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Marina Del Rey, CA, US

• Strategic thinker utilizing technology to solve government and business problems.
• Proven senior technology leader, managing over $50M in program/project budgets.
• Created cyber security programs to mitigate and manage risks resulting in strong governance
• Extensive experience in planning, implementing, managing, and supporting enterprise datacenters and cloud services to reduce costs and effectively manage scarce resources.
• Professionalized the organization to the board level, reporting directly to the Executive Director of the agency, I have upgraded the contribution of the Information Technology organization by strategically managing.
• Improved agency effectiveness by conservatively managing an annual $10M technology budget, and $50M in planned technology investments. Hired and nurtured excellent technologists and subject matter experts to elevate.

• Dramatically changing how the agency performed its responsibility, and initiated pension administration reform by designing and implementing a crawl/walk/run strategy, that begun with small manageable tasks such as.
• Increased agency effectiveness by leading DCRB to develop its first organizational strategic plan by planning and facilitating an agency leadership team workshop with the Gartner organization. The results of the.
• Increased availability of agency technology assets by implementing and maximizing the use of a state of the art datacenter, cloud computing, virtualization, and enterprise mobility.
• Improved the quality of pension plan member data by completing $5 M data reclamation and cleansing project, in collaboration with offices of the CTO and CFO of the District of Columbia, DC Metropolitan Police.

• Successfully directed teams that facilitated the resolution of IT related issues nationwide by coordinating teams from IBM, AT&T, Oracle, HP, SUN, EMC, Amtrak, and CNSI.
• Managed operations teams tasked with supporting a 24/7 enterprise comprised of a 2000 server datacenter, that included interfaces to an IBM mainframe, supporting nationwide train stations, online ticket purchases.
• Successfully managed multidisciplinary team of database, Windows, UNIX, VMware, SAN, Backup, and Citrix administrators providing 24/7 data center support to a national railroad, by reducing the length of outages which.

• Created strategic roadmaps by collaborating with senior client leadership to define organizational goals, utilizing technology to effectively attain identified goals, mitigate risk, and enable successful business.
• Managed and identified risk and increased project success by creating a project office, applying Project Management Institute standards during implementation of many projects including a $15M program that included a.
• Successfully managed the Year 2000 (Y2K) initiative a for local electric utility, by developing and implementing disaster avoidance and recovery plans for its entire operation, this included financial, operational.
• Managed a team of developers tasked with implementing modifications to an enterprise utility rate calculation system to prepare for electric utility deregulation. The team successfully implemented the system on.
• Reduced client cost and increased staff collaboration capabilities by designing and implementing commercial grade digital telecommunications systems, for both local and national clients, leveraging state of the art.
• The company Improved clients’ internal processes by, performing business process re-engineering, developing operational reviews and assessments, developing user requirements, producing systems designs and.

Master Of Science (Msc), Information Systems

Senior Executives In State & Local Government

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Computer Information And Systems Science