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Silver Spring, Maryland, Us

Leading and shaping the Architecture practice of United Therapeutics IT department. Improving business outcomes through the implementation of robust but efficient processes to reduce risk, enable technology, and right-size financial and operational impacts.Evaluating, selecting, and overseeing the implementation of both COTS and custom solutions to enable business objectives.End to end design of new systems and services spanning multiple architecture domains (infrastructure, applications, integrations, data).Managing other Architects and technology professionals to ensure the successful delivery of IT projects and services.Partnering with development, data, operational, and support team leads to ensure the right-sizing and operational alignment and supportability of solutions delivered.Reviewing contracts, SOWs, and other binding agreements to ensure alignment with UT Technology requirements and commensurate levels of risk, impact, and cost are effectively defined.Providing pivotal insights to IT and other Executive Leadership regarding technology selection and implementation decisions.Building and testing prototypes of custom solutions to determine technical feasibility and operational capabilities.Managing the awareness of the UT technology portfolio including the maintenance of a software systems catalogue, aligning discrete teams with duplicative requirements or systems, and reducing systems sprawl where possible.Partnering with IT Security, Risk, & Compliance specialists to reduce attack surface and third party risk through the implementation and continuous improvement of secure platforms and services.Being extremely lucky to be part of an amazing team at an amazing company doing amazing work.

Silver Spring, Maryland, Us

Serving as a trusted and preferred partner to Unitherians to maximize technology investments. Collaborating with business stakeholders to improve technology centric processes, evaluate and select new technologies, review and refine technology changes, consolidate and eliminate duplicative systems, and create and implement architecture standards. Managing the creation, curation, and continuous improvement of a global technology catalogue and associated mapping of critical business processes to related technologies to identify opportunities for increased integration, automation, and more.

Silver Spring, Maryland, Us

Working to establish and mature a dedicated Architecture and Business Enablement practice within United Therapeutics IT department. Developing and maintaining technology frameworks, creating an org-wide technology portfolio, and engaging with the business to identify and solve problems through the use of new and existing technologies.

Silver Spring, Maryland, Us

Evaluating, selecting, and facilitating the implementation of next generation technology solutions focused on solving business problems and delivering the 'any' experience. Connecting the business to the best technology and facilitating tight integration between disparate cloud systems to enhance outcomes. Delivering unmatched service excellence through the tireless pursuit of doing the right thing.• Creating and maintaining standards for new public cloud hosting environments.• Integrated HRIS with IdP for automated user life-cycle management and attribute mastery and update automation.• Led digital transformation efforts to deliver a cloud-native video conferencing solution.• Eliminated tape backups and DR collocation facility through implementation of Cloud native Disaster Recovery, Backup, and File Storage solutions.• Redesigned legacy converged infrastructure in favor of hyper-converged platform with public cloud integration.

Durham, Nc, Us

-Shaping the Cloud Infrastructure of the world's leading Accounting standards and advocacy organization.-Developing Enterprise Architecture Frameworks to support Cloud technology adoption, ease technology transitions, and facilitate meaningful integration.-Evaluating and selecting new technologies, tools, and platforms with which to build the next generation of AICPA's corporate technology strategy.-Creating and maintaining Cloud Infrastructure Strategy guidelines for consumption by Executive staff, Project Managers, Business Analysts, and technical peers.-Serving as a trusted authority on Cloud Infrastructure and related technologies to the AICPA Project Management Office, Enterprise Architecture Team, and Corporate Technology Services.-Serving as the lead architect on several mission critical IT projects as a member of project teams following various industry standard methodologies as aligned by the AICPA Project Management Office.-Always doing whatever I can to learn from and challenge my tremendously talented teammates!

Fuquay-Varina, Nc, Us

- Leading a small team of Operations Support staff to deliver a variety of reliable, high-performing technology solutions to the business. Serving as technical lead and escalation point for Operations and Data Delivery teams. Ensuring that IT Operations team metrics (Uptime, Cycle Time, User Satisfaction) stay within acceptable parameters.- Responsible for the evaluation and selection of new technologies designed to drive business functionality, improve processes, and increase competitive technological advantages. Continuously evaluating public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions, as well as emerging network and storage technologies. Investigation and testing of various PAAS solutions including Microsoft and AWS.- Implemented a new customized IT Helpdesk Management System (JIRA Service Desk) to increase IT issue tracking efficiency and reduce time to resolution, while reducing costs.- Implemented a new Documentation Platform (Confluence) and created applicable templates and structures for use by the IT and Process Improvement teams.- Redesigned Wide Area Network to accommodate public cloud strategy and improve uptime and performance while substantially reducing costs. Implemented DIA fiber circuits with Cisco VPN technologies to replace over-sized and under-performing MPLS solution.- Successfully implemented WAN design changes in UT branch location with minimal assistance from professional services vendors. On track to implement changes at NC locations as anticipated.- Designed and provisioned infrastructure to deliver critical business application (ERP) as a remote app, accommodate a new company website, and upgraded ERP system.

Fuquay-Varina, Nc, Us

Implementing new technologies. Consolidation and remediation of legacy network design. Managing Windows Servers. Creating and implementing new and improved backup and Disaster Recovery strategy. Managing Office 365 post deployment. Working in conjunction with PS Engineers to complete network infrastructure upgrades. Facilitating the virtualization and migration of legacy servers to a secure managed cloud environment. Managing the transition to Windows 7 from XP, including the creation of new Group Policies. Deploying published remote apps and Remote Desktop Services to centralize application delivery and management for key business applications. Managing the upgrade and virtualization of Cisco Unified Communications environment in conjunction with PS Engineers. Developing a full scale development environment to improve internal change process. Planning to build out a configuration management platform (SCCM) to maintain client endpoint configuration post deployment. Key player on the risk management team serving as the liaison for IT and helping to create strategies that reduce exposure and actively prevent potentially damaging incidents.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Responsible for the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of all data center assets including: NetApp storage appliances, Cisco UCS, Cisco switching gear, Cisco ASAs, HP/IBM/DELL rack mount servers, Cisco VOIP & Video gear, Barracuda SPAM Firewall, Raritan KVM, Riverbed WAN Accelerator.Primary Administration of VMWare ESXi deployment, including host setup and configuration, vCenter Server, Distributed Virtual Switch configuration, storage presentation configuration, plugin management, virtual machine provisioning.Primary NetApp Storage Administrator: Complete setup and configuration of two new FAS2240-4 systems, one HA pair for production data center, and one single controller configuration for Disaster Recovery location. Migrated all data on existing FAS3020 to new FAS2240-4. Migrated existing VMWare Data Stores from iSCSI LUNs to NFS Volumes to facilitate simplified Data Store management.Implemented and maintained corporate backup strategies to meet or exceed RPO requirements for SQL Databases, Exchange Email, Oracle Databases, VMWare Data Stores & Infrastructure, Active Directory. Configured and performed weekly NDMP backups to Quantum tape device for off-site data storage. Implemented and maintained a Snap-Mirror replication schedule to effectively replicate data to Disaster Recovery location in a timely manner.Comprehensive Microsoft Administration including but not limited to:Exchange 2007/10, SQL Server 2005/08R2, Active Directory 2008 DFL, DFS, IIS, NPS, RDS, KMS, SharePoint 2007/10, Certificate Services, DNS, Server 2003-2012 all flavors.Worked with PS Engineers to upgrade Cisco Call Manager / Unity - and integrate with Cisco VCS & VCSE.Participated in the relocation of entire production data center from existing location to managed colocation facility.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Monitoring, diagnosis, and resolution of trouble tickets submitted by internal staff. Installing and troubleshooting issues with customized medical billing and coding software developed by various govt. backed management entities. Imaging end user workstations. Maintaining an inventory of supplies to meet end user needs.