EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Versatile, strategic, and visionary IT leader credited with improving IT organizations and providing leadership at corporations including Fujitsu America, Alliance Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, The Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Bank of America, and AT&T Wireless Services. A successful technology executive with the proven ability to implement process improvement, infrastructure solutions, provide acquisition and divestiture solutions, and project leadership by providing enterprise level technology solutions and exceptional strategy development.

Confidential,Dallas, TX Apr 2009 - Aug 2009
Enterprise Architect - Advisor
Enterprise Architect - Advisor for a Fortune 1000 financial services, loyalty, network, and distributed systems hosting company.

• Worked to transition Alliance Data IT functions to Fujitsu America following acquisition, while maintaining high availability to all functions and applications.
• Significant disentanglement effort required for the acquisition of Alliance Data ITS by Fujitsu America, to include pre-planning, design, vendor and contract negotiations, equipment procurement, build out, testing, and migration.
• Strong emphasis on data, application, and system migration from existing customer data centers to ADS/Fujitsu data centers.
• Designed solutions surrounding virtualization (ESX, VMware), Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS), Citrix, network (LAN and WAN).
• Worked to integrate the existing PeopleSoft system to the incumbent Oracle HRMS system.
• Member of the Architectural Review Council, reviewing and advising on all proposed technical projects and solutions in the organization.
• Member of the business development team, working to respond to various RFPs submitted to the organization.
• Pre-sales architect, working to design custom hosting solutions for third party clients
• Worked with the PMO as an advisor to project managers to provide validation for technical solutions within their respective projects.
• Research and advise on emerging technology for the Senior Leadership Team to ensure a competitive advantage, and to further enhance offered services.
• Developed and maintained the hardware and software technology roadmap for the organization.

Confidential, Richardson, TX Jul 2008 – Apr 2009
Solution Architect and Infrastructure Project Manager
Infrastructure and Network Architect and Infrastructure Project Manager for a business process outsourcer and utility services company.

• Managed construction and relocation from the existing Alliance Data Systems offices to new offices, to include the oversight of the General Contractor, lease negotiations with the property management company, and technology (data and telephony) design and relocation.
• Managed the outsourced RFP process, and negotiated space for a co-located data center for relocation of 350+ WinTel, Unix/Linux, Sun, Mainframe, AS/400 servers, and HP XP 24000 and EVA 8100 SAN platforms from Alliance Data to Vertex Business Services.
• Worked to integrate the existing SAP (Finance and Business Intelligence) platform into the Vertex SAP platform and integrate the Alliance PeopleSoft solution into the Vertex Microsoft Dynamics AX platform.
• Designed the data, application, and system migration from existing data center to new hosted/co-located data center.
• Introduced ESX (VMware) farm to virtualize platforms, saving space, power, and introduce redundancy and flexibility.
• Partnered with AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, L-3 (formerly Sprint), and MCI to provide diversity in WAN, LAN, and Telephony solutions.
• Worked with AVAYA and Cisco solutions for call center connectivity, call monitoring, call recording, and Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) systems. Designed VOIP via MPLS solution for Vertex North America.
• Coordinated the North American architectural solution with resources from the UK and India offices.
• Designed the connectivity from 8 remote call centers in North America from the existing servers in the Alliance Data System data center to the new Vertex Business Services data center via MPLS connections.
• Oversight of each utility client to ensure that all services for all customers were transferred according to contractual obligations.
• Pre-sales architect, working to provide cost effective solutions for customers through the client management team.

Confidential, Dallas, TX Apr 2008 – Jul 2008
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager for a Fortune 1000 financial, loyalty, network, and utility services company.

• Managed the transfer of the Utilities LOB from Alliance Data Systems to Vertex Business Services, to include disentanglement and contractual handover obligations.
• Managed a team of 50+ project team members in all disciplines
• Designed and coordinated the disentanglement effort with teams from US, Canada, UK, and India
• Migrated WinTel, Unix, Oracle, and SQL platform from Dallas data center to an IBM collocation center in Toronto, with DR site in Atlanta, GA.
• Significant disentanglement effort required for the acquisition of Utility Services Division by Vertex Business Services, to include pre-planning, design, vendor and contract negotiations, equipment procurement, build out, testing, and migration.
• Strong emphasis on data, application, and system migration from existing customer data centers to ADS/Fujitsu data centers.
• Designed solutions surrounding virtualization (ESX, VMware), Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS), Citrix, network (LAN and WAN).
• Coordinated resources to provide for the accurate transfer of assets and services.
• Provided architectural review for Vertex business services.
• Management of multi-discipline project managers to ensure that all Utility customers were transitioned successfully.

Confidential,Oklahoma City, OK Feb 2007- Apr 2008
Director of Technology; Associate MIS Director
Director of Technology and Associate MIS Director for the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

• Coordinate with the Supreme Court Chief Justice and the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide services to the District and Appellate Courts in all 77 counties of Oklahoma.
• Direct management of senior management in Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Research and Development, Security Services, Database Services, Web Development Services, and Inventory/Asset Management.
• Chief architect for providing cross platform solutions for new Court Information System (.NET, clustered SQL back end, EVA 8100 SAN, web based WinTel platform, DMZ reporting servers with XML files for third party department reporting).
• Led the design process for software and hardware solutions for the Court Information System to ensure compatibility, support, and expansion. Worked with team leaders to identify requirements for the business, and developed a technical solution to achieve those requirements.
• Implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Exchange 2007 for better document version control and archival.
• Redesign of the architecture and Active Directory services to implement multiple data centers throughout the state to increase uptime, replication services, disaster recovery, and redundancy of systems.
• Designed and built redundant 2500 square feet data center for statewide redundancy.
• Designed and led the migration of all platforms from third party system to internally developed system. This migration included all hardware, software, storage, and databases (SQL).
• Redesigned overall State network to MPLS for consistent, redundant network connectivity.
• Implementation of HP software and services throughout the division for user self help and technician efficiency. Modules included Help Desk, Asset/Inventory, Change Management, Automated Testing, Network Management, and Systems Management.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK Oct 2006 – Feb 2007
Senior Project Manager
Senior Technical Project Manager for Bank of America.

• Provided support to a diverse project team located throughout the continental United States.
• Ensured compliance with government, banking, and internal regulations.
• Responsible for 12 multi-million dollar projects throughout the organization.
• Worked with Bank of America resources and EDS resources to deploy solutions throughout North America to integrate new acquisitions into existing platforms.