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Mount Juliet, TN, US

Providing scalable, reliable, and secure Information Technology Solutions for fast growing companies of all sizes.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Created and Implemented Global Information Security Program driving continuous improvement and maturity based on PCI-DSS, ISO27001 & NIST guidelines.
• Built and managed a team of 7 senior Information Security Engineers.
• Lead the security incident response process, including the ongoing monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities, and respond to major security events.
• Coordinated with Legal, Compliance, and Security to standardize a security stack; worked with executive management to meet those standards.
• Responsible for ensuring successful PCI/DSS, GDPR, and NIST audits.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Directed the strategy, implementation, management, and support for company-wide Network, Data Centers, and Cloud systems.
• Responsible for overseeing the migration of multiple co-located datacenters into AWS Cloud.
• Provided project management for multiple technology initiatives simultaneously, working to increase productivity and eliminate operational vulnerabilities; also provided reporting and analysis as needed.
• Developed an excellent engineering team, empowering individuals to improve and promote best practices.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Managing an excellent team of 18 DevOps Engineers responsible for the design, implementation, and support of custom eCommerce infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting multiple Engineering Teams.
• Working with multiple teams to analyze, design, and implement DevOps infrastructure with 99.999% up-time with virtualization, clustering, database, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy within a hybrid cloud.
• Provide technical guidance, and mentorship to internal engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
• Own our server image configurations, collaborating with our core engineers to optimize for task performance, reliability, service requirements, failover and scale.
• Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and security requirements
• Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications in the environment

Moffett Field, California, US

3 month contract position assisting Nasa's SOC (Security Operations Center) at Nasa Ames Research Center with rolling out local security infrastructure and procedures internationally.

Plantation, Florida, US

• Developed and mentored a team of 12 highly skilled systems, telecom, and network engineers.
• Realized cost savings of over $1 million by consolidating hardware and software service agreements.
• Migrated from an on premise hosted Microsoft Exchange to a hybrid Office365 cloud environment.
• Increased performance and reliability across multiple business systems by implementing industry best practices.
• Introduced Amazon Web Services for rapid new client/service deployment.

Houston, Texas, US

• Built and developed a team of 25 systems, development, and network professionals.
• Responsible for the consolidation of over 200,000 sqft. of geographically dispersed data centers.
• Provided merger, acquisition, and divestiture guidance and assistance through multiple realignments.
• Implemented standardized and highly available HP Blade infrastructure in multiple worldwide locations.
• Responsible for integrating OpenStack cloud computing platform with HP Moonshot and 3par hardware infrastructure.

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for implementation and support of the company's internal business and customer facing software and hardware infrastructure.
• Perform network capacity planning and benchmarking.
• Specify, implement, and support various technology solutions.
• Monitor and manage corporate technology security.
• Manage the administration of over 50 various network appliances.
• Introduced web application and networking best practices resulting in a 60% drop in consumed bandwidth.

• Lead concept and full lifecycle development on RAMP-Web© application, facilitating $5 million in additional revenue.
• Created new web service for bi-directional credit reporting and scoring generating $20 million in additional revenue.
• Project lead for office build-out and renovation.
• Recruited and managed a team of 15 technology professionals.
• Replaced existing “dumb” terminal infrastructure with client-server architecture.
• Successfully transformed business processes and services to comply with HIPAA and SOX regulatory requirements.

• Created and managed asset management policy using custom web based application
• Determined requirements for Year 2000 compatibility for all PC, LAN, and WAN hardware and software and applied information to implement Y2k roadmap.
• Responsible for 20 IT Managers Year 2000 progress.
• Created and documented implementation procedures for all hardware, software, and business system updates, upgrades, and system replacements.
• Coordinated with corporate communications on instructions for how users should change everyday habits to minimize Year 2000 data problems.

Associate’S Degree, Computer And Information Sciences, General

High School