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Frisco, Tx

Provide senior consulting for Information Technology enterprises. Specifically focusing on data center operations management, performance and productivity improvements, data center migrations and consolidations.2014:- Provided consultation to a major Information Technical Outsourcing company in the Dallas area for the migration of a major customer's workload to an internal processing center.- Supported the development of a multiple vendor (hosting, storage, platform, etc.) outsourcing strategy for a mid-western financial/insurance company.

Executed the HP Early Retirement Offering.

Plano, Tx

Provided executive leadership to transition/transform services for large ($50M+ TCV) new clients. Establish technical environment and services to enable delivery success. Implement account business practices to support new client requirements.

Plano, Tx

Service Delivery Programme Manager for the Multi-year plan, a strategic initiative to align EDS with emerging market trends. Provided leadership in the development and deployment of new service offerings to support the implementation of an agile enterprise. Managed the investment and savings to meet corporate commitments.

Tulsa, Ok

Data Center manager responsible for two data processing facilities in Tulsa and one in Fort Worth which included over 27,000 mainframe MIPs, 4,000 midrange servers, and 100,000 desktops devices in 400 global locations. Managed 1,400 employees and a $450M budget which supported American Airlines, US Airways, and Sabre Holdings, as well as nine other clients. Transitioned operations from Sabre Holdings to EDS. Provided leadership in transitioning 4,400 employees to EDS. Maintained a profitable business during airline industry hardship. Consistently met stringent service level agreements.

Plano, Tx

Provided mainframe and midrange solution tower leadership for the Sabre mega-deal pursuit.

Plano, Tx

Responsible for mainframe and midrange operational service delivery for the customers supported by Plano Service Management Center. Managed 145 Service Delivery associates including service capabilities, the 7-Eleven Service Cluster and Batch Scheduling services. Completed data center operations consulting engagement for ING Bank in the Netherlands.

Plano, Tx

Programme Leader for the technical refresh of the EDS hardware infrastructure for the southwest region after the spin off from General Motors. Led the consolidation/migration of the Dayton and Camp Hill Information Processing Centers (IPC) into the Plano IPC.

Plano, Tx

Migration manager to relocate the mainframe workload from the Nielsen Marketing Research data center in Green Bay to the Plano IPC in 45 days. Managed the large data center to support the Nielsen Marketing Research business. Responsible for business interface for all Communications Industry Group customers that operate in the Plano Information Processing Center. Managed the 500 MIP data center to support the Communications Industry Group customers.

Houston, Tx

Migration manager for relocating the Houston Information Processing Center to the Plano Information Processing Center. Managed VM and VSE system programmers. Managed Interactive and Operating System Software engineers for the Plano Information Processing. Developed database and interactive disciplines to support emerging technologies. Supported successful deal pursuit of Nielsen Marketing Research business.

Houston Tx, Omaha Ne

Managed 15 system VM, Burroughs, network, and VSE system programmers. Provided leadership for consolidating remote data centers to Houston. Technical lead in migrating workloads from Omaha to Houston data center. Developed network system code for front-end processors.

Omaha, Ne

Implemented several customer systems throughout the Midwest US. Supported system software and performed Thrift software implementations.