- Define, architect, and execute the organizational and infrastructure plan required to fulfill the company’s business and technology strategies.- Provide high-level leadership to development projects that improve the functionality, reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s applications and systems- Ensure sound architectural designs are employed and advocate for best practices and processes.- Create a strong internal culture to manage technology projects with accurate time estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication to stakeholders- Work in partnership with internal functional teams as a technology partner in forwarding business capabilities.

• Provide overall technology leadership along with the management, technical, and financial direction for Hitorra’s internal and customer’s technology departments.• Successfully leading employees with extensive technology background (design, implementation, manage and support) building state-of-the-art IT infrastructures for mid to large organizations and global enterprises customers. Meeting key technical & business objectives of performance, security, disaster recovery, business continuity, higher ROI and lower TCO.• Successfully leading employees to support our customer organizational technology needs. • Provides executive leadership and management skills to establish IT best practices that support and comply with technical guidelines and functionality for the organization and our customers. • Provides guidance to Sales, Project Management Teams, senior management, and staff to remain in line with communicated the company’s vision and strategic goals and objectives.• Manages annual budget and operating expenses to identify capital improvement needs and establish processes to proactively monitor operational expenditures.• Manage third party vendor relationships, contracts, and licensing agreements.• Oversees major programs and high impact projects to ensure on-time delivery with effective communication, time management, leadership and budget control. • Delivered a cyber-security program to our customers using multiple stakeholder approach (internal, cloud and 3rd party services) that included Threat Detection & Containment, Computer Incident Response (CIRT), Behavioral Analytics, Data Protection, Threat Intelligence, Security Awareness, Risk & Compliance, Cloud Security. • Determine long-term information needs for enterprise and participate in the development of an enterprise-wide strategy for systems development, hardware acquisition, and integration.

Over 16 years of leadership, management, and engineering experience with Network, Security Infrastructure, Unified Communications, Storage, Messaging, Systems Management and Enterprise application architecture development functions. Managed an operating expense yearly budget of over $100M and over $500M in capital projects. Responsible for negotiating complex vendor contracts and license/maintenance agreements.• Successfully executed $100M Active/Active Data Center consolidation project for 26 hospitals in to 2 Corporate Data Centers with robust multi-carrier WAN (DWDM, Metro Ethernet), high performance LAN (Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco ASR and ISR Routers, F5 Load balancers, Gigamon), Security, SAN (Core/Edge Multi-fabric), Storage, Virtualization, Systems Management reducing operation costs, improving patient care and archiving availability of 5 9’s consecutively for over 5 years. • Successfully executed $120M Unified Communications project for over 300,000 end-points with 20 Clusters of SME, CUCM, Unity, Jabber, Telepresence, Call recording, Overhead paging, WebEx, Contact Center Express and Contact Center Enterprise cluster. Established PBX to VOIP migration processes for hospitals with antiquated phone systems.• Successfully executed $300M Capital project for WAN, LAN & Wireless upgrades for all 26 major hospitals of NYC Health & Hospitals. Defined business cases and business impact/risk analysis to procure the funding for this initiative.• Successfully executed $20M Unified Mobility infrastructure for Data, Voice and Location services using Cisco Wireless and Aeroscout Asset management technologies.• Partnered with Accenture to define the ITIL Framework for Infrastructure Services at NYC Health & Hospitals around Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management to streamline the IT workloads. Implemented standardized procedures that supported and contributed to the corporation growth.

• Designed/Architect LAN/WAN solutions for customers• Lead and assisted with all LAN/WAN deployments for customers• Installation, integration, operation, administration and support of various hardware devices including Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and other networking devices• Designed and implemented Novell GroupWise and Microsoft Exchange systems and roles in an customers enterprise environment• Designed IT architectures and implemented complex customer environments solutions based on Cisco, Checkpoint, Nortel and other network and security products• Communicated with client (and internal) end user and management groups regarding infrastructure design, maintenance, and administration• Accurately designed and documented clients infrastructure• Configuring Cisco Layer 2 & Layer 3 devices.• Analyzed and developed network/system designs.• Worked under limited direction with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.• Maintained and pursue additional technical certifications, as required by the organization.• Reviewed documentation written by others that describes implementation and operating procedures.• Lead and mentored Tier 1 and 2 of engineers.