Lars Jowers Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Management of resources for the Planning, Design, and Architecture Unit supporting Infrastructure Services at Mayo Clinic. Technologies include Compute, Storage, Networking, Endpoint Technologies, Collaboration Technologies, High Performance Compute (HPC), Windows, and Linux.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• In this role, I am responsible for supervising daily operations involving the delivery of specialty services covering the design, build and run support within a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment that is.
• Led the creation of an internal PKI environment.
• Led the initiative of migrating internal HPC workload to an external host including contracting, workload management, and project management
• Completed all service delivery engagements within allocated time and budget.

• As the Unit Head for UNIX/Linux Engineering, I was tasked with managing the delivery of AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HPC services to the organization including planning, operational activities, and implementation..
• Spearheaded the consolidation of multiple technology platforms, along with the increase in usage of specific technologies (including HPC and Linux).
• Streamlined support services in the Level 2 and Level 3 roles as defined by ITIL/ITSM.
• Implemented secure administration practices, which significantly improved security posture.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• As the Service Delivery Manager for Operations Support Services, I was in charge of overseeing 34 personnel in providing Level 2 support for the Data Center Infrastructure Systems Division of Mayo Clinic covering.
• Facilitated the creation of a new Level 2 organization, which provided crucial support to Data Center Infrastructure services and operations.
• Ensured timely delivery of services by collaborating with multiple DCIS teams to separate duties between Level 2 and Level 3 organizations, and working through on-call, incident management, and request fulfillment.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• As the Unit Manager for Data Center Facilities, I was responsible for managing 20 employees in conducting power and space forecasting, installation of IT infrastructure (servers, storage, networks, and all associated.
• Consolidated data centers from the Mayo Clinic Health Systems.
• Led an initiative to vacate leased data center space for optimum reallocation of resources.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• As the Lead IT Systems Engineer, I was tasked with assisting the management with annual budget through anticipated projects, development of current technology, forecasting of replacement and maintenance expenditures.
• Maintained adherence to project timelines by providing necessary direction and coordinating work tasks in an effort to mitigate conflicts and improve operational efficiency.
• Implemented new processes, along with incremental improvement of current processes.
• Facilitated interactions with internal customers on a regular basis to better analyze and understand their needs for storage infrastructure.
• Integral participant in multiple enterprise committees including Project Implementation Coordination (PIC) team, Change Advisory Board, Installation Prioritization Group, MCHS Waycross Project Leadership Team, and.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• As Senior Systems Engineer, I was in charge of the coordination and implementation of various technological solutions across all Mayo Clinic sites. In addition, I also performed root cause analysis for various system.
• Streamlined and developed standards and processes, which increased productivity in interdepartmental workflow.
• Identified potential issues by tracking and analyzing historical and real-time data.
• Played a key role in several Mayo Clinic committees including the Design Review and Change Control committees, which conducted evaluation of project designs and environment changes for the IT organization.

M.S., It Project Management

B.S., Business Administration

Aa, Business Administration

High Honors