Enterprises Architecture:• Provide consultation and architectural guidance to a broad set of individuals and groups from SME’s and Vendors to Senior Executives on a wide variety of technical architectures and issues.• Influence key business decisions both internally and with our customers.• Influence key business strategies for technical business directions.• Technically lead, manage and motivate in the architectural design of a wide variety of medium and large sized complex IT solutions. Solutions include but are not limited to security products and methodologies, Cloud, Data, file transfer, LAN & WAN technologies, storage area networks, web, virtualization, disaster recovery, application development, operating systems, monitoring and databases. • Analyze customer's business requirements and ensure traceability of infrastructure designs to the business requirements.

Enterprise Design Engineering:• Technically lead, manage and motivate large and diverse teams of SMEs in the architectural design of a wide variety of medium and large sized complex IT solutions. Solutions include but are not limited to security products and methodologies, file transfer, LAN & WAN technologies, storage area networks, web, virtualization, disaster recovery, application development, operating systems, monitoring and databases. • Analyze customer's business requirements and ensure traceability of infrastructure designs to the business requirements.• Deliver conceptual, logical and physical IT engineering designs that support the business and infrastructure requirements of large/complex business application projects in the form of High Level and Detailed Level Designs. Present and defend these designs under review with the Design Review Board. • Identify the strengths and weakness of designs during infrastructure build and testing. Identify alternate solutions for problems and issues. • Coordinate with Enterprise Project Management and Customer Relationship Management to ensure secure, optimal and efficacious enterprise project outcomes.Leadership:• Lead the Design Engineering team in the creation of EA Patterns for design reuse. Create patterns to that end as well. • Lead a team of SME’s in the creation of architectural and guidance documentation for use internally.• Mentor design engineers new to the business in the understanding and application of the Design Engineering teams processes.

Manager Operations Support. Richmond Infrastructure.I manage a group of highly skilled engineers in the planning, architecture, implementation, operation and support of a large IT data / network infrastructure for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Richmond VA. I'm a very technical hands on manager with a strong background of 15+ years project and personnel management experience as well as 15 years hands on technical experience with cutting edge technologies.Summary:Works on projects within an integrated program or functional area to help achieve business strategy and vision. Participates in activities involving the definition of strategy and processes that are aligned with departmental and /or functional area strategies and objectives. Provides project management for process improvement projects and initiatives. Works with clients in providing solutions to technical problems and interacts with client across multiple departments. Manages teams of exempt employees performing the same or similar work.Operations Support Functional Summary- Responsible for, or participates in, the monitoring of systems operations, analyzing problems or malfunctions and taking corrective action and/or coordinating corrective action. Responsible for, or participates in, the installation, relocation, testing and monitoring of the operation of the networks and systems to ensure proper functioning of the lines throughout the enterprise. Completes performance evaluations, career coaching, and participates in salary and bonus decisions. Manages small to medium-sized project teams to achieve project objectives. Responsible for monitoring fiscal resources.

*Manage, design, implement, maintain and upgrade Wyeth’s Richmond campus of Cisco routers, switches, appliances, wireless controllers, ACS servers, Cisco Works servers and wireless APs. Supervise employees and contractors in that regard. Capacity Planning, monitoring and security also among duties*Plan and manage Cisco network infrastructure budget for Research and Development, Manufacturing, Product Distribution and Administrative groups. Develop and utilize an annual budget for the Cisco network maintenance and upgrade of the facilities across Richmond.*Maintain complete and accurate network documentation.*Research and evaluate new technologies with an eye towards streamlining processes and ROI. Recommend and explain these new technologies to various business units and stakeholders. *Design and implement data center network disaster recovery strategies. Build consensus among the stakeholders to reach agreement on the strategies and move forward to implementation.*Execute and coordinate simultaneous projects. Maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders through all project phases to manage expectations and deliver on time and within budget.*Provide support as technical consultant to various groups in Richmond including but not limited to Business and IT Management, Compliance, Quality Assurance, IT Support, Finance, HR, Research and Development, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Desktop Engineering.*Negotiate contracts and project bids with Vendors. Coordinate vendors during project phases.*Manage all local Cisco network infrastructure projects across the Richmond campus.*Write and implement network standards, work instructions and SOPs related to network architecture, function and compliance.*Qualify and validate network infrastructure to comply with Wyeth’s Compliance group, QA and appropriate FDA guidelines.

Primary Infrastructure Engineer: Provided direct support for the Business and IT Management groups in the form of advising, implementing and securing their sites, databases, servers, networks etc. Designed, deployed, maintained, upgraded and supported large manufacturing / research network of Cisco routers and switches. Managed Windows NT/2000/2003 web servers, DNS, DHCP, Terminal Server, Active Directory domain controllers, virus protection and data security for the Microsoft domain spanning various sites. Built/deployed, maintained and troubleshot Intranet IIS servers and the Wyeth Consumer Intranet Site. Maintained load balanced and replicated web sites across the Data Centers using Cisco Content Switch Modules. Implemented and maintained web security. Supported developers, database administrators and programmers in website construction and deployment. Managed, built/deployed, maintained and troubleshot Intranet Lotus Domino servers. Administered Domino Security, Replication, and rollout of LDAP authentication against NDS tree. Managed, built/deployed, maintained and troubleshot Citrix MetaFrame environment, Terminal security, and web enabled Citrix applications. Primary Infrastructure Liaison: Planned and deployed protections against multiple virus attack scenarios. Maintained proactive virus protection plan. Planned and implemented server security in the form of documented security best practices, Work Instructions and SOPs for server rollouts. Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for drafting validation documentation. Acted as primary point of contact to the security team for the implementation of C-Cure Security Monitoring software which controlled physical facilities, monitoring door access and storing and monitoring of vast camera network feeds.

• Consultant: 6/1999 to 4/2000: Dominion Virginia Power, Nuclear Information Technologies. Network Systems Engineer• Project Leader for Novell Server Consolidation and Migration. Designed and implemented the upgrade and consolidation of all Novell 4.x servers to Novell 5 at the Innsbook Technical Center and both the Surry and North Anna nuclear power plants.• Managed aspects of various sites’ NetWare and NT servers and applications. • Consultant: 2/1998-6/1999: Dominion Virginia Power, Commercial Operations Information Technologies. LAN Administrator• Managed aspects of various sites’ NetWare and NT servers and applications.

I was the Assistant Superintendent working under Terry Davis and Donald Allen building single family homes in the Richmond area. Coordinated construction of multiple homes at any one time and worked closely with the home owners post sale. Scheduled, organized and supervised suppliers, contractors, vendors and government inspectors in every aspect of home creation from the survey of the site to home owner satisfaction post closing.