TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

• Open source technologies such as Linux / Unix, CentOS / Redhat, AIX, Hadoop (HDFS), HaProxy, Chuckwa, Kafka, Zabbix, Ganglia, Tomcat, Nginx, Apache, GIT, SALT, Jira / Confluence, Stash (Full Atlassian suite), and many more.
• Managing departments of Sr level engineers up to ~110 in size.
• Data center design and architecture, Data integrity, business continuity & redundancy, disaster prevention and recovery
• All Windows O/S and application server software
• Network engineering expertise including Cisco and F5.
• SAN and NAS expertise, including Netapp, compellent, EMC, HP, IBM, and Dell.
• Network/Intranet security including firewalls, IDS / IPS, enterprise anti - virus, web content filtering, and external penetration testing for PCI, SOX, and Hipaa compliance.
• Database technologies such as Oracle, SQL, and distributed technologies such as Hadoop and openstack.
• Extensive knowledge of Hipaa, SOX, ITIL framework, and PCI rules and regulations, as well as ISO 27000 and NIST 800 series security principals
• Web design, development, and maintenance.
• Virtualization technologies such as VMware and hyper-V, openstack / Piston, Ovirt, and RHEV. As well as cloud solutions such as o365, AWS, and Azure.
• PBX & VOIP phone systems, including Nortel, Mitel, and Shoretel.
• Any many, many more

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vice President of Information Technology and Security

Confidential, Westlake Village, Ca

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all IT operations and security topics, including primary stakeholder and owner of all compliance, audit, and governance concerns related to PCI, SOX, and HIPAA.
• Re engineered the IT infrastructure into an ultra - redundant 7 data center fault tolerant topology, eliminating all production outages, resulting in 100% up-time during my 3 years of tenure. This design leverage both dedicated server, and public and private cloud technology (including azure and AWS)
• Reduced the infrastructure budget from $75 million down to $62 million annually.
• Managed a team of ~100 engineers, 12,000+ servers, and 2400+ end users in 16+ different geographic locations.
• Personalized creatives and media, campaign based media with personalized targeting, and affiliate marketing. Acquired by Alliance Data (22,000+ employees), becoming a fortune 500 with annual revenue ~9 billion, and an enterprise value of ~30 billion. 
• I am the department head, senior most IT official in the company, reporting directly to the CEO, and responsible for all both the corporate and production environments daily operations, budgets, projects, forecasts, architecture, purchasing, design, and everything in between.
• Additional notable accomplishments include driving the 2014 divestiture of over 5500 websites and companies to IAC, a ~150 million dollar deal. Implementation of the first continuous automated release Docker / Piston VM development environment. Completing the acquisition and in corporation of Dotomi.com and Set.tv. as well as several significant infrastructure, stability, and compliance improvements.
• Designed, built, and managed a department structure composed of System Engineering, System Administration, Network Engineering, 24/7/365 NOC, Helpdesk, Internal Systems, Dev Ops, Tools Engineering, and IT finance / procurement.
• Built predictive financial modeling algorithms to govern, forecast, predict, and control IT related costs.

Sr. Director, IT and Security

Confidential, Sunnyvale, Ca

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all IT operations and security topics, including all compliance, audit, and governance concerns related to PCI, SOX, and HIPAA.
• Redesigned the entire IT infrastructure into an ultra-redundant 3 data center fault tolerant topology, eliminating all production outages, resulting in 100% up-time during my 2 years of tenure.
• Reduced the infrastructure budget from 2.3 million down to 1.1 million annually, orchestrating dozens of improvement and consolidation projects while maintaining 100% uptime.
• Managed a team of 10 engineers, 2000+ servers, and 300+ end users in 12+ different geographic locations.
• Played the primary role in the acquisition (and technical merger) of the global internet traffic analysis leader Tynt.com.
• Hired and trained a world class staff, defined policies, procedures, and 24/7/365 uptime SLA’s.
• Worked with my team to design and implement and completely open source infrastructure, utilizing Oracle, Hadoop (HDFS), HaProxy, Chuckwa, Kafka, Zabbix, Ganglia, Tomcat, Nginx, Apache, GIT, SALT, CentOS / Redhat, TCP/BGP, Netapp, DNS/GTM, Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls, and many other technologies.
• Designed, built, and managed dual engineering department, helpdesk department, NOC.
• Eliminated dozens of high-risk security concerns utilizing Trustwave external penetration testing (EPT), IPT, PCI, SOX, ITIL, HIPAA and security+ best practices & principals.
• Built predictive financial modeling algorithms to govern, forecast, predict, and control IT related costs.

Sr. Director, IT and security

Confidential, Carlsbad, Ca

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all IT operations and security topics, including all compliance, audit, and governance concerns related to PCI, SOX, and HIPAA.
• Designed and implemented the 24/7/365 up-time data center & infrastructure, my system tolerated a 72-hour catastrophic outage of our primary data center with zero downtime.
• Cut first year IT infrastructure costs by $2.6 million annually.
• Built the IT department from a the ground up, from a single department with 2 employee’s, into a 70+ employee, 7 department IT entity, serving 450+ employee’s internally
• Created and managed an outsourced 24/7 NOC in India, resulting in 1.3 million dollars in savings
• Served as the primary IT business strategy officer, defining cost centers and capital allocations, as well as predictive financial modeling algorithms to govern and control IT related costs.
• Served as the subject matter expert, and Sr. Engineer, and Sr. Architect for all IT related issues, topics, projects, and concerns
• Hired, trained, mentored, and developed all IT hires. Defined all IT policies, procedures, and documentation guidelines that govern the day to day operations of all 7 IT divisions.
• Designed and implemented UltraDNS and F5 load balancing, Compellent and EMC SANs, Cisco and Brocade switches and routing, Sonicwall, FortiNET, FusionIO technology, SQL mirror and clustering, Oracle virtual chasis and redundancy solutions, NAS backup and replication, Hadoop (HDFS), HaProxy, Zabbix, Tomcat, Nginx, Apache, GIT, SALT, CentOS / Redhat, TCP/BGP, Netapp, DNS/GTM, Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls, and many other technologies.

Sr. Regional IT Manager

Confidential, Pasadena, Ca

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a multi-national corporation with over 11 billion dollars in annual sales, my position included managing a staff of 4 direct reports including, help desk, system engineers, and network engineers, as well as 50+ indirect / matrix reports which service the western half of the united states, as well as Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, Alaska, and Northern Mexico.
• Managed 3 US data centers, including over 3000 production and 300 internal servers.
• Mentor, coach, instruct, and teach regular lessons in order to grow and build IT talent within the organization
• Responsibilities included managing a ~20 million capex & opex budget, designing 1/3/5 and beyond road maps, and presenting all topics to the executive team for sign off.
• Responsible for all network and server operations and strategies, including: disaster recovery, budget utilization and strategy, server and client policies, for all of the Western US, Alaska, Guam, Saipan, and Northern Mexico.
• Responsible for all SOX, PCI, and internal controls compliance and auditing.
• Recent accomplishments include implementation of a local SAN solutions utilizing VMware virtualization technology, creating a cost avoidance measure projected at ~$1.2 million / year.
• Recent projects include designing and implementing a new datacenter design, resulting in 400k / year savings.
• Working closely with engineers to manage, maintain, and deploy Knapp, Buschman, HK systems, and Tech Conveyor systems.
• Built predictive financial modeling algorithms to govern, forecast, and control IT related costs.

Director of IT

Confidential, Corona, Ca

Responsibilities:

• Built predictive financial modeling algorithms to govern, forecast, and control IT related costs.
• Managed a staff of 10+ IT professionals including 2 SQL DBA’s, 2 programmers / software engineers, 2 Help Desk Technicians, and junior network and systems administrators.
• Responsibilities included analyzing business and IT needs and aligning IT strategic plans with primary business objectives. Ensure IT infrastructure can accommodate rapid business growth, budgeting and forecasting of over $8,000,000.00 in annual expenses and liabilities. Design all long and short term IT strategies for company growth and compliance.
• Managed 2 US data centers, including over 650 workstations, 220 remote VPN users, and over 550 servers, including 300+ Microsoft Servers, 100 Macintosh Servers, and 200 Unix Servers. over 75 switches, 25 routers, 6 VPN concentrators, 4 Barracuda spam filters, Websense content filters, 4 ESX servers, and over 30 TB of NAS attached to VMware technologies (EMC clarion, cx300, and cx310, utilizing powerpath and navisphere. I created the company VMware infrastructure and personally virtualized over 50 servers.
• Ensure compliance with all internal controls and change management policies SOX and PCI rules and regulations.
• Designed and created the primary datacenter, including implementation of energy efficient HVAC solutions, saving approximately $2M annually.
• Implemented ‘overhaul’ projects including SAN, VM, and NAS implementations, with a projected savings of over $2.5M annually.

Director of IT Operations and Security

Confidential, Costa Mesa, Ca

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw 10-12 clients (variations in size from 10-500+ employee’s) IT needs including Systems and Network administration and engineering, daily operations, budgeting, and all hands on technical issues, as well as managing 2-3 direct reports.
• Managed a staff of 7-12 Sr. level engineers, responsible for roughly 5000 end users and 3000 Windows & Linux servers.
• Oversaw all IT operations for several financial institutions, including several large Hedge Funds, credit unions, and banks.

Director of IT Operations and Security

Confidential, Newport Beach, Ca

Responsibilities:

• As Director of Information Technology, oversaw the infrastructure and internal operations of the entire corporation, with 15 direct reports, in a hybrid Windows / Linux environment consisting of roughly 250 servers and 2000 end users.
• Sr. Network and Sr. System Admin, PDX Administrator, Chief HIPAA Security and Privacy Officer
• Planned and implemented all of the hardware and software in the corporate headquarters, and its 12 pharmacies throughout Southern California. In charge of budgeting and purchasing of all items related to technology.
• Implemented and maintained IP camera based security and surveillance systems utilizing DVR technology.