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United States

Trusted advisor helping companies transform their network, unified communications, and contact center solutions through thoughtful evaluation of current state, identification, and evaluation of solutions.

Bloomington, Illinois, United States

Leading a highly skilled team of technical architects and technology engineers with accountability for development of strategic direction for infrastructure capabilities for the enterprise. Develop relationships across Enterprise Technology, Business areas, strategic providers, and vendors to understand business direction and requirements and develop.

Partnered with senior and executive leadership as a key contributor and section lead for enterprise strategic effort to evaluate feasibility, recommend, design, and implement sourcing solution for infrastructure operatations, support, and engineering. - Led effort to determine scope of solution and technologies - Evaluated service providers and solutions.

Led team of technical architects and engineers to set strategic direction across the enterprise network capabilities. Partnered and collaborated with various teams and leaders throughout Enterprise Technology and Information Security to assess business and technology strategies to develop multi-year plans to transform and mature network capabilities to.

Bloomington, Illinois

Technology manager responsible for the strategic management of Enterprise Technology and Information Security vendors.- Responsible for the relationship management of key enterprise and technical vendor- Provided oversight for governance and policy requirements of vendors - Led team in the development and implementation of new organizational structure- Led.

Bloomington, Illinois

- Designed and implemented the first connectivity between on premise environment and public cloud environment including VPC configurations, DNS integration, access control, and load balancing solutions- Develop foundational technology design, principles, and best practices for integration and adoption of public cloud- Develop future state (3-5 year).

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

- Responsible for the risk analysis of IT system design and capabilities for business solutions- Provided guidance to business partners on preventative controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company data and systems - Evaluated proposed designs and system changes for adherence to Information Security best practices and.

Normal, Illinois

At 1st Farm Credit Services (1st FCS) my scope of control was over the Information Technology Infrastructure, including product ownership of network infrastructure/connectivity, telecommunications, server, storage, end user computing, printing, and the Information Security program.Key responsibilities included:- Matured Information Security Program through.

Bloomington, Illinois

I had the responsibility for the performance, stability, budgeting, and strategy of the enterprise LANs, WAN, and agent connectivity in addition to the telephone infrastructure and services. Developed and maintained a multi‐year strategy for the network infrastructure with a focus on reducing overall connectivity cost while increasing performance and.

Bloomington, Illinois

I was tasked with standing up a new department at COUNTRY to provide IT services to business partners throughout the organization. The goal of the department was to reduce the cost and lead time needed to deploy IT services and technology utilizing defined and repeatable process. The department was responsible for provisioning and decommission of.

In this role I was responsible for the governance, processes, and technology for access management to COUNTRY systems and resources. Work directly with internal and external auditors to address findings and develop controls for access management.

During my first 10 years at COUNTRY I gain experience across multiple technology disciplines as well as project and team lead experiences. Early in my career I performed technical support and design for many compute and end user environments including, workstation, server, and print. I worked on the Active Directory team, software distribution, and was the.