Director Of Architecture & Chief Engineer, It
* Chief technologist and IT consultant for CIO of a 240 person, $65M IT organization ($2B, 40-site enterprise). Key member of IT Leadership Team driving strategic vision. Continual assessment of evolving technologies: performing business case analysis, leading proof of concept projects and studies, developing strategic vendor relationships, and evangelizing the organization’s technology direction.* Helped drive significant cost-savings via infrastructure optimization and modernization.* Built an IT architecture and engineering team. Led and mentored the team to develop their full potential.* Executed studies for Data Center Consolidation, Fixed-Mobile Substitution, Fixed-Mobile Convergence, PKI. Defined and managed consulting engagements for UC, Master Data Management, IAM, ESSO, Cloud Computing, DLP, PPM, and Storage. * Led / sponsored proof of concept studies and pilots in cloud computing, SIP trunking, UC, MPLS/QoS, Co-lo, data replication, storage, VDI, Application Virtualization, and Mobility.* SME in information security. Developed security architecture and strategies driving towards a data-centric security paradigm supporting a BYOD and extended enterprise. * Wrote DMZ architecture standards and redesigned 15 DMZs. Guided the selection of network through computing layer technologies for information security. * Appointed by GD CEO to Information Security Review Board led by the GD CIO and Director of Security. Performed security architecture design reviews corporate-wide. Developed corporate IT Security Policy including security architecture standards. Reviewed acquisitions and divestitures for information security risks. * Served on GD Corporation Information Security Policy and Security Assessment Red Teams. Assessed the information security (People, Operations, and Technology) at 22 business units. Provided briefings to corporate and business unit executives.