It Portfolio Manager
Raleigh, North Carolina, Us
I consulted with management and customers regarding product feasibility and viability of network infrastructure plans and designs, reviewing technological advances and product supportability. Reviewed IT purchase requests and budget forecasts. Verified and tracked project schedules and deliverables. • Developed business cases for Office365 migration to save an average of $250,000 per year over a 5 year analysis and provided 6 additional capabilities that were being planned.• Prepared business case for redesigning network architecture to update physical routes and reduce overall lifecycle costs of the network by $2M over the 5 year analysis.• Coordinated requirements gathering and design meeting with 3 lead vendors and 4 sub-vendors to ensure the network redesign plans provided for the needs of a statewide case management system.• Reviewed requirements and designs for SD-WAN, dual circuit with disparate paths from ISP to MDF for 120 sites in 100 counties across NC.• Acted as liaison between network engineers, development team, management, and vendors for security, network design, VoIP, SD-WAN, Firewall configurations, etc. for infrastructure design.• Reviewed and verified network circuit orders supporting links to over 220 sites in 100 counties consisting of 10GB, 5GB, 1GB, 500MB, 200MB, 100MB, 50MB, and 10 MB speeds.• Prepared implementation plan for converting backup cold site to redundant active/active site for 60% of services, and warm fail-over for the remaining 40%.