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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Rockville, Md, Us

*Information Technology*Responsible for the agency’s technological infrastructure, security, compliance and vision across the enterprise. Sets the agency’s Technology Strategic Plan and brings it to reality.Manage the agency's 750K IT budget and all vendor contracts and relationships.Responsible for prioritizing, delegating and implementing technological initiatives across multiple teams and workstreams.Manage the IT team, providing leadership, direction and mentorship.*Leadership*Partner with other members of the Executive Leadership Team to actively manage the business, hit financial targets, grow revenue, and foster a healthy, supportive and authentic company culture.Champion of growth mindset and an avid meditator and practitioner of mindfulness. Stood up and facilitate the agency’s weekly meditation practice. Leadership Coach in BCW Global’s “Leading Above the Line'' Mindful Leadership Program, as well as a regular Guest Speaker at the “Leadership and Meditation” MBA course at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.*Growth*Navigates the agency on a path of constant growth, innovation and adoption of new technologies. Whether it be virtualization, automation, cloud architecture, or the adoption of any other technology paradigm, it is done with purpose, with clarity, and with a smile.Actively integrating two corporate infrastructures (HZ and BCW) post-acquisition, while minimizing disruption to the business, yet maximizing efficiencies, and the timely adoption of corporate security and compliance best practices.Drastically reduced the need for DevOps support and resources by migrating over 50% of our hosting estate to serverless, Jamstack technologies. Reduced DevOps costs by over 50%.Pivoted the agency to a work-from-home technology paradigm seamlessly overnight at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. The agency didn’t miss a beat, and has been successfully working in a hybrid capacity ever since.

Rockville, Md, Us

Member of the Executive Leadership Team. Responsible for all internal corporate operations, including Human Resources, Information Technology & Infrastructure, and Facilities Management. Partner with other members of the Executive Leadership Team to actively manage the business, hit financial targets, grow revenue, and foster a healthy, supportive and authentic company culture.*Highlights*Orchestrated six office build-outs across the country as the agency expanded operations into New York, Baltimore, Washington, DC and Santa Cruz, CA. Responsible for the design, implementation and installation of all Information Technology and facilities management.Continuously advanced the agency’s network architecture to allow for operation at scale, improve security, and keep the agency at the forefront of innovation. Migrated all data to the cloud. Technologies used: virtualization, automation, multi-cloud WAFS, SASS, Jamstack, cloud-based architectures.Designed workflows, organizational infrastructure, and operational paradigms enabling the agency to scale at 2500% growth over 10 years.

Rockville, Md, Us

Responsible for all IT Operations.Architected and implemented agency's Network, Server, Applications and Data Management Strategies.Provided client/server troubleshooting and support, setup and maintained e-mail accounts, configured and monitored daily backup system. Analyzed and resolved hardware and software problems. Configured client workstations, installed and upgraded corporate software applications and hardware devices. Trained users on new and existing software. Established remote user access to corporate network.