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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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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+.

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.

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.

• 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..
• 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