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Louisville, KY, US

Richardson, Texas, United States

Lead teams that respond to outsourcing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) by analyzing client requirements and crafting a technical solution that meets such requirements, including appropriate staffing, hardware and software solutions, and costing.

Denton County, Texas

Appointed by the Denton County Commissioners Court to represent the county as the At-Large member of the Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) Board of Directors. The DCTA is a regional transportation agency with an annual budget of approximately $30M and capital projects of up to $350M. Elected as an officer by fellow Board Members, currently.

Denton County, Texas

Appointed by the City Council to represent the city of The Colony on the DCTA Board of Directors. The DCTA is a regional transportation agency an annual budget of approximately $30M and capital projects of up to $350M. Elected as an officer by fellow Board Members, serving as Board Secretary in 2012.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Respond to outsourcing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) by analyzing client requirements and crafting a technical solution that meets such requirements, including appropriate costing.(formerly Affiliated Computer Services)

Responsible for the IT Infrastructure of a Fortune 300 company consisting of approximately 500 globally distributed servers and more than 100 TB of data. Responsible for the designing and implementing a global architecture for IT infrastructure components such as Active Directory, DNS, WINS, OS, SANs and appropriate clustering software, as well as tape.

Led the operations of US government data centers containing 225+ servers and the largest (in terms of dollars transacted per day) government e-commerce site in the world. Perform people care, salary administration, hiring/firing (internal, external, and contract labor), and associate development for approximately 40 personnel including Unix/Windows systems.

Responsible for the implementation and delivery of EDS’ Internal Systems, a Windows based environment that included over 550 windows servers supporting a user base of 120,000 employees. This environment included Exchange mailboxes for all employees, file-sharing access for the 60,000 U.S. employees, and the infrastructure components required (i.e. – DNS.

Managed a 568 midrange and distributed server global environment for a major oil corporation, by leading the Operations team consisting of 21 people including 1 first line leader and 20 Windows Server Administrators. Led the implementation of this new client, overseeing the takeover of existing personnel and operations. Represented EDS during the sales.

Led the Operations implementation of over 200 Windows NT based Servers at 24 sites across the U.S. Directed the efforts to migrate the EDS large campus environments from the previous service to the new offering. Managed a staff of 20 Windows Server Administrators and a budget of $6 million; performing outlook, relief recovery, and expense containment..

Team Leader for Quality Certification effort for EDS’ Plano data center. Supervised team of 60 “Quality Advisors”. Worked with all teams within organization to assist them in understanding and meeting requirements of the Quality Management System (QMS) and ISO 9001 quality standard. Participated in internal assessments as part of organization’s effort to.

Maintained DASD pools, monitoring them for utilization and making appropriate adjustments. Performed data recovery actions for malfunctioning hardware and defective tape media. Worked on complex merges, evaluation of new technologies, tape library reductions/cleanups, hardware reconfiguration/elimination and other major projects. Supervised a team of 30.

Assured proper operation of tape library and provided prompt access to data stored on tape media. Coverage included tape library, computer room floor, fire response, etc. Led Lost Tape Corrective Action Team. Undertook projects such as writing emergency procedures, reducing tape library, reconfiguring tape hardware, representing organization during audits.

Designated Team Leader for Interactive Systems and Abend Resolution areas to serve as a consultant for questions regarding customer relations and technical material. Monitored overall system performance and made adjustments to increase performance. Responded to customer inquiries regarding batch, system, and on-line performance. Performed Abend Resolution.

Elected a third time to represent the 8000 residents of the northeast quadrant of the city. Provided direction and oversight to a Texas home-rule city with a council-manager form of government and a budget of approximately $17M annually.

Elected twice to represent the 6-8000 residents of the northeast quadrant of the city. Provided direction and oversight to a Texas home-rule city with a council-manager form of government and a budget of approximately $15M annually.

Bachelor Of Arts, Government And Politics

Associate Of Science, Computer Programming

Political Science

Diploma, Computer Programming

Diploma