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Abbott Park, Illinois, US

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Sr. Manager – Digital Technology Services – Server Hosting and Storage (2017-2023)
• Manage a digital technology driven team of diverse people that provide infrastructure solutions to Abbott divisions globally. Technologies include but are not limited to; Virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, Acropolis).
• Plan and provide server and storage infrastructure technology designs/solutions for all Abbott divisions and sites globally. This includes enterprise datacenters, regional datacenters, manufacturing plants, and small.
• Manage and provide key resources that design and plan for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (St. Jude, Alere, CFR). Includes procurement/dissolution of all necessary on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and.
• Plan and manage expense budgets, departmental and divisional capital, and employee salaries.
• Oversee the creation/update of all server hosting and storage strategy roadmaps (per technology) and develop associated lifecycle management plan for all sites with compute/storage.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Manager – Global Information Systems (2013-2017)
• Lead an organization that provides multiple IT services to both internal and external customers. IT services include but are not limited to; engineering/implementation/support of 7000+ Windows/Unix servers, web.
• Assist in planning and managing expense budgets, departmental and divisional capital, and employee salaries.
• Develop growth plans and grade performance assessments for Open Systems Storage/Unix/Windows staff globally.
• Manage and guide staff to ensure organization and service effectiveness metrics are successfully met and maintained.
• Build strategic alliances with all the Abbott divisions and our vendors to assure we are providing proper services at the right cost.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• As associate Manager in Abbott's Global Information Systems Open Systems Implementation team my responsibilities include:
• Lead an organization that provides multiple IT services to both internal and external customers. IT services include but are not limited to; engineering/implementation/support of 7000+ Windows/Unix servers, web.
• Assist in planning and managing expense budgets, departmental and divisional capital, and employee salaries.
• Develop growth plans and grade performance assessments for Open Systems Storage/Unix/Windows staff globally.
• Manage and guide staff to ensure organization and service effectiveness metrics are successfully met and maintained.
• Build strategic alliances with all the Abbott divisions and our vendors to assure we are providing proper services at the right cost.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Worked on the Global Information Systems Open Systems Engineering Team. Responsibilities included Operating Systems, Storage, VMWare, and Hardware. More specifically:
• Design, implement, and support divisional and shared Abbott enterprise IT systems.
• Manage cross-divisional projects and lead specific team meetings for Windows Server Platform.
• Projects Included: Evaluation of Cloud Storage; Re-architecture of Windows Print Server Environment; Windows Domain Consolidation; NetApp (NAS) Re-Architecture (2MM Project Spend across 3 countries and multiple.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Design, implement, and support divisional and shared Abbott enterprise IT systems.
• Manage cross-divisional projects and lead specific team meetings for Windows Server Platform.
• Project Achievements:- Design and Consolidation of entire File Sharing (NAS) environment. Project total 2MM globally.- Storage as a Service (Cloud Storage) Evaluation/Recommendation.- Re-architecture of Windows Print.

Master’S Degree, Computer Resources And Information Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Associate’S Degree