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Florida, United States

• Enabled enterprise customers to utilize Flexera products through implementations, training materials, subject matter expert engagement, and process design workshops.
• Pushed customers to drive their message to C-level executives to help them understand cost avoidance and cost reclamation in a hybrid technology estate.
• Empowered customers to collaborate across their business to show the potential value of ITAM data to operations, security, vendor management, procurement… Show more
• Empowered customers to collaborate across their business to show the potential value of ITAM data to operations, security, vendor management, procurement, etc.
• Facilitated internal training and discussions to build community in the customer success organizations using documentation. Developed content for ITAM playbook and Java licensing.
• Expanded my technical skills in Flexera products, FinOps, Cloud, and IAM (see Certifications) and used them to help customers interact with other systems and teams in their organizations. Show less

Celebration, Florida, United States

• Leader of both software asset management and hardware asset management teams
• Product owner of ServiceNow Sam Pro services at Humana. Created and advocated for user stories to improve the functionality and value of software asset management tools.
• Advocate across Humana IT to show the value of data quality in procurement and CMDB, and drove collaboration projects with sourcing, vendor management, and ITSM teams.
• Led numerous risk management meetings where the lack of… Show more
• Led numerous risk management meetings where the lack of true visibility of infrastructure was escalated to senior leadership. These led to the formation of a risk management team within the IT Ops department.
• Enforced numerous corporate policies on software spend, hardware decommissioning, and software reclamation. This led to over $500K in savings over my six months at Humana. Show less

Celebration, Florida, United States

• Manager of 3-member software asset management team in setting up a true asset management program focused on clear visibility of the infrastructure and connecting that with a very decentralized procurement process.
• Facilitated monthly budget meetings with senior IT and C-suite members to evaluate new spending requests over $500K. Using our ITAM data we were able to stop requests of products already owned by the company and.
• Product Owner for Lansweeper and Snow… Show more
• Product Owner for Lansweeper and Snow Software inventory and licensing tools. Due to Snow Software’s performance, my team completed a due diligence exercise to implement ServiceNow SAM Pro, which was implemented in.
• Utilized partnership under the Office of CISO to use the InfoSec Ambassador program to promote standards in IT Asset Management
• Consultant for the initial Rocket Central service delivery model for the Family of Rocket Companies Show less

Celebration, Florida, United States

• Led the software licensing divestiture of Refinitiv (LSEG) from Thomson Reuters, including ELA\ULA true-ups, bifurcating contracts, and agreeing on transition service agreements (over $200M in contracts).
• Consolidated data from multiple disparate systems of record including IBM Big Fix, ServiceNow CMDB, Microsoft SCCM \ MEMCM, and homegrown systems to build official inventory for the divestiture.
• Technical lead for the implementation of the Flexera FlexNet Manager software… Show more
• Technical lead for the implementation of the Flexera FlexNet Manager software asset management product for the new software asset management team.
• Educate team members on contract review and licensing metrics for “Top 10” vendors like Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft
• Collaboration Ambassador - Trained peers and provided support during migration to Office 365 \ MS Teams Show less

Celebration, Florida, United States

• Managed the vendor relationships for Thomson Reuters with strategic suppliers of networking, server hardware, cloud, big data, and service management. This includes internal strategy sessions with stakeholders, status.
• Led strategic analysis of vendor usage for multi-million-dollar… Show more
• Led strategic analysis of vendor usage for multi-million-dollar agreements and presented data and recommendations to C-level executives. This required leading a cross-functional team of technologists, sourcing.
• Information Security Ambassador – provided training to my regional team on security best practices and corporate policies.
• Technical lead for numerous license verifications, supplier service level agreement violations, and merger and acquisition projects. Defended off a $45M compliance claim from the vendor by researching historical.
• Revamped strategic vendor management’s SharePoint web presence, document management system, and internal communication and meeting structure to improve team collaboration. Show less

Celebration, Florida, United States

• Developed architecture and network diagrams, cost analyses, proof of concepts, and project rollout plans to support the deployment of Thomson Reuters-built applications using corporate data center standards.
• Created documentation and procedures to enable new solution engineers to have a smooth onboarding.
• Advanced knowledge included computing, storage, networking, security, database (relational and NoSQL), middleware, and OS customization.
• Collaborated with… Show more
• Collaborated with portfolio management teams, application architects, dev ops, data center engineering, and finance teams. This included status meetings, project plans, presentations, and strategy meetings.
• Evaluated cloud directory services like Azure AD and AWS Directory services for application projects and provided findings documentation. Show less

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Learned on the job and became the sole storage and backup engineer for the business unit including EMC, NetApp, and Veritas solutions. Migrated over 50TB of data as part of the lifecycle management program for NetApp.
• Certified Citrix XenApp Administrator
• Implemented Blackberry Enterprise Server, Veritas NetBackup, F5 load balancer, and Barracuda Spam Filter deployments for Thomson Reuters SaaS offerings.
• ITIL trained and implementor of corporate change… Show more
• ITIL trained and implementor of corporate change, incident, and problem management.
• Participated in 24x7x7 on-call rotations. Show less

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Technical Lead for Citrix-based "computer on wheels" initiative for medical examination rooms and hospital floors.
• End User Compute technical resource assigned to the Health Systems smartphone initiative including mobile device management, application deployments, and messaging.
• Leadership requested I lead the Novell to Microsoft Exchange migration program. This included the initial proposal including the budget, presenting to the board of directors, determining internal and… Show more
• Leadership requested I lead the Novell to Microsoft Exchange migration program. This included the initial proposal including the budget, presenting to the board of directors, determining internal and external.
• Planned and implemented enterprise anti-virus \ malware agent upgrades including testing and post-deployment remediations.
• Participated in Lean / Agile training as part of UMHS initiatives. Show less

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States