Partnering with the Texas Department of Information and Resources (TX DIR) as the Public Cloud Manager, enabled SLG and Higher Ed through the Share Technologies Services program. An outsourced management partner for Public Cloud Infrastructure and Services.Customers maximize Rackspace's deep technical knowledge to design and build scalable cloud solutions while teaming with Hyperscaler partners to support an Assess, Plan, Optimize and Transform approach to progress and accomplish CIO and Executive Director strategies.

Successfully led 7 Regional Directors across 5 continents, representing 28 data centers, 400 employees, 55MW of power, managing 70k servers supporting $2.5B in revenue.- Managed annual OPEX budget of $125M+ to progress DC operations and enterprise system engineering and development.- Consolidated and migrated data centers saving over $35M.- Proactively traveled and assessed Asian Market, Feb-Mar 2020, during pre-pandemic state to support and create an escalated Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to support global operations, align vendor partners to ensure inventory levels for increasing customer volumes while prioritizing employee safety.- Maintained global operations to enable Q2 to Q4 2020 record quarterly bookings, 107% increase YoY. Zero positive employee COVID cases.

Teamed and unleashed capable Managers, Engineers and Developers to transform this team into a corporate resource of expertise and enablement while exceeding performance of a $10M Operating Budget.- 50-person organization supporting revenue in excess of $2.3B- Global Scope: support, maintain and optimize multiple MSSP-scale multi-tenant systems including, Monitoring, Patching, Anti-Virus, DDoS, DNS and Active Directory supporting hundreds of thousands of hosted systems.- Led several large transformational initiative to consolidate, migrate and optimize systems to maximize uptime, while constantly driving aggressive cost-optimizations.

Career Highlights:Communications Director, White House Communications Agency - Communications lead responsible to plan and execute global access to command and control capabilities for President Barack Obama. World-wide travel responsibilities on Air Force One, Marine One and daily presidential motorcades to provide on-the-move connectivity with the authority to activate emergency actions to ensure Continuity of Government. Advise, plan and train with Senior White House Staff and US Secret Service.Director of Operations, NSA Programs -Managed $11M NSA program budget and executed 150 annual global projects. Resource allocation and logistics for major renovations for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) facilities.Executive Communications Lead to Iraq -Onsite communication assessment of Iraq collapse of Northern Iraq by ISIS. Negotiated US access to Iraq Air Defense systems during POTUS directed engagement order; gained bilateral access agreement, de-conflicted multi-national air operations while preparing for ISIS advance on capital city, and US Embassy.Director, Global Enterprise Operations Center, USSOCOM -Led 120 professionals assigned across four continents. Responsible for global network operations, remediation and cyber defense of $400M global architecture supporting 75 geographical mission locations.Director, Strategic Cell & Legislative Liaison Office -Served as Chief Strategy Officer, led executive decision support and developed CEO broadcast for 14,000-person cyber organization. Authored strategic messaging and communications for national and international public affairs. Focused on national cyber policy and secured support by US Congress. Leveraged academic research labs, government agencies, global industry partners, and law-enforcement to cultivate information and technology sharing.