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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, Us

Head of the Information Technology organization, managing corporate IT operations, enterprise infrastructure, cyber security and technology compliance.

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for global enterprise operations; Support Desk, Infrastructure, DevOps and ERP. Directly manage engineers, administrators, managers and contractors working hands-on with the team to drive projects and obtain results. Responsible for all on-boarding, off-boarding, procurement and vendor management, security and compliance, incident response, on premise and cloud infrastructure and systems, networking, storage, CI/CD and build farms and Costpoint ERP.Provide leadership and expert advice serving on Executive Steering committees for ERP, International Expansion and Compliance. Notable accomplishments: Led the successful onboarding of 300+ new employees in 2022Led the complete overhaul of the procurement process for IT hardware, software, licenses and support resulting in a 60% decrease in procurement turn-around times and 18% savings on CapEx spend.Led the roll out of a new 137K sq foot manufacturing and R&D facility in Frisco, TX (Systems, Networks, Security, Cameras, Conference Rooms, Manufacturing, Labs, etc.)Led the complete re-architecture and rebuild of systems, networks, build farms and CI/CD utilizing datacenter and cloud-based resources; resulting in 16-18X performance gains and lowering the build failure from 46% to 4%.Led the deployment of 2 new datacenters; complete with enterprise compute, switching and storage.Led the successful migration of Costpoint ERP from Netsuite; took over project management in the early summer of 2022 after major setbacks with the original project plan and departure of the Head of Finance. Directly drove the Costpoint ERP migration finance, manufacturing, production, people experience, IT and other teams to ensure a successful outcome.

San Diego, Ca, Us

- Principal Engineer responsible for 28 global on-prem and Cloud infrastructure platforms (vSphere, AWS and Azure)- Led tiger teams of senior engineers for infrastructure, observability and production optimization projects- Architected and led the deployment of the observability stack supporting all global platforms, production applications and core infrastructure services. (Lowered MTTR for production incidents from days to minutes)Key Accomplishments:- Successful live migration of vSphere 5.5 to 7 for five 24x7x365 highly transactional production sites with the design of new compute, distributed switches, clusters, storage and automation using Packer and Terraform- Re-architecture, transformation and standardization of production environments resulting in highly stable environments with rare production incidents from near daily customer impacting production incidents- Architecture and roll out of a robust Observability Stack at Kyriba; recognized and highlighted by VMware and AWS- Global logging standardization for all platforms; processing 2.6TB/logs per day from diverse systems and applications; bare metal compute, infrastructure, on-prem virtualized stacks, AWS/Azure Cloud and Kubernetes- Ensuring continued compliance with SOC1, SOC 2 and SWIFT audit requirements for Kyriba production platforms and applications; interfacing with auditors to validate compliance- Standardization of automation and configuration for VMs, cloud instances and containers using Terraform, Ansible, Chef and Packer

Responsible for leading a team of 15 engineers with the budgeting, planning, design and deployment of custom platforms with Monsanto proprietary systems using wireless technology, drones and IoT devices to provide real time data for large mega farms throughout Mexico and Central America direct to on-premises and cloud based infrastructure (AWS and Azure) Responsible for architecting and designing new processes for implementation with enterprise resource planning with SAP and Netsuite; working closely with Monsanto partners to analyze, map and transition business process. Responsible for the analysis of client systems/networks with thousands of endpoints prior to systems implementation; providing expert recommendations and changes to enterprise client networks to ensure stability and standardization for planned upgrades; configuration standardization and management

New York, Ny, Us

- Lead engineer responsible for the VTP application; network security and global datacenters and the PCI-DSS annual audits. - Led the successful preparation and compliance certification for the 2017 PCI-DSS Audit of six datacenters and the VTP application with limited documentation and a new engineering staff; recognized by the 3rd party auditor for excellence and the high level of organization. - Reorganization and improvement of the Agile development process for the VTP application; resulting in much improved software update turnaround time, bug reporting and accountability on the development team. - Automation of documentation and internal audit responsibilities; overhaul of key custodian duties.

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for the enterprise network infrastructure for 24 sites with 5000+ employees worldwide, 300+ servers, firewalls, enterprise network security, network design and future growth planning, networking connectivity and routing, intra-site VoIP, switching, enterprise wireless, VPN, datacenter and private cloud expansion, management and monitoring. Successfully architected an Enterprise Wireless solution and managed project Implementation for corporate offices and manufacturing sites; extending secure wireless for RF Guns, Laptops, Desktops, Tablets and other PLC/manufacturing endpoints with emphasis on security, seamless interoperability between sites and kept costs 13% under budget. Architecture and Design of Network Security Infrastructure and implementation of a SIEM for the enterprise; architected creative solutions for remote traffic analysis and eliminated over 50% of original project budget; built security policies and correlation directives to detect suspect activity and make it actionable by analysts or auto-firing custom scripts. Successful planning, migration and deployment of Nutanix hyper-converged solutions in two key datacenters replacing legacy infrastructure in a highly available and sensitive enterprise environment which host the ERP solution used worldwide by manufacturing plants. Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Re-architecture; complete redesign from the ground up of the existing Exchange Server implementation; including multi-site DAG support for failover and redundancy; wrote custom applications and scripts to migrate existing users from problematic architecture to new servers without any user impact; successful design of new multisite infrastructureSAP Security; responsible for security to EDI, BI and APO SystemsResponsible for conducting audits of network security/access controls, PCI audit/review of network infrastructure and online payment gateways for web sales portal and fulfilling audit requirements

- Project management for a redeployment of a hybrid ERP solution using SAP BusinessOne; including mapping and establishing business processes; assistance reorganizing teams in customer service, accounting, logistics and sales.- Performed over 17 VMWare virtualization projects virtualizing over 500 physical servers for over 15 companies.- Project Management for a custom POS/Inventory Management solution for 15 location salvage yard business in the US and Mexico; coordinated the installation of technology, software configuration, establishment of business processes and training.

Responsible of managing 24 engineers and 2 managers; two teams of technology professionals in the areas of Enterprise IT Operations/Infrastructure and Applications Responsible for onsite datacenters with 25 servers and supporting 1400 users, transition to virtualization from physical server infrastructure, establishing technology policy and standards, asset tracking, strategic planning. Responsible for the intra-site connectivity and network and systems availability; design, security and management of routing, switching and IPsec tunneling over public and private networks. Led the successful redesign and roll out of three custom applications used by the business to manage operations, product delivery and IT Operations/helpdesk/asset management. Managed the design and build of RESTful APIs used by the business to allow partners and customers to track orders and get inventory. Increased profitability and efficiency over 20% by creating a system to utilize and analyze captured data measuring overall employee productivity and waste at branch locations.

- Designed a curriculum around the MS Windows Server 2008 MCITP path focusing on the “must-know” knowledge, emphasis on networking essentials and critical thinking and analysis skills.- Successfully trained 200+ students using my curriculum; 3 of which I brought on to work for me at DCPA.- Awarded Instructor of the Year in 2009 in Delegación Cuauhtémoc; First foreigner to win this award.

- Led 8 network engineers and helpdesk technicians, on staff application developers and 20+ engineer and development sub-contractors serving corporate and government clients in Southern California.- Responsible for managing, designing, and/or building more than 150 networks using MS Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, MS Exchange Server 2000/2003, SQL Server 2000/2005, Web Applications and other services.- Managed and negotiated vendor and service level agreements and ongoing relationships.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

- Served on the engineering team responsible for roll out of MS Windows Server 2000 and Active Directory for the entire military installation, workstation migration planning, setup of GPOs based on DOD requirements, network drop and switch installs, and verification of DOD/Army security requirements.- Recognized by DOD and my entire chain of command for excellence, work ethic; awarded multiple letters of commendation; offered cadetship at West Point.

Led two systems administrators to support helpdesk operations and ongoing maintenance and infrastructure initiatives for the business Managed Microsoft Windows 2000 and Novell Netware Networks for over 200 users, on-site datacenter with 20+ servers and Dev/Quality/Production Development environments, SQL 7/2000 Servers, Cold Fusion Servers, Backup Strategy and Exchange 5.5/2000. Responsible for setup, maintenance, and updating internal and external firewalling, routing, switching and load balancing with Cisco, Watchguard and Nortel gear to facilitate a large on-site call center and ensure availability of 24/7/365 client web applications, email, DNS, and remote access. Completed and planned the network migration of MS Windows Server 2000 Active Directory from Windows NT Server Design and Roll-Out the new on-site datacenter in Poway; implementing redundant T1 circuits, load balancing of web- services, backup power availability via gas generator and offsite datacenter failover planning. Responsible for setting IT Policies and Procedures for the business, asset tracking and new employee training.

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