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Holmdel, New Jersey, Us

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New York, New York, Us

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

• Served as the Global Storage Project Manager in the implementation of priority driven technology initiatives across Verizon• Worked closely with service and operations teams to identify capacity demand for the VZW customer portfolio. • Served as the Project Manager in the planning and integration of Verizon Wireline and Verizon Wireless services, consolidating IT asset, reducing unnecessary costs, and leveraging buying power of business units.• Worked with VZW organizations to develop, design, size, and adjust data flow models to ensure applications meet availability, performance, capacity, and security requirements and guidelines.• Managed data center products & solutions by organizing, directing, coordinating, and implementing service delivery activities• Oversaw projects managing updates to cloud-based data solutions in order to reduce maintenance costs, improve performance, increased capacity, lower capital costs, and further enhance strategic IT product deployments. • Prepared budgets and monitor cost expenditures to reduce cost overruns for the data center; reorganized data center network infrastructure and coordinated the elimination of 3 data centers, delivering approximately $8M in annual cost savings.• Managed full life-cycle of projects from initiation to final execution and follow-up• Led Data Center Technology Refresh Project• Directed a Storage Tech Refresh initiative eliminating 159 storage arrays • Headed Chief Information Officer initiative for implementation of all flash disk technology • Prepared budgets and monitor cost expenditures to reduce cost overruns• Project managed plan to integrate Verizon Wireline and Verizon Wireless business units• Consolidated IT asset, reducing unnecessary costs and leveraging buying power of business units

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

• Oversaw projects for teams and worked with planning, engineering, operations, and tenant operation functions for systems. • Worked closely with project teams to deliver new service solutions and maintain IT project management processes.• Managed the development of technical and IT support system requirements for VZW systems.• Served as a Project Manager in coordinating projects to reduce data center expenditures by unifying storage and management systems, eliminating space, power, and cooling generating nearly $4M in annual cost savings.• Assisted in training and mentoring onsite/offshore IT support teams on new technology in large functional group settings.• Developed innovative IT practices to deliver a significant cost savings through streamlining practices and new technology.• Achieved a cost savings of $4MM/year by reducing infrastructure maintenance, capital costs, and data center footprint.• Provided assistance with the re-negotiation of contracts with vendors, providers, third-party network and data center maintenance, saving approximately $2M annually for the company.• Delivered direct revenue savings exceeding $25MM over 5 years, including numerous seven figure negotiations with vendors and successful introduction of newer technology while supporting 7 enterprise data centers.