SUMMARY:

• I am a proven leader in military, start - up and large enterprise environments.
• I have strong technical, strategic, logistical and innovation acumen spanning over 20 years for fortune 500 companies throughout the product lifecycle.
• An expert in motivating diverse teams of professionals into action in

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program Manager

Confidential

• Leading the program for the development of cloud computing capabilities and services for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS for Confidential ’s Enterprise Cloud utilizing vendor solutions from Microsoft Azure, VMware, Cisco, Rackspace, and IBM.
• Develop and maintain the financial plan to include an annual budget of approximately $50 million dollars per year for the procurement of hardware and software, internal labor costs, and outside consulting services for the projects and program.
• Create and present executive leadership the business value models (BVM) across projects .
• Engage and on-board the change management and training teams for developing the communication and adoption strategies for the successful transition for moving from the traditional IT model to the DevOps model utilizing Cloud technology.
• Manage over 14 projects under key initiatives (Cloud & Item File) to include the allocation of over 100 resources from internal associates across ISD pillars, onsite vendor consultants (NetApp, EVT, IBM) and offshore vendor consultants (USTGlobal, Cognizant) for the successful delivery of the goals for the programs.
• Facilitate and lead the biweekly Cloud Program Steer Committee meeting overseen by the CTO and her direct reports to include the overview of the budget, roadmap, risks, issues, and action items.

Senior Principal Consultant

Confidential

• Managed the delivery of open standard data management application interfaces for Cloud Storage solutions (ediscovery and archiving) by multiple storage vendors.
• Coordinated the development of the XAM and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) software development kits and reference implementations throughout the complete product lifecycle.

Chief Operating Officer and Founder

Confidential

• Managed the recruiting, hiring, and human resources for the engineers and contractors working for the company
• Negotiated the contracts with vendors and customers for annual revenue of over 1 million dollars.
• Author and presenter of a whitepaper and tutorial on open source and standards showing the cost savings and benefits of implementing open source and standard based solutions at Confidential and Storage Networking World (SNW) conferences.

Business Strategist & Solutions Architect

Confidential

• Developed the education curriculum for the engineering teams on the Confidential and Confidential technologies which lead to winning projects from companies using these technologies such as Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential .
• Lead the marketing development of the business unit by creating collateral, engagement in trade shows and involvement in standard organizations.
• Provided technical and project management leadership to the off shoring engineering teams for developing solutions and meeting customer requirements for Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) projects.
• Developed and managed the project proposals and budgets for multi-million dollar projects for multiple customers and projects simultaneously.

Senior SMI Program Manager

Confidential

• Lead more than 100 volunteers from 32 companies worldwide to accomplish specification development, interoperability testing, marketing, vendor implementations and education projects for the Confidential SMI program.
• Managed the coordination of the SMI Technical Steering Group and Technical Workgroups engineers to deliver the updated revisions to the SMI-S specification.
• Drove the Confidential SMI-Lab and Conformance Testing Program (CTP) teams for the development and the implementation of the first conformance testing program for the storage industry.
• Developed and presented reports to the Confidential Board of Directors on the status of the initiative to include accomplishments, issues, risks, schedules, budget review, and strategic plans.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

• Coordinated the delivery of the Soarian Financial application with the Decision Support Services, Imaging Systems and Output Management Systems applications.
• Managed a team of 6 personnel for development and support of test environments with more than 50 systems to support the software development lifecycle (SDLC) of the application.
• Developed the WBS for the application and development teams for the successful delivery of the Soarian Financial to the customers.
• Worked with the management teams and customers to resolve issues and conflicts during the project to ensure the project stayed on schedule and met milestones by using measurable metrics.

Program Manager

Confidential

• Managed a team of 30 network engineers for the development and implementation of the IT Infrastructure, NMS, SAN and security systems for 24x7 monitoring and management of the Relera infrastructure using management applications such as Confidential Openview, Confidential Storage Essentials and Ciscoworks.
• Coordinated the deployment of the NOC systems to the data centers with the engineering, deployment, procurement, Telco, IT, and construction departments.
• Worked with the directors and other technical project managers to ensure the projects implemented by the NOC integrated and met the requirements of the departments relying on the NOC’s IT support and infrastructure.
• Developed and managed the tactical and long term strategic plans and budgets for the NOC.
• Managed the procurement process for hiring and managing contractors assisting with the build out and implementation of the NOC systems company wide.

Project Manager

Confidential

• Developed USWest’s procurement process that resulted in saving the client more than $500,000.
• Facilitated the collection and management of project information for analysis and review for decision making processes throughout the projects using measurable metrics.
• Kept detailed project information to include the project definition document, requirements, issues, risks, changes to the scope of the work, schedules, technical documentation, resources and budgets to be reviewed and provided to the customer at the completion of the project for transitioning the project and for lessons learned.

Network and Communications Design Strategist

Confidential

• Developed a process for delivering engineering estimates within +/- 10% of actual cost and time for the Space Warfare Command (SWC) and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) agencies.
• Performed site surveys at remote locations for determining network design requirements for implementing communication networks between the JNTF and BMD facilities.
• Presented engineering proposals to SWC and BMD commands for review and approval.
• Worked with procurement and logistics departments for on time delivery of required resources for the projects i.e. network equipment, cabling infrastructure, computer hardware and software.

Electronics Engineer

Confidential

• Managed lab logistics and increased the efficiency of the procurement process by 25% by using ITIL.
• Learned from on the job training how to repair laser printers which saved the departments’ time and money by eliminating the need for outsourcing the work to Confidential technicians.
• Taught and supervised under graduate students in the building of RF antennas.
• Supervised 2 undergraduate lab assistants for providing support to the labs.