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North Carolina, United States

Durham, Nc, Us

Chosen for its rigor and reputation, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business offered the perfect challenge to push both personal and professional boundaries. The decision to leave a successful 16+ year career in tech leadership wasn’t made lightly. Committing fully to this top-tier, globally focused MBA program allowed for deep immersion and growth. With over 60,000 miles of travel in less than 10 months, the program’s demanding global residencies in Bangkok, Santiago, New Delhi, Prague, and Durham provided invaluable international business exposure. Completing these residencies while balancing family and future career goals required stepping away from full-time work to ensure both Duke and prior employers received the attention and dedication they deserve. Now, with the travel component complete and only electives remaining, this experience is shaping the next chapter, equipped to make an even greater impact in the tech and business landscape.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Head of Enterprise Architecture, HanesbrandsLed global enterprise architecture efforts, aligning technology with business goals. Managed architecture principles across key domains and took on disaster recovery responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key contributions included guiding a successful cloud migration to SAP RISE in Azure and implementing a global EA program that supported strategic initiatives across the business.

Greensboro, North Carolina, Us

Led global infrastructure teams, overseeing solution delivery, technology architecture, and system security across multiple on-prem, hybrid, and public cloud environments. Responsible for infrastructure strategy, audit compliance, and team development, managing a project portfolio of 100+ active projects. Served as chair of global governance and enterprise architecture committees.Consolidated infrastructure teams into an agile service model, optimizing performance and collaboration across business entities. Standardized and improved data protection policies, storage systems, and IBM Power platforms, resulting in significant cost savings and enhanced security. Implemented customer advocacy frameworks, providing regular updates to entity CIOs and driving alignment with business needs.

Taylor, Mi, Us

Led IT operations, infrastructure, and applications across 20+ locations during a challenging downturn in the oil industry. Provided strategic support post-departure to help Atlas navigate recovery and maintain stability. Spearheaded a complete infrastructure redesign, including a private cloud and disaster recovery capabilities.

Recruited to lead the technology strategy during potential public mergers, focusing on optimizing capital assets and operational expenses to enhance the organization’s appeal to buyers. Played a key role in facilitating the sale to Harrison Street, exceeding retention targets. Standardized office systems, processes, and technology across 80+ properties in North America, improving operational efficiency.

Led business process improvement initiatives for a private customer base of 5 mid-sized organizations, including 3 past employers. Developed end-to-end plans, incorporating system integrations using .Net (VB.NET / ASP.NET) and SQL (Db2 / SQL Server / MySQL / Sybase) where proprietary software solutions were not feasible.

Rock Hill, South Carolina, Us

Lead the A-team that consisted of security, database, network, compute, storage, and virtualization in 4 datacenters. Played a dual role as a key analyst and developer.1. Designed / lead development / implemented Comporium’s first customer IP tracking system for over 200,000 customer internet subscribers, reducing legal risk, improving customer proactive support, and overachieving on government expectations. A very complex design and build that integrated customer facing DHCP via MySQL with as400 customer account information that centralized on SQL server logic via the use of SQL Stored Procedures. Used as flagstone project for University of Michigan CIS program through partnerships. Front ended with ASP.net/JS/HTML5. Completed and delivered 3 months ahead of schedule2. Architected / implemented Global PAAS “PEQ” home automation product. Launched 3 months ahead of schedule for retail in several Best Buy locations across the US (2012-2013 – Comporium Communications)3. Managed all private cloud platforms and lifted and shifted all systems to a modernized (at the time) converged infrastructure. Configured all components of Network, Compute, and Storage myself. After stress testing the new paralleled Private cloud Infrastructure, led all aspects of application and data migrations with key stakeholders successfully.

Warren, Mi, Us

Designed and implemented all Network, Compute, and Storage systems across 11 US States. Managed all service desk teams and end user services. Managed all technical training programs and teams for mission critical sales applications. Created Automated sales training System that essentially acted similar to an internal (intranet) YouTube. Mapped out the training content, divided it into logical sections, perfected the training material by training all current sales staff (multiple times). Finally, recorded training videos using perfected material and technical trainers. Logically designed the system flow for manager approvals and tests for each segment. Coded the UI using Java based asp.net front end.

Designed and implemented all new infrastructure solutions, Architected several automation add-ons for existing EMR solution, patient retention, and sales commission calculations. Managed all EMR systems and HIPPA compliance for 2 DCs and 8 remote offices.Designed and coded several integrated applications and is-one to existing sybase rooted medical platform. Included: past patient outreach programs, sales commission calculation algorithm based on patients insurance type and what business actually received vs a blanket rate.

Implemented and supported over 30 client technology solutions across Metro-Detroit area. SAAS | PAAS | IAAS | Office365 | Active Directory | Hyper-v | Disaster Recovery | SAN

Started at the age of 14 > Promoted to grounds at 15 > Promoted to head of grounds at 16 > Promoted to Superintendent at 18. This childhood job turned into a career that funded my education and began my path into leadership. Oversaw all maintenance for over 300 acres of turf. Averaged around 20 reports per .Leadership | Management | Customer Service | Operations

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Computer Science, Computer Science And Information Systems