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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Provides enterprise architecture capability and expertise required to ensure investments, initiatives and projects can realize desired business benefits. Creates reusable corporate assets (data,solutions and services) which may protect customer information privacy and security by design.• Collaborates with Business and IT Leadership to build strategic roadmap for platforms/systems supporting the business. Aligns IT strategy and planning with the Company’s business goals and objectives. Seamlessly integrates business and service strategy into the overall enterprise architecture roadmap• Develops and maintains enterprise architecture in alignment with the overall IT vision, supporting the information needs of the business and/or may manage and perform research and discovery activities, vet ideas, explore and validate emerging technologies, trends and possibilities relevant to strategic and technical direction, while supporting business innovation and playing the role of a change agent• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions. Partners with Solution Architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution• Develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company. Manages and/or facilitates Review Boards to evaluate project and technology proposals for architectural or technology fit.• Facilitate the sharing of architecture best practices throughout the architecture community and the IT organization by assisting in the creation of an architecture community of practice and provide regular visibility and communicate the R&D findings and perspectives to executive leadership to help scope business and technology long term vision.• Resolves problems and roadblocks proactively.• Mentors and guides less experienced architects through onboarding, training, or development.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

In my current position, I oversee all aspects of Product Services and Customer Interaction with special focus on strategic planning for future platform growth and expansion in digital transformation and cloud. Key Accomplishments:• Deliver 21,000 virtual desktops per shift around the clock while lowering costs and evolving virtual, physical, and cloud environments.• 70% boost in visualization acceptance and implementation in less than two years.• 50% physical server reduction resulting in lower hardware, licensing, and power/cooling costs.• 70% Storage Area Network (SAN) footprint reduction for maximized performance and lower expense.• Saved $500K+ per year in wasted revenue through system analysis and best practice revision.• $5M saved in licensing costs.• Create encryption plan for 10,000 customers to meet more rigorous compliance guidelines.• Met deliverables and timelines faster than previously possible with optimized standardization and documentation.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

New York City, New York, Us

As Advanced Services Group Practice Manager, I headed a top-level engineering team in emerging technologies development of software-defined data center, automation, and practice creation. Key Accomplishments:• Boosted revenue $1M+ with core process implementation.• Conceptualized and created automated technical workflow to leverage sales success.• 50% reduction in project scoping time and costs.• Spearheaded and oversaw professional services catalog that guaranteed bottom line and improved customer satisfaction.• Launch cloud computing to meet predefined business objectives.• Revamp demo infrastructure to improve customer satisfaction while maintaining agility.Team Lead - Converged Compute specializing in HP and Cisco hardware, virtualization and cloud platforms.Proven Cisco Data Center Specialist. Over a decade of overall IT experience including all Microsoft Technologies, infrastructure design, architecture, application availability, and virtualization.Over a decade of open systems/technical deployment experience including hands-on compute and high availability architecture. Hardware implementation, performance troubleshooting, fault analysis, and data protection on various computing platforms. Broad technology background with vast knowledge of enterprise architecture connectivity, beta testing, networking, server,storage hardware, & appliances.Great under pressure with excellent analytical problem solving abilities. Excellent communication, project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Ability to meet agreed upon project deadlines. Work with and share information with team members.Microsoft: Exchange Design, Architecture and deployment. Sharepoint Design, Architecture and deployment. Active Directory Design, Architecture and deployment.Cisco UCS DCUCIOS Expertise: Windows, AD, NDS, Netware, AIXMessaging: Groupwise, Domino, Exchange

New York City, New York, Us

Develop Cloud Strategies, implement and integrate cloud solutions, automation technologies, orchestration, and transform businesses to meet their business needs from the application up.

New York City, New York, Us

Manage an amazing team of individuals providing and implementing solutions for datacenter virtualization.

New York City, New York, Us

SME Microsoft services. SME Cisco UCS. MCITP, VCP, DCUCI

New York City, New York, Us

Architect and deploy solutions to complex IT challenges.

Managed day to day IT infrastructure.

Bs, Biology

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