Throughout my career, I have developed expertise centered on strategic planning, network infrastructure development, and making smart, substantive, and savvy capital and service-based investments in fast-paced, dynamic professional environments. I have built and managed technology frameworks that fueled business and technology initiatives ensuring that IT systems meet industry best practice standards as well as stringent government regulation requirements.In addition, I have managed complex financial capital budgeting and component sourcing, hired and mentored staff, and ensured the reliability and production availability of an entirely new manufacturing plant system.I have harnessed my proven leadership abilities and collaborative consensus-building approach to spearhead company-wide robust plans delivering impactful expansions of service, embracing technology upgrades, and implementing needed improvements to outdated processes.I am credited for building, implementing, and managing the first of several IT corporate infrastructures at Sparta Systems including the need to support users in both the United States and Europe to ensure productivity, deliver optimum uptime, and protect data during coastal storms. I have worn many hats throughout my employment including interchangeably wearing the hats of technology leader and business manager. My experience shaped me as a hands-on manager who leads by example and willingly rolls up his sleeves to get the job done. I easily switch from being in the trenches with my team to discussing key deliverables with management. Externally I have managed and cultivated mutually beneficial and productive relationships with vendors and contractors alike and have become an SME in my current role on cyber security matters.In short, I am a dependable technology infrastructure senior manager who is an expert in driving the planning, design, build-out, configuration, and deployment of enterprise networks and data centers that operate across traditional and virtual infrastructures. I know how to maximize resources to optimize performance, cut costs without diminishing functionality, and craft solid-state infrastructures that maintain near-perfect system uptime