Vice President of Global Infrastructure for Fortune 400, >$9 Billion USD public company. Mohawk is the world's largest Flooring manufacturer with operations in 20+ countries, 38,000 employees in more than 400 locations. Lead diverse team of more than 150 dedicated professionals in areas of telecommunications, servers, datacenters, cyber security, mobility, storage, databases, mid-range/mainframe, various operating systems, and desktops. Supporting tens of thousands of devices via 4 global datacenters. Set strategy and direction on mission critical projects while maintaining costs in op-ex and cap-ex budgets. Use ITIL and COBIT processes for governance and continual improvement.Key Successes: -Deployed Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (vBlock) in 4 global datacenters in less than one year. Replacing all storage, network and compute with modern, cost effective platform.-Next generation technologies such as HANA in memory databases and Flash storage arrays to provide Big Data analytics. Further growing HANA to SAP ECC and Hybris for greater speed in business decisions. -Storage consolidation and Server Virtualization of >80% of all servers.-Moved critical services to cloud including email, collaboration, archive, web hosting, mainframe, and others.-Cost reduction in real and percentage of revenue for eight years running. Example: saved $3MM annually on Mainframe hosting agreement, saved $2MM annually on telecom contracts.-Created Vendor Management Office and processes to handle vendor score cards, contract negotiations, savings KPI's and asset management. Hired and staffed group. -Monitor Infrastructure metrics to identify efficiencies resulting in average improvement of at least 13% YoY for last nine years.

Director of Technical Services for $1+ Billion Textile firm over network, iSeries, Datacenter, SAP infrastructure.