Provides systems engineering guidance and leadership in support of manufacturing environments located at both east and west coast facilities. Leading IT tactical and strategy planning for evaluating and migrating workloads to cloud-hosted platforms and services. Engaged with leadership on developing internal models-based initatives in support of sector operational goals.

Provide architectural guidance in data center solutions for two teams. One located in Texas, the other in California. The team in Texas is a legacy, on-premise data center requiring architectural support for large scale program requiring tactical and strategic planning and design for data center services. The location in California requires architectural design and solutions in data management and protection, disaster recovery, configuration management and service level agreements team for automated testing solution. This solution includes hyper-converged infrastructure with virtual network, compute and storage supported and maintained by a DevOps team.

This role focused on continuous process improvement of IT services. Activities ranged from root cause analyses, decision analysis, service level agreements, metrics and balanced score-card development, to workflow and automation planning and development.

Cross-sector Enterprise Architecture focused on business process architecture, technology alignment and rationalization, and strategic and tactical technology planning.

Responsible for developing technical solutions for new business pursuits as well as existing clients. Solutions include technical architecture and design, budgets, labor plan, transition plan and implementation strategy. Technical areas included are data center technologies, end-user computing, network and telecom.

Lead architect responsible for developing competitive architectural solutions for new business pursuits. Solutions included technical response, budgets, labor plan, transition plan and implementation strategy. Technical areas included data center technologies, end-user compuing, network and telecom. Presented solutions to C-class executives and direct reports. Solutions include:*distributed computing (Wintel and Unix servers, desktops, SAN and NAS) *mainframe*call center/help desk*network, and voice technologies.*Support sales team from a technical perspective and present technical solutions to prospective clients.

Project Management: Includes complex technical projects -- server consolidations, rearchitectures, enterprise class application upgrades and migrations, process improvement, commissioning and decommissioning activities, new business development and acquisition.

Developed long-term enterprise technology policy, standards and strategy for future state conceptual architectures in alignment with business strategy and drivers. The process involved developing business cases for architecture alternatives, researching technologies, trends and best practices; evaluating technology for alternate solutions and develop the transformation strategy.

Managed a staff of 11 application administration resources in support to the infrastructure support team, application development team and the application architecture teams for the business critical transaction processing system in support of the Texas Electricity deregulation program. This system processed over 2 million transactions per day. Also managed infrastructure projects which included architecture of new infrastructure, application migrations, hardware maintenance, and application code reviews. Facilitated and lead technical exchange forums with Texas market participants to include vendors of ERCOT.

Build and support application testing (x86 and Solaris SPARC) servers in preparation and support of Texas electricity deregulation.