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I am a highly analytical, decisive, and detail-oriented professional with 20+ years of progressive leadership experience directing mission critical and emerging technology initiatives, identifying cloud architecture and infrastructure gaps, and managing project development and system design / testing. As a strategic and resourceful problem solver, I possess an innate ability to identify, analyze, and resolve design weaknesses and deficiencies in collaboration with clients and other resources. I also thrive as an articulate communicator with success designing, planning, developing, and synchronizing strategic technological directives conveying architecture vision to technical and executive leadership audiences within diverse fast-paced environments.Career Highlights:* Led team of Engineers to virtualize all physical servers in the State of Virginia government for Northrup Grumman Corporation. Designed, planned, implemented, and migrated physical systems to virtual systems at each state agency. Reduced physical servers / switches by 80% and power consumption by 85% saving 90% in costs.* Reduced IT costs 70% for GuideStar, Inc. by designing, planning, and executing physical to virtual migration. Converted outdated and overcrowded datacenter, reduced amount of space / power by 90%, and slashed overhead required for 200+ physical servers without an outage to internal or external stakeholders.* Saved $750K over 3-years by leading project to migrate away from datacenter to cloud. Directed 6 highly productive teams over 6-months without outage to stakeholders.Specialties: Leadership & Team Building • Cloud Account & VPC Architecture • Risk Assessment & Management • Containerization Services • Identity & Access Management • Compute Services (EC2 & Lambda) • Cloud Network Architecture • Long-term Development Planning • Integration Services (API & MQ) • Data Services & Tokenization • Customer Service & Satisfaction • Compliance & Negotiations • Strategic Planning & Execution • System-wide Technical Architecture & Security • Technical & Business Compatibility

Listed skills include Vmware, Vmware Esx, Virtualization, Emc Storage, and 46 others.