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Milwaukee, WI, US

Greater Milwaukee Area

An IT Leader with extensive experience in managing people, processes, technology and the implementation of global infrastructure projects to achieve business strategic objectives.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Direct team of 1 Senior Manager, 5 Managers, and 45 Support Associates for Client Compute, Unified Communication, and Distribution Center Infrastructures.
• Maintain annual budgets of $2-4M.
• Develop and maintain strategies to support end user business needs.
• Drive team and service efficiencies by maintaining monthly metrics and KPI’s.
• Regular interaction with business entities to ensure support levels.
• Manage annual refresh of 1000+ end-user devices.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Directed global team of 6 Managers and 40 Support Associates responsible for implementing, maintaining, and supporting end-user devices, server, and storage infrastructures.
• Developed and implemented strategies and visions to support compute infrastructure. Managed annual budgets of $4-10M.
• Implemented and maintained hardware and operating systems in support of global strategic initiatives including replication and consolidation.
• Ensured 99.99% availability of datacenter solutions by developing and implementing solutions highly available and redundant.
• Implemented lifecycle management and supported infrastructure hardware, software, and applications.
• Utilized virtualization technologies to consolidate solutions to reduce support efforts and costs.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Responsible for architecture, planning, and implementations of infrastructure solutions.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Manager Technical Services (2009-2011)
• Managed team of 7 associates responsible for implementing and supporting global Windows server infrastructure.
• Championed project to consolidate and centralize remote servers from 35 physical servers down to 5.Manager Hardware Assets/IT Automation (2003-2009)
• Managed team of 6 associates responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting computer and storage hardware environments.
• Maintained firmware lifecycles in various IBM pSeries, xSeries, iSeries, and TotalStorage solutions.Operations Supervisor + Additional Roles (1993-2003)
• Supervised team of operators in support of daily, weekly, and monthly batch processing cycles.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Manage the team that is responsible for all IBM pSeries, iSeries, xSeries, zSeries, and TotalStorage products. Responsible for Design, Configuration, Procurement, Installation, and Maintaining all hardware devices in the Foot Locker Data Center.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Operations SupervisorSenior Console OperatorConsole OperatorTape Operator