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Pensacola, Fl, Us

Leader in IT delivery and operations.Manages a 100% cloud based infrastructure for a fully remote workforce in the US and multiple locations abroad to support all requirements of a 24/7 hosted website.

Responsible for end to end Information technology needs for a medium sized company specializing in physical security.

Sr Director of IT responsible for Operations and Maintenance for the Comm. of Mass. Health Connector site. Leader of a team of 50 business analysts and developers responsible for triage of production issues, data corrections, workarounds, running batch jobs and working at a remote client site.Director of IT responsible for production support, environment management, 600 Linux/Windows servers, and Help Desk. Team of 6 sysadmins and 3 help desk responsible for compliance requirements for this position include annual SOC-2 assessment/audit for PHI data, production code deployment, security procedures and financial reporting. Managed storage footprint for multiple petabyes of structured and unstructured data delivering risk analytics on many million patient lives every month.Driving force for implementing a large number of initiatives in very tight timelines that is transforming the business in preparation of the Q4 2017 roll out of next generation analytics. New applications include the deployment of a 80 node Hadoop cluster, SAS servers, Tableau, Micro Strategies, Elastic Search, RHEL patching via Satellite, hardened sFTP appliance, Crossix, VisionWare and Teradata. Upgrade projects include Puppet, Mirth, TIBCO, encryption at rest, OKTA identity and access management, a server refresh for Oracle and a 300 person office move from Brighton to downtown Boston. Turned around the performance and perception of IT within division. Twice invited to share leadership perspectives at Corporate sponsored Culture Values training (group size of 50).

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for delivering online applications and improve back office IT.Initiatives were significantly scaled back due to oil price fluctuations.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

A great company passionate to deliver a sweet ride to it's customers !!Responsible for all member facing infrastructure (Datacenter Operations, Capex/Opex and Devops)Successfully completed PCI DSS and SOX audits.Drove the deployment of a number of key initiatives that resulted in reducing downtime from hours to minutes per month.

Mountain View, California, Us

Manages the operations team responsible for production support of 25 applications utilized by customer facing and partner applications throughout Intuit. Application functionality runs the spectrum from Identity management to live content updates pushed to consumer desktops. Team is also responsible for developer and QA support five leading edge applications.

Mountain View, California, Us

Manages all IT dimensions of a 24/7 commercially hosted website including capacity planning, budgeting, scheduling and adopting new technologies. Responsible for all escalated incidents and learning to ensure root causes for outages are not repeated.Secondary responsibilities include release engineering, run the business script maintenance (SQL, perl) and coordinating infrastructure improvements with the hosting facility.Supervises a highly successful QA team that deploys three major releases and 60 patches a year.

Apps.com was an internet start up purchased by Intuit.Responsible and primary worker for all aspects of IT including office build out, network design, Windows 2000 AD, Exchange 2000 and maintenance of the test and production server environments.

Washington, Dc, Us

Active duty 1982 to 1991. Drilling reservist from 1991 to 2000.Mission Commander for the P-3 Aircraft. Ground duties included squadron and wing duties managing highly skilled, intelligent sailors performing duties in administrative, tactical and aircraft maintenance.Served in Bosia for nine months (96 - 97) coordinating aerial surveillance with the US and British Army's.

Systems administrator responsible for maintaining customer workstations and servers.Skills including equipment maintenance, operating systems, SQL and exchange server.Secondary responsibilities included Cisco switch, firewall, tape backup and ATT phone support.

Mba, Business

Bsba, Business