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Richmond, Virginia Area

Accountable for the day-to-day implementation of work to ensure the delivery of quality and cost-efficient services to customers. Manages applications and customer expectations for delivery of products. Leads teams and projects to implement new technology solutions.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Responsible for the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolutionSelected Accomplishments:• Master technical SME who is capable of partnering with resources across various disciplines, lines-of-business, and vendors in the analysis, tuning, and troubleshooting of performance issues• Helps identify non-functional business and system requirements. Supports the performance testing and implementations of solutions to meet those requirements• Responsible for identifying key performance indicators and associated thresholds on the capacity, availability, quality and efficiency of the engineered environments• Provides a broad understanding of applications, platforms, and underlying technologies at both the software and infrastructure levels• Contributes to the on-going maturity of the performance engineering discipline including identification and creation of standards and the formalization of processes to ensure the initial and on-going satisfaction of non-functional requirements• Provides technical leadership, consultation, and guidance for resources both internal and external to the performance engineering team• Mentors resources across the organization in encouraging and developing the performance discipline within the given application and infrastructure teams• Completes application profiling verification/assurance for critical systems and reviews systems for production performance readiness• Manage customer relationships with the business, delivery, and technology partners

Richmond, Virginia Area

Manage all aspects of the Reynolds Packaging Group's Wintel Enivronment. Including, but not limited to the Offshore Wintel, Marimba and Backup Teams. RPG is a Global company with a footprint of over 5,000+ employees, two data centers and thousands of infrastructure servers, network devices and storage equipment.Selected Accomplishments: Designed and implemented infrastructure environment for global business, including but not limited to, Wintel based systems, including desktops, servers, Active Directory, Exchange and domains. Primary Wintel architect and engineer for 75 Reynolds Packaging Group facilities, spanning 25 countries, specializing in Windows Server OS, Windows Desktop OS, Active Directory, Domain Management, DNS, DHCP, server virtualization, Exchange environment and various support applications and systems. Manage day to day activities of dynamic Wintel, Storage, Messaging & Marimba Off-shore support teams. Successfully manage all Wintel based projects for a multi-domain, highly sophisticated Wintel environment for a globally based corporation. Displayed tireless effort while overseeing the migration of all Wintel based systems at over 75 facilities. Identified and created many standards and managed overall procedures across the Wintel environment and related processes - mailbox management, domain structures, administrative accounts, GPO policies, folder permissions, DNS management, etc. Managed server virtualization activities to reduce costs and overall physical server inventory. Technical approver for all changes in the Wintel environment. Managed technical aspects of all facility acquisitions and divestitures. Maintained ASAT and SOX compliance for all supported systems and applications. Leveraged strengths in cost-effective marketing management and vendor negotiations.

Provided far reaching application support for all Reynolds Business Units that encompassed over 400 custom and 3rd party applications and vendor systems. Expanded support responsibilities each year for three years by consistently delivering goal-surpassing results and ensuring complete client satisfaction. Performed numerous migration based projects involving the separation of two businesses. Designed, supported and implemented database programming, Barcode labels and RFID bar-coding to meet and exceed customer needs.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Managed Client Services Infrastructure Support Group that supported 10 Alcoa facilities, 2,000 users and all IT related hardware and software.Selected Accomplishments: Directed large & complex infrastructure upgrades and migrations at several Alcoa facilities. Managed facility security systems, payroll hardware, RFID equipment and Telephone systems. Key role in implementing Oracle and decommissioning AS/400 legacy applications.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Systems / Computer Programming / Management

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Programming