Proven architect for large financial, insurance and manufacturing customers. Delivered Enterprise oversight, vision, and design. Work closely with C-suite, deriving needs and driving innovation. Provide solutions optimizing operational performance across broad range of areas, with focus on datacenter technology and new product development.- Spearheaded multiple long-term outsourcing contracts with large enterprises between $500M and $1B. Evaluated capital and operational expenditures, constructed 7-year cost cases, and negotiated terms. - Executed multiple Continuous Improvement Programs transforming business directives to operational features, assisting business growth and maturation.- Evaluated existing processes and guided teams toward goals and desired outcomes.- Influenced employee mind-set to reconsider culture, technology, and quality of processes.- Ideated and solutioned customer's cloud Information Governance transformation. Expanded an established, mature archiving solution meeting industry needs.- Drove reduction labor costs and doubled productivity through orchestration and automation. - Devised and facilitated Cloud Transformation, providing platform meeting scalable, resiliency demands.- Modernized applications through cloud-native applications, mature Platform as a Service, and automation / orchestration, resulting continuous deployment and continuous integration of dynamic services.- Mentored new employees, direct reports, and peers, exposing opportunities, enhancing skills, and achieving long-term career aspirations. - Consulted numerous customers on cloud maturation and implementation of hybrid cloud solutions. - Presented multiple sessions at IBM Think conferences and led Design Thinking session with customers.- Handled multiple cross-functional, cross-geographical teams, driving efficiencies and staffing resiliency.

Integrated all levels of technology ensuring a cohesive, secure environment.- Integrated complex tools, platforms, and technologies across multiple datacenters streamlining and simplifying Managed Services support and providing holistic view.- Headed migration and transformation of customer's 5 datacenters into 2 IBM datacenters.- Executed consumption / usage-based billing model. - Spearheaded 75% physical footprint reductions and 25% reduction in Operating System instances through progressive compute and storage virtualization.- Delivered Technology refresh project that migrated 60 remote office locations from Novell to Microsoft while converting file systems, email, and user access. Developed automation building 80% ahead of time. Completed project 4 weeks ahead of schedule and avoided labor costs.ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCEIBM, Fort Wayne, IN, Senior IT SpecialistLincoln Financial Group, Fort Wayne, IN, System Administrator Outsourced to IBMBusak & Shamban, New Haven, IN, Network Administrator