SUMMARY:

• Information Technology Strategist and Infrastructure Leader offering 20+ years of experience and a track record of success leveraging technology as a driver of business success and operational efficiency for organizations experiencing exponential growth and technical transformations.
• Architected a disaster recovery/business resiliency program that was implemented in an unprecedented 16 months, improved recovery time by 80%, and exceeded contractual/regulatory SLA targets by 60%.
• Negotiated 5 major vendor contracts that delivered a $6M savings over a 3 - year period and led to a 25% increase in client licensing.
• A well-balanced leadership style and with strong Verbal and Written Communications skills.
• Experienced in the planning, development, and execution of IT strategy, multi-year roadmaps, global technology transformations, and disaster recovery programs.
• Demonstrated expertise managing large-scale projects and multimillion-dollar budgets with enterprise-wide impact on revenues and expenses in a globally distributed computing environment.
• Earned the reputation as a trusted advisor across all levels with the ability to influence key decision-makers on implementing a scalable and world-class technology strategies that enabled the use of technology to optimize service delivery and achieve desired business results.

AREAS OF STRENGTH & EXPERTISE:

• Business Integration - Mergers & Acquisitions - Contract Negotiations - P&L Management - Service Delivery Optimization Budget Management - Healthcare Management - Process re-engineering - Continuous Improvement - HIPAA
• Program Management - ITIL - Agile - Performance Optimization - Network Management - Data Center Consolidation Virtualization Architecture - Application Integration - Information Security & Assurance - Technology Strategy
• Problem Solving - Systems Availability Management - Performance Monitoring/Forecasting - Disaster Recovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Executive Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage RFP Data Center Strategy vendor selection.
• Evaluate top 50 applications for Cloud adoption.
• Develop future technology roadmap strategy
• Develop strategy and roadmap to migrate existing applications to new sites with no interruption to the business.
• Create multiple financial models to identify migration, CAPEX and OPEX costs and TCO for each Data Center option. (Build, Buy, Colo, Cloud, Hybrid etc…)
• Evaluate operational processes and personnel and identify gaps to support target state. Assess readiness and define roadmap to move to a devops operational model.
• Ensure security requirements are met as part of the design and work with security team to address new scenarios as they arise.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Director of Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered IT PMO processes that defined a reasonable intake process, identified and quantified budget and resource constraints, prioritized projects, and improved project delivery.
• Reorganized the infrastructure organization into 2 distinct groups (Operations & Support and Architecture & Engineering). Recruited and put in place leadership teams for each group that established goals, accountability, and responsibility within the 2 groups along with consistent Reporting.
• Developed a tactical 6-month approach to stabilize an aging network infrastructure, mitigate capacity issues, and provide a supportable/scalable infrastructure that aligned IT and business capabilities.
• Redesigned WAN network architecture in 90 days and 19% under budget that will allow the organization to continue to meet its current and future demands. Implementation is scheduled for 2016 and 2017.
• Delivered security program management consisting of firewall refresh project to 6300 sites, which had been a challenge to complete in the previous 2.5 years. Completed wireless access point upgrade to 3700 sites to eradicate WEP protocol and established stronger security standards.
• Established Server, Workstation and Operating System standards and lifecycle policies that will maintain the environment in supportable operating status. Reengineered processes that enabled the organization to move to monthly and critical patching cycles.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Director of IT Infrastructure architecture, strategy and planning

Responsibilities:

• Authored, designed, and implemented a disaster recovery/business resiliency program in 16 months, strengthening the organization’s business continuity by reducing time to recover by 80%.
• Architected the infrastructure for the migration of the entire organization to a virtual desktop environment with a virtualized workforce model projected to save $6M in facilities costs.
• Solution is projected to provide a 17% Confidential continuous savings and virtualized 50% of the workforce.
• Re-architected and delivered Citrix architecture that improved availability metrics to 99.99% and increased capacity/utilization by 40% (up to 3,000 concurrent clients).
• Delivered a $4.5M Capex cost avoidance and a 68% reduction in Confidential maintenance costs by transforming the HP/UX environment to Intel Blades virtualized on VMware 5.5, RHLE 6.5, Oracle 11g, and Sybase 15.7.
• Integrated an acquired company’s corporate infrastructure in 4 months where attempts over a 4-year period failed. The successful integration delivered an 18% Capex and 29% Opex savings in the first year.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

IT Management Consultant, Logistics

Responsibilities:

• Designed processes for evaluation, preparation, and migration of 753 systems and 436 clinical, business, and infrastructure applications with minimal impact to clinical, hospital, and business areas.
• Migrated core and edge Nortel network and fabric infrastructure to Cisco Nexus core Routers, aggregator, and edge switches.
• Transformed a Unix/Linux architecture to AIX 6.1 running on IBM 770 power series architecture.
• Led teams of technical, business continuity, and change management professionals through a process transformation that established accurate measurements for risk management, troubleshooting, business continuity, change management, and impact to clinical areas.

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected replication solution methodologies for virtual and Windows platforms that replicated data, servers, and services from multiple legacy tactical datacenters to strategic primary datacenters located in the US and UK.
• Migrated a global VMware 3.x infrastructure of 22 clusters, 283 hosts, and over 2100 guests to vSphere 4.1 for Windows and Linux platforms. Introduced a centralized management administration that reduced the global server footprint by 65% and reduced existing complexity and overhead.
• Achieved significant cost and resource savings by completing the primary data center project 6 weeks early for an $820K savings and evacuating 2 data centers 4 weeks ahead of schedule that produced a 32% savings from the original project budget.
• Designed and architected an email middleware solution, resulting in a 42% savings over 3 years while increasing throughput by 350%.
• Architected solution that migrated the identities of physical SQL Server instances from source to target data centers that provided DBA and application teams with the ability to migrate applications in 20% of the time originally planned.
• Architected post-acquisition Domain, Mail, and Application repeatable methodology to integrate the resources of the 2 firms with respect to collapsing Active Directory and Email domains and migrating applications in 18 data centers globally.
• Engineered and managed the technical infrastructure that supported Barclay’s Global Investor Active Directory and mail/application integration that was operating across 14 data centers in 5 continents and included 75,000 directory objects, over 100,000 mail objects, and over 1,400 applications.
• Directed BCP and DR tests for Windows infrastructure, applications, and services that resided in 3 data centers in the US and 2 data centers in the UK.
• Renegotiated hardware vendor contracts for Windows, Linux, and Sun platforms that produced a 45% savings over similar contracts from other hardware vendors and uplifted SLA performance to a 2-hour response and 4-hour fix.
• Architected and directed the pilot for an Exchange 2003/2007 to Exchange 2010 migration that ran Exchange on a locally attached disk with full BCP capabilities and full failover in acceptable timings.

Confidential, MT. Laurel, NJ

Assistant Vice President, Web Technologies Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-authored and implemented the policies, procedures, standards, and SLAs for the department and clients as well as automated standard builds for OS and IIS 6.
• Created action plans for daily operations, managing budgets and the recruiting/hiring of staff members.
• Led the evolution of an antiquated consumer and business-to-business web presence infrastructure to a state-of-the-art solution that met current business requirements, was scalable and allowed for 45% growth, and provided the capacity to handle component failures as well as site failures.
• Created and deployed the process methodology and architecture that supported the end-to-end SDLC methodology and introduced test, performance, QA, and emerging technologies environments for enhanced application and business process development.
• Renegotiated contracts with RSA and introduced business process improvements that delivered a 67% savings over 3 years with 47% savings in the first year alone.
• Architected and co-designed a multi-factor authentication implementation on a Consumer Banking application that was delivered 6 weeks ahead of schedule and resulted in 27% savings over original project cost projections.