Prentice Smith Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Managing 9 Data Center Consolidation. Building out 2 Data. Centers and creating DR plans for 350 applications. Managing Azure Cloud Strategy Standardsn.

Specializing in leading programs for consolidation of on premise data centers, data center construction, data center migrations to off premise and cloud migration to private, public and hybrid cloud.

The Woodlands, Texas

Houston, Texas Area

Enterprise Program Manager 2016 – 2017Lead multiple programs for downstream and upstream businesses such as British Gas (BG) Integration Program and End of Life Program. Work within leadership to devise strategic plans and lead change initiatives to align technology with corporate goals. Manage team of 5 direct reports and 60 indirect reports. Oversee multiple technical projects concurrently with full budgeting and P&L responsibility.• Oversaw British Gas (BG) program’s integration with Shell portfolio by influencing executive team to approve 3-year strategic plan and $32M budget and leading stage gate I and II of project to migrate 300+ business applications into cloud and close 6 global data centers. • Managed Shell End of Life Program for transitioning 5000+ servers, databases, and storage located in 8 global datacenters to an on-site service provider by working with business heads across 5 lines of business to devise strategy, budgeting, and approval, and leading globally dispersed teams through lifecycle of project to delivery. • Launched new site in Tulsa, OK 4 months ahead of schedule in support of Motiva Joint Venture separation by leading multiple work streams in parallel through migration of accounting functions from the Philippines, receiving CIO Recognition Award for contributions.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed new Enterprise wide Field Telecoms Organization’s split into IT Support and Projects Design Office, including design verification and assurance for upstream and downstream. Managed a team of 15 resources located globally (Nigeria, Malaysia, Egypt, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, and United States).• Led team of 4 in developing finalized plan and budget for implementation of new Field Telecom organization and Upstream Service Operation’s Management FT Support Group; gaining approval from Infrastructure CIO.• Served as Field Telecom Interim Manager for 6 months, managing Field Telecom design, verification, and assurance workstreams for capital projects in upstream SOM, downstream SOM, projects and technology groups.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed benefit delivery for CIO of Infrastructure sponsored programs / projects. Reported monthly status to CIO and direct reports on top 20 programs. Chaired CIO Investment Business Board meetings and led discussions for budgeting impacting projects and programs. Acted as escalation point for top 20 CIO projects. Managed project management team of 15 and led 4 cross-functional staff through CIO project budget development to ensure delivery on investments. • Played key role in drafting and implementing new financial budget process covering approvals for Infrastructure projects.• Managed delivery of infrastructure project portfolio of 200+ programs / projects by aligning budgeting reductions with $32M unexpected Data Center relocation program.• Developed run book for Enterprise PMO and migrated all IPPD PMO resources to Enterprise Services, reducing budget by $1M annually and implementing a new resourcing model to flex on / offshore resourcing.• Reduced annual project management spend by 30M, completing restructure of resources and implementing standardized project management rates for IT projects.• Selected as active member of business IT process improvement team.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed 5 direct reports and 150+ supplier resources through budget planning and execution / tracking of IT / business projects to implement globally dispersed Infrastructure programs. Held full budgeting responsibilities for up to $240M. • Delivered major business programs, included Blueprint R1 and R2 ($750M), Gas+, Insight, Trading Business Relocation, and IRM.• Selected as key member of multiple steering committees, providing leadership and direction on program / project execution, influencing budgeting decisions, and ensuring best practices and process improvements.

Houston, Texas Area

Senior Project Manager, Client: Royal Dutch ShellLed development of Infrastructure Practice. Hired 14 permeant staff and coordinated 6 global direct reports / 75 service provider resources. Managed Trading North America Non-SAP Storage and Hosting Program to include Disaster Recovery Data Center relocation, 500 Citrix hosted / 285 integrated application migrations with multimillion-dollar budgeting responsibilities.• Delivered multiple migration / relocation projects on time and on budget to include 85 legacy Systems to new Data Centers, 200+ network interfaces and services, 140 Windows Servers, 25 BAM Applications, and 44TB of data to a GI-D storage solution.

Houston, Texas Area

StatoilHydro LLC • Oversaw construction of new Data Center including environmental and cabling Infrastructure.• Coordinated the move of $4.6MM of Network, Server and Storage Equipment from two data centers into the new location.• Led Field Engineers, Systems Administrators (UNIX, Oracle, SQL, and Windows) in day to day move related tasks. All network, storage, and server administration services were supplied via StatoilHydro GDS group in Norway. This required schedule flexibility for task accomplishment and meetings due to time zone differences. • Oversaw implementation of new Tape Library and NetApp Storage Solution.

Houston, Texas Area

Director Enterprise ComputingDuties were managing and hiring a technical staff of 14 employees.• Led team in global network stabilization and needs assessment.• Managed outsourcing of Helpdesk, Desktop Support, and Enterprise Computing Services.

Promoted in 2005; duties were of Program Manager, leading multiple global and domestic projects.• Awarded Anadarko’s Innovators Award by CEO in March 2005 for more efficient Global WAN Design and Contracted Services. Savings of $2.4MM G&A over 3 years.• Key leader in multiple integration projects for four acquisitions (25 Billion) impacting 2500 to 6000 employees included leading cross-functional teams in gather and performing analysis for selection of systems to integrate and compiled business cases recommending system decommissioning. Analysis included business unit, employee and financial impact.• Directed the global rollout of 2700 computers and the rationalization/testing of 400 software applications. Managed staff of 25 contractors and 50 fulltime employees located in 65 offices worldwide with a budget of $1.6MM in G&A labor and $2.6MM in hardware. • Led a cross cultural/discipline team in the redesign of the corporate WAN. This effort included consideration for voice, data and video communications. Reduced costs for corporate and remote field locations by 33% while increasing bandwidth to each site by as much as 75% in field locations while guaranteeing terms and conditions more favorable to a growing corporation. • Additional projects included: Global Disaster Recovery, Global WAN Redesign, Negotiation of a new 3-year Domestic Voice and Data Contract, Construction of Domestic and International Field Offices, and build out of IT Infrastructures for various Onshore and Offshore Platforms.

Houston, Texas Area

Promoted in 2002; duties included Project Management and evaluation of new technology for Enterprise computing department. • In response to low system availability of business applications a project was created to implement an enterprise wide application and system hardware monitoring service. Led team through product selection and implementation of ESM solution. Project Staff of 25, budget $1.8MM. Resulted in an increase in uptime by 30%. • Led Global implementation of HP OpenView Application and Systems monitoring software for 600+ Unix and MS Servers, 300+ databases, 20 applications, and various storage systems. Installed systems in the UK, Canada and US, linking each as backup for the other. Project Staff of 25, budget $1.8MM. • Managed the following projects: Business Continuity Data Backup Project, Global Voice and Data Contract Negotiations, Overhaul of Corporate Backup Systems and Policies, Storage Management, Enterprise Systems Monitoring, Global Disaster Recovery, and design and build out of IT Infrastructures for various Domestic Offices and Offshore Platforms.

Houston, Texas Area

Promoted in 2000; duties included Project Management, training various project managers in infrastructure techniques which enabled expansion of role into other non-infrastructure projects. • Oversaw negotiation and implementation for all EC infrastructures during the construction of the Anadarko 30 story tower, Tower Data Center, 5 story Waterway Plaza and Data Center, Grogan’s Mill 200,000 square foot storage and data facility, Timberloch 11 floor office building.• Designed and implemented WAN and LAN network for 30-story Tower and 35 field locations Project team of 12 with a budget of 5MM.• Relocated Corporate Data Center from Greenspoint to The Woodlands. Transferring 90+ Terra-bytes of data and 400+ servers and databases. Included was design and Buildout of 50,000 square foot data center including electrical and A/C implementation ordering of all equipment racks and cabling design/implementation. Cost 2MM+. • Relocated Data Center from Ft. Worth to Houston due to acquisition of Union Pacific Resources.• Working with Field Support Employees, designed and led implementation of all EC infrastructures for various field sites acquired during the merger with UPR, 2001.

Houston, Texas Area

Mba, Management

B.S., Management