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Arlington, Va

Promoted from Director of Technology to senior position for consistent success designing and implementing IT plan that improves network and systems infrastructure with focus on interconnecting and supporting two office sites, one data center, and remote employees. Strategize and execute technology plan to support rapid corporate growth with regards to network infrastructure, security, communications, payroll, facilities expansion, business continuity/disaster recovery, and corporate intranet/extranet. Selected Achievements:Spearheaded major datacenter consolidation with focus on virtualization to reduce footprint as part of broader organizational strategic direction. Led migration of network and systems to an existing datacenter, saving $150K in capital cost in equipment re-fresh and ongoing recurring facilities/support/administration costs.Eliminated $200K in annual facilities costs by consolidating office locations. Responsible for office closure, organizing telecommuting capability for retained staff, and migrating systems to primary office and datacenter.Collaborated with key Equifax leaders to develop an integration path for Anakam employees, network, and systems following Equifax’s acquisition of Anakam, Inc.Led ISO 27001 administration for a business unit ensuring process and procedures and supporting documentations were created and maintained. Additionally serve as POC for onsite audits, providing material and answers to questions.

Reston, Va

Arlington, Va

Played key role transforming company from startup with 20 employees and $3M in annual revenue to $15M with 80 employees. Oversaw technology strategy for organization, supporting company growth and playing critical leadership role throughout acquisition process. Scope of responsibilities focused on network infrastructure, security, communications, and business continuity/disaster recovery. Managed and negotiated procurement of all IT products, services, and SLAs. Selected Achievements:Executed and supported network security through Active Directory group policies, firewalls, client/server HIPS, NAT w/port mapping, VPN (multi-factor), HTTP/SMTP/FTP content filtering, and secure OS clients. Planned, tested, deployed, and maintained corporate-wide Exchange mail system with hot site providing 99.99% uptime and cloud-based backup and recovery. Additionally responsible for overseeing client/servers: Windows 2000/2003/2008/XP Pro/7x, Print Server, IIS, Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Cisco/SonicWall, Load Balancers, DNS, DHCP/WINS, ProxCardII Security Server, PBX, and various other standard/specialized productivity software.Designed and implemented VMware infrastructure that drove 50% reduction in hardware and server footprint and saved more than $50K in annual operating costs by virtualizing existing servers. Enabled rapid development and deployment of software delivery and Proof-of-Concept’s (POC), converting trial customers to paying customers.Created, introduced, and managed SharePoint 2010 intranet to centralize document sharing, communications, collaboration, information/issue tracking, process management, and more.

Arlington, Va

Facilitated overall direction, alignment, and maturity of IT infrastructure and office space, overseeing IT for company from startup to $25M business. Obtained all IT products, services, and SLAs for company. Managed all aspects of office security, including intellectual and physical property. Planned and maintained corporate communication systems (Exchange/SharePoint/Telephony) and network infrastructure/security utilizing Active Directory group policies, firewalls, client/server anti-virus, NAT w/port mapping, VPN, HTTP/SMTP/FTP content filtering, and secure OS clients.Selected Achievements:Championed all aspects of network infrastructure, client server services and end points, corporate communication systems, intellectual/physical/systems security, and corporate policies and procedures.Migrated critical systems to a datacenter and designed and implemented telecommuting infrastructure to align strategic initiative to decentralize the workforce while improving all aspects of back end systems security, elasticity, and uptime.Served as technical lead to design, configure, and deploy HEAT (help desk system) and barcode system to support nationwide document scanning project that supported the Social Security Administration (SSA). Designed and introduced the migration of back-end infrastructure from NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 platform that included the migration of: Active Directory, Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, IIS 4.0 to 6.0, SMS 2.0 to SMS 2003, SQL 7.0 to SQL 2000, Windows 98/NT/2000 to Windows XP Professional, Print/DNS/WINS Servers.