Manufacturing Infrastructure and Operations manager leading national team, defining and technology architecture and 24x7 support requirements for all Campbells Manufacturing and office locations.• Successfully lead outsourcing of data center and manufacturing distributed server platform operations and manufacturing IT support to strategic partner, DXC. • Developed and maintained 3-year strategic roadmap for manufacturing IT infrastructure to enable highly available distributed and cloud platform services to drive digital transformation of information technology/operational technology convergence. • Lead architecture team in defining and implementing highly available hyper-converged architectural standards for Campbell’s manufacturing landscape. • Executed IT integration of Snyder’s Lance of Hanover acquisition for manufacturing core network services and distributed server platform. Managed project timelines, execution, and budget ($4MM+) with multi-year roadmap forecasting.• Successfully lead IT infrastructure divestiture activities of Bolthouse Farms, Arnott’s, and Stockpot businesses.• SLA driven vendor management with focus on measurable performance improvements that deliver exceptional results to customers. • Lead service delivery operations team to manage measurable outcomes from outsourced operations strategic partner supporting IT infrastructure, server and network platforms, for office and manufacturing environments.• Built strong business relationships with key stakeholders within Global Supply Chain and Engineering to understand their business and business strategies to deliver aligned IT solutions for data center and manufacturing environments.

Oversees Systems Administration and Engineering staff. Provides technical expertise and leadership to team members in assigned area of information technology disciplines. •Leads and motivates various IT teams to meet and exceed performance standards.•Pioneers technical strategic planning and implementation of new technology standards.•Maintains up-to-date knowledge regarding changes in the IT industry; shares ideas with IT leadership, and recommends changes based on these developments•Thoroughly analyzes and clearly communicates complex issues requiring IT strategic decisions.•Supervises and coordinate activities of designated team; determine work procedures, prepare work schedules and determine methods for expediting workflow.Notable Achievements•Lead integration of Bolthouse Farms IT infrastructure with Campbells Soup – Collaboration platforms, network, virtual platforms, active directory, Workday (HR)•Led successful Server Virtualization Infrastructure project; selected as primary Engineer for the implementation of Cisco UCS server environment; managed the system installations and configurations which has greatly improved system reliability and uptime.

• Ensured smooth and reliable operation of data center systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes. • Worked with executive team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues.• Designed and deployed new data center systems infrastructure as well enhancements to existing systems, software, and operating systems to meet business requirements.• Performed server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.• Provide Infrastructure services in all areas including storage networking, operating System, network security, server virtualization.

Organize and lead local chapter VMWare User Groups.

• Maintained the daily operations of the business information technology operations.• Evaluated equipment and software capability; researched and resolved problems as well as made technical recommendations.• Designed and implemented complex local and wide area network systems, supporting enterprise-wide applications an large scale computing applications.