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Provo, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Provide product management for all products used by the data center and field network layer 1 cabling teams. Ensure all customers' needs are met by the team supporting data centers and field construction/modification projects. Manage and support Data Center Information Management systems, ServiceNow, Configuration Management Database (CMDB), Process workflows, budget and value planning systems, and the data center infrastructure. In addition to product management tasks, I am the data center site manager for one of our larger data centers. This requires oversight of racking and stacking hardware, providing data connectivity, managing and monitoring power and cooling in the data center, and ensuring all systems are up and running on a 24 X 7 basis.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Manage various programs associated with the IT Infrastructure Department. Specifically manage programs with data center infrastructure and maintenance, CMDB compliance, process improvement and automation, Layer 1 design and implementation.Managed program that migrated all hardware and services from a data center that was to be decommissioned. Program was started and completed within 90 days and required moving and or decommissioning over 500 devices, racks, and other equipment.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Manage the networking solution for the global enterprise. Responsible for design, development, implementation, and maintenance of all networks. Currently, over 25,000 networks are managed around the world by my team.Manage a team of Network Project and Product Managers. My team manages all networking activities across the globe in over 25,000 locations spread out in over 140 countries. We liaise with local network vendors and local LDS Church personnel to ensure that the network is available and reliable in all sites.Manage 6 product managers and 5 project managers. My team averages 70-90 active projects around the world at any given time. I am responsible for the performance and management of this team as well as the life cycle budgetary process to fund the labor for my team.Provide dashboards and communication to upper level management regarding the status of all of the projects managed by the team. Work with various internal customers to define needs and set expectations for delivery of the products offered by the networking department.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Manage multiple, global network projects. Provide vendor management for multiple vendors performing networking upgrades in buildings around the world. Currently manage a building network upgrade project with an annual budget of $1.5M. Plan is to upgrade the networking hardware in over 700 buildings in 5 years. First four years were completed on time and under budget.Manage implementation team. Entails scheduling global implementations to ensure that resources are available. Manage local team that configures hardware. Ship hardware to local site then work with local technical/non-technical personnel to ensure they are aware of and can follow implementation procedures. Completed 90 major implementations in 6-month period.

Lehi, Ut, Us

Currently manage 5 teams totalling over 30 people. Manage the Service Operations team. Responsible for maintenance of storage, network, and compute systems in two different data centers. Manage all corporate-facing IT teams. Includes, help desk, corporate system administrators who oversee applications such as Exchange, IT Service Management Ticketing system, Oracle E-Business Suite team, Self-Service Analytics, Telecommunications, and Corporate Intranet/Wireless systems.Responsible for implementing and managing IT Service Management processes and tools. Provide strategic direction for operations teams, help desk, and IT Service Management tools.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead and manage team responsible for operations of a highly available (99.999% availability requirement) midrange server environment. • Managed environment with 100% availability delivered to business since inception in April 2006 • Managed 2 direct reports and 23 contractors in both local and remote locations • Successfully negotiated long-term contract with vendor who supplies operations and systems administration support. o Negotiated price reduction of $21MM (38%) from original proposal o Created over $670k cost savings during first year and $600k in second year of contract o Developed unique pricing structure that will reduce cost of future growth by millions of dollars • Directed installation of multiple hardware and system build outs all ahead of schedule and under budget. • Integrated vendor support one month ahead of plan. • Responsible for own cost center budget and chargeback to business partners for operations support. • Marketed new environment to other potential customers – resulted in three major customers joining environment

New York, Ny, Us

Enterprise Infrastructure Distributed Technologies Project Manager * Coordinated and drove alignment with all enterprise technology groups, including external vendors, on distributed infrastructure strategies. * Drove development of financial and technical analyses required to validate strategic and tactical decisions. * Liaisoned with development teams and business partners to drive successful and cost-effective implementation of technology uplift programs.Program Manager * Led and drove outsourced operations support vendor as they optimized American Express’ distributed environment. * Coordinated activities performed by global, cross-functional teams. * Ensured alignment between all constituents required for successful completion of all optimization projects.Project Manager * Designed the infrastructure then led the development team that implemented the smart card issuance infrastructure for Blue from American Express. * Managed production support and ensured availability of card issuance systems. * Designed and implemented changes and enhancements to software applications and business processes.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Managed mechanical ground systems projects for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems. Managed vendors and provided technical assistance to Air Force.  Conceived and directed major mechanical shock test program saving the US Air Force over $5 million in additional testing and analysis effort.  Evaluated and presented impacts of proposed changes to survivability requirements to senior Air Force management.  Recommended changes to requirements that saved over $400 million in unnecessary hardware changes.  Evaluated vendor proposals and persuaded senior management to select vendor that had better quality design even though their proposed cost was higher resulting in potential redesign costs of over $3 million.