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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 the budget and keeping costs contained.• 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 the agency's understanding of the power of technology, deploying its use to the maximum benefit of trust fund members.• Increased Board of Trustees knowledge and information flow, along with their agency oversight capability with mobility, video conferencing and analytics.• Reduced agency risk and exposure to cyber threats by developing and implementing policies and technologies, based on established standards such as the Federal Information Security Management Act, and partnering with companies such as Mandiant, Gartner, RSA, and others. We have performed internal and external penetration tests, security scans, environment hardening, and continuous monitoring, and have produced a system security plan for the agency. • Sparked innovation in the Information Technology Department and the agency writ large, by creating a technology incubator within the agency, modeling usage of the internet of things, mobility, and wearables to deliver member services.

• 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 hiring the appropriate staff, targeting manageable risk, and executing on large scale projects, that culminated in major business process and technology improvements.• 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 workshop allowed the agency to identify 5 strategic goals, that are used today in performance and budget testimony before the DC City Council and other presentations.• 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 Department, and DC Public Schools, and creating the foundation of a pension community of interest within the District of Columbia Government.

• 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, nationwide crew management, accounting, and human resource operations. • 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 could affect train movements, revenue generation, and safety.

• 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 outcomes.• 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 Customer Information, a Financial Management, a Geographical Information, and Work Management Systems. • 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, infrastructure and electric grid delivery systems. Collaborated with regional governments on utility preparedness and presented client’s plans at regional forums.• 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 schedule and within budget, allowing the organization to comply with changes to state laws.• 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 technologies.• The company Improved clients’ internal processes by, performing business process re-engineering, developing operational reviews and assessments, developing user requirements, producing systems designs and documentation, providing applications development services, along with data validation services.

Master Of Science (Msc), Information Systems

Senior Executives In State & Local Government

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