Exceptionally skilled leader with 18+ years’ experience in information technology (IT) infrastructure, strategic planning and development, project management, and networks. Proven practitioner who has been repeatedly recognized by clients and management for outstanding performance, expertise, teamwork, and leadership. Veteran technologist who provides direction, guidance, and training to IT staff. Accomplished producer who executes information systems (IS) solutions across the enterprise, aligning with and supporting strategic business units. Professional manager who consistently delivers successful systems roll out and implementation. Strategic thinker who applies expertise and direction to end-user systems planning, security measures, cloud platforms, client operating systems, hardware, protocols, and standards. Infrastructure engineering expert, ready to deliver technical expertise, and long-term performance for organizations.• Saved $10+ million annually through prevention of unplanned downtime impacts such as lost productivity, and data loss. Designed and upgraded redundant and resilient LAN, WAN, and WLAN network solutions. • Controlled and managed $10 million budget for plant remediations, refresh, and peripherals: label printers, scanners, and UPS. Allocated $6 million for capital expenditures and $4 million for operational expenditures.• Recruited, trained, and managed four employees responsible for plant support services. Led department of four system engineers who sustained telecom, enterprise compute and storage, and network security systems.• Twice Promoted within three-year period. Promoted from Sr. Network Engineer to Manager of IT Plant and Remote Site Engineering in 2018. Promoted to Sr. Manager of IT plant and Remote Site Engineering in 2020.• Featured as keynote panelist at Peak Technologies National Sales Meeting. Discussed manufacturing technologies and automation with an audience of 500+ participants to improve processes and efficiencies.• Served as technical lead through 2010 SERTA and Simmons merger. Led retail technology consolidation during 2018 Tuft & Needle acquisition. Saved $1 million+ in annual OpEx spend by retiring legacy hardware. • Executed new HQ buildout while integrating three locations. Consolidated three class data centers into two redundant ones. Linked and upgraded 18+ warehouses with a 100% on-time and on-budget success rate.