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Laurel, Maryland, United States

Bedford, Massachusetts

● Organize, inspire and lead a large 290+ FTE $75M+ enterprise shared service IT division, operating globally across 65 sites, focusing on corporate, lab, and classified IT services. Collaborate with business stakeholders to define need and drive alignment of IT to the business strategy, delivering the technical capabilities required to achieve business success.● Mission focused to provide necessary compute, networking, security and compliance design and implementation, enterprise wide classified and unclassified labs, and on-prem/co-lo/cloud based services to support MITRE and external Sponsor outcomes.● Passionate enterprise IT risk manager assuring mission critical regulatory and security compliance, including DoD Top Secret and Secret, DFARS, CUI, FISMA, 800-171, 800-53, and upcoming CMMC 2.● Consistently led evolutionary change to reduce operations costs while increasing capabilities, resulting in 5-10% year over year reinvestment of operations costs into innovation. ● Award winning (Mission Critical Magazine) high density consolidation of datacenter services resulting in 60% utilization reduction of corporate IT and enabled a new service supporting business units saving $15M in year one.● Focus on external partner negotiation, vendor management, contract negotiation, and partnerships requiring complex understanding of vendor revenue models and business cycles to facilitate optimum, mutually viable outcomes. Recognized POC for large $1M+ corporate audits or negotiations.● Led Covid19 response moving entire corporation from on premise VPN infrastructure to zScaler/secure direct cloud connectivity and MS Teams/VoiP from legacy Avaya/Cisco solution in under eight weeks● Deployment of Microsoft Team Room (MTR) solutions and legacy video bridging using Pexip, and integration of shared DoD classified and unclassified AV systems to support return to office.

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

● Led, inspired, and drove strategic technical direction for a 450 FTE shared services IT division – focused on visioning, financing, and implementation of enterprise infrastructure and operations.● Consolidated all corporate IT under one umbrella organization consisting of seven departments, including move to ITIL framework and Service catalog model.● Enabled modern, secure and compliant IT service extensions to support business transformation converting to SaaS by provided by Workday, Costpoint, and Concur, from legacy PeopleSoft and Oracle Financials.● Co-led strategic “Blue Team” to align company wide Business and Corporate IT services that encompassed DoD sensitive, Aviation, Public/Healthcare, and IR&D. Resulted in consolidation of 35+ isolated labs/datacenters, 2200 servers and related storage/networking assets, and two business units into a shared infrastructure that saved over $15M in in year one.● Led MITRE HR service desk and service assurance teams, fully integrating Tier 1-3 support staff into one effective team handling 1M+ tickets yearly while maintaining high response and satisfaction scores leveraging Cherwell and RightAnswers AI.

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

● Drove evolution of an 85 FTE IT Infrastructure team to a corporate recognized service partner supporting both corporate IT and business units. Improvements to availability, compliance, and labor costs within Cyber, Healthcare, and Aviation Safety business units set the stage for future wholesale transformation of Corporate IT to support all of business.● Led internally recognized Business Continuity Plan and service assurance programs that maintained 98%+ uptime with a flat budget while onboarding significant new customers.● Facilitated Migration of enterprise Solaris services to Linux/VMWare/IBM X-Series, significantly reducing overall IT unit costs and allowing expansion into the business.

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

● Lead consolidation of Infrastructure, ERP, and Innovation server administration staff into one integrated team to increase financial efficiencies while increasing availability and support for corporate IT services. Work included leading the large scale transition to Linux and Virtualization to the enterprise, saving over $3M year over year.● Primary server and storage architect role, resulting in consolidation of Business Continuity capability leveraging NAS and SAN architectures, including working with business units to free up local control and focus on delivery.● Re-envisioned on-prem infrastructure services in partnership with Facilities to design, build, and migration to a series of modern, centralized datacenters across multiple campuses● Supported various DoD sponsor programs, including AWACS modernization, modeling and simulation support for NORAD Granite Sentry, and DISA MegaCenter consolidation red teams.