Overall guidance for Cloud Services, IT Infrastructure and Web Security. IT vendor management including cost analysis and technical liaison. Manage, support and administer the cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance, and security. Technical policy and procedure creation and implementation

Manage a team of 12 responsible for conducting site surveys of newly acquired data centers and server rooms. Coordinate clean ups, remediation, and installs / removals of hardware in order to integrate these entities into Optum's network.

Managing a staff of 4 people responsible for handling daily operations within 8 of Davita's colocation environments. These include providing mentoring and training, budgets, hardware procurement, cost analysis, metrics, strategic planning, capacity planning and management. I am responsible for implementation of quality control procedures to ensure full compliance with company policy and procedures as well as HIPAA, SSAE-16 and SOX. I assist in managing the server rooms and wireless network within Davita's central business offices.

This is a group designed to give a place for people who are leaders in the data center industry to gather together in order to find guidance and a forum to talk to each other. This is a place to discuss things like policies and procedures as well as data center industry trends and best practices. This group will include data center operations leaders as well as data center facility leaders.

Lead team of 14 employees combined between 2 US data centers and 2 EU data centers. My team is also responsible for venue, festival and remote office support. This includes leading the network installation team in providing wireless connectivity for venues and festivals so that they could sell tickets, merchandise, food and beverage as well as fan facing Wi-Fi as well as the cleanup / up keep of server rooms in 80 remote offices across the US. In the data centers it is my job to provide mentoring and training, budgets, hardware procurement, cost analysis, metrics, strategic planning, capacity planning and management. I am responsible for implementation of quality control procedures to ensure full compliance with company policy and procedures as well as PCI, SSAE-16 and SOX. Created and automated monthly statistical and departmental performance reports for senior management review for costs analysis and bill back purposes as well as capacity planning and performance metrics. Notable Accomplishments:• Installation and removal of core and wireless networking equipment to support 8 Insomniac festivals a year across the US• Installation and removal of core / wireless networking equipment and ticket scanner configuration for Super Bowl 50, Super Bowl city, NFL Experience and concerts at ATT Stadium• Installation and removal of core and wireless networking equipment to support Faster Horses festival• Design and relocation of 100 rack data center in Amsterdam

Managed 2 data centers in the US with a staff of 7 technicians and provided strategic planning for 9 data centers worldwide. Responsible for all data center functions including hardware upgrades and installations, offsite tape management, infrastructure and capacity planning, shipping and receiving, inventory management, RMA procedures, documentation and employee cross-training. Serve as primary contact on a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week basis, in charge of coordinating critical disaster recovery procedures directly impacting the stability of data center operations. Notable Accomplishments:• Decommission / relocation of El Segundo data center to AZ / VA – 3000 devices• Created reporting for capacity planning, cost analysis and metrics that were provided to upper management monthly for 11 data centers worldwide. • Largely responsible for planning and executing data center build / initial hardware install in VA – 2000 devices

Continued to interface extensively with multiple system administration teams, team leads and project managers to provide support on technical issues with a variety of priority levels. Responsible for covering all off hour maintenance where more impactful or complex issues were resolved. Chosen to be part of a select group of people to design and perform large-scale deployments nationwide. Lead DC team while management was offsite. Notable Accomplishments:• Largely responsible for planning and executing data center migration from Los Angeles to El Segundo CA – 2500 devices• Brought facility from complete blackout to 100% functionality 6 times in 12 months – 1800 devices• Chicago Data Center migration to Arizona – 600 devices

I interfaced extensively with multiple system administration teams, team leads and project managers to provide support on technical issues with a variety of priority levels. Work directly with onsite vendor field technicians to provide accurate troubleshooting information when assessing hardware failures. Notable Accomplishments:• Evite, Citysearch and Match.com server migrations – 300+ devices• Many large scale server deployments – 100+ devices

Managed staff of 6. Responsible for all daily data center tasks such as cabling, hardware upgrade and installation, networking, rack bolting and seismic bracing, cage assembly, base operating system and monitoring software installation, server monitoring, log clearing, service restarting, light IIS configurations.Served as primary contact on a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week basis, in charge of coordinating critical disaster recovery procedures directly impacting the stability of data center operations.Notable Accomplishments:• Key element in the building of a 20,000 square foot Collocation facility including rack, cage and structured cabling installations• Creation of the original technical policies and procedures• Many large scale server deployments – 100+ devices

Led team of 2 managing all in house technical issues including desktop computer maintenance, upgrade, repair, networking and network printer support. Managed small server room of approximately 300 servers. Ran all cabling including CAT5 (RJ11 and RJ45), patching, fiber optics, co-axial cable and microphone wire for live streaming. Was responsible for base operating system and software installations. • Built live streaming studio including video and audio cables and a small server room – 200+ devices• Many medium scale server deployments – 50+ devices

Manage staff of 7. Responsible for all daily tasks including offsite tape management, upgrade and installation of hardware, base operating system and software installations, BASH scripting, cabling and networking. Wrote all technical documentation. Responsible for cross-training employees. Served as primary contact on a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week basis, in charge of coordinating critical disaster recovery procedures directly impacting the stability of data center operations, Light IIS and Apache configurations, routine security checks and monitor video surveillance.Notable Accomplishments:• Many large scale server deployments – 100+ devices• Key element in the building of a 20,000 square foot Collocation facility.• Wrote all original technical documentation and set original technical procedures