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Scottsdale, Az, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leader in both the operational realm across 8 technology stacks RedHat Enterprise Solutions, VM Ware (800+ instances), enterprise backup/restore solutions as well as program leadership for a billion dollar online corporation that captures packages and immortalizes cherished memories.Led the initiative to curb spend (tech debt) across multiple vendor platforms. Results include the identification, design and consolidation of redundant enterprise (Petabytes) backup and storage solutions saving the company an annual amount EXCEEDING $1M (removed redundant licenses, storage arrays, appliances, consolidated similar backup solutions) while refining our operational footprint and avoiding all related energy/space expenses.My role demands providing enterprise 2/7/365 high availability, performance, while managing expansion for (HW/SW), as well as maintenance across or tech stacks.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Program manager over the transformation of 1200 stores to Windows 10/Outlook 365.The scope of the deployments span every aspect of a large production network across most of the continental US.I led the team while establishing strategic relationships interact with every facet of the enterprise from planning/procurement/configuration/staging/shipping/deployments/regional and store leadership. Touchpoints include all regional and local business leaders across a multi billion dollar retail corporation.Recently completed initiative leading the PayPal integration team which is now outpacing online revenue projections. Impact to the company is projected to be in the neighborhood of $140 M ~ $200 M annually. Previous program manager over the transformation of 1200 stores to Windows 10/Outlook 365. The scope of the deployments span every aspect of a large production network across most of the continental US. I lead the team while establishing strategic relationships interact with every facet of the enterprise from planning/procurement/configuration/staging/shipping/deployments/regional and store leadership. TTouchpoints include all regional and local business leaders across a multi billion dollar retail corporation.

San Francisco, California, Us

Network services leader responsible for delivering infrastructure in support of multi-million dollar, highly visible Wells Fargo initiatives. Projects include new network planning and deployment for 30 Hudson Yards in NYC, The Clearing House (the Fed), Amex and a number of other strategically critical partners.Lead network planning, scheduling and successful change control for Wells Fargo enterprise migration of business critical Voice over IP networks. The effort lasted over 8 months resulting in the convergence of hundreds of thousands of endpoints providing cost saving converged network(s). Accountable for ensuring changes are planned, scheduled, and completed providing zero impacts to multiple Wells Fargo partners and internal lines of business.

Managed third party service providers to identify, plan, test and deploy solutions to harden their networks leveraging several top tier solutions. Solutions included Splunk for system monitoring,CyberArk for Privileges Access User Management.Program lead in the design to sustain Secure IT Operations, including Networkinfrastructure, switching IP schema, and LDAP structures. Included administrative controls, performancemeasures, policy, and procedures to manage and harden IT Risk and Security gaps.Those efforts resulted in the deployment of those top tier tool sets enabling us to monitor the network and more importantly to trend our user use of critical systems and third-party interactions.

Lead 11 direct reports supporting: All servers (physical/virtual/Citrix ZenServer) Troubleshooting, Infrastructure support, Security, Telecom call routing and Help Desk. Once we populated online allowing my team to track/trend and provide a constant improvement approach to enhance service.Developed an internal help desk team and tracking/reporting systems greeatly increasing our time to resolution for support tickets.Led the discovery/planning/design and deployment for a business focused intranet. Leveraged the HRIS portal, internal helpdesk tickets as well as additional support requests with a continuous focus on improving SLAs.Lead considerable organizational change through a consultative process to improve multiple enterprisesystems and operational processes. Focus was on improving internal and external communications byestablishing a customer support team and migrating to industry leading systems resulting in improving our bottom line across business units.

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Regional manager over 6 teams of surveillance technicians in Regional Command (RC) East Afghanistan.Responsible for providing route reconnaissance as well as perimeter surveillance for 6 Forward Operating Bases near the Pakistani boarder.The role of my teams was to identify potential Improvised Explosive Device (IED) locations while communicating with our local coalition commands ensuring the safety of our maneuver units (mounted patrols).Efforts resulted in the security of patrolling units 24/7 ensuring the continuity of operations in my Area of Responsibility (AOR).Regional manager over 6 teams of surveillance technicians in Regional Command (RC) East Afghanistan. Responsible for providing route reconnaissance as well as perimeter surveillance for 6 Forward Operating Bases near the Pakistani boarder. The role of my teams was to identify potential Improvised Explosive Device (IED) locations through the use of a fiber based network leveraging geospatial software while communicating with our local coalition commands ensuring the safety of our maneuver units (mounted patrols). Efforts resulted in the security of patrolling units 24/7 ensuring the continuity of operations in my Area of Responsibility (AOR).

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Recalled to Active Duty and deployed with a training division out of Virginia. I spent the first 6 months of the deployment responsible for a Forward Operating Base in the "Red Zone" in Baghdad. That role entailed providing life support for over 800 coalition military and DOD civilians.I lead the security team of over 30 ex pats from a variety of countries to ensure we had no loss of life while people were assigned to FOB Shield. That involved ensuring our perimeter was secure at all times and that assigned personnel were well versed in the evacuation of casualties in the case of enemy actions.At the 6 month point I was assigned as Senior Technology Program Officer to assist in building a number of IP networks for the Ministry of Interior Transition Team. Those networks included Microwave, Satellite as well as designing and deploying the interior LAN components for cabling and security of all assets.