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Leading and motivating a team of IT engineers dedicated to delivering a world-class IT experience for our rock-star GPU team at Samsung. Collaborating with senior management to develop IT strategies and align them with the organization's overall goals. Assessing and prioritizing IT projects based on their potential benefits, risks, and resource requirements. Allocating resources, such as budget, staff, and equipment, to different IT projects to ensure their successful execution. Identifying potential risks and developing contingency plans to mitigate their impact on IT outcomes. Collaborating with external vendors and suppliers to ensure the timely delivery of products and services.

Leading a core team of IT engineers responsible for critical infrastructure services including DDI, Identity Management, VMware, Microsoft Exchange, Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket), Active Directory, and DevOps. Develop strategies that align IT initiatives with business objectives. Leading and inspiring the team to achieve project goals and deliver successful outcomes.

Watsonville, Ca, Us

Lead Engineer for Virtualization and Enterprise Storage Architecture for all global IT locations.• Member of a highly technical and talented team of engineers chartered with building, scaling, deploying and maintaining the global IT infrastructure• Own new service deployments while planning and implementation disaster recovery for core IT functions including VMware, AD, Exchange, Citrix, F5 load balancing, automation and monitoring tools• Plan and execute large-scale global disaster recovery exercises while working closely with the production and business teams at Driscoll's• Develop metrics for measuring success and performance of services to ensure service performance, scalability, stability and security for both existing and new service and infrastructure deployments• Manage new technology evaluations, priorities and decisions in alignment with business requirements IT roadmaps• Drive priorities and schedules based on impact level and business requirements to drive to the right decisions• Foster and maintain cross functional relationships with both technical and non-technical organizations with a focus on data driven decision making• Hands-on expertise with core internal IT infrastructure• Communicate timelines, service dependencies, resource constraints and progress with key stakeholders quickly and effectively

Campbell, Ca, Us

Recruited to establish Dasher’s engineering group and develop in-house pre and post sales architecture and implementation services. I design solutions for customers using HP Industry Standard/Enterprise Servers, Storage and Workstations, Dell Servers, Cisco Networking and UCS along with software from HP, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, Symantec, Citrix, VMware and others.• Lead architect for top customers in Fortune 500 companies• Research and respond to RFI/RFPs for SLED and large enterprise organizations• Project Lead for several EDA and Life Sciences customers including High Performance Computing clusters• Delivered custom POCs for VMware View, XenDesktop, VMware Infrastructure, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Exchange and others• Create multiple SOWs for delivery of services and customer engagements

New York, Ny, Us

Direct all server, storage, network, security and telecom systems as well as IT support. Balanced the IT budget and drove decisions for purchase and implementation of applications and infrastructure. Train, mentor and managed a staff of helpdesk technicians and network engineers.• Implemented redundant LAN/WAN infrastructure including security using core/edge design• Designed and deployed Active Directory infrastructure with Exchange 2003• Lead Oracle 9i upgrade on HP-UX 11i• Improved IT production system uptime from 64% to 99.98%• Instituted the first IT Department SLA, dramatically enhancing support levels and end-user satisfaction

Monterey, Ca, Us

Delivered comprehensive network, Tier 3 hardware/software and Y2K preparation and IT support for server and network infrastructure.• Provided top level IT support for major area hospital• Directed Y2K compliance, requiring the upgrade of 2,000 machines• Centralized management of all x86 Server and desktop devices including software and patch management

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Delivered multi-platform support (Windows, Novell, AS/400) for corporate office, retail stores, distribution centers and remote users from the Watsonville Headquarters. Contribute to projects such as networking, server upgrades and PC deployments.