Partner Enablement Remote Lab Technical Programs Manager
[Contracted through Porter Consulting from 8/2011 to 1/2015]Led the global cloud implementation of remote hands-on networking, storage, server, and cloud labs as an integrated component of professional certification training.● Built, trained and motivated cross-functional team of fourteen to design, build, schedule, maintain, upgrade, and life-cycle manage fifteen remote labs serving twenty external and internal customer groups worldwide.● Saved $720,000 annual operating expenses by providing remote labs for training inside sales teams.● Created $60,000 annual savings and $30,000 annual revenue increases through innovative lab utilization improvements. Further increases in revenue and expense savings with every additional new course.● Tripled delivery capacity of OneView certification training saving of $90,000 in equipment and $21,000 in annual operating expense.● Relocated Remote Lab from California to Michigan while delivering operational capacity to meet client needs and support HP Discover trade show requiring 13 certification training deliveries. Completed three phase relocation in six months with minimal operational impact.● Established rolling eighteen-month Remote Lab Road Map for strategic growth and evolution of thirty remote hands-on labs occupying 3000 square feet of data center space located in four HP facilities world-wide with maximum capacity of 554 students.● Led production effort to leverage lab reservation system saving $400,000 annually in outside services.● Coordinated and collaborated globally with eight internal HP stakeholder organizations, twelve external training delivery partners and multiple external vendors.
