Project Management & Delivery, Budget Planning, Compute/Backup/Storage Strategy & Operations, Cloud Computing Cost Reduction, Systems Migration (Physical and Virtual), Data Center Relocation, Vendor engagement SOWs/PWOs, Manage Large IT Teams and Contractors, Cyber Recovery, and Backup Data Retention & Compliance

Provide vision, architectural strategy, and operational guidance for corporate electronic data protection, retention, and recovery. Collaborate with various IT disciplines in ensuring backup data availability across multiple corporate regions. Partner with managed service providers to ensure operations comply with federal, state, and corporate electronic data retention policies.

Operational management of corporate data protection solutions across the enterprise. A key contributor in the formation of a data protection and recovery team from ground up. Project managed decommissioning of legacy backup platforms. Transitioned to newer disk based next generation backup tools as part of broader adoption of industry leading de-duplication capabilities.

Provided strategic IT consulting for mid to small business realty firms. Recommend technologies for online document management. Fulfill commission disbursement authorization protocols and ensure client realty contracts comply with Texas Real Estate Commission.

Responsible for leading and revamping the entire IT organization. Key initiatives included fully architecting the Hospital Information System's core infrastructure from networking to computing to storage to data protection while migrating the entire application to a Linux based Oracle implementation over network attached storage. Oversaw the implementation of standardized corporate email on a cloud platform. Led the IT department in evaluating, testing, and implementing a comprehensive PACS solution. Deployed industry leading technologies such as NetApp and Symantec BackupExec. Managed a 15-20 member IT team in career development, benefits assessment, technical training, and acquired talent to ensure 24x7 IT operations. Developed a comprehensive change management procedure for deploying periodic software updates and rollouts.

Directly responsible for all storage admins and storage resources across the Houston (HQ) and Denver offices. Reviewed team performance for annual corporate employee ranking. Presented storage forecast and estimated budget requirements for senior leadership. Participated and represented IT in change control meetings. Led the development of a corporate wide standardized tiered disk storage architecture. Coordinated, maintained, tracked, and consolidated all NetApp and Symantec Storage licenses and SLAs. Developed a comprehensive oncall support system for all after hours and weekend storage related escalation calls. Ensured highest compliance on storage provisioning and backup restore requests.

Provided technical leadership to a team of storage admins spanning Houston and Denver to support 4 Petabytes of disk storage across corporate and remote offices worldwide. Have led a number of NetApp and NetBackup upgrades and installations across on Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms. Deployed BackupExec at remote offices and centralized all offshore (rigs) backups that have high latency connection with Puredisk deduplication technology. Conducted and developed playbooks for various disaster recovery drills at offsite locations including SunGard facilities. Thorough in integration with IBM, Quantum, and StorageTek (STK) tape libraries along with their ACSLS interface and used Brocade zoning to manage tape resources. Enhanced backup performance by tuning parameters to optimize throughput capabilities on DLT, DTF, and LTO tape drive technologies for increased ROI. Supported Enigma Data Systems' project archival solution for archiving Sclumberger's (formerly GeoQuest) seismic, interpretation, and metadata.

Key responsibilities included managing and maintaining an online travel platform and deploying software packages at various client sites. Key skills included Unix administration, troubleshoot and install most enterprise level application servers, and closely work with developers in supporting their developmental efforts. Provided desktop and network support for entire office operations.