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Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Steered 20+ engineers and architects in deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of infrastructure, operating, and virtualization systems, completing projects on time and within budget. Managed strategy and critical.
• Achieved 98% vulnerability remediation rate, an overall improvement from high 80s, by driving team accountability, including patching enforcement.
• Improved team effectiveness by removing underperforming contractors, transitioning Citrix platform to Managed Service Provider (MSP) system, and working with MSP to rearchitect and improve Citrix reliability.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Led Nutanix cluster-build project to modernize data centers with Active-Active or Greenfield design. Introduced new ways of directional thinking and designing, considering future automation needs. Synergized with.
• Spearheaded Nutanix architecture hardware cluster and node design rollout with hyperconverged virtualization/active design, creating hardware clusters for development/testing and ability to isolate and protect.
• Completed 100% of goals for Nutanix private cloud project (cloud bursting and virtual machine automation).
• Achieved 99% uptime via proper architecture/redundant planning, producing clusters with zero business-impact outages.

Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States

• Supervised 5-person Field IT Engineer team across 4 locations. Administered internal IT infrastructure and hands-on field support operations. Handled installations and configurations, as well as troubleshooting and.
• Championed TCMax inventory tracking system rollout for 10 mechanical shops, generating 40%+ tool savings by designing custom tool control program, software, and procedures for Snap-On smart toolboxes.
• Deployed digital paper traveler packet designs for 32 production floor customer kiosks, enabling real-time traction motor/wheelset production updates, data visualization, overhead costs reduction, and efficiency savings.
• Introduced Power BI reports and dashboards, producing real-time reporting for traveler packet process, increasing KPI tracking, and boosting staff accountability for production delays.

Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States

• Installed, maintained, and repaired communication devices and systems, including data radios, networking equipment, and Avaya telephony systems (Voice over Internet Protocol [VoIP] and Plain Old Telephone Service.
• Led transition from wideband to narrowband network, upgrading several thousand high volume radios and 15 base systems to improve performance and regulatory compliance across functions.
• Spearheaded network transition initiative, modernizing systems/solutions to drive multi- to single-mode fiber improvements, resulting in 50% increase in LAN data speeds and network reliability.

• Supported Verizon Fiber Optic Internet Service (FIOS) product line as SME. Managed broadband/circuit system implementations, synchronous optical networking (SONET), unidirectional path switching rings (UPSR), and.
• Received recognition as Top Craft and Top 5 Productivity based on splicing production in Pennsylvania.