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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Trusted advisor and leader in business-focused solutions, guiding my customers towards success. Leading consulting teams, providing insights in multi-discipline bids, and aligning with customer strategic goals. Technical expertise that drives high-level enterprise designs and solution adoption. Contributing to developing services, creating white papers, and establishing best practices for effective VMware technology adoption. Key Responsibilities and Deliverables: • Leading technical and operational teams, emphasizing innovation to develop cutting-edge IT solutions. • Building strong client relationships with C-level and VP executives, aligning tech solutions with their strategic objectives. • Collaborating with sales, pre-sales, and customers to craft comprehensive delivery roadmaps. • Serving as a trusted advisor, offering insights that profoundly influence project direction. • Defining transformational journeys and communicating visions for successful change. • Developing high-level enterprise designs, ensuring alignment with customer objectives. • Promoting thought leadership by modernizing operations, best practices, and consulting services, sharing insights with internal teams and clients. Other Responsibilities: • Accountable for project deliverables that are instrumental in achieving desired business outcomes for our customers. • Collaborating across functions is essential. I establish and nurture strong working relationships with strategic account teams, sales leadership, professional services, product management, and executive staff. • Includes facilitating executive workshops aimed at providing consultancy on IT transformation and influencing both business and IT strategy.

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Leading consulting teams, driving business-focused solutions, and serving as a solution-level SME with deep knowledge of customers' strategic goals in VMware's large enterprise and global projects. Providing key input in multi-discipline bids, promoting best practices, collaborating with strategic account teams, and engaging with C-level executives to guide long-term business and technology strategies, investments, and innovation as a trusted advisor to executive leadership.Key Responsibilities and Deliverables Include: • Leading technical project teams • Building business relationships with customer C-level and VP executives • Strategical planning with sales, pre-sales and the customer to create a delivery roadmap • Trusted advisor to technical decision makers and key project stakeholders on projects • Defining and presenting a transformational journey to senior project stakeholders • Creating high-level enterprise designs while functioning as a resource for Best Practices and driving solution adoption • Develop consulting service offerings, white papers and best practices Other Responsibilities: • Accountable for project deliverables driving out the desired business outcomes • Establish solid working relationships with strategic account teams, sales leadership, professional services, product management and executive staff • Facilitate executive workshops designed to consult on IT transformation and influence business and IT strategy

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Led consulting architects in the adoption of Red Hat's solutions across multiple enterprise accounts, government agencies and service provider partners. Through direct interactions, earned the trust and confidence of internal architects, customers, sales teams and business exec teams. Played a crucial role in bringing together cross-functional teams from Red Hat's product business, product engineering, support, professional services and sales teams to meet the needs of our most demanding customers. Served as an advisor and mentor to architects in the private & public sector to ensure their daily success.Key Responsibilities and Deliverables Include:Leadership: • Led and managed numerous internal projects• Managed and mentored architects within the cloud practice• Provided technical direction for scoping consulting opportunities• Assign necessary technical talent to presales opportunitiesProblem Solving:• Identified critical pain-points in a customer IT infrastructure and processes, developing and implementing solutions Influencing:• Developed customer technology adoption roadmaps to promote transformative growth • Mentored technical talent to build competence and confidence within the teamMultiplier:• Led the technical direction of the hiring and enablement programs • Served as a point of contact between the Emerging Technology Practice, Business, Customer Experience and Engagement, and Engineering teamsClient Focus:• Developed relationships with key stakeholders at an executive level• Condensed complex design requirements into statement-of-work (SoW) and approach documents• Translated technical requirements to business requirements in scoping, discovery session, etc.

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Description:Demonstrated ability to walk into the most difficult consulting environments and use influence and technical guidance to make successful delivery possible. Made major technical contributions that impact business, strategic direction, time-to-market, cost reduction and addressed customer needs. Working hand-in-hand with account teams, customers and consultants to ensure the architectural vision is communicated and delivered effectively. Focusing on open source technologies and am intimately familiar with Red Hat products, while also aware of the wider landscape of both complementing and competing technologies. Proven ability to motivate and influence co-workers and client teams to positively affect business outcomes.Key Responsibilities Include: Leadership: • Self-directed leader on several large consulting projects to architect and design solutions. • Entrusted with timely delivery of complex initiatives independent of managerial oversight. • Engage at senior levels with business leaders and technical executives • Proven history of leading and conducting presentations of various audience typesProblem Solving: • Lead the technical direction of multi-project engagements with multiple stakeholders and competing or nonaligned objectives.Influencing: • Making strategic recommendations, creating the vision and getting both the Red Hat team and the customer onboard. • Proactively collaborating, influencing and building relationships with customers, partners, peers and senior managementMultiplier: • Working across sales teams, project teams and the wider company to accelerate and improve the project, sales and delivery quality. • Actively contributes to CoP's • Use field experiences to create ref architectures and docs useful for other client engagements.Client Focus: • Ensuring solutions are tailored to the customer’s needs. • Continually develop customer relationships throughout the sales & delivery lifecycle

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Description:Focused on architectural project support and delivery in presales and post-sales efforts in the conceptual approach, design and early implementation stages with a focus on solving complex technical problems. Proven ability to interface with senior levels of client technical and business staff to support larger and more complex technical solutions for customers. Through technical influence, not only improved the execution of my projects but also projects throughout multiple regions.Key Responsibilities Include:Acted as the lead consultant on several large consulting projects utilizing several different technologies to create and architect solutions. Worked in a team leadership role and architect for multiple complex system designs and was regarded as the authority on cloud management platform systems. Demonstrated skills for working with both non-­technical and technical stakeholders to extract and define system requirements, use cases and priorities on several projects. • Created the architectural visions for the technical aspects of multiple projects using various technologies/products and provided hands-­on technical guidance during project delivery. • Coordinated architecture and dependencies with multiple teams in a broad technical context and demonstrating an understanding of the consequences of the technological choices. • Application of industry standards and practices as they relate to projects and solutions (e.g., ITIL, TOGAF) • Provided a strong and up-­to­-date understanding of wider trends in IT as they pertain to cloud architectures, management and automation practices (e.g., Agile, DevOps) • Recognized authority in key cloud management and automation technology areas. • Acted as a technical mentor for consultants, providing valuable, timely and accurate technical leadership. • Possessed cross­-product and cross­-functional knowledge of architectural best practices within multiple areas of Red Hat's product stack

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Focused primarily on architectural project support and delivery in presales and post-sales efforts, in the conceptual approach, design and early implementation stages with a focus on solving complex technical problems. Worked hand-in-hand with the account team, customers, and consultants to ensure their architectural visions are communicated and delivered effectively.Key Responsibilities Include:Acted as the lead consultant on several large consulting projects utilizing several different technologies to create and architect solutions. Often worked in a team leadership role and architect for complex system designs. Regarded as the authority on cloud management Platform system. • Broad experience in multiple complex technical areas and contributed accordingly on multiple complex problems/projects, where analysis of situations or data required in-depth evaluation of multiple factors – including system design and interdependencies. • Understanding industry standards and practices as they relate to projects and solutions (e.g., ITIL, TOGAF) • Strong and UpToDate understanding of wider trends in IT as they pertain to areas of cloud architectures, management and automation practice (e.g., Agile, DevOps) • Command persuasive depth of knowledge in the area of cloud automation and management technologies. • Identifying client opportunities spanning multiple technical disciplines. • Acted as a technical mentor for consultants, providing valuable, timely, and accurate technical leadership. • Technical go-to for technical advice within my groupCross-product and cross-functional knowledge of architectural best practices within multiple areas of Red Hat's products

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Accountable for Cloud Architecture and Virtual Infrastructure engineering, design, and standardization for Bank of America's enterprise private cloud and virtual infrastructure platform. Responsibilities include architectural design, integration, end-to-end automation and orchestration, product testing, proof-of-concepts, and client demos. Held increasingly responsible positions as a result of demonstrating a solid track record for managing multiple functional areas and delivering mission critical innovative solutions for business partners.Key Responsibilities and Deliverables Include:• Enterprise cloud architecture design, integration, and certification including RFI's / RFP's and POC's• Virtual infrastructure design and certification including RFI's / RFP's and POC's• R&D, build, and test next generation cloud infrastructure management solutions to sustain leading edge capabilities in the bank's internal cloud• Leading a staff of 11 engineers between FTE’s, contractors, and consultants with project management responsibility for 20+ support professionals• Establishing, maintaining, and socializing technology strategy and roadmaps Key Accomplishments Include:• Establishing standards, process improvements, and engineering for a Gartner recognized private cloud management platform• Radically changed how the bank deployed ESXi by developing the industry’s first fully automated stateless deployment methodology. The deployment, post configuration, QA, and production readiness went from hours to minutes ready to host production VM's in Bank of America's virtual infrastructure.• Led the deployment of a multi-site cloud management solution upgrade that was the largest and most complex since the inception of the bank's private cloud platform in 2009. This resulted in over $43MM in storage cost reductions / avoidance.• Designed, established use cases, and led two fully integrated POC's for Red Hat CloudForms and VMware vCloud Cloud Management solutions

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Accountable for all engineering, design, and standards aspects of Bank of America's enterprise virtual infrastructure. Responsibilities include leading the engineering and certification of the bank's virtual infrastructure platform including the design, operational documentation, and establishing the provisioning and implementation standards for AMRS, Asia PAC, and EMEA LOB’s. Additional responsibilities included third level point of escalation for critical production support issues and SME consulting and product guidance.Key Responsibilities and Deliverables Include:• Led a direct staff of 4 with responsibility for 15 employees across internal engineering and deployment teams• VMware vSphere v2.5 – v5.5 enterprise configuration standards, backup, security baselines, hardware specification standards, complete operational documentation, and third level support and escalation• Emerging technology research and development relative to Virtual Infrastructure platforms and management • Developing, maintaining, and socializing technology roadmaps• Engineering and certification of the enterprise virtual infrastructure management stack including Virtual Center, Platespin, and VMware Converter for P2V activities Key Accomplishments Include:• Led the engineering and design of the bank’s enterprise Virtual Infrastructure and gained adoption of a “virtualization first” policy for new server deployments. This has resulted in tens of thousands of VM deployments worldwide. The CapEx and OpEx benefits continue well into the multi-millions of dollars.• Led an initiative that changed the backup / recovery solution for VM’s by engineering a byte level data de-duplication backup and recovery solution. This resulted in 70% + de-duplication on the storage backup frame, 60%+ improvement on backup run rates, and 60%+ reduction in backup failures.

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Accountable for all engineering, design, and standards aspects of the enterprise Windows Server platform. Led a highly skilled windows server platform engineering team responsible for engineering and certifying the core Windows Server builds and core platform applications. Provided SME technical guidance and documentation to other members of the organization for configuration, security, and best practices. Provided technical consulting to focus LOB project requirements, design specifications, and implementation plans. Researched emerging technologies and determined product viability within the organization.Key Responsibilities and Deliverables Include:• Developing quality processes and documentation to establish corporate intelligence and assist in efficient standard operating procedures in support of strict corporate and regulatory compliance standards • Provided overall team management activities, performance reviews, project tracking, resource management, status reporting, and team support• Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and diagnosing application failures • Extensive working knowledge and understanding of Windows, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS and DHCP Key Accomplishments Include:• Led the upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 as the core windows server platform across the enterprise • Led the design and development of an online product catalog that included all of the x86 pre-defined and certified standard hardware SKU’s• Led a large scale effort to design and deploy the first HSM (Hierarchal Storage Management) solution that resulted in multi-million dollar savings in storage cost reduction and cost avoidance

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Key engineer for a large scale Novell to MS NT 4.0 conversion in the Global Finance business unit for Nations Bank (Prior to the Bank of America acquisition in 2000). Configured server hardware and established the standards for the Windows server builds. Traveled across the country installing, configuring, and QA’ing new Windows servers, configuring storage sub-systems, MSCS, DHCP, DNS, and working through issues. Worked as an Integration Engineer on large LOB projects to gather requirements, engineer niche solutions, establish implementation plans, meet critical deadlines, and deliver solutions to our business partners on time. Key Accomplishments include the integration of Boatman’s, Barnett Bank, Bank of America, and MBNA acquisitions.

Administered and configured multiple NT 4.0 domain models integrated with a smaller Novell 4.0 network. Provided documentation for network, server, and client levels as modifications were implemented. Supported Network and PC client issues for all users at branch locations including reconfiguring NT 4.0 user group scheme. Implemented a backup plan for Novell 4.0 server and all NT 4.0 servers. Troubleshot various network, server, and user issues as they occurred.Key accomplishments include:• Engineered and implemented an NT 3.5 to NT 4.0 server upgrade for entire network. • Implemented a conversion plan to an Ethernet infrastructure from a Token Ring infrastructure.• Reduced an existing multiple domain model to a single domain model.

Setup and ensured accurate configuration of client network environments including but not limited to NT 4.0 network server and workstations, patch panel connections and routers, and switched connection with ISDN and frame relay. Troubleshot network and server related issues. Key accomplishments include:• Led client implementations and provided support and resolution for team members• Built and configured several Window NT servers for a large nationwide company project.• Setup remote access systems for centralized administration