Engage with students through lectures and hands-on activities, and provide academic support and mentorship. In addition to assessing student performance and maintaining course standards, contribute to departmental activities and curriculum development. I also bring practical industry experience and current knowledge to the classroom, enriching the educational experience while fulfilling administrative and professional development responsibilities.

I play a significant role in making a positive difference in the lives of people who suffer from Alzheimer's and dementia. I provide leadership in building and operating SiteRx Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure to deliver world class patient screening data to pharmaceuticals to place patients into clinical trials. Responsible for SiteRx information technology and security operations. Develop, plan, and implement an information technology and DEVOPS strategy that meets the company's business needs. Have pride in delivering a compliant and secure IT environment while gaining optimal return on investment.

Managerial responsibility for safety, security, availability, scaling, costs and efficiency for AWS data centers on the west coast (Oregon, San Francisco and Seattle). Manager of manager of managers that lead large teams that install and maintain network and server infrastructure as well as logistics, safety, security, facilities and data center infrastructure in a safe, secure and cost-effective manner. Lead and manage a team of data center professionals that lead employees across numerous data centers. Managed $5Billion budget that includes data center design, construction, depreciation and day to day operations of hyperscale data centers. Led organization based on metrics and data to ensure world class operational efficiency.

• Responsible for the technical design and acceptance of enterprise software and hardware solutions at the largest global retailers. Includes direct delivery and also the enablement of TRS direct and indirect sales and service channels.• Develop process, tools, and deliverables for the technical design and acceptance of TRS enterprise software and hardware solutions. • Provide technical sales support and delivery services to the most advanced TRS enterprise customers of Inventory, Traffic, and EAS Intelligence solutions.• Present the technical architecture of the TRS TrueVUE enterprise platform to CTO’s, CIO’s, and IT Directors during the selling process. The technical architecture includes platform support, network security, extensibility, scalability, deployment, WAN and LAN impact, disaster recovery, enterprise architecture sizing, etc.

Manage infrastructure services team that supports Target corporations high availability cellular activation and point of sales production and DEVOPS environment. Consists of Windows and Linux server, network, storage, monitoring and security engineers. The environment is entirely in Amazon Web Services cloud. Constant communication with clients executive team to understand road maps and priorities and plan to meet those objectives. Perform monthly service reviews in which I communicate performance against SLA's and status of projects as well as accomplishments. Monitor daily infrastructure health reports and dashboards. Insure alerts from monitoring systems are being remediated, Work closely with Target security to deliver on security roadmap. Produce weekly finance reports to show run rates and forecast future spend and compare to budget and explain variances.

Responsible for a global staff of permanent employees and contractors. with extensive international business and travel. The teams are spread out over the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Accountable for IT and Security operations and meeting agreed upon SLA’s in six large data centers and 20+ server rooms. Directed many high profile and complex technical projects using waterfall and Agile project methodologies in conjunction with the project management organization. Drive strategic thinking and planning through my organization which aligns with overall departmental and corporate goals. Closely work with corporate audit to pass SOX compliance controls. Support high global corporate growth rates which occurred through numerous mergers and acquisitions and strategies to move or outsource development activities overseas.

Initial responsibilities, as a senior engineer, included consulting with technical staffs of over 25 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies advising them how to build infrastructure to support large genomic databases and applications. Provided hands on support installing Incyte software onto UNIX / Oracle environments. Advanced through increased responsibility to the role of managing numerous IT Infrastructure teams which included managing exponential growth for a software and genomic database company. Managed staffs in Palo Alto, Massachusetts, Delaware and the UK. Direct responsibilities include 24 x 7 Data Center operations, UNIX and NT infrastructure, information security, IT project management, software licensing, vendor negotiations and management.

Started as a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator and gained more responsibility as I successfully implemented and managed numerous complex IT projects. I was hands on in supporting the internet gateway, DNS, sendmail, firewall / DMZ, and numerous UNIX based servers. Designed, installed, and created support strategies for the Network Operations Center. Defined and was held accountable for corporate SLA’s. Communicated progress to senior management and ran change management meetings.

Managed a group of five UNIX system administrators that supported 150 UNIX based workstations used for CAD/CAM/CAE and accounting applications. They were located in four states and four countries (US, Mexico, Philippines, and Canada). Main responsibilities of the group include: Install and configure all new systems and software, Administer Internet gateway, firewall, DNS, Install Oracle database software, Work with the Novell group installing dual stack (TCP/IP and Novell) on PC's , Resolve day-to-day Unix and TCP/IP networking problems.