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Dublin 2, Ie

Irving, Texas, Us

Program Manager leading a multi-disciplined team consisting of members from Technology, Data Center Engineering as well as Corp Real Estate departments. Liaising with business unit Client Relationship Mangers to ensure that all IT, LV, AV, and Telephony requirements are properly coordinated as part of the architectural and engineering design of the spaces. Continually driving conversations on emerging trends in open workspace, collaborative technology, AV, and wireless technologies to support collaborative and mobile work environments. Understanding of LEED and WELL requirements allows technology to support the highest levels of certification. A recent project was certified LEED Platinum.

CS Technology (CST) is an international firm based in New York, NY. CST is a leading advisory firm that provides strategy and implementation services to world-class companies seeking to unlock the value of their IT portfolio investments. Our brand consists of unique domain expertise, an exceptionally nimble business model, and outstanding financial acumen to help clients enhance the bottom-line performance of their data center, enterprise infrastructure, and other technology driven initiatives.

Westport, Connecticut, Us

Working with a large Financial Services company providing cross-silo technical coordination between Architects, Engineers, Facility and IT teams at the Program level leading to the the delivery of excellent and repeatable IT infrastructure services to a demanding Real Estate portfolio. Managed the Development of IT Infrastructure Design Standards for all IT service requirements for all Corporate Workspace projects. Oversaw and implemented standardized Basis of Designs for multiple Corporate Workspace projects including renovations of existing and addition new spaces in multi-tenant buildings.Provided Governance oversight with the development of metrics specific to the client to paint the picture of how well our people and process were working to support all on-going initiatives.

i3 Solutions is an international company that specializes in IT and critical facilities providing solutions enabling CIOs, IT Directors and Facilities Executives to optimize their facilities and technology infrastructure. We provide Solutions services that encompass the entire lifecycle of Technology incorporating Real Estate, Infrastructure Platforms and Technology Strategy with vendor neutral solutions across technology infrastructure and critical faciilties.

Miami, Florida, Us

Responsible for global design, construction, operation and maintenance contracts for critical and non-critical M&E for all offices, trading floors, and data center spaces. Directly responsible for oversight of all real estate construction projects from site selection, architectural design, engineering design, construction, and occupation.During this time we have expanded and built out offices in Houston, HK, Tokyo, NY, Boston, Dallas, and Palo Alto.City of London - Owners Rep and Project Manager for three floors of high density financial and trading floor buildout utilizing raised floor and high density power and cooling designs in office area exceeding more than 10 watts/sq ft in the general office areasCentral Business District of Hong Kong - Owners Rep and Project Manager for full floor financial and trading floor buildout including 2 x 400 sq ft data center spaces. Tokyo - Project Manager for buildout of financial and trading floor space in the highest commercial office space floor in Tokyo which included complete facilities automation allowing remote management of all facilities mechanical and electrical systems.New York City - Project manager and owners rep for 100k sq ft financial and multiple high density trading floor buildout with construction completed within 9 wks. Manage 7 floors of high density trading infrastructure in high rise class A building in Mid-town Manhattan. Chicago - manage daily operations and maintenance of 30K + sq ft of tier 2 and a tier 3 raised floor data center space for primary and disaster recovery data center as well as over 250,000 sq ft of class A office space.Specialties:Construction Management, Project Management, Architectural Design and Construction, M&E System design and operation, Data Center and Technology Space design and operation, High Density Trading floor design, Maintenance contract negotiation and management, Low Voltage system design and buildout. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.

Miami, Florida, Us

Manager of the Network Operations Center which was responsible for installation, operations, and monitoring of all data center hardware, storage devices, and application servers. Additional responsibilities included enterprise tape backup, and all racking and stacking of data center assets. Our team also managed the change management process for the IT infrastructure.

Responsible for all IT Infrastructure equipment, Desktop PC's, Network infrastructure, Software release management, DBA for Sybase and Oracle databases, Exchange and Blackberry Administrator.

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Project Manager for EPRIprojects. In charge of all field activities at customer sites. Lead for field reverse engineering, x-ray analysis for development of non-OEM repair parts

Field technician for data acquisition on utility steam turbines. Reverse engineering for replacement OEM parts, FEA validation, Strain Gage instrumentation, CFD analysis and validation of high and low flow steam systems.

Washington, Dc, Us

Operate and maintain steam turbines and reduction gears used for ship propulsion and auxiliary machinery such as turbogenerators, pumps and oil purifiers. Also maintain auxiliary machinery outside of main machinery spaces, such as electrohydraulic steering engines and elevators, refrigeration plants, air conditioning systems and desalinization plants as well as performing duties in nuclear propulsion plants operating reactor control, propulsion and power generation systems.Served onboard USS PERMIT (SSN-594), USS ALEXANDRIA (SSN-757) and USS BREMERTON (SSN-698) and served as the Submarine MM E-6 and below enlisted detailer from 1991-1994.

Undergraduate Studies

Nuclear Engineering