Hired to structure the organization for growth and scale the business through new partnerships, solutions, and disciplines. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company, including oversight of strategy, innovation/change, people, and finance functions. • Established internal customer pursuit processes to maximize Lantrasoft’s efficiency and performance. • Developed and implemented systems and processes to standardize and streamline operations across the organization, with a focus on achieving operational excellence. • Established a rural-onshore delivery model while ensuring enterprise cultural alignment. This model incorporated employee growth and development opportunities for global and local resources alike.

PearSave is a mission-driven fintech company dedicated to enabling savings and financial security for all. We encourage savings in the younger generations and underserved communities through incentives, opportunities to succeed and fail, and knowledge. The platform is not about giving money but about financial relationships and feedback loops, creating better behaviors.

Propelling Managed Services leadership for Meta’s architectural and managed services partner. Responsible for installation and daily operational support of two of Meta’s most significant HPC environments.1. Legacy -NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs2. Research SuperCluster (RSC) - Video of Phase 1 - https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-rsc/Directly led the RSC hardware install, physical/logical network standup, and cluster deployment (development and installation of the majority of the control plane). Partnered with 100’s of team members including researchers and technicians from Meta, Nvidia, and Pure Storage.Directed the teams responsible for daily technical operations attaining cluster compute availability up to 98% within the first six months for RSC and consistent Legacy compute availability over 98%. Established processes and continuous enhancements to monitoring, dashboards, quality, inventory, budgeting, vendor relations, and organizational development needed to support the first-of-a-kind environment.RSC will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world performance nearing 5 exaflops of mixed precision compute. This cluster is the first to run internal production data for Meta executing reliability, security, and privacy at a record-breaking scale. (1 Trillion+ parameter training models on exabyte size data sets) "The experiences we're building for the metaverse require enormous compute power (quintillions of operations/second!) and RSC will enable new AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, understand hundreds of languages, and more," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg • 2000 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems (16,000 GPUs)• Over* 175 petabytes Pure Storage FlashArray• Over* 46 petabytes cache storage in Penguin Computing Altus systems • Over* 10 petabytes Pure Storage FlashBlade• InfiniBand network fabric connecting 16,000 GPUs as endpoints (two-level Clos fabric with no oversubscription)• Nvidia Quantum 200 Gb/s InfiniBand link*not yet published

Transforming Business through People, Process, and Technology.Enabling Vision, Empowering the SoulDriving better outcomes for organizations and the people that make them run. Tomorrow is not just another day.*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

INFO 640 - Information Systems ManagementA graduate level study of the issues, principles, techniques and best practices in managing information systems and enterprise knowledge as organizational resources.INFO 661 - Information Systems for ManagersProvides an understanding of the importance and role of information systems in modern business decision making. Emphasizes choices about information technology and managing projects.

Hired to guide executive decision making and prioritization, align business and IT strategy, ROI trade-offs, project scoping, and product development to balance growth and profitability, while servicing client needs.• Worked with C-Level executives to build the Enterprise Portfolios; $284,000,000 business transformation portfolio and $100,000,000 enterprise initiatives portfolio.• Enhanced Capacity Planning and Project Planning / Scheduling by designing a software development estimation model and converted over 40 projects and programs to establish resource demand. Incorporating lessons learned and data analysis to insure continuous improvement. • Built & deployed a best practice Project Management framework aligned with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®).• Established a PM Academy to manage Talent and Organizational Transformation including Performance Management, Staffing, Training, Talent Standards, Continuous Learnings, and Roles and Responsibilities. • Recruited and developed a team of certified Program Management, Process Improvement, and Business Transformation professionals (hired 8 senior staff and 37 associates during a 12-month period).*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

Hired to lead the transformation of the RPO’s core processing engines for ACH (Automated Clearing House) and Checks business lines which process over $26 Trillion annually.• Established Program Management Office, developed and drove adoption of SharePoint Project Management tools enhancing communication and delivery (Dependencies, Dashboards, Approval workflows).• Partner with RPO CIO, IT executives, and operational management of the Check and ACH (Automated Clearing House) business lines to align National IT's services to their business strategies (Enabling Agility and Growth).• Member of the Federal Reserve Technology Leadership Team responsible for enhancing Program delivery. • Founded Ideas Squared to promote innovation across the Federal Reserve System, increasing collaboration and adoption of new processes in a risk-averse environment.• Improved vendor management (RFI, RFP, Contract Negotiations, and Vendor Assessments) timelines and processes coordinating with legal and finance departments.*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

Developed delivery teams across four Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Provided innovation and thought leadership for IBM in new geographies and cultures, enabled client business strategies through Information Technology Systems, People, and Policies.·         Oracle ERP, BI, Portal, CRM, Mobile Money, and other Telecom Industry Applications*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

Capital OneData Center Operational Management and Leadership of Data Center Consolidation, Oracle 11g Upgrade, EMC Storage refresh, etc.*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

Turned around a troubled account by implementing organizational change for a software development team consisted of over 100 developers. Single point of contact for account delivery including project management, resource planning, financial planning, scheduling, client management, and technical issue resolution. Contributions brought change and order to configuration management, unit testing, system testing, code reviews, UAT testing, technical solutioning, and requirements documentation. ·         Oracle 360 POS, Yantra (Sterling Commerce), ESB, WebSphere, DB2*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

(Privately held Industrial Distributor and Supply Chain Consultancy) Mr. Sammons was responsible for business development, cost management, customer satisfaction, budgeting, finance, and strategic planning for this regional innovator in industrial and construction supply distribution• Managing partner and creator of a groundbreaking business model driving annual growth of 110%.• Managed client inventory, analyzed projections for OEM planning, configured and implemented workspaces, and designed MRO and production fasteners for GM, Chrysler, Ford, Firestone, and Eli Lilly. • Increased operational capacity by 220% for a pharmaceutical reverse distributor through enhanced identification tags, eliminating redundancy, and standardized workplace layout and design.• Consulted with clients at all levels of organizations on supply chain, inventory management, and product design.• Supported life sciences, automotive, manufacturing, construction, medical device, and facility management industries.*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

(Billion dollar Industrial Supply Company) Developed and directed a cross-functional team that built a $10 million territory. ·         Responsible for regional sales growth of 50% in 1993, 30% in 1994, 1995, 50% in 1996, 46% in 1997, 42% in 1998, 51% in 1999. ·         Recruited and developed a record number of management personnel during my tenure.·         Focused on the manufacturing, life sciences, filter, automotive, construction, and biotech industries.*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.

Sammons designed and implemented procedures that improved human resource management and operations. Analyzed workflow processes and developed a strategy to overcome historic operational bottlenecks for this four hundred employee, Teamsters Union operation. Key elements included recruiting, technical training and skill development, performance testing, and process documentation.*See the Accomplishments - Project section for more information.