SUMMARY

• Innovative and insightful IT professional with exceptional business acumen complemented by extensive experience in consulting, management, and network administration. Proven ability to motivate and mentor globally dispersed teams; align information technology with business objectives; and implement applications and systems that increase productivity, efficiency, and profitability. International business experience with English, Polish, and German fluency.
• IT Strategy Budget & Business Planning International Business Architecture Infrastructure Design Cost Control Network Design & Administration Process Reengineering Negotiations Research People & Project Management System Design, Integration & Installation Technical Deployment & Support Purchasing Outsourcing Vendor Relations VOIP, SIP & Video Conferencing Licensing VDI, Server Virtualization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chief Technology Architect

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded existing pilot XenDesktop 4 environment to production XenDestop 5 running on XenServer 5.6 & providing solutions for existing problems of driverless printing, scanning and Video Conferencing inside a VDI environment. This enabled employees to be productive regardless of their physical location while preserving a user experience similar to using a local workstation.
• Application Virtualization & XenApp 6 reduced the number of XenDesktop images by streaming and/or publishing applications.
• Negotiated a Microsoft Enterprise agreement, saving the company over $160,000 a year by providing a licensing strategy over a disjointed, piecemeal licensing process without a strategic direction, thus enabling the company to move forward with implementation of the newest MS technologies. Saved the company $40,000 a year over standard EA pricing.
• Designed and implemented a high availability solution for Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 (incl. Forefront for Exchange & SharePoint), and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, including DR scenarios.
• Migrated users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 environment, including Office 2010 client upgrades, resulting in more robust functionality and higher system availability.
• Migrated extensive (300+ GB) Exchange 2003 public folder infrastructure to SharePoint 2010 using Avepoint migration tools.
• Implemented FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, resulting in $60,000 annual savings over existing Google Search appliances used to index Exchange Public folder data.
• Implemented Lync 2010 in a virtual desktop environment making voice and video available anywhere, anytime and reducing costs by minimizing the need to deploy additional room based VC.
• Integrated existing Polycom infrastructure with Lync
• Replaced existing old PBX with Lync Phones in San Jose office using SIP trunks from a major IP telephony provider.
• Implemented Avistar Video Conferencing for Lync in Virtual Desktop environments.
• Lync Edge services enabled true communications portability. Employees could be connected and productive anywhere they had an internet connection, not just in the office.
• ERP System recommendations - Oracle Financials vs. Penta Technologies
• Office 365 - Recommendations, feature comparison, Licensing, Hybrid solutions
• Data Center and DR planning
• Backup Analysis, comparison and recommendations - DataDomain, Exagrid, Comvault
• Compellent SAN upgrade
• Cisco UCS virtual computing platform evaluation
• Cisco/Tendberg Codian Video Conferencing MCU evaluation

IT Director

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned company from a single-server Novell 4.11 environment to Server 2003/Exchange 2003 with Citrix and VPN, followed by Server 2008 R2/Exchange 2007, resulting in a highly functioning, globally connected organization with enhanced:
• Communications among offices and job sites.
• Control over projects and workflows.
• Capability to manage larger, more complex engagements, such as a $200+ million project with 30+ onsite personnel.
• Led multiple installations to improve security, productivity, and cost efficiency, including:
• Trend Micro suite for complete network, server, and desktop security.
• An advanced hybrid Digital/VOIP system, job-site IP phone rentals, and least-cost routing to standardize telephone applications and permit free extension calling across all locations. SIP trunking further controlled costs associated with US- and overseas-originated international calls.
• MS SharePoint to provide instantaneous information sharing over the company intranet.
• Office Communications server to provide instant messaging/desktop sharing and complement e-mail and telephone options.
• Video conferencing to reduce travel expenses while increasing collaboration among offices.
• Wireless MPLS WAN connectivity for frequent travelers with anytime/anywhere 3G connectivity, complementing existing device-based job site VPN access.
• 100% virtualization, clustering, SANs, which increased system stability, consolidated multiple physical servers, saved company money, and permitted a successful merger with Scenario Design that more than quintupled the amount of required data storage.
• System Center Suite for network management and backup and Netflow analyzer to monitor WAN/LAN traffic. The applications have provided insight into a rapidly expanding infrastructure and improved system stability, root cause analysis, and issue resolution time.
• Maintained successful IT operations with minimal disruptions during six office moves, five new office installations (domestic and international), and four mergers and acquisitions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Windows Server 2003-2008 R2 SP1 AD Management & Troubleshooting Exchange 2003 - 2010 incl. HA & UM MS SharePoint 2003 - 2010 SQL Server 2000-2008 Office Communications Server 2007, Lync Server 2010 incl. SIP, Edge, Lync Phones Crystal Reports & Business Objects Enterprise Trend Micro Office Scan, IWSS, Virus Wall, SMTP Protection, Forefront (Client, Exchange, Sharepoint) System Center Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, Service Manager (2007-2012) Blackberry Enterprise Server Manage Engine Service Desk & Netflow Analyzer MS Hyper-V & XenServer VDI, XenDesktop 4-5, XenClient 1.0 Cloud Computing, Office 365 Clustering SANs Disaster Recovery Citrix XenApp Firewalls VOIP Phones & SIP Trunks VPNs Secure Wireless Access TCP/IP, DNS & DHCP IIS Linux/Unix Oracle 10e Dell Blade Servers Arcserve Veritas Comvault Autodesk A&E Product Suite MS Office Windows XP - 7 ERP Video Conferencing MS EA Licensing