• Responsible for managing and directing the work of IT and application support specialists. This includes infrastructure specialists (server, web services, middleware, desktop/laptop, and telephony), software build and package, database support and SharePoint, JIRA administrators in demanding software development environment. • Manage the workload, priorities, and project queue of the Build & Package Team to ensure adequate resources are applied to meet requirements and deadlines for software deployment; and introduce continuous integration and automation processes to improve the quality of software deployments. • Responsible for creating and managing the annual IT capital budget for the software company. This includes all computer equipment (server, desktop, laptop, network, phones, etc.). Also includes any planned datacenter infrastructure expenses, such as cooling units, UPS, etc. • Provide leadership and supervision as part of a matrix organization to the desktop and infrastructure support team (IT). • Responsible for managing and maintaining datacenter facilities for the Houston office, which includes UNIX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments, VMWare, Citrix, etc. • Perform a leadership role in guiding the software company on its use of infrastructure technology, specifically as it applies to its software products. Assist the architecture team in developing the future technology strategy for the company’s software products. • Perform a leadership role in strategic IT planning for disaster recovery/business continuity, SharePoint, JIRA, or any other third-party software technologies that are introduced to the datacenter environment. Provides direction on what software and hardware products and tools should be used. • Oversee the development and maintenance of standards and processes for network infrastructure, storage, and virtual host hardware as well as software and configuration.

Established a system engineering group to support ARM (Asset Resources Management) Product Suite implementation for both in-house and at customer site. Scope of position includes system engineering group direction, installation, installation documentation, engineering, implementation, support, infrastructure study and various IT administration; Network, Database and System.Also support Marketing and Sales team during annual trade show and pre-sales activities as needed. Respond to RFP concerning Asset Resource Management Product Suite infrastructure and configuration on requestCurrently managing installations and deployments for variuos ARM suite Projects with different electirc and Gas company all over US.Conducted performance and tuning study of the ARM suite for a GAS company in Virginia which resulted in increasing performance by 40% to 50%.Consolidated 15 oracle database servers into 3 servers supporting 75 oracle instances using the latest CPU technologies. Also consolidate numbers of servers into few servers using the latest CUP and VM Ware technologies. Reduce hardware maintenance cost by 35%, and software maintenance cost by 50%Reduce software installation complexity by redefining the installation process using installation tools, such as InstallShield, Weblogic template and IBM Websphere Application Server scripting.Advise/influence management decision including software and hardware selections, corporate network infrastructure upgrade, Marketing/Sales Demo room design and other infrastructure related issues.Actively participate in Capital Expenditure Planning, with strong focus on cost-effective solutions and optimizing productivity/efficiency.

Contract Position:*Oversaw in detail the relocation of the company from Austin to Houston. * Collaborated directly with the development team in designing an infrastructure to support a Web-based online flight booking system. * Effectively supported co-branding of the on-line booking site with USA Today and Yahoo.

Contract Position:Responsible for onsite customer implementation/installation of STS software. Provide technical support in System administration, Oracle issues (Administration, sizing and performance tuning) and Network issues (internet/intranet network) to both internal and external customers