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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Moline, Il, Us

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Us

Responsible for strategic technical consulting and financial analysis related to infrastructure planning, application lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and cloud adoption strategyKey Accomplishments:-Defined 5-year IT roadmap for large employee benefits coordinator-Identified $15 million in annual savings for state government client-Defined reference architecture and migration strategy for Public Sector client with 5000 servers and 1+ PB of data -Created Application Lifecycle Framework, including per-application costing methodology, for large grocery wholesaler

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for supporting Unisys technology and service offerings through a mix of pre-sales, practice development, and delivery, with an increasing emphasis on delivery and management. During the company’s initial foray into virtualization, participated in nearly all virtualization projects worldwide and development of private and public cloud offerings. Key Accomplishments:-Managed infrastructure and infrastructure and deployment support team for extremely large application -Designed consolidation of state government client with 7500 servers and 9 data centers to a private cloud in single data center-Implemented high-availability and disaster recovery solution for large medical insurer-Developed corporate virtualization consulting practice, and defined several new service offerings. Led or designed all successful internal and external virtualization projects between 2005 and 2007

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Consolidation Architect

• Participated in all phases of design, planning, and implementation of Server Consolidation project, which reduced operational expenditures by $20 million and achieved a 3-to-1 reduction in server count.• Provided strategies and plans to migrate over 150 servers and 5 TB of storage in Data Center consolidation effort.• Lead author and evaluator for Network Attached Storage RFP.• Performed and documented initial implementation of VMware ESX, which eventually scaled to host 300 virtual servers.

Provided consulting services to a variety of large Enterprise clients as well as small businesses• Leadership role in $35 million project to certify and deploy automated installations of 1000+ applications on Windows 2000 in a distributed 9000+ user network. Managed team of 15 application scripters and analysts. Worked with individual sites to coordinate deployments. Performed high-level emergency support of application installation and automation issues.• Administered 150-node NT 4.0/Netware 3.12 network. Responsible for hardware repair and troubleshooting, support of 150+ applications, and server maintenance and administration.• Performed and documented initial implementation of VMware ESX, which eventually scaled to host 300 virtual servers.