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Portland, Maine, Us

Portland, Maine, Us

Portland, Maine, Us

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

Unum is one of the largest disability insurance companies in the United States offering group benefit disability insurance. With annual revenue of $10b Unum ranks at #279 on the Fortune 500 list.• Led Architecture Team in development of infrastructure strategies and road maps for Infrastructure and Risk Management department• Contributed to development of cloud strategy and road map to provide Unum with both private and public Cloud capabilities Led development of Data Center strategy and road map• Participating on an Agile work team leveraging Kanban work activity tracking

Andover, Ma, Ma, Us

NaviSite is a world class Cloud provider and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Cable. NaviSite focuses on Enterprise class Cloud solutions, including IaaS, DaaS, and SaaS (Oracle and Microsoft). • Architect solutions for enterprise class customers using market-leading technologies from Cisco, HP, IBM, HP, NetApp, EMC, Citrix, Microsoft and VMWare.• Develop solutions across customer locations, colocation, physical servers and virtualized environments.• Work closely with customers to understand their application portfolio, clients, performance and availability requirements.• Work closely with equipment vendors and technology SME’s during technology architecture phase.• Present solution to customers, which can include c-level executives at fortune 500 companies.• Provide pricing guidance to sales teams based on competitive market conditions.• Work with Solution Delivery teams during implementation to ensure a smooth delivery.

Kobbegem, Be

Delhaize America consists of the U.S. based companies of Belgium based Delhaize Group. This includes Food Lion LLC, Hannaford Bros. Co, SweetBay, Harveys and Bloom. With over 1600 stores from Maine to Florida and over $20b in annual sales and over 106,000 associates, Delhaize America is one of the nations largest grocery retailers.• Responsibilities include overall IT Infrastructure strategy, architecture approval, budgeting oversight, and standards approval for Infrastructure components.• Infrastructure Architect for consolidation of Delhaize global active directory domains.• Infrastructure Architect for consolidation of global messaging systems from Exchange 2003 and Lotus Notes 8.0 to Exchange 2010.• Coordinated global IT infrastructure roadmap project with local and global architects to align global initiatives and aim at transformational infrastructure goals, e.x. IaaS, SaaS.• Headed BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) initiative to allow personal devices such as iPads and laptops to be used to securely access productivity applications.• Lead technical architect for data center relocation from Maine to North Carolina. Utilized Cisco Nexus and OTV technology to extend data centers across 900 miles using redundant OC12’s. Data Center move was complete with no experienced downtime.

Salisbury, Nc, Us

• Hands-on manager of network and operations for all of Delhaize Americas 1600 stores, 10 Distribution Centers and 4 office locations.• Managed Network and Security Engineering teams (10 Engineers) that supported 1600+ store network.• Managed Telephony Engineering team (3 Engineers) that supported over 4000 IP telephones and 250 Call Center Agents.• Integrated both Hannaford and Food Lion’s networks to provide for centralized applications and single supply chain solutions.• Replaced Core Cisco 6500 with Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, to provide OTV extensibility features to support Data Center move.• Consolidated IPTel, network reporting and monitoring systems across operating banners.• Provided developmental leadership, career guidance and mentoring to staff and other IT associates.• Managed budgeting and forecasting for network and communications area.• Participated directly with partners in telecom RFPs and contract negotiations worth a combined annual spend of $12m.• Maintained strategic relationships and negotiated contracts for telecommunications and data networking services with vendors such as Cisco and Verizon.• Enforce ITIL based change control policies and procedures within Network and Communication team.

Scarborough, Maine, Us

Hannaford Bros. Co. is Northern New England’s largest grocery retailer, with stores in ME, NY, NH, VT and MA and annual sales of approximately $4b. In addition, Hannaford is responsible for SweetBay supermarkets infrastructure, which includes over 110 stores located in Florida.• Responsibilities included overall network and communication systems strategy, design, budgeting, implementation, and maintenance of an enterprise class 300 site voice and data network. • Hands-on supervisor of six network engineers and numerous consultants.• Reported directly to CIO, providing recommendations and strategy.• Participated directly with partners in procurement and Sister Company on Telecom RFPs worth a combined annual spend of $10m.• Worked with telecom vendor to implement the first MPLS network in northern New England, providing a substantial improvement to network performance and flexibility while maintaining cost directives.• Implemented DWDM optical network to provide a highly redundant and cost effective solution to support a new parallel Data Center.• Implemented holistic network security architecture to provide framework for segmenting sensitive data at retail locations and across the network. • Managed replacement of the legacy phone systems of over 2000 phones with Cisco IPTel solutions including IVR and unified messaging.• Developed standard IPTel replacement for retail phone systems, leveraging existing store infrastructure to become one of the first Retail Grocery Chains to deploy IPTel in stores. Highlighted in Supermarket News 12/2004 issue.• Provided strategic direction and implementation of network based security solutions that provided compliancy with SOX, PCI and HIPAA regulations.

Scarborough, Maine, Us

Scarborough, Maine, Us

Scarborough, Maine, Us

Keene, Nh, Us