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Lake Zurich, Il, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives, modernizing the company's technology infrastructure and optimizing business processes, resulting in a 30% increase in operational efficiency.Led the development and execution of an enterprise-wide IT strategy aligned with the company's business objectives, resulting in improved customer experience and increased profitability.Implemented robust cybersecurity measures, ensuring data privacy and protection, and minimizing the risk of cyber threats.Oversaw the successful implementation of cloud computing solutions, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% and enabling scalability and agility.Established strategic partnerships with technology vendors and negotiated favorable contracts, resulting in cost savings of $2+million annually.Built and managed high-performing IT teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led the development and execution of the company's cloud strategy, resulting in a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs and improved scalability and agility.Oversaw a team of 30 cloud engineers, providing technical guidance and mentoring to drive skill development and ensure project success.Successfully migrated critical applications and workloads to the cloud, leveraging IBM cloud services, resulting in enhanced performance and cost optimization.Collaborated with executive leadership to align cloud initiatives with business goals and develop a roadmap for cloud adoption and transformation.Developed and implemented cloud governance policies, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and security standards.Led cloud vendor selection processes, evaluating and negotiating contracts to optimize costs and enhance service delivery.Conducted regular cloud performance assessments, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions to optimize resource utilization and increase efficiency.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Executive sponsor for contracts and services, service level agreement (SLAs), and key performance indicator (KPIs) • Leads technology planning and collaborates with the appropriate departments and outside vendors to develop and maintain a technology plan that supports organizational needs and drives efficiencies• Provide leadership, strategy, and vision while supporting business objectives that scale• Analyzed technology process to improve the process and operational efficiency with proven results for reliability and performance • Increased Infrastructure security, formulate strategies and methods to mitigate the threats, assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IT systems and data supporting business operations.• Acute ability to develop leaders and managers - both motivating/empowering for top performance & making tough talent decisions while retaining talent for better synergies across the teams• Positioned a traditional infrastructure virtual and physical to be ready to swing to the cloud• Empowered 21 teams and organized department into a functional delivery stream and to achieve quick success through hands-on leadership • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment to transform the organization• Oversee the model for daily cost and projected annual OPEX for executive leadership and finance• Proven experience managing multiple teams, cross-functional projects, and influencing key stakeholders• Stays current with technological trends; ensures that Santander is making the best use of available technology

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Build, and manage a team of cross-functional experts from solution engineers, automation developers with the goal of IT transforming into the digital era• Oversee client relationships for key accounts including strategic vendor partnerships• Responsible for automation team and Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) initiatives saving significant personnel hours• Created cloud financial forecast model for daily cost and projected annual OPEX for senior leadership and finance• Simultaneously improved work-life balance and performance quality for a direct report within the first month• Lead team to automate infrastructure servers to scale horizontally in multiple clouds• Empowered five teams and to achieve quick success through hands-on leadership • Presented technical and business concepts across a varied audience with the ability to influence• Diagnose and evolved process and implement cutting-edge technology for competitive advantage from technology• Mentored and approved contracts and services, service level agreement (SLAs), and key performance indicator (KPIs) • Created Infrastructure review board and influenced the creation of the Architecture review board for another area of the business• Develop comprehensive high-level infrastructure solutions that incorporate strategic direction to maximize performance, capacity, and TCO.• Managed the operational budget and financial forecasting for IT Infrastructure • Partner with application owners to evolve their strategy across the enterprise for business continuity• Led the development and launch of a 6 million dollar project for instant impact for performance and faster business processes for 10,000 employees leveraging Citrix.

Chicago, Il, Us

•Lead and implemented Microsoft authentication directory synchronization through Azure Cloud services •Responsible for Virtual Architecture for Kraft operations leading HP global data center teams on shore and off shore.•Ensured operational excellence by working with application owners to rationalize applications for better mobility performance and experience.•Architect a next generation CVS for Kraft with mobility for sales and remote locations that are limited in bandwidth and have high performance and stability requirements using HP to support.•Created a vendors segment for contractors BYOD for enhanced security for Kraft overall enterprise working with HP partner.•Managed vendor relationships for third parties and HP, Enterprise Mobile and Rackspace data center outsourcing.•Currently working on development of HP Helion Cloud hosting services for Kraft hosting.•Develop and maintain the technology road map for Kraft foods.•Member of Kraft Architecture review board specialized in End User Technology.•Evaluate and technical liaison for Kraft forensic team to establish functional protocols covertly if necessary•Design and lead HP and consultants to implement next generation cloud office 365 on Microsoft cloud Tenate and customized solution for Ping federate for claim authentication.•Architected the industrial device cv61 handheld forklift devices mobility project to increase efficiency through Kraft 50 plants and established enhanced mobility throughout the manufacturing plants•Technical liaison to CTO for IT technology.•Design and deploy a modern internet browser in Kraft for 16,000 workstations. •Primary technical owner for Kraft RFP global outsourcing project for technology towers outsourcing for Virtualization, Messaging, Directory Services, Systems management and all desktops.•Technical Architect point of contact for business delivery streams to optimize for applications and devices for production efficiency to drive cost savings.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

•Implemented Citrix XenDesktop “VDI” for Kraft with a 50,000 seat license capacity.•Architect and plan Kraft and Cadbury Split by design two separate Citrix infrastructure with applications remediation and users transformation with successful transition till official company split.•Evaluate technology and present to senior leadership team with potential cost savings or greater functionality•Identified technical and process improvements and drive these to implementation with business owners•Coordinate and assess incidents with global business managers and provide communication to key stakeholders of any production problems.•Responsible for RCA and SLA reporting/updates to senior leadership teams.•Manage a global team of engineers based out of the UK, AUS, and US •Managed and approved statements of work and expenses for the virtualization technology space•Market and collaborate with various parts of the business to drive technology solutions to make delivery streams in Kraft for efficient.•Took over a BYOC Macintosh program and created a now successful workflow stipend program to save Kraft asset cost and allow non-company assets to be tracked and inventoried.•Owner and project manager for email migration of Cadbury Schweppes to Cadbury.com affecting 60,000 mailboxes.

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Cadbury Schweppes Global Citrix Team Lead 9/2006 to 3/2007 •Converted Citrix farm to Enterprise solution.•Team lead for International Citrix engineers.•Implement International Solution for Cadbury •Implemented Multiple Site NLB WI 4.2 and 4.6•Decommission legacy farms and integrate applications into CPS 4.0.•Created a new 4.5 farm with seamless transition from legacy farms to new farm.•Manage relationships with PM/Directors and above for Citrix related projects.•Responsible for historical reporting for business units and executive staff for Citrix farm utilization.•Monitor and scale farms according to application complexity and concurrent users.•Created custom office package tailored specifically for Cadburys infrastructure.•Optimized Citrix farm for international remote access.•Tailored zone topology to maximize performance for global farm.•Stabilized farm to eliminate weekly calls for Citrix outages and performance hindrance.•Consolidating multiple platform Citrix farms into a global 4.0 and 4.5 solution.•Converted NT 4.0 running 1.8 applications and migrated to Windows 2003 server.•Optimized TS licensing and consolidated Citrix license from single farm status to Enterprise.•Dramatically progress halted projects into a pilot mode then progressed to go live status before deadlines.•Implemented SQL 2005 replication of a data store across to countries for performance and reliability.•Automated application installations via installation manager to deploy to new servers.•Transitioned non-Citrix friendly fat client applications to Citrix environment for a centralized application pool.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Master'S Degree, Information Technology Ai