I served as CTO and vCIO with Braden IT, I have shaped and directed Managed Service Provider technical strategy, building synergy between enterprise-wide departments to facilitate the continuous maturing of technology services and vision. Forging key relationships with clients, stakeholders, and departmental leaders, I have governed partnership development and opportunity identification to ensure ongoing growth and sales enhancements.• Built, coached, and managed an expert team… Show more I served as CTO and vCIO with Braden IT, I have shaped and directed Managed Service Provider technical strategy, building synergy between enterprise-wide departments to facilitate the continuous maturing of technology services and vision. Forging key relationships with clients, stakeholders, and departmental leaders, I have governed partnership development and opportunity identification to ensure ongoing growth and sales enhancements.• Built, coached, and managed an expert team of direct reports, overseeing IT division talent acquisition, customer budget and project strategy development, and process evolution.• Successfully migrated a large enterprise customer from a fully managed MPLS network to redundant interoffice private circuits, delivering annual savings of over $900K.• Established unique technology resource utilization roadmaps for company and clients, ensuring the full benefit of all owned tools and technologies.• Salvaged nearly $1M per year in ERP, Infrastructure, Server, and personnel costs through acquisition and greenfield project advising.• Partnered with numerous customers to manage internal IT budgets and spending, identifying and resolving overspend across all internal processes with an average savings of 20%. Show less

While with DAST, I progressed through positions of increasing scope and responsibility to ensure the optimal function of all internal technical processes and systems for the startup organization. • Cultivated an engaged, dynamic internal culture, shaping and sharing organizational vision across the workforce to unify team members under a common goal and mission.• Initially hired as a Senior Engineer, advanced through roles to a member of the Management team to shape technology… Show more While with DAST, I progressed through positions of increasing scope and responsibility to ensure the optimal function of all internal technical processes and systems for the startup organization. • Cultivated an engaged, dynamic internal culture, shaping and sharing organizational vision across the workforce to unify team members under a common goal and mission.• Initially hired as a Senior Engineer, advanced through roles to a member of the Management team to shape technology goals, projects, vision, and infrastructure.• Served as vCIO for numerous clients, steering competitive technology strategy and operations to ensure streamlined function of all key systems and infrastructures.• Facilitated an average growth of 50% year-on-year, governing technical delivery employees to ensure the execution of world-class infrastructure design, system implementation, and other technology transformation initiatives.• Trained and coached technical employees, mentoring staff in top-tier product and service knowledge in support of impactful sales and project operations.• Shaped unique sales, operations, and technical team processes, propelling the consulting organization to achieve continuous client growth and relationship strengthening. Show less

Driving internal digital transformation in this role, I steered the development of leading-edge hosting platforms, data center hosting business, offsite backup, and security consulting operations to mature organization in line with industry changes. • Served as a key advisor to ownership on continuing technology evolutions, identifying and recommending best-fit services and tools to propel organizational growth.• Evangelized emerging technologies to leadership team, ensuring… Show more Driving internal digital transformation in this role, I steered the development of leading-edge hosting platforms, data center hosting business, offsite backup, and security consulting operations to mature organization in line with industry changes. • Served as a key advisor to ownership on continuing technology evolutions, identifying and recommending best-fit services and tools to propel organizational growth.• Evangelized emerging technologies to leadership team, ensuring leading-edge technological competitiveness to secure ongoing customer base expansion.• Innovated a unique ASP (Application Service Provider) platform, leveraging Terminal Services and Citrix to host top-tier accounting packages.• Completed the design and launch of a new Exchange 2003 hosting environment, migrating users from Exchange 5.5.• Consulted with clients to shape unique, tailored infrastructure designs.• Designed, implemented, and maintained Terminal Services hosting farms, Exchange hosting environments, and web hosting platforms in line with client needs. Show less