Gary Masters, Mba Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Responsible for the selection, implementation, and maintenance of cybersecurity related platforms as well as perimeter, network, email, cloud security, SIEM, and remote access design.- Lead the efforts of a team of 20 cybersecurity engineers and two managers.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of all aspects of data network and voice services for a large non-profit healthcare system, including budget of approximately $29M.- Lead the efforts of a hybrid team of more than 50 direct, managed service provider (MSP), and contract staff members including managers, operations engineers, technical architects, and implementation engineers.- Have reduced average incident resolution time by 50%.- Improved performance and reputation of the network MSP team through clear expectation setting, effective coaching, and performance monitoring.- I encourage and support creative problem solving and empower direct and MSP staff to take appropriate actions to support our customers.- Lead the development of strategies and roadmaps for network and telephony solutions.- Determine cloud (AWS and Azure) connectivity standards, including associated security requirements.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Developed strategies and roadmaps for all areas of infrastructure.- Developed business relationships.- Provided advice and technical consultation to technology leaders.- Developed vendor relationships.

Irving, Texas, Us

- Served as a Senior Architect within the Enterprise Architecture organization, producing technology strategies, roadmaps, architectures, proofs of concept and design for enterprise services. - Offered wide-ranging consultative services to internal customers while serving as the final tier of support for "unsolvable" problems and issues. - Developed architectural standards for both public and hybrid cloud deployments, including security requirements, hands-on prototyping and configuration validation. - Provided comprehensive architectural oversight for legacy infrastructure in addition to producing architectural guidance for forward looking projects and programs including public and hybrid cloud.Key achievement while in the position included:* Produced $13M in savings by improving application performance and simplifying management through the introduction of flash storage to McKesson at the enterprise level. * Successfully reduced secondary backup image costs by 40% through the design of a solution to move duplicate copies of backup images into Azure Blob storage, reducing required on-premise capacity by 50%.* Delivered a $4M save by developing a 2nd generation on premise IaaS private cloud hyper-converged architecture, replacing cost-ineffective converged infrastructure. * Drove cloud transformation through successful POC implementations and migrations targeting Azure and AWS.

Irving, Texas, Us

- Led the efforts of a team comprised of anywhere from 7 to 10 architects responsible for the development of standardized infrastructure designs and architectures for enterprise services.- Provided solutions in terms of UNIX/Linux, Windows, storage, network, security, firewalls and telephone. - Developed and implemented a highly effective technology design governance process and technical publications library.- Introduced and implemented the use of standardized, repeatable technology designs within the organization, led disaster recovery planning and design and provided business and technical consultation to the lines of business.Key achievements while in the position included:* Recognized as a McKesson Distinguished Technologist, a prestigious award given for being among the top 0.2% of McKesson's technical thought leaders.* Decreased planned refresh costs by 50% by successfully introducing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to McKesson prior to vendor produced reference designs. * Successfully reduced system implementation time by 6-weeks through the use of standardized, repeatable technology designs. * Provided team leadership for a team recognized as some of the most capable technologists within the company, consistently sought out to resolve the most challenging issues. * Delivered multiple parallel projects in disparate technology realms including cloud, systems, storage, network and telephony both on-time and within budget.

Irving, Texas, Us

- Led a team comprised of anywhere from 7 to 10 engineers responsible for the development of designs for both enterprise infrastructure projects and programs. - Provided solutions related to UNIX/Linux, Windows, storage, network, security, firewalls and telephony and spearheaded the development of first generation private cloud.- Automated repetitive tasks using combinations of Bash and Linux/UNIX utilities.Key achievements while in the position included:* Successfully re-architected high-volume eCommerce infrastructure, resolving reliability and scalability issues. * Increased infrastructure stability by establishing consistency in project designs for all open systems operating systems and their related hardware, storage, SAN, LAN/WAN and voice solutions installed and maintained.* Utilized design audit and corrective action management to effectively stabilize numerous computing environments. * Implemented strategy that successfully reduced WAN expenses by $100,000+ annually.* Increased system performance and reliability through reasoned and consistent design. * Produced results that lead to receiving the "CITation Award" in 2005 for extraordinary support of the systems and administration and technical support group maintaining daily operations.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Accounting

Bs, Nuclear Engineering Technology