AFCOM advances data center professionals by delivering comprehensive and vendor-neutral education and peer-to-peer networking to its over 10,000 members around the globe. As a Board Member and former chapter President of the Southern California Chapter, current responsibilities include the development of educational sessions, manage chapter finances and coordination of the quarterly chapter meetings.

Hired to carry out and oversee Jacobs high-availability Global Data Center strategy with an $18M annual budget. Jacobs Solutions is a $15 Billion dollar company with 60,000 employees. Jacobs Solutions provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. Responsible for leading 52 IT professionals managing and structuring support operations in a centralized manner that ensures data center services are consistently delivered globally to meet business needs and executed within established service levels. Also took over the leadership and mentorship of company’s Unified Communication (UC), Messaging and Identity Services teams to deliver high-availability services to the corporation. • Responsible for a $18M budget for driving the delivery of effective and agile data center infrastructure to support the businesses high-availability IT strategy as well as address the business goals and operational requirements. • Guided the deployed a large SolarWinds core infrastructure monitoring solution across entire global data center storage and compute infrastructure reducing infrastructure outages by 31% and decrease overall response times by 52%.• Responsible for overseeing the Messaging Team to move almost 60,000 company on-premise email accounts from a large messaging server infrastructure to Office365.• Directed Unified Communications team in the deployment of Microsoft Teams and Teams Voice globally which allowed for more efficient productivity globally and provide annual savings of estimated $3.1M in voice platform services. • Spearheaded the Unified Communications and Project Management Team to deploy a new $12.7M Crestron conference room saving the company in $30M in global travel.• Started the first Tier 1 Network Operations Center (NOC) in a high value center.• Oversaw the initial development and annual testing of the company’s global disaster response program.

Recruited by and reported to the CEO to take on a vital role in the strategic planning, communication and execution of the company’s mission, vision and core values of a 55-person, $10 Million dollar Internet Marketing & Strategy deployment company. Developed service strategies, service offerings, and implemented continuous improvement strategies for clients.• Led all business initiatives for this $10M organization as well as business processes and performance metrics development.• Analyzed company performance, profitability, productivity, efficiency, and resource utilization.• Boosted revenues by almost 200% within the first year of tenure through the implementation of critical innovative marketing strategies and operational improvements.• Conducted contract negotiations and management. • Promoted teamwork, morale building and employee development while offering an “open door” policy that created trust and dialogue.• Slashed budget by 27% in the first year of strategic plan development and implementation, exceeding established goals and forecasts through expenditure reductions. • Achieved phenomenal turnaround within six months in employee training; employee morale; reduced turnover; enhanced employee satisfaction. • Played key role in the acquisition and successfully integrating rival company.

Distinguished and progressive management career with this INC Magazines 500 fastest growing company in 2007. The fourth largest Web hosting company worldwide with staff of 300 people and about $32 Million dollars in annual revenue. Built company’s I.T. and data center infrastructures, which supported over 4500 servers and three data centers providing 24x7 global multi-tenancy business operations to over 750,000 customers. Responsible for IT staff of 24 professionals. • Member of the Executive Committee established to guide the fast growth of the company and help position as a leader within the Web Hosting Industry. • Established the organization's IT infrastructure, strategic growth plans, and all IT operational policies and procedures.• Developed and managed operational and project budgets of $12 million.• Directed the successful commissioning of two data centers facilities to support 24x7 secure operation. Personally handled areas of commissioning which include the extension of redundant fiber paths into buildings from providers central office, implementing backup power, fire suppression, and all other critical components.• Designed and directed the build out of a dedicated disaster recovery/business continuity site for data center operations which included designing and deployment of new network, storage and virtualized environment based on current infrastructure. • Led the negotiations for numerous software, hardware contracts and lease arrangements that saved $1.1M dollars in expenses over the prior year’s while building flexibility and growth.• Spearheaded relationship with Microsoft to beta test and launch new Microsoft Web Hosting product.• Directed largest shared hosting migration in the history of Web Hosting which included the platform build out and zero downtime migration of 750,000 customer accounts and data with less than a 5% customer loss.