Executive Director, Computer Operations & System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Architecture and Infrastructure for new Replenishment System for the MGM European Home Entertainment business in January 2005.
• Key participant and contributor to the successful implementations of SAP, SAP BW and GXS EDI Systems at MGM.
• Completed Worldwide Expansion for MGM Home Entertainment Division which included the establishment of International SAP environment using a vendor managed hosted site. This environment supported MGM’s offices in Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Melbourne and Sydney.
• Architected and implemented Enterprise Data Warehouse System utilizing Teradata, Informatica and Microstrategy software solutions.
• Successful implementation of Business Continuity solution using EMC SRDF Data Replication technology. In the event of an unplanned disaster, this solution ensured continuous data protection and minimal data loss by replicating MGM’s critical business data to a second data center.
• Worked with the IT strategic planning group to establish MGM IT processes and methodologies, data architecture standards, multi-tier application architectures and IT Security policies and procedures.
• Effective in creating a positive and productive work environment.
• Responsible for refreshing, replacing, and consolidating server and storage systems to an efficient state of the art environment.
• Responsible for reducing overhead costs by negotiating reduced hardware and software maintenance contracts and telecommunication fees for the enterprise.

Confidential, Westlake Village, CA

Manager, Network Operations

Responsibilities:

• Reduced overall cost of managing the infrastructure 25% by planning, architecting and consolidating four data centers down to three on budget and without system downtime or service interruption.
• Restructured support staff utilizing blend of overhead staff and contractors. This restructure resulted in increased coverage and a reduction staffing costs by 30%.
• Renegotiated hardware contracts resulting in 15% reduction in annual expenditures.
• Assembled and retain top-notch technical staff.