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Tampa, Florida

Develop and implement information architecture in support of USAA Federal Savings Bank and USAA Enterprise. Influence and drive information strategy in alignment with USAA overall business strategy. Maintain design specifications around full set of enterprise information capabilities. Identify and manage emerging risks stemming from business actives. Applies expert knowledge to recommend viable and sustainable solutions. Lead efforts supporting information governance, metadata management, reference data management and master data management practices, data quality, and the identification and designation of authoritative data sources supporting operational and analytical customers.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Lead, direct, coach, and motivate teams to ensure successful delivery of projects. Solution-driven and client-focused leader, responsible for leading transformational efforts in support of Red Clay's clients.

Lakeland, Florida

Manage and supervise the IT Smart Grid program in support of Electric and Water utility customers as well as the Billing System supporting the integrated billing of services provided by the City. Collaborate with city executives to ensure their department’s strategic objectives were supported. Develops business cases and conduct ROI and TCO analysis to identify the best opportunities to reduce the organization's operating cost and capital expenditures. Complete annual budgeting and forecasting for IT portfolio.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Provides business, project management, and IT consulting for aligning the customer’s Microsoft Azure cloud solutions in support of current and future strategic business objectives.• Provide business/IT consulting to Porta Salud Pharmacies Inc. strategic growth efforts. • Configure Microsoft Azure SQL databases and service bus for cloud-based database hosting and transaction B2B processing.• Configure Force.com and APEX triggers for Salesforce.com workflow rules to automate business processes.

Tampa, Fl

Manage the Enterprise Project Portfolio, IT Integration, and Service Transition for L-3 Communications Distributed Computing. Responsible for the direction, management, and execution of all IT integration and architecture efforts. Accountable for projects deliverables for complex and highly visible IT programs in support of the customer’s IT enterprise global operations.

Tampa, Fl

Design, develop, and implement IT infrastructure solutions. Provide direct program/project management for cross-domain security infrastructure in a timely and cost-effective manner while complying with stringent federal accreditation and auditing requirements.

Lead a team of senior developers & engineers responsible for development, integration, and implementation of complex IT solutions for a $12 million program. Provided subject matter expertise to recommend, justify, and implement technology investment.

Designed, developed, and implemented enterprise web applications and database systems for the Joint Special Operations Command supporting processing of real-time operational data of worldwide operations. Managed all aspect of technical project efforts.

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Designed and developed software in accordance with customer specifications. Managed projects tasks for software development activities to include providing requirement analysis, design, development, and testing of code and total solutions.

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Designed, developed, and implemented client and web applications for the Joint Special Operations Command clients. Provided requirement analysis, software design, development, and testing in support of the customer’s global system integration efforts.

Nellis Afb And Patrick Afb

Performed information systems and technical support functions. Operated and maintained IT infrastructure in support of the Base Network Control Center, the Commander’s Support Flight, and the Plans and Programs Division.• Supported the planning and execution of the Air Force Technical Applications Center fiber optic network infrastructure migration • Successfully executed migration to MS Exchange as part of the Nellis AFB network migration from Novell to Windows network. • Designed and developed a Unit Level Database (ULDB) to migrate MS Access to SQL Server • Developed the Nellis AFB publications and forms database catalog to track base level forms and publications changes.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bs, Computer Information Systems