SUMMARY

A highly experienced, transformational Information Technology leader with deep expertise driving strategy, offering development, sales, client relationship management, and delivery of large - scale data center IT initiatives across multiple industries. Adept at collaborating and delivering business results, driving both internal and client strategies. Recognized for implementing novel and “first of a kind” technology solutions, establishing credibility, and cultivating strong client relationships. Proficient in quickly defining and maintaining direction in diverse, complex, and constantly changing environments. Strong leadership skills with teh ability to clearly communicate, build, and integrate teams of varied skills, functions and locations, including global operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Thought Leadership | Strategic Planning | Risk Management | Client Relationship Management

Program Management | Capital Management | Practice Leadership

Strategic Partnership | Alliance Development | Technology & Business Alignment

Cloud-based Solution Design and Delivery | Large-scale Data Center Strategy

Data Modeling | Database Design & Implementation

Oracle Technology SME | Sales & Delivery of Oracle Solutions

Server, Storage, Network and Database Technology

Application and Infrastructure Architecture & Integration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Managing Partner

Industry: Finance

IT infrastructure project manager responsible to plan, track, report, escalate, and communicate to executive leadership teh disposition of project plans and progress against milestones including metrics and financial information.

• I drive innovation through a high degree of complexity related to new technologies and methodologies with a specific focus on IT infrastructure, networking, and security.
• I direct and coordinate all business aspects and requirements of IT infrastructure projects including budget estimation and management of program financials in addition to teh technology needs.
• I define quality metrics, evaluation and improvement processes to ensure strict regulatory compliance.

Confidential, Arlington, V A

Director

Industry: Federal Government

AWS Certified Solutions Architect driving teh definition of AWS cloud governance, operating model, and service model.

• Pioneered deep adoption of an Infrastructure as Code agenda to dramatically reduce teh time to deploy cloud infrastructure (e.g. from hours to minutes) while driving up consistency and repeatability.
• Spearheaded teh development of more TEMPthan 240 Ansible playbooks, 40 Ansible role,s and 60 Ansible Tower Job Templates executing over 2,000 jobs per day against both public and private cloud providers across all lifecycle environments.
• Motivated 80-person security operations team including network security monitoring, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, incident response, firewalls, private key infrastructure, endpoint protection, and information system security while achieving significant customer satisfaction results.
• Managed change by leading continuous improvement and overcoming traditional organizational resistance.
• Improved reliability and overall on-time delivery performance of information system security officer (ISSO) team with automation initiatives including ServiceNow and CSAM.
• Drove 50% reduction in teh burden of end of life software.
• Spearheaded new and existing security best practices into cloud migration efforts including a novel Splunk-based approach to network security monitoring.
• Drove improvements to Windows 10 end point hardening and scanning.
• Directed 24/7 operational support for hybrid cloud healthcare solution.
• Achieved significant efficiency gains with ITIL-based service improvements and concurrent development of a cloud operating model.
• Realized multiple orders of magnitude of operator efficiency with substantially reduced monitoring and alerting false alarms by reducing event volumes and increasing alert signal-to-noise ratio.
• Migrated federal health care solution from legacy on-premise data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based solution including a 70+ TB NoSQL database.
• Succeeded in teh sale and delivery of $15+ million private cloud solution based on Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat Cloudforms, Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat Ansible Tower and Turbonomic.
• Pioneered solution development for state 0 sales approach through project task, financial planning management, resource staffing and management, delivery, risks, issues, client status and expectation management.
• Spearheaded third party vendor engagement for resource staffing and management between Confidential and Red Hat, including Red Hat subject matter experts.
• Multiple decades of experience managing individual performance and building high-performing teams.

Industry: Health and Public Service

Headed teh delivery of two greenfield data center buildouts, establishing operations, and providing support for a State driven Affordable Care Act project through a successful go-live of teh fastest-ever integrated eligibility implementation in teh industry (eight months start to finish).

• Directed roughly $30 million in Confidential services, and completed delivery of an additional $8 million in written deliverables.

Industry: Oil and Gas

• Sold $8 million deal to consolidate and standardize Oracle database estate on Exadata.
• Spearheaded thought leadership to consolidate and standardize a complex database environment consisting of over 5,000 databases and remediate a $50 million gap in Oracle database licensing
• Completed zero defect delivery of next generation database consolidation and achieved target profit margin for delivery.

Industry: Pharmaceutical

• Transformed technical architectures for multiple Confidential clients to consistently achieve successful on time submissions of federally mandated filings.
• Mentored client technical support resources to gain skills for independent management of Model N applications.

Additional Relevant Experience

Confidential

Directed team of seven (7) focused on integrating server and network alarm management with customer information through database design. Delivered value to teh business by automating case management and problem resolution resulting in a 30% reduction in staffing overhead.

Systems and Computer Technologies

Technical consultant providing on-site installation and configuration of SCT Banner on Windows, Unix and VMS-based platforms.