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Layoff due to elimination of positing. Took additional time off for family.

Ensure Nokia’s business transformations are implemented aligned with the digital enterprise architecture & documented by proactively providing direction/guidance on process, architecture, technology, and data.Provide guidance on digital & transformation projects by providing advise to the team as they work on their assignments in areas of Employee Workplace, mobility, IT Infrastructure, etcActively involved in the design and delivery of enterprise architecture initiatives for a global user environment. Facilitated the development of roadmaps for the as-is and to-be architecture for IT applications. Assisted project teams in the decision of the re-use of existing technology and the selection of new technologies to support business needs. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the deployment of IT infrastructure.• Facilitated technical review of IT Financial applications to consolidate to a single platform of choice for forecasting, planning, asset and project management. Moving to a single platform provides ability to simplify ability to access financial data for review and analysis.• Updated review process for selection for new technologies deployed within IT. Process was streamlined to a two step process to determine best option through a due diligence process conduct proof of concepts and RFx to for deployment.• Coordinated implementation of Portfolio and Project Management System for project documentation and approval process using Microsoft SharePoint and Project Online. Computerized approval workflow eliminating manual requests for approval.• Engaged in creating technology selection process to support agile projects. allows decision to be determined through reviews and proofs of concept using agile sprints to ascertain best solution options and testing for usability removing complexity in existing processes for approval. Decreasing time to deployment by 25%.

Ensure Nokia’s business transformations are implemented aligned with the digital enterprise architecture & documented by proactively providing direction/guidance on process, architecture, technology, and data.Provide guidance on digital & transformation projects by providing advise to the team as they work on their assignments in areas of Employee Workplace, mobility, IT Infrastructure, etcResponsible for the standardization of overall network architecture across the global IT infrastructure• Review Infrastructure architecture for over 200 projects per year. Validated project infrastructure supported requirements and needs of solution implemented.• Devised architecture building blocks and design for implementation of office networks, datacenter networks, server sizing, and storage requirements. Designs streamlined and reduced IT hardware to approved devices and configurations within a catalog of options. Simplifying and cutting down design planning and acquisition process for projects by 20%.• Conducted proof of concept and load testing of user configuration interface for deploying servers within a virtual private cloud. Tested configuration of Windows and Linux server.

As part of the Network Operations team. Provided LAN and WAN Support for sites throughout North America. Lead network engineer in design, deployment, and support of North American network infrastructure.• Managed program to implement new campus network infrastructure architecture on time and on budget, resulting in substantial improvements in performance and security through segmentation of user environments and labs. Improved for uptime to meet a near 99.995% availability. Delivering services in less than one year.• Developed new WLAN strategy and technical design for wireless user connectivity across multi-building campus environment. Design provided seamless wireless connectivity for users with high-availability for managing access points and decreasing complexity for users.• Identified business requirements and strategic solution reduced operating costs by 50% for PBX voice connectivity across a multi-building campus.

As a Technical Analyst, provide consulting support in the installation and maintaining of unix and windows servers. In addition, provided administrator support as part of the daily operations of those servers.

Over my 8+ years military career I have had 5 duty assignments and had the opportunity to be engage in multiple things. I was in the Secure Communications career field but over the years learned and did jobs outside of that area. From the different job that I had, I learned may skills that covered responsibilities that are part of what is considered within the areas of IT Infrastructure.- Led computer requirement solution for desktop computers and approved for hardware to be purchased. Reviewed 200+ requests per month.- Designed network infrastructure for base wide area network utilizing existing fiber with new hardware with design coordination with headquarters optimizing planning costs by 20%.