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• Organize and lead a Platform Team responsible for the architecture, engineering and implementation of foundational systems• Delivery of highly available, compliant and secure core infrastructure, products and business critical services for the GPN North America Issuer Segment• Ensure business capabilities and servicing across the enterprise• Contribute to the development of the IT Roadmap and Budget• Assist with strategic direction and oversight for the full life cycle of design, development, operation and support of IT systems

Richardson, Texas, United States

• Provide design, deployment and support for private cloud, public cloud and hosted network Infrastructure• Technologies: Citrx ADC, Nexus, VMware, ASAv, Velo, F5

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Business Continuity Program Management – Review, Develop and Improve Business Continuity Programs for independent and community credit unions

Irving, Tx

• Supervision and management of network and telephony groups (12 team members) distributed across the globe in the America’s, EMEA and APAC• Support of network, security and telephony services for 185 sites and 10,000+ users domestically and internationally• Network, Lync and Wireless planning and installation for new 42 sites/facilities• Hardware refresh for 63 sites, replacing EOL routers, switches, access points and ISE; introduce 5Ghz and deprecate 2.4Ghz • Datacenter Migration: relocation of IBM managed services to Freudenberg IT co-lo facility; staff augmentation with contract/3rd party resources• VeloCloud SD-WAN deployment in America’s and APAC• Network Monitoring and incident management using SolarWinds and ServiceNow• Manage and Support B2B VPN for Customer Integration (EDI)• Microsoft Azure: Express route, ASAv and F5 VE• Preparation of cost models for new business proposals• Mentoring, talent management and development of staff• Vendor and telecom contract/relationship management

Plano, Tx

• Management of the infrastructure (7 members) consisting of network, storage, server and business continuity (2 members)• Infrastructure team talent management and development• Design, deliver and support an active/active metro-cluster with following technologies: Cisco Nexus OTV, VMware Stretched Cluster, EMC VPlex and Vmax, Pure Storage, SQL Availability Groups, and F5 LTM, GTM and APM• Introduce a new PCI Zone with zero network hardware capital expense by leveraging F5 VCCP, Cisco ASA and Nexus multi-device contexts• Review, design, implement and support regulatory and industry audit requirements (internal and external) for NCUA and PCI• Development of the technology roadmap and presentation to the executive board for annual review and approval• Budget Management: Allocate and assess manpower costs, recurring costs, NRC, TCO, ROI and capital investment• Business Continuity: Responsible for managing and developing the organization’s business continuity program and business units’ continuity plans• Business Continuity: Identify and define SLA, RPO, and RTO requirements for business processes then design and implement solutions that meet those metrics • Business Continuity: Identify, evaluate and assess IT risk considerations using LogicManager ERM (Enterprise Risk Management)• Business Continuity: Collaborate with the business units to learn, document and improve their processes

Irving, Tx

• Analyze, document and redesign multiple application topologies including SharePoint, SAS and SAP• Design Warehouse Management Systems environments based upon Red Prairie, SQL, AIX and Oracle• Subject Matter Expect for business (commercial/sales & finance/accounting) and IT (network, storage, application and server) groups• Collaborate with IBM and Neovia architects to develop an interim Disaster Recovery Plan• Provide oversight and governance for a datacenter migration from parent organization (Caterpillar) to Neovia• Introduce and develop a Global Active/Active Datacenter Strategy outside of IBM for infrastructure components including Storage, Network, Telephony and Server

Irving, Tx

• Collaborate with various advertising agencies totaling 10,000 users to deliver IT services unique to their environments to leverage technology to further business/productivity• Research, prepare and present unique IT solutions for multiple advertising agencies to improve productive and efficiency • Design and Install WAN optimization including SilverPeak, Cisco WAAS and Riverbed for the different agencies.• Provide secure network separation for the agencies leveraging Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF), ASA Multiple Device Context and Cisco Nexus 7000 VDC.

Dallas, Tx

• Provide network design and direction for a 4,000-user eCommerce network• Maintain Safe Harbor, SOX and PCI compliance for domestic and international data centers and sites• Redesign and introduce high availability and low latency for remote sites (yards) to prepare for a global deployment of Microsoft Lync• Prepare and present proposals to senior leadership including recommendations for threat mitigation, wireless infrastructure, WAN optimization, network redesign and datacenter redesign• Introduce solutions for improved application availability for the auction sites by leveraging existing GSS and NLB (F5 GTM and LTM)• Redesign existing datacenters network hardware for improved scalability and availability by replacing EOL products including ASA, ACE, Catalyst, IPS/IDS with Nexus, Radware and F5• Introduce NMS (Network Monitoring System) SolarWinds for improved network visibility, trending and proactive monitoring

Dallas, Tx

• Redesign a suboptimal Nexus implementation, introducing high availability and improved throughput for the primary datacenter and Dallas campus • Redesign existing MPLS WAN to prioritize low latency real time data, voice and video conferencing • Introduce dynamic VPN Tunnels for site backup• Redesign and introduce a high availability multi-carrier Internet presence using Cisco ASA in Stateful Failover Configuration, F5 for VPN and Web Services• Redesign connectivity for improved data flow and availability for the three Dallas datacenters • Collaborate with the server and storage groups for implementation, expansions and upgrades• Consolidate the Dallas datacenters and review co-lo options

Fort Worth, Tx

• Manage the infrastructure group (12 team members) responsible for supporting a 1,600 user seventy-two site network• Interaction with both senior and junior management throughout the organization to learn and understand their businesses and practices then provide solutions to meet those needs• Design and implement a high availability/real-time LAN/WAN including Nexus and active/passive devices (ASA, F5, RSA, etc.)• Design and implement extreme connectivity environments including microwave, 802.11 bridges, VSAT, 3G, 4G, Satellite and DMVPN• Deploy VoIP (Cisco Call Manager) and Video Conferencing (Tandberg) to the major branch offices• Mentor engineers and administrators• Coordinated migration of critical services/applications/connectivity to co-lo due to improved power, cooling, physical security and Telco reliability without disruption or risk of outage• Maintain five data centers throughout the organization• Data Center Design including Hot/Cold Aisle, UPS, PDU and HVAC