SUMMARY:

Information technology project management professional with extensive offshore & onshore experience and subject matter expertise in IT Confidential technical project management of the security / networking / compute / & storage domains, data center migrations, IBM zSeries mainframe migrations, ERP systems functional project management, and the technical project management of development / implementation & support for complex software development lifecycle management (SDLC) and enterprise - wide business systems. Change catalyst skilled in project office leadership, financial accounting, business process optimization, best-practice implementation and cost reduction. Proven business leader, project manager, negotiator, and technology consultant communicating with all levels of the organization to effectively serve the business.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Black Belt Certification in Six Sigma Business Tools
• Technical SME - Data Center Migrations
• PMP - Project Management Professional
• Project Manager - Data Center Migrations
• Technical Project Manager - Security & Networking
• Functional Project Manager -Software Development
• Technical Project Manager - Compute & Storage
• Data Center Operations Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PMO Systems & Project Management Methodologies: Microsoft Project, CA Clarity, HP PPM (Project & Portfolio Management), Daptiv PPM, Atlassian Jira Project Server, Atlassian Jira Tempo Timecard Management, Waterfall, Agile, IBM RUP, Iterative, Scrum, CMMI, COBIT

Security & Networking: Cisco ACI, Palo Alto Firewalls, Watchguard Firewalls, Sonicwall Firewalls, Juniper security appliances, Bit9, Bitlocker, EnCase, Snare, Symantec PGP & VIP, Tripwire, Venafi, SSIM, Safenet, F5 Networks LTM & GTM, Ruckus Wireless Confidential, Cisco Firewalls / Routers / Switches, HP Procurve Enterprise Switches, DHCPD, Bind DNS, Cisco ACI, Solarwinds Monitoring, Nagios Monitoring, Samba, NFS, Duo Mobile 2-Factor Authentication, DNS, VLAN, BGP

Compute & Storage: Nutanix, Simplivity, Cisco UCS, Cisco Flexpod, IBM xSeries, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries, IBM/Dell/HP Dell Blades Storage - NetApp, Hitachi VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), Hitachi AMS, EMC Clarion, EMC VMax, EMC DMX, IBM DS4000, Hitachi BlueRay NAS, Hitachi AMS, NFS, Zerto, EMC SRDF

Virtualization, Clustering, Configuration Management: VMWare 5.X/6.X, VMWare ESXi, Linux-HA, XenServer, LVM, Microsoft SQL Server Clustering, VMWare View, Puppet

Software Development Methodologies, Architecture, & Modeling: Waterfall, Agile, IBM RUP, Iterative, Scrum, UML, SOA-Service Oriented Architecture, IBM Rhapsody, CMMI

Middleware Environments: IBM WebSphere MQ, Tibco ESB, Microsoft BizTalk ESB, SAP Netweaver, Oracle Weblogic, Microsoft SharePoint, J.D. Edwards CNC - JDENET & JDEBASE, Beowulf, Citrix XenApp, 2X, Windows Terminal Services, RDS Secure Gateway, LabTech

Development Environments & Web Services: HTML 5, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP,.NET C, C++, C#, MS Powershell, Sun J2EE, BASH, CSH, Microsoft Visual Basic, PHP, TCL, Perl, Active Pearl, HTML, XML, MPICH, Java Script, WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation, Apache, Microsoft IIS

Telecom: Reallinx Cloud IP/PBX, Tandberg IP, iDirect VSAT (C & Ku Band), Hughes VSAT, INMARSAT VSAT, VPLS, MPLS, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN BRI & PRI

OS/Environments: IBM z/OS, Microsoft Windows Server 2013, Suse Linux Enterprise Server v12 & v11, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Unbuntu Linux, Apple OSX, CentOS Linux, Thinstation, AIX

Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 / 2008 R2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM DB/2, Toad, MySQL

Other Business Systems & Cloud Services: IBM Softlayer, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, eMaint X3 cloud CMMS, UCaaS, Reallinx Cloud Virtual IP/PBX, RealLinx Cloud Call Center, Microsoft Office 365 Cloud, RISC Networks Cloudscape, EMC Transition Manager

Compliance: PCI-DSS, SSAE 16, GAAP, ISO 27001, ITAR, HIPPA

ERP: Epicor ERP V10, SAP R/3, J.D. Edwards One World, Sage 100 ERP ( 90 /20 0), Infor

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Discovered and mapped 1132 enterprise applications into Confidential move groups utilizing EMC transition manager
• Developed data center TCO analysis for colocation vs. hybrid cloud
• Planned the migration of all internally hosted Confidential to AWS cloud and tier 4 colocation hosted by a leading colocation provider consisting of 1199 virtual and physical servers

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed data center TCO analysis for colocation vs. hybrid cloud vs. full cloud
• Migrated and consolidated the Lendlease Atlanta production tier 4 data center and the IBM DR data center into the AWS Cloud and the Equinix Virginia tier 4 colocation production data center resulting in an annualized expense reduction of $14.5M
• Migrated and consolidated 1825 VM’s
• Discovered and mapped 592 enterprise applications into Confidential move groups utilizing RISC Networks Cloudscape then successfully migrated all applications.
• Migrated 315 MPLS, T1, and fractional T1 circuits into MPLS 1Net and dedicated circuits for connectivity to the destination data centers
• Migrated the all internally hosted Microsoft Exchange Server Confidential, end user storage shares, and Microsoft SharePoint Confidential to Microsoft Office 365 for 13 271 users in three waves for the US, EMEA, and AP global regions
• Migrated multiple analog circuits to 10Gb fiber wave circuits for all data center intranetworking

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migrated and consolidated 8710 VM’s to the AWS Cloud and to 1791 Dell R730 enterprise servers in colocation
• Collapsed and consolidated 11 IBM source LPAR’s into 4 destination LPAR’s while migrating 126 banking and credit Clients with no Client incidents.
• Migrated and converted 8247 inbound and outbound bank financial transmissions to the IBM sterling file gateway financial transmissions platform
• Migrated 23 legacy storage arrays into 8 EMC VMAX Storage Arrays
• Migrated 241 client MPLS, T1, and fractional T1 circuits into MPLS 1Net and dedicated circuits for connectivity to the destination data centers
• Migrated multiple OC-3 circuits to 10Gb fiber circuits for all data center intranetworking
• Migrated the all internally hosted Microsoft Exchange Server Confidential, end user storage shares, and Microsoft SharePoint Confidential to Microsoft Office 365 for 17 378 users

Confidential, Dalton, GA

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the internal tier 2 data center to AWS cloud services providing a one time $285K data center capital cost avoidance and a $140K direct labor cost reduction
• Migrated 97 thick client workstations to Confidential thin clients utilizing 2X as the presentation layer resulting in a 94% reduction in workstation service management labor
• Migrated all global site analog telephone systems and the18 seat corporate call center to IP/PBX cloud services resulting in a $38K ongoing annual cost reduction, the virtualization of all telephony services, and automated call center statistics data acquisition, real time / historical reporting, and direct real time / historical call center agent performance reporting
• Implemented cloud based two-factor authentication (Duo Mobile) for all user and administrator accounts and hardened IT security Confidential to comply with PCI-DSS requirements
• Led the discovery, requirements, & implementation of Epicor v10 ERP to replace Sage 100 ERP
• Led the discovery, requirements, & implementation of converged voice & data local & wide area networks for 7 locations globally
• Implemented and managed the organizations Microsoft SharePoint services web platform resulting in unified departmental and corporate KPI metrics dashboards
• Migrated the all internally hosted Microsoft Exchange Server Confidential, end user storage shares, and Microsoft SharePoint Confidential to Microsoft Office 365 for 32 9 users
• Provided Apple OSX workstation fleet management services, SEO consulting services, and internet domain management services for the US Floors digital technology marketing group
• Implemented and managed eMaint X3 CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) for the facilities and maintenance organization

Confidential, Chattanooga, TN

IT Manager, Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Moved and migrated three (3) remote tier 2 datacenters with 357 enterprise servers to the AWS Cloud and the corporate tier 4 datacenter
• Directed discovery, requirements, design, and implementation for the VMWare Version 5 Confidential upgrade resulting in 100% virtualization of all Intel platform servers.
• Moved the internal tier 4 data center (872 servers) to 100% outsourced hybrid cloud managed through VMware vCloud director providing a one-time $4.8M data center upgrade capital cost avoidance.
• Implemented the ITIL v3 compliant ServiceNow Cloud based service management SAAS
• Implemented Hitachi VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), migrating 1362 LUNS for 872 servers resulting in 100% virtualization and enterprise level caching of all Hitachi AMS, EMC Clarion, EMC DMX, and EMC VMAX storage Confidential resulting in automatic tiering which eliminated performance related manual re-provisioning & provided maintenance removal of entire storage arrays from production with zero downtime.
• Supported engineering and operations of the global network and telecom Confidential for four locations worldwide.
• Managed the requirements and implementation of Atlassian Jira project management and Atlassian Tempo timecard management resulting in process optimization & standardization, project resource scheduling centralization, and PMO reporting centralization & standardization for all stakeholders in the business.

Confidential, Chattanooga, TN

IT Manager, Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of the tier 4 certified datacenter consisting of 145 enterprise servers
• Led the discovery, business requirements, technical requirements, architecture, development, QA, and implementation of all VB .NET Business Objects XI, and Sharepoint 2010 based applications supporting SAP R/3 ERP Interfaces, factory floor SCADA, factory floor AND/ON applications, business performance metrics, and business intelligence.
• Managed the design, development, and implementation of the plant business intelligence reporting web application utilizing data modeling for three enterprise business systems utilizing ANSI/ISA-95 data standardization.
• Developed, implemented & supported Confidential shop-floor business intelligence web application for manufacturing and assembly resulting in real-time visibility for manufacturing operations.
• Developed requirements and implemented 795 Confidential thin clients for manufacturing shop floor operations.
• Managed the requirements and implementation of Microsoft Project Server resulting in process optimization & standardization, project resource scheduling centralization, and PMO reporting centralization & standardization for all stakeholders in the IT organization.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the evaluation, acceptance, adoption, and implementation of IBM Rhapsody, transforming the product engineering organization’s embedded controls systems process from traditional C & Ada code to a model-driven development (MDD) process for software development and testing resulting in a $336,000 annual savings.
• Managed the requirements, implementation, or Microsoft Project Server resulting in process optimization & standardization, project resource scheduling centralization, and PMO reporting centralization & standardization for all stakeholders in the IT organization.

Confidential, Lexington, KY

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the discovery, requirements, design, implementation, and support of the corporate tier 4 certified datacenter consisting of 328 enterprise servers.
• Led the discovery, requirements, design, implementation, and support of twenty-five (25) remote tier 3 datacenters consisting of 175 enterprise servers running SuSe Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Windows Advanced Server.
• Relocated and consolidated twenty-five (25) remote tier 3 datacenters into a single tier 4 certified datacenter consisting of 503 enterprise servers.
• Directed discovery, requirements, design, implementation, and operations for server virtualization utilizing VMWare Server and VMWare Confidential resulting in system optimization and hardware cost avoidance of $2,470,000.
• Led the discovery, requirements, design, and implementation of all VB .NET, PHP, Java, Business Objects XI, and Sharepoint web applications supporting factory floor SCADA, factory floor AND/ON applications, business performance metrics, and business intelligence.
• Managed the evaluation, vendor selection, and implementation of help desk managed services, resulting in ITIL v2 compliant 24/7/365 operational support.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the discovery, requirements, design, and implementation of the Confidential shop-floor business intelligence web application for manufacturing and assembly resulting in real-time visibility for manufacturing operations.
• Developed requirements and implemented embedded Linux based thin client platform standards creating highly supportable, standardized, lowest lifecycle cost client and server solutions that allowed for rapid failure recovery and maximized uptime of 3600+ thin clients and thin servers.

Confidential, Frankfort, KY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Integrated ERP purchase order submission, approval, generation, and accountability resulting in a purchase order generation cycle time reduction from 17 days to 3 days.
• Implemented the site’s WCS (Warehouse Control System), WMS (Warehouse Management System), and ERP modules for inventory, asset management, work management, purchasing, general ledger, logistics, and manufacturing cost accounting corporate business systems from inception through production resulting in full business visibility of site operations.