Ben Lindley Email & Phone Number

United States

Houston, Texas, US

Yokneam, IL

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Provide IT project management consulting services across multiple industries ie. Transportation, retail, manufacturing, and energy utilities as pertains to IT transformations, assessments, and strategies
• Lead datacenter strategy and discovery phases to develop project and execution procedures and processes
• Present IT transformation approaches in optimizing and consolidating clients’ infrastructure leveraging Cloud Solutions (Azure and AWS) and SAAS opportunities
• Generate an additional 100k in project wins through engagement proposals and change order acceptances.
• Develop data center transformation strategy for global enterprise by preparing governance and communication plans, migration framework, and application migration high-level timelines with an application centric approach.
• Develop proprietary migration database to manage, build application move group, track, and generate reports pertaining to the data center transformation and migration.

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• Led multiple IT transformation strategies and executions through creating high-level project objectives, milestones, and timelines. In addition, develop in depth focus areas (workstreams) to their respective plans.
• Created several client proposals (statement of work) and scope changes producing over 2 million in engagement opportunities and work
• Prepared application migration timelines with a top down and bottom up approaches to develop migration strategy from legacy data centers to Next Generation data center and or Cloud solutions, Azure and AWS
• Streamlined the discovery and analyzing efforts for business applications and infrastructure dependency mapping by producing reusable proven templates and tools
• Proposed infrastructure and technology architecture roadmaps for disaster recovery and business continuity enhancements with the objective to reduce risk and exposure of key operations.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Prepared detailed strategies and project management plans for the implementation of an engagement within the standards of project management methodologies. Defined project scope, captured in the services statement of.
• Created goals and milestones for individual projects to ensure EMC's commitments to the customer were achieved and met quality standards
• Prepared, maintained and submitted clear and concise progress reports and time recording/management reports in accordance with published procedures. Communicated to all concerned parties project milestones, status.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Lead and assisted in several datacenter migration discovery and analysis engagements, by working with team members and client representatives (SMEs) to collect all infrastructure data
• Developed and coordinated application migration timelines (Events, Waves, and Bundles) through analyzing dependencies and requirements to migrate to a Next Generation or Colo data centers, public Cloud providers (Azure.
• Lead team who responsibility was migrating over 250,000 users, won Project of the Year for the DoD
• Assisted in creating change order requests that generated over $750k in professional services
• Created Level of Effort calculators for P2V, Blueprinting, and Data Center Migration/Consolidations engagements to assist in proposal submissions
• Created and delivered status reports both internally and client facing stakeholders

Provo, UT, US

• Senior Lab Technician that streamlined the process of creating and deploying VMware desktop image in lab and classrooms. Provided assistance in upgrading Windows OS, and Active Directory administrative policies in the.
• Monitored and troubleshoot hardware and software issues pertaining to servers, VMware, PCs, Macs, and others
• Created custom Windows XP/7 desktop images for PC machines and Bootcamp partitions for iMacs by using VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and VMware ThinApp
• Used Altiris servers to package and deploy images across a wide range of labs and classrooms.
• Preformed App rationalization to customize the College of the Humanities labs and classrooms.
• Active Directory administration creation and maintenance of users and groups through manipulation of policies. Migrated users and groups from retiring servers and upgraded to Windows 2008

New York, New York, US

• Assisted in several projects to streamline processes and find efficiencies and their implementation.
• Performed customer’s Credit Analyses through creating Pivot tables, macros and other Excel related functions
• Allocated daily trades to several clients i.e., Blackrock, Banker Trust, Bank Paribas etc.

My responsible were to assist and perform clerical duties, maintaining and processing sensitive account files. Tasks pertaining to office maintenance; troubleshooting, upgrading and migrating network from Novell to Microsoft, generating checks for accounts payables, archiving, file maintenance, data entry in MS Word/Excel, creating reports, and mail.

Ba, Humanities

Associate'S Degree, Accounting

High School Diploma