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Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Served as Member of IT Senior Leadership team supporting the CIO in management of the department’s $32 M budget and leading strategic projects and initiatives. • Managed IT integration project and budget for $3.3 billion acquisition resulting in the successful transition of 450 personnel and their associated data from 17 locations into Dynegy’s systems within 5 days of closing the transaction.• Led all aspects of Disaster Recovery including development of requirements, writing RFP, managing implementation, ongoing operations and annual testing. The resulting solution was delivered under budget and successfully restored all critical systems to full functionality in less than the expected recovery time during testing.• Performed detailed cost analysis of Dynegy’s IT spend and budget that validated its position as an IT cost leader. The information was used by Dynegy’s CEO in merger negotiations and meetings with the Board of Directors.• Managed Key IT Contracts including Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, SunGard Disaster Recover and CyrusOne Data Center. Renegotiated terms achieving over $1.2M in yearly savings and successfully managed a Microsoft Software Audit.• Developed and maintained a balanced IT scorecard that provided business units with IT performance metrics in a format relative to their operations. • Implemented new technology for backups that utilized disk based replication to a disaster recovery facility resulting in elimination of tape and 50% reduction in backup windows.

Houston, Texas

Promoted to the role of Director from Senior Manager in 2011. Provided leadership for members of Infrastructure teams including Windows, Linux, Storage, Data Center, Backup, Messaging and Citrix located in Houston, TX and O’Fallon, IL as well as overseas through an outsourcing arrangement.• Championed virtualization efforts working across departments to validate the stability and functionality of the platform resulting in over 70% virtualization which was a key factor in data center consolidation and disaster recovery implementation.• Transformed the data center environment shutting down two secondary locations and reducing the footprint in the remaining data center from 2400 to 800 sq. ft. resulting in 70% reduction in monthly cost. • Converted back from Accenture outsourced contract to help develop strategy for transitioning to a more focused outsourcing arrangement with a lower cost provider saving $1.7M per year. • Led storage team in data migration from multiple aging systems to a single high performance storage platform resulting in $500K yearly maintenance savings.• Managed Linux team’s consolidation of Oracle environment to a Red Hat Linux cluster providing high availability and lower license costs. • Tracked inventory of IT assets resulting in more efficient use of hardware and licenses. • Began implementation of Dynegy’s cloud strategy which included evaluating all new technology or system upgrades to determine if using cloud providers would be more cost effective.

Houston, Texas

Provided technical expertise and team leadership for the Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Email, and Citrix environments.• Led migration from Windows NT 4.0 to 2000 AD.• Supported migration of approximately 2500 users from Lotus Notes to Exchange and implementation of email archiving.• Developed policies and procedures for implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and change management.• Converted to Accenture as part of an outsourcing arrangement in 2005.• Provided management, training and runbooks for Accenture's remote Windows team located in the Philippines that supported Dynegy's environment.• Responsible for developing job descriptions, interviewing candidates and making hiring decisions.

Houston, Texas

Provided technical consulting for Microsoft Server, Novell and Citrix systems.• Placed at Dynegy full time starting late in 1998.• Converted to Dynegy employee in 2002

Houston, Texas

Provided real-time mission control support for astronauts as part of space shuttle program.• Server as Biomedical Mission manager for Shuttle flight STS-71.• Supported development of Life Sciences program for International Space Station.