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Greenwood Village, CO, US

• Assigned to CenturyLink Information Technology Services to assist in developing the Infrastructure Practice Solution which includes Data Center Optimization, Virtualization and Migration.
• Developed processes, procedures and marketing collateral for the Infrastructure Practice Solution.
• Perform in both a pre-sales role to meet with customers and describe how CenturyLink can help with customer issues as well as providing post-sales direction and customer interface on Infrastructure projects.

• Assigned to the USDA to develop the processes and procedures for consolidation and migration of their 50 satellite data centers to a centralized environment.
• Performed hardware and application assessments and developed the detailed migration plans for the data centers.

• Formed a partner company to provide SAAS and PAAS application integration and support to the SMB market.
• Took responsibility for developing partner and reseller relationships with suppliers of data protection solutions, data backup solutions, database solutions and CRM solutions.
• Engage with customers to provide problem discovery and deliver a solutions architecture to address their issues.

US

• Sought out by Peak to develop and execute on an eighteen month strategy roadmap to move the company from a hardware centric VAR to a services centric VAR. Completed transition in 15 months.
• Led the development team in creating storage virtualization and data replication IP and services target at the Enterprise IT market.
• Provided technical guidance and project management support for the company-wide user migration from Windows Server 2000 to 2003 R2.

• Provided leadership for an on-shore and off-shore staff with primary responsibilities for engineering, architecting, implementing and supporting the compute, storage, network, messaging and application infrastructure.
• Directed support for over 1000 applications running on UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms in both a virtual and standalone configuration with over 3PB of SAN, NAS and iSCSI storage.
• Responsible for the architectural oversight, governance and compliance management of the outsourced IBM Global Services IT Operations environment and produced a 10% cost reduction three years running by initiating.
• Led the server and data center consolidation KPIs and produced year over year cost savings of $17 million by eliminating servers and data center floor space.
• Reduced the IT Operations hardware and software budget by $65 million over a 3 year period by engineering and implementing server, storage and backup virtualization solutions.
• Successfully managed the company-wide user migration (40K users) from Windows Server 2000 to 2003 R2.

• Provided leadership and architectural direction for an engineering staff responsible for developing and implementing product solutions for customers and hosting center support solutions for 12 US and 3 European Hosting.
• Drove the architecture, engineering and implementation of customer facing compute, storage and disaster recovery products as directed by the Business Development organization.
• Directed and participated in pre-sales engineering support for the US sales organization to architect customer solutions.
• Was the key interface to Qwest Cyber Solutions (QCS) to architect and engineer the support systems for their custom ERP solutions based on Oracle, SAP, Ariba, Concur and Siebel infrastructures. Solutions generated $30.

As Degree In Computer Maintenance Technology, Computer Technology

Bs In Mechanical Engineering With A Minor In Computer Engineering, Engineering

Under-Graduate Work., Mathematics