Professional Summary:

• Information Technologist with expertise in Management, Business, Vendor and Consulting roles with over 25 years of demonstrated success in the development and implementation of technical business application infrastructures for global organizations. A results-oriented leader in all areas of Information Technology, with a strong blend of managerial experience, technical background, and business knowledge with a commitment to excellence and the ability to make decisions in fast-paced environments. With a proven track record of blending complex information technology solutions with business objectives to enhance business performance and process while reducing operational costs and streamlining IT operational process. Architecting and managing large infrastructure implementations, data center relocations, system consolations and integration projects of multi-platform enterprise business application environments.

• Repeatedly recognized for outstanding contributions, for exhibiting strong leadership, integrity, analytical problem solving, and management skills, managing a geographically diverse staff. Leading multiple projects within a matrix organization, with focus on increasing efficiencies. Experienced in business unit, client and customer relationship management and translating and adjusting the conversation to all levels of the organization. Retains technical depth and expertise to build consensus, then lead and drive teams towards resolution in critical delivery situations.

SPECIALTIES:

• An experienced IT leader overseeing and establishing new computing environments, assessing existing infrastructure, developing road maps, architectural designs, large infrastructure relocations and systems infrastructure build outs. Proven ability to develop leaders, cultivate productive relationships and manage resources necessary to meet business objectives. Working with clients internal as well as external, developing an understanding of the business case, gathering requirements, mapping as is environment, and envisioning the to be environment.
• Emerging Technologies Enterprise Architecture
• Strategic Vision Strategic Planning
• Operational Management Infrastructure Deployment
• Virtualization Consolidations/Migrations
• Disaster Recovery Planning Technical Project Management
• Business Integration Planning Team Building Staff Leadership
• Client, Team Partner Relations Vendor Management

Professional Experience:

Confidential Manager of Storage Engineering

Strong management, interpersonal and communication skills with 5 direct reports. Authored long-term strategic roadmaps for LPL's enterprise storage architecture SAN, Backup and DR . Align IT strategy and planning with the company's business goals and objectives. Integrate business and service strategy into enterprise storage architecture road map. Lead the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, in support of LPL projects. Partner with other architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solutions. Consolidate current storage infrastructure while designing highly available, scalable, SAN solution for the new co-lo datacenter facility. Utilized IBM's TPC product for storage analysis, capacity planning and performance monitoring. Develop recommendations and implement standard procedures. Insure overall quality and availability of the enterprise storage area network. Understand emerging technologies from do due diligence through implementation during the Data Center move project. Developed understanding of and implemented cloud-based storage and object-based storage solution strategies. Strong analytical skills including the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions RCA . IBM, XIV, V7000, EMC, VMax, Clariion, 3PAR, Compellent, NetApp, Cisco, Brocade, TSM, Dilgent VTL, RecoverPoint.

Confidential

Project Manager

Contract role for NetApp Professional Services project managing large scale partner and client projects. Manage Professional Services projects across all NetApp technologies from rack and stack to complete hardware, software infrastructures solutions. Interface with sales teams to identify new opportunities, scope the project parameters, estimate resource requires and build the level of effort for pricing. Translate and understand the sold solution. Develop technical presentations, project tracking issues, resource identification, allocation, time tracking, managing project budgets and scope, manage client, partner and internal relationships. Utilizing diverse forms of delivery for managing various project meetings from kickoff to completion. Track Dates and tasks to completion while focusing the project team accomplishments on the scope of the project. Identifying gaps and variances within the current project while farming new opportunities to expand revenue within the account. Developing organizational acceptance criteria in order to obtain project sign off for revenue recognition. Storage Architect to efficiently design, implement and manage their storage infrastructure which included but not limted to NetApp, 3PAR,EMC VMax, Cisco and Brocade.

Confidential

Manager of Infrastructure Technologies

Manage a group of five direct reports with client-focused revenue responsibility. Develop technical roadmaps combining Server, Storage, Backup and Data protection products focus: Integration of virtual computing techniques. Technical Business Liaison working with the Infrastructure Architecture team to develop an understanding of Storage as a service in cloud computing environments. Work with the Internal Accenture outsourcing business to develop technical roadmaps introducing cloud computing concepts within the hosted Data Centers and developing procedures to manage the cloud infrastructure. Partnering with Accenture Consulting business to integrate Storage offerings and generate an ROI models for external client business during application deployments. Building and internal franchise business of product offerings offered to internal and external clients focused on NetApp, Cisco and VMware technologies, known within the industry as FlexPod infrastructure.

Confidential

Global Infrastructure Architect

Whirlpool Corporation -6 month Contract Technical Business Liaison, Infrastructure Architect and Outsource Management. Technical Business Liaison Working with business members to define technical requirements within defined standards to generate a costing model for business application deployments. Infrastructure Architect Architect the technical solution within define standards to support the application deployment. Generate cost structure for the project including man hours, supporting environments and hosting costs over a 4 year period. Gather technical requirements, supply the project with sizing, capacity plans technical diagrams, budget numbers and infrastructure options to support the project. Outsourcer Management As the Technical Architect lead on the project holds responsibility for the deployment of the infrastructure.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect Consultant

Exelon - 6 month Contract Develop architectural roadmaps for Exelon's next generation Application Hosting Strategy. Develop a technology matrix to identify gaps in current infrastructures. Explore merging and emerging technologies futures and build an understanding of blending business and technologies. Propose timelines to improve current infrastructures, integrate current projects and building a foundation to migrate to the proposed Application Hosting infrastructures.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Rasmussen College Extended 10 month Contract Establish an EMC SAN within a Co-location and performance benchmark applications. Architected a Production EMC SAN and led a Data Migration project to Co-location facility. VOIP Research project Evaluated Voice Recording Technologies, scoped solution set.

Confidential

Enterprise Storage Systems Architect

• Supported the Mid-west sales organization through the pre sales process focused on Hitachi Data Systems product set
• Interfaced with clients to establish an understanding of the client's enterprise architectural infrastructure
• Architect and managed deployment of complex business application infrastructure solutions
• Developed account focused on enterprise architectural infrastructure plans in order to market products and services
• Responsible for establish and build technical roadmap with corporate business solutions
• Developed in-depth knowledge of Hitachi Data Systems products, services, market position and strategic direction
• Trained Sales associates Hitachi Data Systems product sales throughout the Midwest region
• Team lead of an internal council that developed strategic marketing of HDS products and services

National Technical Account Manager

• National Technical Account Manager for Fidelity National Financial
• Member of National Account team responsible for 14m of revenue and services over a 2 year period
• Responsible for infrastructure projects for Fidelity's Data Centers, NGS, EMC Storage Consolidation, Data Replication
• Work with Project Management Office PMO during deployment of enterprise storage infrastructure projects
• Managed a team of HDS storage and UNIX SE's during the NGS project from concept through deployment
• Proposed, Developed and deployed an enterprise Network Attached Storage NAS infrastructure across datacenters
• Reviewed data, formulated approach, and presented options for a corporate DR for Fidelity's storage infrastructure

Confidential

Enterprise Storage Manager

• Managed a team of four storage engineers in the operations of an HDS multi tier 1and 2 storage infrastructure
• Interfaced with Business units in formulating an on demand high performance, HA computing infrastructure
• Worked with Legal department to understand requirement and published a corporate wide data classification document
• Established an enterprise tiered storage and recovery strategy for each mission critical application tier
• Deployed Finisar SAN performance monitoring tools in order to understand end to end application responds times
• Build and policy based replication infrastructure based on EMC CAS storage interfacing with the application layer

Confidential

Principal Architect of Solutions

• Responsible for Solutions Architecture for the enterprise data centers in North America. Solutions Lead architect for AON's largest Business Unit Aon Risk Services
• Responsible for reviewing all major infrastructure projects for the enterprise data centers
• Responsible for management of a 10 million IT project budget for a Application infrastructure consolidation project
• Directed design teams to evaluate, select, and implement standardized infrastructures in support of the project
• Defined and Created Corporate Solutions Architecture Team's vision statement, charter and rolls and responsibilities
• Coordinate, consulted and managed the Enterprise Storage and backup initiatives
• Managed teams of matrixed personnel on projects from proposal through project implementations
• Led initiative: To evaluate, select, and implement enterprise systems management ESM

Director of Client Server Operations

Confidential

• As Director of Client Server Operations, North American systems operations for AON Risk Services managing a staff 5 direct reports. The focused on Client Server Infrastructure Architecture, Systems Design.
• Managed a team of five direct reports and a staff of 51 professionals providing IT services
• Severed as primary business unit liaison for AON's largest Business Unit, AON Risk Services
• Responsible for management of a 3.5 million IT department budget for ARS data center operations
• UNIX environment server and storage consolidations, resulting lower overall cost and increasing system availability
• Critical to recovering costs for IT organizations by negotiating services and associated costs with clients and vendors
• Interfaced with current and potential clients on implementing new or improved services

Confidential

Tenneco Packaging-Pactiv

• Confidential is one of the world's largest designers, manufacturers and distributors of automotive ride control and emission control products. Tenneco Packaging is the leading producer of specialty packaging products.
• Enterprise Architect
• As Manager of Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, migrating legacy applications to UNIX and NT platforms, evaluation of new UNIX and Window Server technologies, standardization of platforms, develop IT strategy aligned with national and international business application requirements, while reducing cost and improving the reliability of the overall infrastructure.
• As corporate visionary applying extensive IT industry knowledge, comprehensive technical experience and business skills toward building a strategically business aligned computing environment.
• Organized an UNIX and NT support department focused on a philosophy of an outside service provider
• Established and managed strategic vendor relationships for a large UNIX and NT server environment
• Introduced several cost saving initiatives, which reduced deployment costs of UNIX and NT server farm
• Created corporate wide UNIX and NT standards initiative and ended individual project configurations
• Established a Project Tracking System into an environment of ad hoc requests and no change management
• Isolated divisions UNIX and NT infrastructures, improved performance, accountability, reporting and stability
• Led corporate directive to centralize and consolidate several data centers into a single data center site

Technical Project Manager

• Relocated and consolidated all three divisions Packaging, Automotive and TBS instances of SAP from Atlanta, Cincinnati and Evanston to Lincolnshire, Illinois. Architect all aspects of systems infrastructure associated with the SAP environment
• Tenneco Divisions Planned and executed HP/SAP data moves
• Defined and Architected an Enterprise Disk and Data Move strategy utilizing EMC Frames SRDF
• Responsible for implementing SAP three-tier infrastructure for four autonomous Tenneco businesses
• Managed multiple large-scale data center consolidation and infrastructure projects through lifecycle phases
• Led and oversaw the upgrade and standardization of the O/S to take advantage of new server technologies
• Established formal training criteria and system administrator workshops to promote a continual knowledge exchange
• Cost benefit analysis comparing vendor as well as platform long-term cost of ownership HP, SUN, and IBM
• Built move team by taking staff directly from SAP division projects, outside hires and consultants
• Integrated all Open System backups into a single tool utilizing a lights out strategy

Manager of UNIX Systems

• Created, led and managed the IT support team composed of company staff, contractors and consultants. Managed 12 million dollar portion of the 220 million Customer Linked Manufacturing SAP project.
• Managed HP SAP 1.2 million consulting engagement Implementation of production 99.999 system availability.
• Reconfiguration of production infrastructure recommended by vendor resulting in 300,000 dollar cost reduction.
• Supported all aspects of system design and implementation on mid-range HP 9000 business servers corporate wide.
• Reported directly to the CIO in support of Customer Linked Manufacturing Project CLM 220M SAP project .
• Evaluated third party products with integrating business process teams and present recommendations to management.
• Define initial installation SAP production parameters for implementation within HP outsourcing environment.
• Project Lead: Manugistics A Demand, Supply Planning and Manufacturing Scheduling package.