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• Strategic leadership, long range planning, and oversight of daily operations and technology enablers
• Development and optimization of new and existing products and services
• Responsible for developing and executing organizational vision, operational and technology strategy, helping to drive organization structure based on specializations, core competencies, organizational capabilities.
• Development of strategic and tactical vendor relationships
• Oversight, governance and strategic management of service offerings including managed services offerings, cloud services, and professional services
• Sponsorship and oversight of several digital transformation initiatives, ranging from operations and operational efficiency, automation, organizational structure, tools and automation, etc.

Winnipeg

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Canada Area

Principal Consultant specializing in complex Routing and Switching for small to large Enterprise Networks. Providing expertise in Network, Storage and Server virtualization, as well as private and hybrid cloud deployments.

640 Corydon

• Reduced Network and Storage Y/Y OPEX by approximately $600K through restructuring Vendor support agreements, equipment standardization, task automation, and restructuring licensing agreements.
• Conceived and implemented a lifecycle refresh plan that would reduce the network node footprint by nearly 50% (from 650 devices to approx. 300), further increasing operational efficiencies through reduced and.
• Conceived and implemented monitoring conversion from IBM NetCool to Nagios, reducing costs, and increasing the flexibility of the solution. Paved the way for application stack monitoring (N/S vs E/W), leading to.
• Planned and effected a migration from a heterogeneous and disparate Shared Storage environment to a homogeneous one, reducing cost/TB to the business from $20K/TB to a weighted average of approximately $2K/TB
• Defined the Evolution strategy for the enterprise and customer portal Data Centers (multi-site Private Cloud). Fundamentals of the solution include Network Virtualization and Converged access (FCoE) through use of.
• Defined strategy and vision for Network Automation through various tools, defining configuration and security standards and enabling auto-remediation of non-compliant configuration artifacts.

Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of local and wide area networks with n*1000 nodes for enterprise organization, specializing in routing and switching, as well as complex Load Balancing/Content Networking solutionsImplement technology solutions in the network as per business requirements and in cooperation with the Architecture team..

Analysis of business and technical requirements and application of modular design practices in the design of routed and switched networks featuring LAN and WAN services across multiple geographically diverse sitesInstallation, configuration and troubleshooting of local and wide area networks for enterprise organizations with networks of more than 500 nodes.

Designed, Implemented and Supported large-scale, multi-site Internet Data Center Documentation of data center and network design, policies and procedures, and compilation of Network Operations Center (NOC) Operations Manual including incident management and resolution procedures Management of relationships between governing bodies (i.e. ARIN), vendors.

Network Administrator 2 (NA2)Administration of multi-site 1000+ user NetWare 5, Sun Solaris and SCO UNIX network including Windows 98/NT/2000 servers/workstations, Wyse Terminals, POS Stations, Access Control System (Card Access), Sun E450 Servers and OS/9 PEP Systems. Completion of day-to-day procedures, tape backup and verification, user administration.

Administration of international 5000+ user Nissan North America Production, Corporate and Dealership networks including: Mainframe CICS/IMS user, print and batch job administration Windows NT 4.0 multi-domain user and print queue administration via Citrix Terminal Server Administration of Novell Netware 5 Network Tier 1 and 2 support, problem logging.

Provided VPN, Network and Application support to departmental users Specialized application usage to produce detailed departmental process flow and organizational documents.