• Supervise a team of 17 resources in architecture, deploying, and maintaining critical collocated data center systems, application hosting, and monitoring platforms. • Manage budgets, purchasing, and implementation for data center operations and server infrastructure supporting over 300 VMWare ESXi hosts in 4 data centers spanning 3 countries.

• Supervise a team of 6 resources in architecting, deploying, and maintaining critical collocated data center systems and monitoring platforms. • Manage budgets, purchasing, and implementation for data center operations and server infrastructure supporting over 300 VMWare ESXi hosts in 4 data centers spanning 3 countries.• Architected, deployed, and manage the team responsible for Splunk Enterprise across all data centers with an average daily index rate up to 1 TB.

Responsible for all aspects of our department's data center operations across 3 countries including physical space and power management as well as managing the entire virtualization and server management of nearly 7,000 VMs and over 300 virtualization hosts.• Implemented a formal Capacity Management Process for server infrastructure with established metrics and approval processes to guarantee performance and availability, while tracking both temporary and permanent capacity resource adjustments across over 6000 VMs.• Completed a re-architecture of our server hardware deployments to reduce the cost of our MS SQL Licensing by $400,000, while maintaining service levels and performance.• Implemented controls and procedures to track asset inventory accurately and consistently across all data center operations.• Managed the upgrade of our entire server infrastructure from VMWare 6.0 through to 6.7 and 7.0 with no service interruption.

• Worked alongside the Cloud Ops IT Infrastructure team to develop and maintain solutions for monitoring, data center operations, virtualization, and OS management for Linux and MS Windows Server.• Maintained Cisco UCS Platform across multiple data centers.• Implemented transaction-based web site testing using Catchpoint.

• Architected and deployed Cisco UCS Platform across multiple data centers.• Maintained VMware vSphere/ESXi environments• Maintained Windows Servers

• Primary architect for a new MS Exchange deployment with seamless coexistence with the legacy Lotus Notes environment.• Implemented and maintained Symantec Management Platform (formerly Altiris) to provide complete workstation and server management, patching, and software deployment.• Deployed and maintained numerous Cisco IOS routers, VPN solutions, switches and WIFI deployments across 200 physical locations including the core data center in the US based HQ.• Managed servers, power, and cooling for the Grief HQ based data center.• Automated repetitive tasks using PowerShell, VBScript, and DOS batch files, including solutions for AD account management and SOX reporting.

• Maintained Active Directory across 7 physical sites and assisted with numerous NT 4 domain and AD forest migrations.• Deployed and maintained MS Windows Server installs (physical and virtual). Assisted with migrations from physical servers to virtualization.• Responsible for MS Exchange management and mail delivery troubleshooting for the organization, including migrations from Exchange 5.5 to 2003• Deployed and maintained System Center Operations Manager across the organization for server and business application health monitoring.