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San Antonio, Texas, US

- Led the successful transformation of CLOUD BEAKER LLC, taking the company from 0 revenue to 1.6 Million/year revenue- Achieved Google Partner Authorization to distribute in LATAM and SEMEA Regions, expanding the company's reach- Established a branch office in Quito, Ecuador as part of the company's expansion plan- Developed and executed strategic.

Austin, Texas, US

San Mateo, CA, US

Directs strategic development, management, project priorities, business continuity, and deployment of IT resources for 24x7 operations. Creates yearly budget forecasts and risk assessments. Manages Datacenter, network engineering and infrastructure platforms supporting dedicated hosting, server virtualization and OpenStack private cloud environments..

San Mateo, CA, US

• Establish project priorities and strategies to improve business continuity. Monitored system functionality and implemented new technologies. Streamlined networks, storage, bandwidth and security.Lead Technical.
• Promote training and staff development to enable precise project completion.
• Leaded the project to make the company HITRUST Certified.
• Developed Policies and Procedures as well Implementations to comply with Industry Standards like SOC-1, SOC-2 and HITRUST.
• Chief Engineer for the New Hybrid Infrastructure, migrating 90% of production resources to the cloud (GCP).
• Act as Privacy and Security Officer, implementing IS Security Best Practices and enforcing the compliance of policies and procedures related to it.

Provide executive leadership as head of global IT. Responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation, and support worldwide as an integral component of business plan. Engineered turnaround of IT's performance and service levels. Transformed IT into a strategic business partner. Manage and delivered multiple large-scale projects on time.

Served as a solution-focused business and technology expert to present solutions in collaboration with various business partners. Presented customized solutions for information technology infrastructures and devices. Provided Executive-level Consulting to international companies such as Telconet, Claro, Telefonica, UEES University, and Hilton Hotels.♦.

Made operational decisions and set strategic goals. Planned activities and monitored day-to-day business to ensure smooth progress. Supervised staff from different departments and provide constructive feedback. Collaborated on projects involving cloud requirements, remote access, security, and networking. Performed Linux, RHES and Centos infrastructure.

• Improved overall network and datacenter security, while maintaining network access and availability. Led impacting implementations, improved configuration and mentored teams.
• Managed a team of 12 junior level technicians.
• Connected and maintained the wide area network and the local area network.
• Led all relevant functions of the network operations center and adjoined datacenters.
• Launched new solutions and server infrastructure in RedHat, Centos, RHES, and Suse.
• Aligned security policies through firewall configuration in checkpoint, Cisco and PIX firewall.

• Managed firewalls, servers, networks, datacenters and nodes. Delivered accurate problem resolutions to support technical teams. Collaborated effectively with colleagues to align departmental strategies.
• Distributed security policies throughout firewalls and servers.
• Presented IT solutions to various clients on behalf of the organization.
• Directed the technical department of the ISP including 1 NOC, 4 datacenters, 250+ nodes and PTP.
• Suggested ways to improve local area networks and wide area networks, while completing administration.
• Administered main Solaris and RedHat servers DNS, Mail, LDAP, SAMBA, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache and Tomcat HTTP servers.

• Conducted server maintenance and monitored network availability to support daily operations.
• Executed main RH 9, SuSE 8 and FreeBSD server installation and administration.
• Led the administration of main server services in both Linux, Unix and Windows 2000 advanced server.
• Performed LAN and WAN network administration and design.
• Conducted Linux and Unix server maintenance using bash scripting.
• Delivered accurate technical solutions for multi-level software challenges.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Technology And Innovation Management

Master Of Science - Ms, Sciences And Innovation Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering