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Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Area

Partnering with various Citi Infrastructure teams (End User Compute, Systems Management, Security, Compliance, Networking and PMO) and external partners to plan and deliver a complete Office 365 services implementation for Citi globally.

Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

As project manager at Enabling Technologies, I focus on Teams, Skype for Business Enterprise Voice, Cloud PBX, all workloads within Office 365, Lync & Exchange Unified Messaging, and handling planning, design, implementation work. We couple our systems integration expertise with change management and processes to ensure customers manage the change involved with enabling UC and cloud technologies. We have nearly 1,400 successful projects involving Microsoft Unified Communications (UC), so we've learned the pitfalls and best practices of how to help users adopt and make the most of our successful technology deployments. The single most important differentiator between Enabling Technologies and other Microsoft Gold partners in Unified Communications is our Telephony experience. We have experience integrating to all types of Telephony platforms (Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Siemens, Mitel and ShoreTel) to provide an end-to-end solution.Enabling Technologies is: • Cloud Deployment certified • Gold Communications partner • Silver Messaging partner • 4-time recipient of Microsoft’s UC Partner of the Year Award • and the 2018 Microsoft US Modern Workplace – Intelligent Communications Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a US field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology

Plano, Texas

Directed a multi-year global technology transformation program driving the implementation of email and real-time communications cloud based services based on Microsoft’s Office 365 and Skype for Business offerings. Enterprise platform redesign consolidation of legacy enterprise communications, spanning 160,000+ users across over 80 countries. • Drove the transformation of global video services from an isolated, siloed structure to a fully integrated video environment that all business users could access across any compute device. This increased corporate video usage by over 150% in less than one year.• Technical and financial accountability for 650+ global video unit conferencing environment, Webcasting and voice services (Cisco and Avaya PBXs) for 50,000+ users.• Directed teams supporting email and real-time communications services (Video, Voice, Desktop Conferencing and Webcasting).• Drove workload migration from on-premises systems to the cloud instances for communications services• Established strategy to minimize the impact of Office 365 software updates and their interactions with the on-premise environment (network, client, applications, etc.).• Provided detailed knowledge of Microsoft capabilities and licensing options to guide product and services acquisition decisions.• Managed multiple multimillion dollar project budgets.• Directed team of 28 full-time employees and a range of contractors spread across domestic and international locations. • Facilitated presentations, status updates, timelines, project plans to senior management, business users and customers.

Plano, Texas

Managed teams accountable for the PepsiCo Windows Server, Workstation and the Exchange email environments, including all Intel virtualization and Citrix implementations.• Created Windows7 deployment strategies for 50,000 employees.• Managed group of 30 IT engineers and administrators.

Plano, Tx

Managed teams accountable for the PepsiCo Windows, UNIX, Storage and Mainframe engineering environments. • Developed a new disaster recovery strategy and implementation for the PepsiCo mainframe environment.

Plano, Texas

Led the multi-national team responsible for the operations of Active Directory and email, which included:• Migrated more than 50,000 users from diverse email systems across different countries to MS Exchange. • Migrated 45,000 users from NT 4.0 domains into a single Windows Active Directory domain.• Managed the teams responsible for North America’s "client" PC's, laptops, and mobile devices and the global email environment