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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

➤ Planning, organizing, and executing all IT functions, including directing all IT operations to meet customer requirements as well as supporting and maintening existing applications and developing new technical solutions.➤ Developing the department systems budget, ensuring alignment to the overall company annual budget, while also saving over $25K annually on migration to a more cost-effective and robust VOIP system.➤ Establishing Standard Operating Procedures for IT Systems Engineers and Support Level Agreements for all managed service clients, as well as analyzing current operational processes and performance, recommending solutions for improvement when necessary.➤ Leading the architecture, planning, and migration to Azure cloud and a cloud managed network infrastructure, providing greater flexibility, scalability, and efficiency.➤ Analyzing complex business needs presented by the user community or clients and recommending technical solutions, as well as liaising between operations, programming, and users in the areas of systems design, modifications, or trouble shooting.➤ Maximizing efficiency and productivity through extensive process analysis and interdepartmental collaboration, while directing and prioritizing the workload of subordinate personnel, producing a detailed timeline for each application release.➤ Performing salary administration, conducting interviews, and making recommendations for new hires, as well as directing educational programs for all staff.➤ Supporting clients with security solutions to obtain and maintain HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliance, while also representing the IT function at customer review meetings when appropriate.➤ Ensuring the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions, as well as approving all business requirements.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

➤ Oversaw the development, delivery, and management of all aspects of network systems and server infrastructure across the entire organization, including software, hardware, virtualization, and security components.➤ Ensured the daily performance and availability of the organization's network, virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure, as well as provided day-to-day operational support, maintenance, and deployments to the technology infrastructure.➤ Managed an internal dedicated team of System and Network Engineers who were responsible for the architecture, proper functionality, and monitoring of production systems including Network, Firewalls, Compute, Storage, and Load Balancers.➤ Worked with a Hardware vendor to bring all OEM vendors to the table to support the strategic design of infrastructure services, as well as served as Project Lead for a physical virtual server migration.➤ Recommended, implemented, and maintained LAN and WAN, server, and virtualization strategy, while developing team standards for infrastructure documentation, cabling and incident/request handling.➤ Conducted cross-departmental training on security matters and systems changes, as well as established policies and procedures related to data security and integrity, managing disaster recovery and database protection.

➤ Directed the division's 5-year business planning, established KPI, and set standards for technical documentation and business continuity and disaster recovery, as well as managed the $2MM technology budget and vendor negotiations.➤ Managed 2 section teams in the areas of SAP support for the Customer Care team and provided technology support for 80+ applications, equipment, and systems as the Department Architect.➤ Served in a lead role in a new physical security project which included, card access, cameras, and fiber fence protection, as well as served as Project Management lead on technical and business-related projects.➤ Developed the Testing Center of Excellence to improve overall application and technology testing, which resulted in a 15% reduction in test errors.➤ Started 2 technical committees to improve communication and establish collaboration between the various department divisions, set motion to 3 major projects that have been in a stagnant state for the last 2 years.

➤ Managed 3 section leads and 19 staff across Network & Telecommunication, System, Storage, and DBA, while fostering team building and setting expectations for communication and project handling.➤ Defined KPIs for system availability, set standards for technical documentation, and worked with the Senior Construction Management team on standard network space development, resulting in reduced network construction related issues.➤ Served as Project Management lead on technical and business-related projects, as well as served as Lead Architect and support for all related equipment and software.➤ Managed the infrastructure budget and vendor negotiations, while providing updates to management and executives.➤ Developed the overall team process improvement strategy for request, implementation, and system storage allocation, which resulted in a 10% reduction in fulfillment issues.

Lawrenceville, Ga, Us

➤ Spearheaded system and storage virtualization and consolidation, implementing a VMware server farm and expanding from 3 to 48 VM host servers, while championing centralized data management, improved disaster recovery, along with streamlined backup rotation.➤ Managed a $7M infrastructure annual CapEx/OpEx budget which included contract negotiations, procurement, RFP/RFQ, vendor management, and cost reduction, as well as represented IT on the overall Gwinnett County budget.➤ Expanded capacity by 25% biennially in alignment with timeline goals by streamlining lease refresh process for all system and storage hardware, while working closely with other department management on all IT related RFPs.➤ Partnered with executives and technical teams to manage hardware migration to new, state- of-the-art data center location with minimal downtime and interruption, while driving migration of all p570 LPARs to new p770s.➤ Transitioned from local drive boot to SAN boot to improve hardware swap efficiency, as well as championed implementation of Change Advisory Board following ITIL best practices to monitor and track environment changes.➤ Managed 4 section teams, including 63 staff, who supported Engineers across Telecommunications, System, Network, and Desktop who were responsible for the architecture, proper functionality, and monitoring of all production and test environments.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems

Associate Of Applied Science, Electronic Engineering

Ga Electrical Engineering Diploma