EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Experienced technologist with the proven ability to meld strategic thinking and business acumen with hands - on technical expertise. 
• Proven leader of cross-functional entities comprising of Managers, System/Database Administrators, System Developers, 1st / 2nd level help desk and PC Desktop/Network support personnel.
• Successfully architected, implemented and maintained hardware/software infrastructure solutions, (e.g. Tier 3 & 4 FDIC & FDA regulated data centers); created and implemented web/client-server applications and cross-functional technology service entities.
• Responsible for the hands-on management and overall responsibility for IT initiatives such as the architecture, planning and implementation of
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity solutions (+13yrs)
• Data Center Consolidation, Relocation & build-outs (+10yrs)
• Application development and ERP/CRM implementation efforts
• Data Center Operations (+15yrs)
• Delivery of infrastructure services such as LAN, WAN & Wireless (RF, Microwave & IR) networks, Voice (including VoIP), Blackberry and other core services such as email, web, security, storage and backups for companies such as Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Bessemer Trust, Discovery Channel, Cox Communications, HP, Wachovia and McKesson.

Major Assets:

• Proven ability to Independently Assess, Plan/Architect and Execute.
• Strategic Planning & Growth Strategies
• Sr. Enterprise Architect
• 20+ years Vendor Management
• 10+ years all together with IT industries’ best practices & concepts such as SOA & ITIL v3 / ITSM and SDLC
• Deep understanding of both physical and data security challenges.
• Change/Process/Workflow Management
• 15+ years Project / Program management
• 15 years experience demonstrating the ability to estimate and schedule product deliverables.
• 15+ years working with other members of management in R&D, Sales, and Marketing to contribute to the technical vision of the product.
• 15+ years researching trends in technology within the industry and proposing new product features and enhancements.
• 15 years assessing the user experience to determine product enhancements and needs and developing the requisite solutions.
• 15 years participating in daily scrum meetings, monthly tasking/planning, product team meetings, and development team meetings to determine deliverables, ensure commitments are being met, and communicate status of development.
• 10+ years as a Developer and Engineer: network programming, web technologies, and internationalization.
• 20 years experience talking with customers about the user experience and articulating the impact of those experiences as they relate to products and technology.

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Technical Program

Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Addressed and met the technology needs of the small to Fortune 100 companies, non-profit organizations and government entities.
• This includes, but not limited to, Data Center Relocation / Consolidations / Build-outs and Management, Business Concepts assessments, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity,
• Product assessments/recommendations, Project management, Business Plan development, Strategic Technical analysis, Enterprise/Infrastructure Architecture, and Application website development.

Sr. Technical Lead Transition Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include overall leadership, management and oversight for CSG Systems Data Center migration / consolidation program. 
• Specifically, consolidating several Data Centers (1000+ servers, Mainframe and assorted SAN & NAS storage) across the US down to two.

Interim Datacenter Operations Manager & Architect

Responsibilities:

• Based on SOA principles/concepts and ITIL processes, architected future state R&D/Production datacenter
• Re-architected operational processes
• Managed SAN Upgrade and consolidation
• Architected and Managed the Relocation of satellite datacenter
• Hands-on managed Datacenter consolidation (Virtualization)
• Managed overhaul of the infrastructure (Electrical, HVAC, Storage), including Green initiatives, resulting in tier-2+ class datacenter.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity initiatives

Sr. Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

•  Relocate current DR/HA datacenter facilities from North Carolina to Alabama - implement virtualization wherever feasible.
•  Working with Wachovia’s Program Office, led a team of analyst to identify and address the applications & infrastructure shortfalls prior to DR site relocation. Designed and implement new High availability / DR solutions, create relocation/consolidation disaster recovery architecture project plans.

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined & implemented company wide platform/desktop/OS standards and ITSM processes resulting in a new remote (and local) office support model that lead to improved office efficiency and external client services. This significantly reduced the potential (minimum $10 million dollars/client) loss of clients due to unsatisfactory client services. In addition, eliminated an additional $1.5 million/yr in loss office productivity.
• Redesign, Standardized & replaced the development environment and Bessemer’s legacy nightly BATCH production environment, lead to on-time Client financial reports, resulting in overall increased client services and satisfaction.
• Redesigned decentralized DR/BCP plan to a centralized plan that better met business requirements and budgets.
• Successfully orchestrated the merger of two investment-counseling firms’ systems/network infrastructures, resulting in resource and cost savings.
• Managed the migration of Novell 3.11 infrastructure to Win2k solution. Resulted in better overall performance & services.

Environment: HP, SUN, Win2k, Citrix, DOS, NT, Novell, Blackberry, VMS, UNIX/Linux; Oracle, MS SQL, JAVA/J2E, .Net, Perl, Apache; IIS, HTML, JavaScript, BMC, OpenView, Maestro (Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS)), Unisys Mainframe (UN6080-4XP/Z4)

IM Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on technical managed the on time and within budget migration of an ERP system - MFG/PRO, (a Manufacturing Control system), from a VAX/VMS cluster to a HP UNIX environment resulting in an increase from 90 to 99 .999% MFG/PRO uptime. This would translate to approximate $ 10-16 million dollars per 168hrs (7 days) savings in loss production.
• Established department wide Process Management standards and governance, i.e. ITIL, Summit-D., resulting in on-time and within budget projects.
• Established standard Mid-Range systems infrastructure & procedures, i.e. Admin S.O.P., Databases, client service protocols.
• Hands-on Managed & Designed the internal Systems/Servers security to meet FDA validation requirements.
• Managed the Y2K Compliance Steering Committee - whose goal was the Y2K compliance of the Data Centers; this included coordinating Y2K system assessments, re-engineering and system test efforts. Implemented awareness programs, policy and procedural recommendation and upper management staff briefings and Y2K liaisons to business critical and FDA validated projects.
• Designed & Implemented the Data center's disaster recovery plan. Coordinated IM effort in addressing disaster recovery roles, procedures and responsibilities.
• Initiated and provided guidance in design and execution of the Data Center's Intranet WEB site and the Organization Planning and Development Process, OPDP, Intranet WEB site.

Environment: HP 9000/K460, WinNT, Alpha VAX; HPUX; VAXVMS, Progress, Oracle, DB2/Mainframe, MSSQL

Sr. Director/CIO 

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on managed the design and development efforts of customized systems/applications,
• Regional and international technical marketing/sales support; SOWs, RRFPs, Project Plans, etc…
• Established/Opened new business/revenue sources, e.g. Confidential, Merger & Acquisition of a VAR competitor and Confidential company.
• Managed VAR activities, i.e. tradeshows, Vender partnerships, product demos, advertising campaigns, etc…

Environment: UNIX (HP/SUN/IBM/SGI/MAC); BSD; Inferno; XENIX; DOS; PICK; WinNT, Citrix, Novell, VMS, UNIX/SUN; Oracle, MS SQL, Perl, Netscape, HTML, JavaScript, BMC, Maestro (Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS)), Unisys Mainframe (UN6080-4XP/Z4); Sparc Series, SunFire Series, HP 9000 Series, DEC/VAX; Alpha, EMC; Cisco, Livingston, DNS, NAT; DHCP; NetBEUI; SLIP/PPP; NNTP; NFS; Samba; RFS; C/C++; CGI; MCI; Assembler; Fortran; Apache; IIS; Citrix; RealAudio; Photoshop, FrontPage, Visual Café, Notes; Progress, Interbase; Tuxedo; Summit D, ITIL/ITSM, MS Project, Artemis, Zachman Framework,