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Plano, Texas, United States

Irving, Tx

Lead a large, multi-team global organization that spans Citi’s complete virtualization estate, software-defined networking, IaaS cloud automation, system administration automation, and PaaS platform automation and operations. Lead vSphere operations and engineering, NSX operations, and three DevOps teams that deliver self-service automation for vSphere, Ansible, SCCM, NSX, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

Irving, Texas, United States

Built and lead a global DevOps organization supporting Citi’s private cloud operations, infrastructure automation, and OS management automation. I was brought in to transform Citi’s existing private cloud operations team into a cross-functional DevOps organization and to lead efforts to modernize Citi’s IaaS private cloud architecture. I led design and development for Citi’s next generation IaaS private cloud solution. I championed a new culture dynamic built on a high degree of team collaboration, cross-functional roles, and implemented an Agile framework. I developed a culture of continuous learning and evolved my organization into a group of innovators focused on automation at every level.

Private cloud product owner, architect, and team lead. Led all technical initiatives related to private cloud at McAfee. Led all work planning and execution across a global Cloud Operations Team while employing agile methodology. Subject matter expert for vRealize Automation platform and all cloud related automation. Maintained private cloud technology strategy for McAfee. Maintained cloud reference architectures and led all efforts for next generation cloud solutions. Interfaced with all levels of executive management and teams across IT and Engineering organizations. Director-level input to staffing decisions across the private cloud and virtualization organizations. Managed vendor relationships related to private cloud and consulted on new vendor contract negotiations. Served on VMware’s Customer Technical Advisory Board since 2015. Participated on multiple Design Partnership Programs with VMware and helped steer VMware product development efforts. Contributor to two VMware onsite beta exercises for Project Tango (VRA 8 beta). External industry exposure includes speaking sessions at Gartner I/O Conference 2017 and VMworld Conference 2018, including industry analyst roundtables.

Plano, Tx

Private cloud product owner, architect, and team lead. Led all technical initiatives related to private cloud operations at Intel for the Intel Security BU. Also served as lead consulting Architect for Intel’s transformation from OpenStack to vRealize Automation as the reference private cloud platform for Intel’s broader IT organization.

Plano, Tx

Private cloud product owner, architect, and team lead. Led all technical initiatives related to private cloud operations at Intel Security. (See McAfee LLC and Intel for progressive career at Intel Security)

Irving, Tx

Responsible for designing and leading overall effort to deploy the first private cloud for Sprint IT built on VMware’s vCloud Director. Led several vendor proof-of-concepts to decide cloud platform of choice. Drafted business case and met with IT executive leadership to drive investment for cloud. Met with key IT stakeholders to sell the approach and gained conceptual buy-in for a cloud service model for Sprint development organizations. Partnered with IT Operations to design infrastructure requirements for the private cloud. Developed an internal marketing campaign to grow adoption of the private cloud as the solution of choice for development environments. Developed on-boarding process for cloud tenants. Partnered with several IT organizations to deliver IaaS, PaaS, and DBaaS catalog solutions in the cloud. Developed new Cloud Support Team to manage cloud infrastructure and trained staff. Led all private cloud efforts for Sprint including initial exploration of NFV technologies for mobile network edge services.

Key member on SME-level team responsible for developing and delivering an enterprise-class automation platform built on HP’s automation suite. Key responsibilities included development of Windows OS patching automation, OS deployment automation, and OS compliance & remediation.

Irving, Texas, United States

Windows and AIX SME – Developed Windows patching assessment and deployment strategy. Developed centralized OS deployment automation for physical and virtual servers across Sprint IT. Led Windows Server Testing and Certification practice for Sprint IT. Specialized in complex server environments such as early adoption of Windows Clustering technologies for critical business applications and administration of several IBM AIX SP2 environments supporting financial data modeling applications.