Senior IT leader with demonstrated expertise in the design, development, delivery, and integration of global infrastructure, big data platform architecture, and hybrid cloud strategies. Skilled thought leader who leads large infrastructure organizations and collaborates with business partners to improve processes and enable transformation. Experienced in leading outsourced operations, developing disaster recovery strategies, and improving infrastructure capacity for global organizations. HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS & INITIATIVES▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔➢ Transform Cyber Security Program➢ Lead AI Initiative to support business transformation➢ Lead cloud transformation to address compute capacity scalable challenge, advance software development methodology, and technology modernization➢ Direct AMD internal initiatives and M&A integration planning for on-premise and cloud solutions, virtualization, server management, and data storage and backup services➢ Developed end point protection and cyber resilience strategies to minimize AMD impact from cyber security incidents➢ Devised the digital transformation strategy and built a team with no additional funding. Quickly defined policies, identified sites, procured technology to support DR, addressed regulatory compliance items, and implemented technology to protect 60% of the AMD production system within eight months and 100% in the next four months.➢ Successfully navigated the complex vendor/supplier relationship with Microsoft for CPU, embedded services, and licensing agreements. Led negotiations for a $50M licensing renewal for Microsoft products to improve productivity and support overreaching AMD business growth objectives.➢ Knowledgeable infrastructure leader with experience in end-to-end managed service outsourcing from planning to vendor selection, scope creation, contract negotiation, transition, and on-going improvement. Drove a transformation within the AMD IT culture to streamline IT operations and align the managed service model.➢ Experienced utilizing Hadoop and data lake to create use cases, promotion of platform adoption, and onboarding of new users, significantly shortening the design engineering cycle and earning the 2013 Cloudera Data Impact Award.SPECIALTIES▔▔▔▔▔▔• Infrastructure Planning • Global Project Management • Cloud Hosted Applications• DevOps Methodologies • IT Service Management (ITIL) • Big Data Management• Budget Management • Managed Services Models • Business Continuity Planning