Leads technology design and implement solutions on behalf of internal business customers• Plan, assign, and guide at least 2 network engineers, as well as participate in ITSM change board approval meetings completing over 40 solutions over 5 years.• Drive a variety of technology solutions levaging Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, SecureAuth (MFA / IdP), REST/API gateways, hybrid Cloud (AWS/Azure), and other technologies supporting the infrastructure for over 5,000 employees, criminal investigation unit, and over 250 offices throughout Texas.• Host and lead meetings supporting over 15 infrastructure architecture projects involving design and implementation• Perform oversight and contract monitoring of external vendor software and multiple technology integration projects.• Collaborate with 2 other Architects, as well as communicate with other departments to design and implement new technologies remotely using Microsoft Teams, Office 365, VISIO, and other online collaboration tools while meeting government regulations and requirements such as CJIS, TXRamp, etc.

Serves as part-time professor, planning and teaching Project Management courses under the College of Business & Management.• Teach project management courses for over 20 students in the College of Business & Management.Communications and Collaboration: Organize, prepare, and update course materials, and maintain records in Salesforce.• Record over 10 video and audio lectures, and conduct live and online sessions with students using Web portals.• Create and facilitate classroom exercises using gamification to integrate real world critical thinking into the classroom, resulting in 96% positive student feedback rating.

Serves as Program Manager under Chief of Staff for capacity planning and efficiency initiatives to deliver “proof of concepts,” and vendor processes to improve application rightsizing.• Identified and built relationships directly with internal leaders/stakeholders, geographically distributed onshore and offshore IT resources on assigned projects, working toward common business objectives, timeliness, and quality delivery.• Managed and liaised complex projects and programs at Kaiser Permanente for application and hybrid cloud infrastructure projects using PM and Agile based methodologies• Identified, scheduled, and tracked project deliverables, milestones using MS Project and Excel, resulting in reclaimed IBM AIX compute resources valued over ~4.5 million• Coordinate, prepare, and present virtual Webex meeting and presentations to executive leadership, stakeholders, and team problem solving sessions.• Led program which received the “2015 HP Discover Award” for innovative with application testing and diagnostics solution.

Manages and plans technology systems, budgets, purchasing, and other support and delivery responsibilities for the software development company. • Coordinated with Customers and internal software development team to gather, prioritize new feature requests of software resulting in over many new features. • Managed software release packaging over Internet distribution servers. As well as converting the office from analog phone system to VoIP capable system for future cost savings.• Managed budgeting and implementation of all software and hardware systems and equipment, and standardizing on Dell equipment.