IT leader and skilled engineer with over 10 years of IT management experience including Director of IT, over 25 years of server and network experience, including more than 15 years of network design and engineering, and over 10 years of virtualization, cloud, and security experience. Proficient with multiple virtualization platforms including VMWare and Proxmox. Adept at network monitoring with Nagios, Zabbix, and SNMP, and skilled with Python, PowerShell, and Perl scripting. Driven to apply ITIL/ITSM methodologies for effective request and incident management. Strong IT leader, capable of managing multiple projects and teams simultaneously while maintaining expert-level technical skills. Extremely flexible and driven with a large skillset in multiple IT and DevOps technology stacks, including many open source technologies.- Highly adaptable information technology leader capable of making decisive IT strategies that accelerate corporate growth and development; champion for solutions and infrastructure design/deployments that meet business, budget, security, and scalability requirements.- Executive technology advisor experienced at working with company leadership and key stakeholders. Accomplished with communicating with employees at all levels of the organization and buildinghigh-performance teams.- Needs-focused, forward-looking engineer skilled in closing gaps between requirements and technology with optimal, cost-controlled, security-minded application and infrastructure designs. Skilled at delivering “right-sized” solutions that allow the business to perform at optimal efficiency.Management expertise:-Vendor Management-Staff Leadership & Education-Business Development & Growth-Technology R&D-Strategic Planning & Roadmaps-Security Best Practices-Disaster Recovery Planning-Network/Systems Monitoring-Compliance and Audit Leadership-Budget preparation and planningRecent projects:Development and deployment of a new ITIL based asset and request system built on open source technologies for little to no capital expenditure, including data normalization and import of over 10 years of request data from legacy system.- Proof of concept to full deployment in less than 90 days- Over 400% increase in proper requests and problem reportingConfiguration and rollout of an open-source remote monitoring and control system, to replace a legacy, closed-source solution, addressing multiple security and usability issues- Reduction in vulnerabilities over legacy system by 40-60%- Issue assistance and resolution times decreased by over 50%