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Glastonbury, Ct, Us

New York, Ny, Us

RedTwo provides exclusive technology consulting to private clients, focused on events, sports, and hospitality.Provide exclusive technology consulting and managed services to private clients. Successful projects include:Former Senior Executive of Major League Baseball:o Directed technology for investment group formation, managing tech business decisions and vendor selections.o Provided MSP services, supporting end-users, handling vendor negotiations, and providing roadmaps and budgetsNew Major League Soccer $350mm stadium district build:o Represented ownership in recommendations and negotiations for all technology hardware and vendor decisions, focusing on roadmap, timeline, and budgeto Technology includes Wi-Fi, DAS, LAN/WAN, Internet & Telecom, Large-Format Video, IPTV, Compute & StorageMajor tourist destination in New York City:o Managed installation of new high-resolution video technology for the venue, providing avenue for enhanced revenue streams and partnership opportunitiesWi-fi technology refresh at a NCAA Division1 football stadium:o Upgraded student access to campus services via enhanced wireless connectivity

Orchestrate messaging and social media interaction for 7,000-member alumni association.

Garland, Tx, Us

Deliver new-build and retrofit technology projects to major stakeholders and end users in the sports & entertainment field.Projects delivered include:- Technology retrofit of a renovated 12,000-seat concert arena- Full technology implementation and event support for a 35,000-seat new-build NCAA Division1 football stadium- Technology, user, and event support takeover for an NBA team / arena- IPTV technology refresh for an NHL arena- Wi-fi technology refresh at a NCAA Division1 football stadium

New York, New York, Us

Led Administration and Engineering Team for all IT operations. Controlled datacenter operations. Managed $3.5M Capex / Opex budget. Maintained standards and policies for all IT infrastructure, including procurement and lifecycle.Notable achievements:• Pioneered videoconferencing at MLB remote events, saving hundreds of person-hours per event. [Project featured in Fortune Magazine: Here’s How MLB Uses Videoconferencing for its Biggest Games] • Collaborated with Infosec team to implement 2-factor identity management.• Designed and managed IT for international expansion into London, Beijing, Tokyo, and Mexico City.• Performed license negotiations and consolidations with Microsoft, EMC, VMWare, Cisco, and other industry-wide agreements providing significant cost savings for MLB and the 30 teams.• Led learning sessions / roundtable discussions at MLB Technology Summit on topics such as Storage & Scoreboard Video, Disaster Strategies, and Network Monitoring.

New York, New York, Us

Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure alignment between IT projects and business goals. Researched and evaluated new products and created recommendations, project plans, and budget proposals for Executive Technical Steering Committee.Notable achievements:• Owned security process and co-owned the architecture process for IT Transformation Project, working with Ernst & Young to create and publish new industry-standard policies and procedures.• Served as founding member of IT Change Advisory Board, using customized ITIL service standards to evaluate all project-based and incident-based changes for impact to network and organization.• Planned and implemented industry-wide digital data transformation project. [Delivered presentations about the project at Axway Imagine Summit 2017 (keynote address) and 2016 Gartner Symposium / ITXpo.]

New York, New York, Us

Researched, designed and implemented all IT networking, compute, storage, telecom, and security. Evaluated and authorized infrastructure layers of IT projects from selection through construction and controlled turnover.Notable achievements:• Architected design and led project to build back-office technology for MLB Network broadcast facility in Secaucus, NJ, resulting in the Project Management Institute of New Jersey 2009 'Project of the Year’ award.• Converted company’s System Availability / Business Continuity services from cold restore with tape backups into co-located datacenter using point-to-point connectivity and data replication services.• Managed project to install enterprise-class wireless at Yankee Stadium for 2008 All Star Game, providing wireless internet access to the media and photographers for the first time.• Architected AWS cloud solution for baseball scouting application development.• Led team to build infrastructure for “Team Greening” project, enabling all MLB teams to submit and analyze stadium operations data for environmental impact.

New York, New York, Us

Managed network backbone, LAN / WAN routers, switches, and security devices. Managed MLB’s Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and IIS environments. Provided 2nd- and 3rd-level technical support.Notable achievements:• Directed datacenter virtualization project, advancing from 7 physical servers to a 600-server virtualized environment supporting 180 core applications.• Directed project to connect all team, central office, and remote office sites to meshed 40-site MPLS, providing all with high-speed access to MLB resources and hosted enterprise applications.• Developed and implemented industry-wide rollout strategy with MLB Public Relations for MLB Play-by-Play baseball information system.• Deployed portable VoIP system for remote events, saving ~$35K per event.• Solved industry-wide communication problems by creating a 33-organization global address list using LDAP synchronization.

Communications, Political Science

Masters Certificate – Business And Law Of Sports