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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

Pioneer in Marriott’s cloud product strategy delivery onboarded our VMware based hyper-converged private cloud offering as well as our public multi-cloud offering (have since onboarded AWS, Azure, IBM, Google and AliCloud). Negotiated Enterprise Discount Plans balancing the unique cost models of cloud to address both risks and savings taking into account elastic and consumption-based pricing as well as Reserve Instance. Managed the vendor onboarding process for related contracts and price strategies for numerous multi-million-dollar contracts and cloud product offerings. Established the chargeback methods and tools, working tightly with our Dev/Ops Site Reliability Engineers, implemented state of the art cloud technology for our microservices utilizing tools such as Hashicorp Terraforms, Vault, Chef and OpenShift. Established our cloud product delivery service catalogs and marketplace, providing product press releases and website development with API integration. Governed the service provider relationships in support of agile delivery of our cloud technology with a focus on Infrastructure as code. Implemented our Cloud eLearning Academy solution. Worked with stakeholders, both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets and used this knowledge to ensure that the business and technology are in alignment. Provided Cloud Strategy updates and solution overviews from junior to CTO level.

Bethesda, Md, Us

PMP Certified. Deliver projects on time and within budget, while meeting expectations. Plan, direct and coordinate activities pertaining to technology and business unit projects, on an enterprise level or for a major systems implementation program with multiple releases and work streams. Verify project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives. Responsible for managing the team that develops and implements internal information technology projects. Share responsibility for planning, directing, and coordinating activities pertaining to technology projects for a given business units.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Utilizing strong interpersonal, team leadership skills, and many years of practical IT, Senior Project Management and business management experience, I work with corporate business units to ensure operational readiness and compliance with corporate policy for business recovery. Working closely and understanding the relationships with our vendors, application developers, system administrators, network engineers, business continuity, internal audit, risk management, data integrity and configuration management teams to ensure the successful recovery of our mission critical business applications in compliance with our corporate policy and service level agreements in the event of an unplanned disaster. I am also responsible for reviewing and analyzing our KPI and MTR statistics and reporting back to Sr. Management on our ability to achieve and or improve upon our RTOs and PTOs in this process.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Worked as an IT Consultant for a Fortune 500 company utilizing a strong IT background and creative software such as Adobe Master Suites , Adobe Captivate and, Articulate Studio , Microsoft Office tools to create eLearning coursework for in-house business processes, technical applications, methodologies, and business software. With the goal of making complex business processes clear, concise, readily understood and pertinent for the intended audience.

Established a sole proprietorship delivering custom solutions in the photographic art industry. In this capacity I developed and managed the business, web presence, finances, accounting, IT services, sales and marketing functions, driving revenues to create a positive cash flow and maintain profitability. Valuable technical and business leadership expertise was gained in the areas of multimedia applications, web development, electronic messaging and communication. National recognition was received when the business was selected to be featured on HGTV's Finer Living Channel highlighting creative and inspiring small businesses.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Selected by IT management as an inaugural member of the UNIX /NT systems administrator team for Marriott International. In this capacity I was accountable for the deployment, management and oversight of over one thousand distributed property based systems and several hundred central systems deployed at Marriott's Computing & Network Center and Corporate Headquarters. Responsibilities included upgrading, installing and managing systems, capacity planning, software distribution, and operations of these systems. Experienced with multiple system management platforms such as Tivoli, MAXM, NetView, and SMARTS. Career progression continued as I rose through the ranks starting as a process analyst achieving the position of a Sr. Project Manager with additional responsibilities including Automated Systems Management Software and System Rollouts. I received multiple awards for the successful management and completion of one of the first remote UNIX operating systems upgrades performed by our division.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Accepted a position within Marriott as an Information Systems Security Analyst. Working with mainframe and LAN security as well as applications security. I evaluated and implemented some of the newer paperless processes for the time. Assisted with the implementation of TCP/IP and distributed systems as well as the development of UNIX system security requirements as this technology was implemented for the first time by Marriott International.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Upon graduation from college with a B.S. in Business Administration and a concentration in Information Systems I remained with Marriott in a full time position as a Sr. Systems Analyst. In this capacity I worked with mainframe operating systems, MVS, VTAM, VMS and VAX. I supported our operating systems and applications in hotels, reservation centers and Marriott Corporate Headquarters, working closely with our telecommunications organization and application developers. I was also one of the first analyst to work with AI as an automated helpdesk software, later becoming a developer of this IBM Knowledge Base software, as well as systems automation software in house for Marriott.1988-1989: I entered the workforce for Marriott International as a full time college student in 1988. I was employed in Data Distribution and Magnetic Media from 1988 to1989. I was responsible for the dissemination of large volumes of property and corporate base communications, working closely with vendors and keeping tight delivery and shipping schedules and reports. I was responsible for providing media for mainframe and mid-range systems as requested, executing jobs and operating micro-fiche processing. Utilizing my knowledge of SQL and DB Management I developed a program to assist co-workers and management in expiring and off loading large volumes of reel tape media.

1987-1989 Working as a full time student I was employed as a Department Store Manager for JC Penney and Charming Shops Inc. with a staff of five.1984-1987: Working as a full time student I was employed for Heck’s Dept. Stores as a Department manager with a staff of one.1983-1984: Working as a fulltime high school student I was employed by Wendy’s Restaurants.

Mba, Information Systems Concentration

Bs, Business Admin. / Information Technology