Providing strategic technology direction and thought leadership to the Organization by developing the technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with the business goals.- Infrastructure - Network/Servers/Storage and Data Centers- Cloud Computing Stacks (IaaS, PaaS and Saas)- Cloud Platforms - AWS, AZure, GCP- Unified Communications - Voice & Collaboration- Information Security- DevOpsDefine the infrastructure and technology operations strategy to support the business needs for scalability, growing demand for capacity and associated Quality of service (e.g. performance, reliability and disaster recovery measures). Define requirements for new technology implementations and communicate them to key business stakeholders.Drive the execution on infrastructure and technology operations initiatives and projects to achieve the expected scalability, performance and availability goals, using internal and external resources. Assess and communicate risks associated with technology-related investments and purchases.Support business growth initiatives from an infrastructure readiness point of view by aligning the technology vision with business strategy. Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for infrastructure spending and initiatives.Develop and implement the service, people and management processes necessary for delivering the right set of services at the right level for the enterprise.Maintain and present to Executive team on a regular basis support metrics such as critical issue escalations, issue volumes, staff productivity levels, and overall health of software & infrastructure technology.Lead strategic technological planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies.

Account Chief Technologist for large Enterprise Organizations. The Account Chief Technologist role is responsible for working with accounts to assist in setting the strategic technology direction for their businesses and helping them reduce technology costs while increasing their IT efficiency. I am responsible for providing broad business and technical thought leadership with innovative and strategic ideas around business transformation and enterprise architecture.• Architects technology solutions for Cloud, Data and Analytics, VMWare, Security, Networking, and other leading-edge technologies for high-profile clients and large global enterprises• Analyzes emerging technologies to educate customers on integrating new solutions into existing and future environments to maximize operational efficiency, streamline workflow, and drive revenue growth

I currently manage a team of 15 presales Solution Architects for Hewlett-Packard in the Industry Standard Server business group; I have held this role for almost 2 years. My team supports sales of ISS Servers (blades, rack mount and HPC) in the South Central Region of the US. We focus on enterprise and commercial accounts and also support HP’s Partners within this region to assist them with customers.My responsibilities include ongoing SA and Sales deal coverage, scheduling, training, sales project implementation, prioritization, coaching, budgeting, employee retention and similar. I also interface with customers at the Administrator as well as Executive levels to help them understand the Business side of IT.

Responsible for all Technology Direction for Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Day to day operation and management of Technology group that supports all Dallas Cowboys Organization locations.

Responsible for Cisco, Microsoft and VMWare partnerships as well as business development and customer satisfaction.

Responsible for day to day support and operation of network infrastructure for local office of about 25 servers and 250 users.