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Houston, Tx

Houston, Texas Area

Managed $100M Annual BudgetResponsible for direct operations, planning, designing and budgeting of the City of Houston’s enterprise IT infrastructure, including voice/data networks, data centers and customer support center including management of more than 100 divisional employees and support of 500+ locations, 1000+ servers and 26,000+ users. Leader in operational stability, process improvement and IT service transformation. Focused on infrastructure consolidation, security implementation and cost reduction. Strong emphasis on fiscal accountability, long term strategic planning, highly effective budgeting and controls. Assist and consult on city-wide matters concerning enterprise infrastructure, business continuity, project management and IT service management.Major Contributions:• Negotiated resolution of long-standing multi-million dollar budgetary shortfalls of critical Microsoft contracts with vendor, Mayor, City Controller and City Council• Chief architect of city-wide IT organizational consolidation and shared services initiative• Implementation of IT project governance and standardized project management methodologies• Consolidation of multiple IT customer service centers and deployment of ITIL-based incident, problem and change management processes• Implementation of consolidated multi-forest MS active directory architecture• Development of data center consolidation strategy• Numerous multi-million dollar city-wide contract negotiations/deployments including largest single-site cellular deployment in Sprint history • Implementation of server virtualization strategy• Development of documented IT operations process and procedures run books• Creation of standardized network, security and server monitoring & maintenance• Remediated multi-year, multi-million dollar budgetary shortfalls and implemented processes to ensure proper planning and budgeting going forward

Houston, Tx

Managed $80M Annual BudgetManaged all infrastructure and software development PM’s and provided direct hands-on oversight for all large-scale enterprise infrastructure projects. Leading the development, architecture and implementation of SISCO’s long term IT strategies. Enterprise leadership in areas of project/portfoliomanagement, IT governance and IT service management/ITIL. Spearheaded performance in areas of IT cost reductions, consolidation and cost allocations across the enterprise. Oversaw all aspects of corporate business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Focused IT on strategic business alignment and long-term business value with a particular emphasis in reducing operational costs.Major Contributions:• Implemented enterprise Portfolio Management Office (PMO) and IT governance methodologies• Deployed business continuity plans and tests for all critical IT services• Developed and implemented enterprise IT shared services support & consolidation strategy• Developed and implemented an ITIL CMDB & IT service catalog and integrated them with IT budgets, business continuity and long-term strategic roadmaps • Developed enterprise VOIP strategy and directly managed initial deployments• Creation and leadership of enterprise data center consolidation programs to reduce corporate data centers down to 3 main centers from 20+ worldwide resulting in $4M annual savings• Realigned organization to focus on long-term technology strategy, architecture and planning• Utilized IT governance to emphasize long term strategic value over operations and reduced operational projects to less than 20% of overall IT portfolio

Houston, Tx

Managed $60M Annual BudgetResponsible for enterprise project management and planning, designing, budgeting and operations of SISCO’s global network, data centers, IT infrastructure and customer support center including management of more than 200 divisional employees and support of 700+ corporate locations, 1500+ servers and 10,000+ internal/50,000+ external users. Driving force in creating highly adaptive IT process improvement, project management processes and security and compliance programs to improve security, marketability and reliability of enterprise services to external customers and 60+ regulatory bodies. Developed operational audit process and extensive enterprise business continuity initiatives.

Houston, Tx

Managed $35M Annual BudgetResponsible for all IT project management, direct operations and support of all global enterprise IT systems and data centers. Primary leadership implementing mature project management and design methodologies. Driving force in expanding enterprise network monitoring. Focused on developing highly repeatable, efficient and measurable operational processes. Lead design and implementation of enterprise customer care center, tools and processes. Managed enterprise contact negotiations for telecommunications, hardware and software.

Houston, Tx

Leading efforts towards enterprise IT standardization, consolidation and cost control. Developed impact assessment programs with focus on high availability and fault tolerance of critical systems. Created network operations center to focus on proactive performance monitoring. Created many IT enterprise vendor partnerships and agreements with such vendors as Microsoft, AT&T, HP and others.

Managed $25M Annual BudgetLeading all of Stewart’s global enterprise infrastructure and project teams. Responsible for enterprise-wide deployment of frame relay network and all telecommunications contract negotiations. Developed testing and deployment methodologies. Developed data center and operational standards, change control methodologies and IT governance structures.Major Contributions:• Implemented Critical Action Teams to respond aggressively to chronic issues• Implemented enterprise-wide VPN• Designed and implemented change advisory board processes across enterprise• Analyzed and negotiated Microsoft Enterprise Agreement generating savings in excess of $2M annually• Developed, promoted and gained nationwide acceptance/adoption of global WAN and telecommunications strategy• Developed and implemented nationwide call center and multi-tier support model utilizing BMC Service Desk Express• Created design, sales, and implementation plan for enterprise-wide MS Exchange deployment