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Wake Forest, Nc, Us

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Referred by the former CIO, capitalizes on progressive IT experience, strategic leadership, and project delivery achievements to oversee IT operations, end-user services, service desk, IT security, and facilities in 15 countries. Reporting to the CFO, outstanding performance resulted in additional global responsibilities, with the team growing from 15 to 51. Entrusted to modernize technology and achieve corporate efficiency with a $50M annual budget.➡Dramatic Cost Savings 📌Achieved $300 million in cost savings through technology refreshes and optimized vendor contracts.📌Spearheaded a global data center consolidation that reduced costs by 25% and modernized enterprise infrastructure for servers, storage, and security.➡Organizational Transformation, Compliance, and Improved Service Efficiency📌Removed IT silos, serving as a bridge between IT and business units to achieve organizational compliance with GDPR and HIPAA regulations. 📌Reduced incident resolution time by 35% and improved user satisfaction by 50% by introducing an enterprise ITIL framework and structure with a reliable offshore service desk.➡Improved Security Posture and Network Reliability📌Introduced cybersecurity policies, including MFA and security awareness training, enhancing and maturing our security posture by 80%. 📌Achieving stability and 100% uptime for apps/services by providing a robust enterprise architecture for network services at the branch and data center and implementing it at all locations. ➡M&A Oversight and Integration📌Led all aspects of four M&A integrations within budget and on time, with three of them running simultaneously. Furnished technical and business leadership for budget planning, resources, project management, integration of technology, elimination of redundant services, training, and staff consolidation.➡Team Leadership and Retention📌Developed mentor and training programs for IT staff, which had the lowest attrition rate in any department.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Led a small global team of four in-house staff and 15 offshore technologists (indirect) to maintain IT infrastructure, implement a unified communications strategy, drive operational efficiency, and lead technology refresh programs.Notable Accomplishments 📌Achieved a 20% cost reduction by deploying a unified communications strategy and implementing a consistent enterprise architecture for wireless access.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Promoted to this senior leadership role in 2010 to oversee global IT network services after outstanding performance over 13 years in Associate Director and Manager positions. I implemented strategic solutions like global VPN and VoIP, and led significant cost-saving initiatives, managing a team of 30➡Dramatic Cost Savings 📌Achieved $50M in cost savings over five years by implementing a cloud-based IP audio conferencing solution that eliminated massive dial-in audio conferencing minutes costing over $10M/year. This cloud platform provided a consistent and reliable collaboration and mobility solution.➡Centrally Managed Global Infrastructure Performance Improvement📌Architected and implemented wireless network access using a unified management solution, spearheading wireless deployments to 35 office locations globally and creating efficiency for staff and reductions in cabling costs for new offices.📌Implemented a global wireless solution for secure private, guest, and BYOD Wi-Fi networks using Cisco unified wireless controllers and lightweight APs, providing complete coverage and a consistent experience across 100+ branch offices.📌Supported global operations and dramatically improved application performance by introducing WAN acceleration solutions that preserved network integrity and provided low-cost bandwidth.📌Improved data center architecture with a scalable platform leveraging a standards-based Cisco Nexus platform with modular pod design for isolation, management, and fault tolerance.➡M&A Oversight and Integration📌As a trusted advisor and technical leader, represented technology and support operations during 10 acquisition integrations. Spearheaded network integration and technology collaboration during M&A, onboarding new companies to our solutions and sunsetting theirs.

As, Network Engineering

Associate'S Degree, Computer Science