Vp Director Of It
CurrentSimmons First National Corporation, Little Rock, AR 2018-presentVP & Dir of IT Infrastructure and OperationsProven Leadership:• Designed and implemented a new enterprise level data center• Upgraded the secondary data center with network connectivity enabling data replication for high availability• Decommissioned the old primary data center• Migrated core banking services from on-prem to 4 Jack Henry Associates data centers• Migrated all VMWare servers to IBM Cloud services• Established a Microsoft Products and Services team including hiring the Director, the Management team and Azure technical professionals • Migrated all new development to Azure Cloud services across two Azure regions• Hired and developed a server and database team to support IT services across a multi-cloud environment• Implemented Equinix data center cross connections between on-prem data centers and cloud services• Established a 24x7 NOC as a service including the monitoring and management of ATMs.• Implemented SDWAN and redundant connectivity to 260 sites• Established and IT Operations Center to monitor the performance of IT services in a multi-cloud environment• Migrated the on-prem telephone system to a Teams centric cloud service for telephony