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San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead Cisco’s Program for GDPR, PII, and Schrems II compliance. Collaborate with Business leaders, Program and Project-level stakeholders to ensure projects have business support required to ensure successful completion. Collaborate with Data Privacy, Data Security, and corporate legal teams to ensure program and project scopes are clearly defined and appropriate direction is provided to supporting projects. • Partner with Corporate Legal Team to interpret applicability and legal impact of rulings and regulations and obtain legal counsel and guidance for business application teams• Collaborate with enterprise architects and Engineering leads to determine impact of regulations and high-level remediation strategies. Develop program strategies and methodologies to implement required remediation measures. • Lead Program development and high-level timelines for implementation. Develop communications to all impacted business System and Service owners. Organize and develop Initiatives, Portfolio Features, and epics to organize and track program and project code modifications and optimizations.• Collaborate with Cisco external vendors to provide direction and guidance on Cisco legal compliance requirements.• Regular program tracking and support to ensure progress and velocity to meet program milestones. Regular reporting to Executive leadership on program and project status• Project Management of system decommissions and reallocations of resources• Project Management of WebEx division complete IT Infrastructure Data Center build outs of 9 simultaneous data centers in the US with a project budget of $16.2 million

Foster City, Ca, Us

IT Operations Leader for the management and leadership of Gilead's Worldwide Monitoring and Event Management organization and systems supporting 24*7 Operations Management of Gilead’s Network Operations Center (NOC) spanning multiple time zones for IT Infrastructure and Application systems Responsible for the development and implementation of IT Strategy for the IT Operations Management organization. Collaborate with Global IT teams to engineer, implement and coordinate systems and platforms supporting 24*7 operations management, driving the IT strategy across platforms. Direct end point service manager in the day-to-day management of global IT Infrastructure support service delivery. Partner, establish, and maintain relationships with business process owners, system managers, external Managed Service Providers to ensure collaboration, cross functional alignment of operational observability and support services. Serve as the Business Process Owner and System Manager providing leadership, governance, compliance, roadmap and design, as well as the management of teams providing monitoring and support of Gilead’s global infrastructure.Implementation of workflow and project management methodologies for different work streams: Agile KanBan Board for operationalized requests and SCRUM for enhanced features requests using JIRA. Utilization of Six Sigma statistical process controls to drive service delivery improvements in the monitoring, event management, and CMDB data quality areas. Determine and define metrics to measure business tower effectiveness and identification of improvement opportunities.Manage system maintenance activities and maintain qualified state for the above systems following GxP and non-GxP SOPs and governing processes including IT and QA change control, deviation, and CAPA processes and tools, Maximo, TrackWise, and ServiceNow. Responsible for appropriate level of testing and evidence documentation of test of executions and results.

Fort Washington, Pa, Us

Responsible for the management of multiple global IT Infrastructure programs and projects utilizing both Agile and Waterfall deployment methodologies. Initiated Scrum and Scrum-at-Scale infrastructure, as well as Kanban for operational initiatives within IT Infrastructure.Cross functional team leadership focusing on problem solving of operational issues. Build teams for DevOps initiatives as well as for the development of Business Strategy for IT Operations.Performed a leadership role and oversight of IT Infrastructure project activities (estimating, qualifying bids, preparing schedules, defining scope, preparing submittals, sending RFIs, and handling Change Estimates and Change Orders)Development of detailed project plans and management of all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, financials, metrics, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training and on-time delivery within budget constraints.Determination and facilitation of migration from On-Premise data Center to Co-Location facility as well as migration of specific workloads to AWS cloud environment.Communication with all project contacts (clients and subcontractors) about schedule, progress, changes, etc.Project Management via HP PPM, ServiceNow, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Teams, MS Access and MS Excel toolsSample of Projects:• Data Center Relocation and Cloud migration• Multi-Million Next Generation Enterprise Storage Infrastructure• NetApp Cluster-Mode Storage Landscape• VMWare 5.5 Implementation focusing on file servers• Oracle RAC environment• VMWare View (Horizon) Infrastructure• Data Center Qualification• Develop project plans, project estimates, EVM schedules• Construct Cost-Benefit Analysis, SWOT and ROI analysis, and cases for business development

California, 94086, Us

IT Infrastructure Operations and Program LeaderHR and fiscal responsibility for the domestic and international server and data store teams and environments o Resourcing requirements o Departmental budget o PMOResponsible for Strategic Planning and strategic agility of the Infrastructure teamVery proficient in the entire suite of the Microsoft Office suite of products: Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Outlook, and PowerPointLeverage business acumen and business analysis skills to form strategic business alliances.Responsible for negotiation of multi-million vendor contracts and Service Level AgreementsResponsible for global last-call-engineer operational support Lead the establishment of organizational SLAs and identification and monitoring of departmental KPIs CSFsResponsible for the implementation of departmental Governance, policies, and proceduresLead cross functional teams of Sr. System Engineers, System Administrators, Architects, and Project ManagersDirected Project Managers on multiple global IT infrastructure projects (25 projects per year average)Support of High Availability service platforms:Active Directory, Exchange, MS OCS, MS RDS, SharePoint, Citrix, SCOM, SCCM, WSUS, DFS, VMware, Hyper-V, VRanger, Enterprise Storage - NetApp, HDS, EMC, TrendMicro, Symantec Net Backup, and McAfee. Implementation and system administration of Symantec, and Kaspersky AV, Search Engines, Centrify, MDM, Remedy, MS Orchestrator, Shop Floor Control systemsDirected the logistics of a 2 Data Center consolidation to a single Colocation facilityImplemented ITIL principles and best practices within IT Infrastructure

Dublin 2, Ie

- Sr. Manager Infrastructure Architecture / Business Continuity / Project Management- Program oversight of complex Business Continuity Planning and DRP for the enterprise- Project managed multiple global IT infrastructure projects- Developed project plans, project estimates, EVM schedules- Infrastructure architecture- Developed Cost-Benefit Analysis, SWOT and ROI analysis, and business case development

Houston, Texas, Us

Contract Sr. Strategic Analyst and Sr. Systems Architect for the DoD's DMDC organization.- Provide leadership and direction to the Strategic Planning Group reporting to the CIO – manage staff and projects- Lead and project managed the design, planning, of a Tier 3 Data Center and IT infrastructure consolidation project utilizing capacity planning techniques and tools- Program oversight of complex Business Continuity Plan and DRP for the organization- Provide organizational analytics and business intelligence strategies- Reverse engineering of complex infrastructure and tiered system designs- Project managed Enterprise Information Warehouse implementation- Developed virtualization standards and implementation methodology- Construct Cost-Benefit Analysis, SWOT and ROI analysis, and business case development- Developed project plans, project estimates, EVM schedules

Lake Forest, Il, Us

- Restructured & Managed 1M annual capital budget as well as a 1.2M annual expense budget- Provided leadership and direction for Help Desk Support, Infrastructure, and Business Applications Implementation and Support- Realized over $500K in annual savings while increasing services, performance, capacity, & reliability via application of Lean Six Sigma methodology- Developed & implemented SDLC processes, in conjunction with QA, to manage internal & external projects- Implemented new Backup strategies to increase reliability & uptime, while reducing backup windows- Reengineered Help Desk service offering, & improved customer service expectations & commitments- Implemented site-wide hardware standards with standard desktop images to support SLAs & service commitments. - Lead the Division in implementing an enterprise-class antiviral system & Disaster Recovery. - Migrated Nortel network to Extreme Networks & Cisco equipment, implementing VLAN & QOS- Migrated legacy domain network to an Active Directory infrastructure

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Provided leadership and direction for a senior IT staffBusiness Process design and implementationApplication of Statistical Process ControlsImplementation of Lean Six Sigma projectsDirected Windows, Unix, IBM, Telco, Network, and Help Desk operations Provide technical direction for the Morgan Hill medical manufacturing facility for Abbott LaboratoriesConsolidation of multiple Data Centers to single facility with remote secondary locationMaintain data center operations in a Windows, UNIX, & AS400 environment.Restructured and maintained budget responsibility for both the Network and Telecom departments.Manage 1M annual capital budget as well as a 1.2M expense budget. Restructured IT processes. Consolidated Help Desk functions for the site and developed strong working relationships with various departments including R&D, QA, and Division headquarters.Implemented site-wide hardware standards with standard desktop images to support SLAs and service commitments.Project managed CRM solution from charter to production implementation.Program and Project Management of many IT infrastructure and business process improvement projects.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

- Provided leadership and direction for Infrastructure, Business Applications, and Help Desk Support,- Provided leadership and direction for an IT staff of permanent and contract employees- Provided strategic and tactical leadership for the organization interfacing with C-level executives- Complete design, build out, and migration of new data center. Served as project manager for the entire effort- Managed IT organizational growth rate at 50% while the site staff growth rate was over 100%- Realized over $250K in annual savings while increasing services, performance, capacity, & reliability- Deployed clustered File & Print servers using HP hardware & Microsoft clustering- Upgraded Telco switch & implemented enterprise-wide Unified Messaging with a clustered Exchange system- Project Managed and Implemented FrontRange CRM - Complete design & migration of the entire network infrastructure to a new facility- Implemented Telecommuting solution for IT & Field Sales Departments- Negotiated, designed, & project managed network integrations with acquired businesses- Integrated the network with the Abbott Laboratories WAN, when acquired by Abbott Laboratories

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management Information Systems, General

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