Manages public and private cloud infrastructure across multiple sites and cloud providers for the independent upstream and midstream oil & gas company. Collaborates with interdepartmental teams to align goals with provided services. Evaluates new products for alignment with the Infrastructure team’s cloud and security initiatives.

Directed the administration of an $8.5MM data center for the independent exploration and production oil company. Supervised an infrastructure environment that included VMWare virtualized systems, Citrix managed desktop infrastructure, Pure, Dell/EMC, & NetApp storage, Cisco networking, Palo Alto firewalls, Microsoft Operating Systems, and AWS and Azure public cloud infrastructure.Supervise consultants working on corporate projects, overseeing an average of two to three individuals per project.Deliver infrastructure and server/hardware expertise to support applications for end users in all daily oil/gas operations.Guided a cross-functional team in the creation of a streamlined on/offboarding application reducing the time spent by 80%.Briefed management on the state of infrastructure. Provided recommendations for improved solutions and hardware.Collaborated with IT management on the transition to a remote workforce. Provided guidance and solutions to enableapplication functionality to end users securely regardless of their location. Managed conversion to MS Teams phone system.Oversaw the domain migration of 300+ users after a merger, and the migration to Exchange Online of 250+ users.Engineered and managed the hybrid Active Directory infrastructure between on-prem, Azure cloud and Office 365.Established maintenance/upgrade plan for Windows Servers, network devices and infrastructure hardware.Design and manage high availability and disaster recovery environments.Design, configure and deploy virtualization using VMWare.Participated in the planning and execution of four acquisitions. Provided hardware and data migration expertise.Designed, configured, deployed and supported storage solutions, including, EMC XtremIO, Pure Flash array, NetApp, and Dell EqualLogic, configured and administered dual Brocade fiber channel SAN storage switches, and configured and supported Palo Alto firewalls, and Cisco routers & Catalyst/Nexus switches.

Managed Data Center infrastructure consisting of compute, storage, networking, and backup systems for the independent offshore exploration and production oil company.Performed tasks in collaboration with one manager to handle all Infrastructure requirements.Managed data backups utilizing EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, and Symantec Backup Exec.Handled the company’s messaging environment, MS Exchange with 850 mailboxes, IronPort filtering, and administered a RedHat Linux cluster hosting Geology interpretation software, PreStack PRO.Managed the corporate network consisting of Cisco ASAs, Catalyst, and Nexus switches and routers.Administered the Windows domain of 127 servers, 650 users, and 335 clients.Negotiated a three year agreement for management and lease of multi-function print devices for primary and remote offices.Designed and implemented a MDM solution to protect corporate data outside the network.Provided tier 3 support and training for the help desk.Completed the migration of in-house systems to redundant colocation facilities.

Managed networks of five clients for the commercial services division. Provided consulting and management services to SMBs.Served as a team lead for five system administrators, engaging in hiring and onboarding processes for staff and contractors.Implemented and managed VMWare vSphere 5 infrastructure, and managed MS Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 environments in addition to three Blackberry Enterprise Servers, Versions 4.0 – 5.0.Retained accountability for domain-wide server backups utilizing Symantec Backup Exec and MS DPM, managed Windows server update service servers to patch 100 servers and 400 desktops, and oversaw DNS, DHCP, IIS, and enterprise CA roles within the domain.Managed System Center Configuration Manager and Office Communication servers, selected to manage an MS CRM/AX data migration and integration project, and oversaw MS volume licensing for two clients.Provided network and systems monitoring and alerting to IT staff. Managed resulting tickets to resolution.

Provided leadership to three airmen, facilitated an $18MM network upgrade saving the USA $18K in contractor costs, reduced the LAN upgrade time from 30 to 7 days, and designed/installed a $60K computer network training lab.