• Led the upgrade of 5,000 Linux servers from RHEL 7 to RHEL 9 across four data centers, coordinating activities among teams and engineers.• Developed advanced Excel trackers with pivot tables for progress monitoring of Linux server upgrades.• Managed and updated Jira entries to align project resources and track progress for senior leadership.• Designed and maintained Microsoft Project plans to coordinate activities among application teams, system architects, and offshore engineers.

Managed datacenter white space fit out for company owned and co-locations. Coordinated HPC technology implementations (NVIDIA H100 servers, HDR/NDR switch installs, firewall switch installs, UFM servers, structured cabling, WEKA storage, internet services, optics and networking. Familiar with cold isle and hot isle containment concepts, cage construction, over-head basket tray installation and rack installation. Understanding of datacenter power technologies (Remote Power Panels, Power Whips and Power Distribution Units).

Managed datacenter infrastructure projects that included implementation of new bare metal X86 server installations, VMs, ESX hosts, smart racks, switches, routers and cabling. Led and collaborated with server administrators, software engineers, application developers, network architects, database administrators, IT program managers, and technical project managers, as well as business leaders, IT senior managers, vendors and procurement managers.

Managed IT infrastructure deployments for AT&T which included; physical server installs, builds, migrations, decommissions, networking, configuration and application installs.

• Led and organized software deployment projects for 32,000 desktops, laptops, and Point-of-Sale systems for 2,300 retail stores across all 50 states including Hawaii and Puerto Rico• Created documentation and defined repeatable process for software UAT testing • Assigned as project manager to lead all JRE/JAVA software installs for 2,300 retail stores nationally• Spearheaded projects to install software upgrades or remove software such as Adobe products, Oracle, Billing systems, McAfee etc.• Implemented repeatable process to upgrade latest secure versions of 3 Adobe software products across all AT&T retail stores nationally• Controlled process to procure orders for hundreds of physical servers, cloud migrations and other IT hardware• Coordinated 12 to 15 cross-functional data center managers, server administrators, network engineers, software developers and database engineers to deploy X86 physical servers, VM servers and cloud builds• Supervised 3 to 5 network team resources to complete installation and configuration of server Smart Racks and ToR switches

Installed, configured and supported Windows desktop computers, point-of-sale systems, networking, telephony and printers for all AT&T Wireless retail stores in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area and surrounding towns.