SUMMARY:

• High visibility program and project stabilization at the enterprise scale
• Over eight years of experience with private, hybrid and public cloud implementations
• Extensive experience with leading global business and large scale IT transformation programs and projects
• Unique exposure to enterprise grade, green field, software defined datacenter implementations
• Over ten completed enterprise cloud, datacenter scale migration projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Datacenter Architect

• Designed and implemented green field converged infrastructure based on HPE, VMware solutions
• Successfully migrated over ~100 legacy applications to the new hybrid cloud environment
• Introduced 50 % workforce reduction savings by advising on resource planning strategy
• Personally oversaw two data centers delivery projects, resulted in new, larger contract win for WWT
• Introduced additional cost savings by providing mentoring services for program management process, technical architecture and security areas
• Guided the vendor to avoid costly litigation issues by leveraging latest forecasting and trending analysis for the systems being deployed

Technology: HPE C700, HC380 converged infrastructure, VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5, vRealize Operations, EMC, 3PAR storage arrays. Cisco and Brocade switching fabric.

Confidential, St. Joseph, MI

Infrastructure Architect

• Provided baseline analysis for vCloud Air and AWS application migrations
• Identified critical areas in the infrastructure, introducing proactive remediation cost savings, over 30% reduction
• Provided mentoring services to client's personnel on cost savings for appropriate virtualization products and services

Infrastructure Architect

• Defined project scope, deliverables, quality metrics, time and cost
• Performed information gathering activities: team interviews, system scans, documentation reviews, data center visits
• Conducted assessment data dissemination and analysis
• Created integrated architecture solution deliverables for infrastructure, data center and end user computing assessments
• Utilized COBIT5, ITIL and NIST frameworks to review existing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Worked with pre - sales and business operations teams to define new business opportunities
• Presented recommendations to CEO, VP and IT Directors

Senior Business Systems Consultant / Product Manager

• Defined product vision and implementation strategy
• Identified technology verticals suitable for transitioning company’s datacenters to “green field”, steady state and infrastructure automation adoption.
• Defined business requirements for a new IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platform design
• Supported security initiatives based on VMware NSX firewall micro segmentation
• Identified scripting requirements for Infoblox IPAM integration
• Provided analytical and technical guidance, created use cases for the following technology work streams:
• VMware vRealize suite
• VMware NSX
• VMware vCloud AIR

Confidential, Boston, MA

Hybrid Cloud Architect / Project Manager

• Managed on premises infrastructure implementation: Cicso Meraki, ASA, MS Server 2012 R2, DNS, GPO
• Migrated existing user base and core authentication services to Office365, Azure.
• Conducted on-premises infrastructure integration with Microsoft’s Azure ADFS, Office365 and VMware vCloud hosted data center
• Managed MimeCast services for Exchange implementation
• Managed third party vendors during the infrastructure migration phase, reporting to CIO

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Principal Consultant

• Performed and documented IT operations business requirements
• Conducted interviews, incident reviews, recorded findings and data analysis
• Reviewed existing infrastructure services and provided best practices gap analysis
• Provided recommendations on company’s IT strategic development to CFO and VP of Engineering
• Developed roadmaps for infrastructure optimization with prioritized short term and long term objectives

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Senior Program Manager

• Developed scope, plans and budget definition for site moves, infrastructure upgrades and data center consolidation projects
• Managed Google Cloud Services migration projects (GSuite implementation)
• Initiated standard site definition process for network services upgrades
• Managed project approvals, onsite-offshore team communication, escalations and status reporting

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Project Manager

• Developed high level data center upgrade plan detailing time, resources and finances
• Initiated disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Worked with agency leadership to establish facility options for disaster recovery environment
• Ensured project resources alignment with scope, time and quality expectations

Technical Project Manager

• Led data center migration projects and technology upgrade work streams
• Successfully managed legacy and R&D application migrations
• Managed pre and post migration related performance optimization assessments and troubleshooting

Confidential

Pre-Sales Architect

• Managed Proof of Concept initiatives for BMC cloud performance monitoring software
• Presented end user experience monitoring solutions to prospective clients
• Managed client’s web application performance and business value optimization assessments
• Authored KB articles for supported products.

Confidential

Infrastructure Consultant / Business Analyst

• Completed incident management reviews across virtualization, storage, server and network groups
• Conducted interviews with team leads, processed data and created reports
• Analyzed reporting systems data, identified support issues trends and key incident metrics
• Presented research and findings on industry best practices and solutions required to increase stability, security and operational efficiency

Lead Datacenter Consultant

• Completed global infrastructure audits for datacenters and office locations (scope: 5 data centers, 16 sites)
• Interviewed IT personnel, site leadership teams for business requirements, documented findings and initial architecture and design deliverables
• Led networking infrastructure upgrade projects (WAN, LAN, WLAN and VoIP) for all audited locations

Lead Systems Engineer

• Consultant responsible for data center upgrade and consolidation projects
• Lead architect on VMware private cloud upgrade project
• Developed and documented a multi-tiered support algorithm addressing company-wide storage issues
• Designed and implemented inter-site secure file transfer services for financial asset management services
• Initiated content management database and virtual machine provisioning integration
• Trained client’s IT support and third-party helpdesk teams on best practices for infrastructure support, virtualization and messaging.

Systems Architect / Project Manager

• Architected, implemented and managed company’s messaging infrastructure projects
• Completed Lotus Notes to Exchange and AD user base migration (over 1000 seats)

Consulting Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided IT consulting and business analysis services for small, medium and enterprise size businesses.