Sr Manager, Ges Infrastructure Operations
Managed the customer relationship of the GES business units, Frito-Lay Leadership, Frito-Lay Facilities, and Field IT Organization to PepsiCo's IT Organization. Driving and delivering all aspects of IT infrastructure for GES, from the solution, build, deployment, production go-live, and ongoing production operations. Developed new opportunities with the IT space for GES, selling solutions to the budget owners in order to provide higher availability and system response times. Responsible for the design, build out and operations of 4 data center quality GES computing centers, including power, HVAC, racks, storage, virtual environments, servers, networking, telephony, facility security, capacity and performance management. Provided critical incident management of production operations and oversight of the infrastructure project components. GES enabled Frito-Lay to achieve significant growth through supply chain optimization, and exceeded it's return on investment.