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Baton Rouge, LA, US

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US

Harvey, LA, US

Baton Rouge, United States, US

• The first EIR for the Louisiana Technology Park. Mentoring incubated technology companies on all aspects of the business including:
• Technology Strategy and Vision
• Product Positioning
• Business Plans
• Market validation and execution plans
• Fund Raising

New Orleans, LA, US

Providing technology and business mentorship to early-stage ventures in healthcare, water management and the food industry.

• Seconded from Shaklee Corporation to Shaklee China to manage all aspects of IT for the AsiaPac Region, which included the China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan markets. Led $7.5MM Global ERP project to completion..
• Managed IT Operations for 40+ sites across Asia.
• Implemented Jira Agile and Confluence for project management and documentation.
• Implemented Jenkins CI and Github to improve internal development quality and support.
• Migrated all Windows based Web systems to Linux, improving system uptime to 99.999%.
• Introduced metrics based reporting to increase IT performance visibility and transparency.

Miami, Florida, US

• Managed an annual budget ranging from $4MM to $8MM depending on the year's initiatives and strategic priorities. Oversaw all Telecommunications and VOIP systems, Data Centers, Helpdesk, Network, Disaster Recovery.
• Managed infrastructure operations for 50+ sites across Asia and North America.
• Renegotiated multi-million dollar deal for Managed Services of our global MPLS network, cutting costs by 25%.
• Renegotiated disaster recovery contract reducing costs by 50%, enabling the adding of managed recovery services. Resulting in a cost neutral improvement of services while significantly reducing business continuity risk.
• Global consolidation of Helpdesk and Computer Operations task and ticket management to CA Nimsoft.
• Managed the creation of ITIL Service Catalog and established standards for use.

Miami, Florida, US

• Managed an annual budget ranging from $3MM to $6MM depending on the year's initiatives. Successfully led offshoring effort to reduce operating costs and increase support efficiency. Proactively adopted web and mobile.
• Led geographical dispersed teams across two continents.
• Initiated and implemented cross department Project Management tracking and tools.
• Successfully negotiated and re-negotiated numerous vendor contracts saving the company significant operating expense and capital.
• Managed and supported all aspects of the US, Canada and Mexico web properties and order entry which served 1.2MM distributors.
• Led two technology transformations of the company's web platforms over six years.

• Architected real-time genealogy management system using IBM WebSphere and IBM DB2 supporting over a million distributors.
• Implemented Interwoven Content Management System to manage customer facing content, along with management of distributor website templates for tens of thousands of distributorships, using Perl, Java and IBM WebSphere.
• Integrated Inktomi Search with IBM WebSphere Commerce Server to enable customer content and product search.

• Assist CEO and Board of Directors in technical vision and direction of company's P2P and Encryption technology
• Duties included: Project management, Budgeting, Creation of technical requirements from business requirements, Coordinating with Marketing on product releases, Creation of company-wide programming standards, Hiring of.

• System Architect Design and implementation of the‘ Bullet Project'— an Internet accelerator— using C/C++
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of‘ Webring'— www.webring.com— using C and Perl
• Duties included: Project management, System design & documentation, Implementation & Testing of cross-platform components for Windows and various Un* x’s.

• Design and implementation of the ‘Voxware Broadcast System'— a massively online streaming server for voice-using C/C++
• Duties included: Assisting in design and implementation.

• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of multiple Unix servers.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of multiple Cisco & Ascend terminal servers.
• Configuration and maintenance of the following services for multiple clients: FTP, NNTP, HTTP, SMTP
• Design and implementation of WAN link to clients using Cisco & Ascend

Computer Science

Early Admission Program