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Management of enterprise operations teams covering mainframe and distributed systems resource management and monitoring, problem and escalation management.Management of enterprise tools/automation teams providing mainframe and distributed systems monitoring systemsPlanning of outsource (offshore) program for operational management and support teams.Developed and implemented support coverage plans for overall data center operational management teamsManagement of $7.8m budget supporting enterprise operations.

Developed overall enterprise data center strategy for realignment of multiple data centers and application deployment footprints.Developed and publish technical strategy documentation for multiple strategic components of the data centers. Developed business cases for strategic technology projects that included hardware replacement and upgrades in excess of $9m.Developed solutions for multiple technology components including mainframe, distributed server, storage disk and tape infrastructures, clustered and virtualized environments. Vendor software audit review participation leading to a savings of $1.1m in vendor licensing.Contract negotiation for enterprise software licensing agreements, data center, and hardware contracts. Worked on multiple contracts with total contract values in excess of $15.5m over five years.

Management of enterprise storage teams across multiple data centers improving backup systems performance from 85% to 99.9%.Developed reporting, monitoring, and metrics dashboard processes for improving backup systems performance.Developed storage management strategy to improve overall backup systems performance and executing migration from tape backup to disk backup solutions.Management of capital and expense budget in excess of $15m

Mba

Information Technology, 4.0

Currently in the Doctorate of Information Technology program working on my Doctoral study with expected completion date of June 2026.