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Downers Grove, Illinois, United States

• Provides direct oversight and management of provided services, support, and reporting in the Azure cloud environment, as the leader of the Azure Services team.
• Oversees day-to-day operations of a team that provides 24/7 cloud service to meet appropriate service levels.
• Supports cloud infrastructure design, migrations, and administration as well as deployment and updates.
• Monitors, reports, and improves overall infrastructure health.
• Ensures incident, problem, configuration, change, and service management.
• Performs rigorous Root Cause Analysis, ensuring compliance to minimum Ensono standards.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Provides direct oversight and management of provided services, support, and reporting in the Azure cloud environment, as a member of the Carrier GCS Operations team.
• Oversees day-to-day operations of a team that provides 24/7 cloud service to meet appropriate service levels.
• Supports infrastructure design, setup, and administration as well as deployment and updates.
• Monitors, reports, and improves overall infrastructure health.
• Ensures incident, problem, configuration, change, and service management.
• Performs rigorous Root Cause Analysis, ensuring compliance to CSO standards.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Senior member of the account leadership team that supported the company’s largest customer and helped determine technical direction, customer requirements, and overall architecture.
• Liaised with customer’s senior management and executive teams to ensure that project direction, scope and long-term viability is in-line with business objectives.
• Engaged high-profile Fortune 100 customers and partners to assess performance across multiple systems, while identifying performance risk areas and suggesting solutions.
• Proposed best practices for leveraging legacy mainframe platform as part of a broader modernization initiatives.
• Provided leadership for senior technical engineers in regard to datacenter migrations or enterprise expansion into Azure, AWS and GCP cloud platforms using IaaS for Fortune 100 businesses.
• Provided technical direction with senior technical leads in regard to application refactoring for cloud native applications within Azure, AWS and GCP cloud platforms using both IaaS and PaaS for Fortune 100 businesses.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Tasked with management of systems for a company with 100+ sites and $98 billion in annual revenues via management of CCR Wintel tower, and remote storage and backup systems.
• Provided leadership for escalated and high priority issues and directed efforts of near-shore and off-shore support teams and vendors as it applies to enterprise systems support and maintenance.
• Supported and planned initiatives for Co-Lo and Edge-of-Cloud infrastructure hosting, application migration to SaaS solutions, prioritizing business risk and performance cloud environments.
• Managed on-prem infrastructure while balancing need for storage and compute to support AWS/Azure/Virtustream/IBM Cloud initiatives, reducing risk of increased Capex.
• Utilized Agile/Scrum project management methodologies to maximize flexibility as well as address and mitigate challenges as they arise within the migration process or the cloud landscape.
• Strategized and implemented business plan to vacate primary data center post Cloud Migration, to include decommissioning of logical and physical infrastructure, while continuing to reduce Opex.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Partnered with other company leadership for provide direction and planning for this start-up, which successfully created a patent-pending alternative to contemporary media streaming.
• Delivered a media delivery and management platform that delivers real-time simulcast content to any internet connected platform at a fraction of the cost of live streaming services.
• Created patent-pending technology that delivers simulcast audio/video content without requiring multicast/streaming technologies.
• Designed and created content and playback management system for MD1 media delivery platform.
• Implemented a scalable cloud-based framework that supports an unlimited number of broadcast and radio networks.
• Managed cost in terms of DevOps project and cloud deployment and hosting.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Director of IT and Engineering for a $24 million non-profit media company that creates and delivers content globally through internet and terrestrial means.
• Provided leadership and management of IT and Media Production systems including migration from 100mbps internet backhaul to 1Gbps network and migration from analog phone system to an IP based telecommunications system.
• Managed the budgets and several direct reports within IT and Engineering departments as well as the IT and broadcast engineering staff.
• Oversaw the 1-10Gbps low-latency Avid-based media production network and Opex and Capex for yearly budgeting, spending and auditing.
• Managed multi-track high-risk projects simultaneously, while working cross-functionally with other department heads and executives to define and develop business cases and build a consensus for technology initiatives.
• Managed Windows-based network within vSphere Cloud Infrastructure environment as well as Amazon EWS cloud storage solution.

Atlanta, GA

• Provided roadmaps and direction for this technology and media consulting firm focused on delivering cost-effective sustainable solution to medium and small businesses and school systems.
• Consulted with E- and C-level professionals to understand the gaps between systems and technology infrastructure and business objectives.
• Designed and architected solutions to meet client needs and worked with contractors to deliver solution, training materials and support on schedule and on budget.
• Managed Opex and Capex for yearly budgeting, spending and auditing, while handling multiple projects across the IT and DevOps business units seamlessly.
• Defined and refined system testing procedures and staffed and led software team from product design to delivery.
• Managed IT Infrastructure, QA, and issue tracking, and delivered technical briefings and announcements.

Atlanta, GA

• Managed development and IT teams for this social media startup that focuses on delivering a niche platform for social interaction targeting the continent of Africa.
• Accelerated the delivery of a solution that met business objectives by providing advanced technical direction, roadmaps, and research to maximize processes.
• Managed multipole high-risk projects concurrently as well as Opex and Capex for yearly budgets, spend, and audits.
• Managed IT Infrastructure as well as code reviews and defined and refined our system testing procedures.
• Led the software development team from requirements gathering through product delivery.
• Created technical briefings and made technical press announcements.

Atlanta, GA

• Managed development, architecture, and IT teams for this social media startup focused on delivering a niche platform and ecosystem for social interaction targeting entertainment industry and trendsetters.
• Accelerated design, architecture and delivery of a sustainable solution that met business objectives while operating within a costeffective world class infrastructure.
• Provided direction, developed roadmaps, performed research, and maximized development standards.
• Established a budget for development, IT, and support departments and managed Opex and Capex for yearly budgeting, spending and auditing.
• Managed multi-track high-risk projects simultaneously across IT and DevOps business units.
• Led code reviews and defined/refined system testing procedures.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Implemented technology solutions in the classroom and policies to support teachers and local technology staff, while establishing high-level relationships with technology companies in the education space for the fifth.
• Served as a member of senior staff and executive leadership to provide guidance and direction to support the agenda of the Superintendent.
• Managed a $12 million technology budget as well as Opex and Capex for yearly budgeting, spending, and auditing and vendor relations.
• Managed multi-track high-risk projects simultaneously for infrastructure projects and new school openings. Established sponsorships with technology vendors.
• Secured free technology equipment via CDC partnership and worked with department heads to build consensus regarding technology roadmap for short-term and long-term initiatives.
• Implemented technology in the classroom initiative.

Panama City, Florida Area

• Led the architecture team to design energy efficient modular homes built to Dade County standards to resist high winds and other forces of nature for this developer and builder of sustainable homes and communities.
• Oversaw the community development team to procure licenses, permits, community buy in and easement permissions required to break ground for new communities.
• Managed Opex and Capex for yearly budgeting, spending and auditing.
• Provided updates and reported directly to the President/COO and Founder.
• Managed multiple projects across IT and real estate development.
• Staffed and managed IT and Telephony Departments and planned, scheduled, and executed schedules.

Atlanta

• Managed projects and training plans for this software development firm that is focused on the creation of the TruCore framework, which deals with the complexity of big data utilizing proprietary algorithms and.
• Managed application development and deployment of custom business applications based on TruCore framework.
• Managed Opex and Capex for yearly budgeting, spending and auditing.
• Managed multi-track high-risk projects simultaneously across IT and DevOps business units.
• Established project objectives, gates and scheduled and lead projects.
• Led projects with Six Sigma, Agile, and Scrum methodologies.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Providing engineering and architectural support for this research and development organization focused on accelerating concept development and business case development with a focus on wireless technology and WiFi.
• Served as the Technical OEM Account Manager for multi-million dollar OEM accounts including Avaya, Motorola, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Verizon.
• Responsible for technical training, product roadmap synchronization, supporting large sales opportunities and operating as a technical liaison between Proxim development and OEM development, program management and.
• Provided high-visibility communications and representation for technical issues to both OEM partner and Proxim Executive Teams.
• Partnered with marketing, product management and systems test team to build consensus, define product specifications, test requirements and project timeline.
• Served as technical liaison with partner marketing, development, support and release management teams. Assessed, prioritized and reported gating issues along with probable solutions to executive management to better.