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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

• Directly oversee a team of leaders that span a spectrum of managers, senior managers, and directors. Together, with their teams, the number of individuals in the org is approaching 150 contributors. • Manage the direction and vision of multiple infrastructure teams around the world. These teams provide network, server, storage, virtualization, back office, collaboration, and voice services.• Manage the direction and vision of the Global corporate service delivery organization. This org consists of a "follow-the sun" first level support service desk, Endpoint Support teams, and an Endpoint Engineering team.• Drive teams towards solutions that promote security, stability, and scalability.• Drive Endpoint Support and Engineering teams to secure the endpoint estate by using market leading software (Intune, CyberArk EPM, Autopilot).• Consistently modernize and re-architect systems that regularly outperform contractual uptime requirements.• Responsible for creating and maintaining yearly $15M+ Capex and $15M+ Opex budgets by coordinating with company FP&A analysts.• Consistently drive towards minimizing operational costs in an effort to optimize EBIDTA numbers.• Continue to research and implement cloud-based solutions that take advantage of widespread, "always on" features, and eliminate single data center solutions where possible.• Evaluate and deploy automated solutions that provide a more consistent experience by minimizing manual intervention and action while increasing repeatable and secure results.• Chair of the AI Foundations Committee, whose job is to discuss and evaluate where AI can help accelerate growth and efficiencies in internal systems.• Collaborate with the other members of the IT Leadership Team in an effort to present valid, relevant data to the CIO and the rest of the C-Level Suite.• Report directly to the CIO and provide weekly status reports.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Manage multiple infrastructure teams around the world that provide network, server, storage, virtualization, back office, collaboration, and voice services.• Drive teams towards solutions that promote security, stability, and scalability.• Consistently modernize and re-architect systems that regularly outperform contractual uptime requirements.• Responsible for creating yearly multi-million dollar Opex and Capex budgets by coordinating with company FP&A analysts.• Consistently drive towards minimizing operational costs in an effort to optimize EBIDTA numbers.• Continue to research and implement cloud-based solutions that take advantage of widespread, "always on" features, and eliminate single data center solutions where possible.• Maintain a relationship with the roughly 50 team members and their managers across the globe.• Collaborate with the other members of the IT Leadership Team in an effort to present valid, relevant data to the CIO and the rest of the C-Level Suite.• Report directly to the CIO and provide weekly status reports.

Austin, Tx, Us

• This position is a combination of staff management and business/budget planning and operations.• Member of the IT Extended Leadership team, a group of leaders chosen for their acumen and likelihood of continued upward mobility in the company.• Staff management consists of IC direct reports (Tier-3 server, storage, and virtualization engineers) as well as management reports (Tier-2 managers).• A total organization size of 25 with a Global footprint (USA, Mexico, Malaysia, India).• Business and budget planning for both capital spending as well as contributing to the annual operating plan for the entire IT department.• Emphasis on minimizing Opex spending in both the AOP and vendor negotiations in order to maintain favorable EBIDTA results.• Maintain favorable vendor relationships in order to conduct frank discussions about pricing/discounts as well as keeping an open dialog in order to get immediate results when reaching out for support.• Leverage vendor relationships to maintain favorable pricing while being a reference point for their products.• Manage the teams that take care of the private cloud infrastructures and prepare these environments for move into public cloud.• Manage the Microsoft Office365 and Azure AD instances. This includes Exchange Online, along with Azure MFA.• Researched and demoed various hyperconverged infrastructure solutions and choosing Nutanix moving forward.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• IT Architectureo Architect solutions and technologies for the Global Infrastructure and Technical Operations team. These solutions were mainly focused on virtualization creation and augmentation (VMware).o Performed high-level support for the Datacenter, Edge Office, and Virtualization teams for server and virtualization issues.o Work alongside the PMO organization to help design correct implementations for new and existing environments.o The VMware environment consisted of 5+ datacenters with 10 vCenter implementations, 500 hosts, and over 5000 VMs.o Held membership in the Architecture Review Board and the Change Management Board.o Sat in the team meetings for the Datacenter server team, the Office server team, and the Virtualization server teams.o This position is a member of the Global Infrastructure Management team and reports to a Senior Manager.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Systems Engineeringo Maintain a network of servers that offer hosted services to external users. 650 servers across multiple datacenters and office locations.o Manage servers running on VMware vSphere 4.1 and newer. Included are both standalone and clustered setups.o Maintain all domain services on several Active Directory forests (Server 2000 through Server 2008 R2). These services include Active Directory sites and replication, logon scripts, DNS, WINS, DHCP, DFS, GPO, print services, trusts (external and forest), and IIS.o Engineered architected solutions for Windows infrastructure using VMware ESX, Dell, and HP standalone servers and blade chassis. Most recently, HP c7000 blade chassis infrastructureso Manage Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Certificate Authorityo Maintain the Organizational Unit, Site, and domain structure in Active Directory and maintain the Group Policies for these structures. Proficient in the Group Policy Management Console.o Created Active Directory role based security (RBAC)o Production SQL maintenance. This includes setting up SQL backups and maintenance schedules for SQL 2000, 2008, and 2008 R2 instanceso Write vbScript and PowerShell scripts to automate processes• Project Managemento Participated in the planning process for a datacenter migration that moved the hosted environment from a standalone facility to a Tier 4 co-location facility. I was able to use my previous experiences to avoid pitfalls.• Leadershipo The lead position requires that I offer myself as a mentor to the other junior members of the group. I am able to make myself available to give advice and answer questions. This is a requirement in order for the group to operate at peak efficiency while remaining on task.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

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