● Designing and executing the Company’s technical vision and roadmap in collaboration with theCEO and executive team.● Leading the engineering and product development teams to ensure timely and successful productlaunches.● Assessing current technology resources and identifying opportunities for innovation andoptimization.● Ensuring the Company's technological platforms and infrastructures are secure, scalable, andaligned with industry best practices.● Supporting fundraising efforts alongside the CEO by providing technical insights and presentingthe Company’s technology to investors and potential partners.● Building strategic partnerships and alliances to advance the Company's technical capabilities.● Serving as the primary technical spokesperson for the organization, representing the Company’stechnology at meetings, events, and with external stakeholders.

As CTO/VP of IT I am responsible for managing all of IT, including corporate systems, omnichannel commerce, parking lot systems (POS, Kiosks, gate automation), DevOps, Software development, Architecture, eCommerce websites, mobile apps, master data management (MDM), and hybrid cloud.• Designed and delivered architectural initiatives that have driven revenue and improved efficiency in line with business strategy.• Established direction and strategy for a department in disarray by putting numerous low-value initiatives on hold while addressing numerous high-risk, “burning platform” issues• Drove team to address bugs in PNF’s omnichannel ecosystem that were causing loss of customer, payment, reservation and loyalty data, resulting in serious customer satisfaction and PR issues• Dramatically increased both IT team moral and company-wide perception of IT by upgrading critical positions on the team with strong, proven winners• Improved quality and reliability of all systems by enforcing use of Agile, ITIL and SDLC best practices, strong change control and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) and creating and measuring 2 week sprint objectives, and driving success through a customized "incentive" program• Led the Dev and Ops teams to finalize the creation of a proprietary product, deployed, and released internally to all sites• Created a help desk team to address any technical issues any of the remote sites might have 24/7/365• Led Cloud first initiative to create new web apps using Kubernetes clusters for web apps using Azure Devops Git repos and pipelines for code deployments while leveraging Selenium for web testing and Dynatrace for functionality testing and validation• Legacy apps use IAAS and Docker in the cloud making our on-prem sites SD-Wan mesh nodes

In my current role I have been tasked with the responsibility for working with senior leadership and technical staff across all business units in the company to formulate, maintain and communicate a cohesive infrastructure architecture strategy. Additionally, I collaborate with other architects and engineers to design and build large, complex infrastructure with a global user base. I also lead efforts to optimize new systems in a secure manner, ensuring that effective monitoring and pro-active engagement tasks are performed regularly to minimize downtime for critical business service. I led our Sage Payments Solutions and GETI group through their infrastructure redesign and assisted with ensuring their PCI compliance.•Producing a cloud architecture plan that provides the most secure environment for our applications and websites to live•Facilitate operational and security program that would include assessments, workshops and release readiness reviews.•Provide architectural guidance for all major infrastructure initiatives•Research and recommend next generation technologies that align with the Enterprise road maps•Participate in development of architectural strategy, including technology standardization and modernization•Responsible for developing the Cloud Center of Excellence program that assists product teams in delivering solutions to Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and hosted data center environments.•Manages cloud projects that utilize Platform as a Service (PaaS) as well as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) models.•Coordinates efforts with multiple IS groups (Networking, Windows Collaboration, etc.) in supporting solution development in the cloud.•Facilitates product readiness reviews that resulted in “go-live” recommendations to executive leadership including SVP of IT and CIO.•Serves as escalation manager for critical situations.

As a Principle Infrastructure Architect I am tasked with the responsibility for working with senior leadership and technical staff across all business units in the company to formulate, maintain and communicate a cohesive infrastructure architecture strategy. Additionally, I collaborate with other architects and engineers to design and build large, complex infrastructure with a global user base. I also lead efforts to optimize new systems in a secure manner, ensuring that effective monitoring and pro-active management tasks are performed regularly to minimize downtime for critical business service. •Play a vital role in the Cloud Operations Center of Excellence program•Facilitate operational and security program that would include assessments, workshops and release readiness reviews.•Provide architectural guidance for all major infrastructure initiatives•Research and recommend next generation technologies that align with the Enterprise road maps•Participate in development of architectural strategy, including technology standardization and modernization•Work with other architects and engineers to design, develop and coordinate disaster recovery, high availability strategies and business continuity planning.•Review and advise on high-level design decisions to ensure proper integration of new solutions into the enterprise•Provide detailed documentation on system design and implementation.•Develop design standards and guidelines, and mentor other architects and engineers on best practices•Effectively collaborate with stakeholders to gain collective buy-in on architecture strategies•Identify and address deficiencies in the infrastructure•Proactively engage in enterprise capacity planning and performance management•Evaluate, test and provide recommendations for new tools for enterprise management•Evaluate business and technical requirements to assist in developing optimal plans for upgrades and migrations.

Was oringinally hired by Sound Enterprises who was aquired by CTG 3 months later.* Designed enterprise cloud technical strategy for various customers* Defined and documented cloud solution architecture(s) including technical designs and diagrams.* Designed and deployed dynamically scalable and highly available services on Azure* Built and deployed production systems in Azure* Design infrastructure as code structure* Devised enterprise strategies around containerization, serverless and API management for various customers* Participated in every aspect of the development and operational areas.

•Manage IT department, equipment, budget and personnel. Design IT AV and Security for 100,000 sq. ft. buildings to 1,000,000 sq. ft buildings. •While managing the IT department at AEI I had between 1-9 people working under me at any one time and used software to track our assets, our warranty's, and manage the users for all of the AEI offices.•Upgrade and maintain the DMVPN that linked all the sites together, enable QOS with DSCP on all edge equipment that allowed VoIP to work.•Setup VPN's at all main sites using Windows 2008 NPS.•Redundantly setup switches and VMware servers and SAN's to make the most resiliant setup possible.•Upgrade all Computers in a standardized fashion removing the oldest first.•Made Company wide policies for users and IT staff.•Setup Websense to protect the company from staff liability.•While on the design side I provided IT, AV and Security design solutions for large building projects, inclusive of drawings, details, and specifications with up-to-date manufacturer equipment.•The clients that I have had the privilege of working with range from, Shands Health-care, St. Anthony’s Hospital, Baycare Health-systems, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Burnham Research Institute, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, University of South Florida, Florida International University, United Nations, VA, NASA, USAF.•All clients have had Telecom design services which involved horizontal structured cabling which services data and phones. In addition to horizontal structured cabling design building backbone cabling design was provided as well.Examples of most of the above projects can be given except for those that are considered confidential, confidential projects and clients cannot be provided.

As Network administrator we had to constantly be vigilant against IT threat’s both internal and external to the Credit Union. As a daily task we communicated with the Federal Reserve for various banking related tasks. With hundreds of thousands of member accounts and hundreds of millions of dollars we prided ourselves on our security, service, and uptime.