Chief Enterprise Architect - Chief Strategist Program Manager for the Office of Architecture and Strategy. Reports directly to the Chief Administrator, Chief Information Officer and the Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court. Responsible for providing Enterprise and Solutions Architecture strategic planning and program management for the Courts and Judicial branch of Washington State. Responsible for the oversite of Enterprise and Solutions architects with a budget of $2 million in staff and equipment. Completely re-established the Office of Architecture and Strategy by introducing the concept of Enterprise Reference Architecture and EA Guiding Principles to the Administrative Office of the Courts. Following established industry practices, created Policies, Standards, Strategic Roadmaps, updated numerous processes and procedures across the organization and reinforced a strong business partnership between the courts business units, Information Services Division and all levels of courts within the Judicial Branch.Administrative Office of the Courts is the Data as a Service (DaaS) provider for the entire Judicial System within the Washington State courts communities including Supreme, Superior, Appellate, Juvenile, Courts of Limited Jurisdiction, District, County, and City/Municipal courts. Our external partners include other state and federal agencies as well as law firms across the state and country. The Office of Architecture and Strategy determines the overall strategic technical direction for the agency and Judicial Information System (JIS); and designs and architects technology solutions that align with that direction and meet the business needs of Washington Courts systems.

ITES Line of Business DevOps Enterprise Architect. Acting as a trusted strategic advisor, I provided leadership and mentoring, and directed daily administrative functions for the ITES Manager at the request of the DCIO and CIO. I managed 6 direct reports. These technical staff directly supported and maintained the SQL and Pre-Production and Production agency line of business (LoB) applications and databases. managed the Enterprise Monitoring team by providing solutions for DevOps pipelines while integrating AI in to our process flows. Moved the environment into the SDLC framework using Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies in the implementation of DevOps within the agency. I lead and motivated senior technical staff with training, mentoring, and coaching regarding technology projects as well as governance processes. I built and maintained customer relationships with staff, executive management and business units on a daily basis. I provided Enterprise level strategic architecture and road maps, project planning, and consultation to executive management on large scale Agency enterprise projects and programs. Briefed executive management on strategic technologies and new or emerging program initiatives such as Cloud Services. I partnered with cross functional teams internal and external to the Agency. Followed both internal Governance processes and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management best practices and guidelines within enterprise class environments.

As the Enterprise Architecture Office supervisor, I performed administrative duties, approve leave and training requests, conducted personnel reviews, provide leadership and mentoring, and direct daily administrative functions for the Chief Enterprise Architect. I managed 4 Enterprise Architect direct reports and 6 Domain Architect project supervisory reports. I lead and motivated the Domain Architects with mentoring and coaching regarding technology projects as well as governance processes. I built and maintained customer relationships with staff, executive management and business units on a daily basis. I oversaw, researched and shared best practices, architected and provided Enterprise Architecture technology solutions for network, infrastructure, server and Storage Area Network (SAN), Disaster Recovery Information Technology domains. As the EAO Supervising Architect, consulted and mentored staff and domain architects on Microsoft Windows Server technologies, Active Directory, MS Exchange, cloud services, Microsoft System Center, Virtual technologies (VMware and Microsoft), security (client and server), server hardware and Windows desktop technologies. Technology roadmapping and IT strategy. Acting as a change agent, I conducted research on new and emerging trends related to technology as well as business domains. Provided Enterprise level strategic architecture and roadmaps, project planning, and consultation to the Enterprise Architecture Office (EAO), the Agency’s Chief Architect and executive management on large scale Agency enterprise projects and programs. Acting as a trusted advisor, brief executive management on strategic technologies and new or emerging program initiatives such as Cloud Services. I partnered with cross functional teams internal and external to the Agency. Followed both internal Governance processes and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management best practices and guidelines for enterprise class environments.

Storage Systems Architect, SAN, NAS, DASEnterprise Architect responsible for a Fiber Channel to iSCSI Storage Area Network migration project. This included changing the backup and restore processes. Saved $800,000 cost saving during this migration project. Designed and moved the agency into the ESX VMWare server environment as well as moving the agency from the Cisco 6509 to Nexus 7000 series.Conducted Backup over the Wire (BoW) with SunGard to move the agency from DLT tapes to cloud backup services. Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering, web server load balancing, SQL Clustering, e-commerce, solutions provider.Microsoft Active Directory, SMS, MOM, Exchange, 2003/2007, Windows Server NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, Desktop Operating Systems(XP, Vista), server hardware (Dell, HP), Virtual Technologies (VMware and Microsoft), patching and security projects (as required). ITIL Certified. Goverance processes.Linux Redhat/Fedora, SuSE LinuxCisco network productsF-5 network products

Senior Systems Engineer/Architect– Vista TAP client representative ConsultantResearch, architect and deploy Microsoft Windows 2000/2003, Active Directory, Exchange 2003, SMS 2003, server hardware and Windows XP technologies for Washington State government agencies and corporations. Microsoft Vista Technology Assistance Program (TAP) Support Engineer that interfaces between Executive management staff and Senior Information Technology staff. Developed training curriculum to teach Windows Vista to end users. Assist clients and customers deploying Windows servers within a wide range of environments including Data Centers, Computer Rooms, Telco closets. Conduct ‘hands on’ research with new vendor products to verify functionality and environment compatibility in business and production environments. Provide ‘end to end’ Operating System and server hardware hands on support as need for clients and customers. Assist agencies and private corporations in building test labs within virtual environments to test applications prior to production. Apply Service Packs, system and application patches, install new server application version releases, troubleshoot and monitor server issues.Architect/design solutions to solve current and often critical situations or system problems that would result in corporate losses. Identify gaps or critical potential problems that need to be corrected or implemented and escalate to management within the server enterprise . Follows Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service management best practices and guidelines for Configuration Management/Change Management/Release Management processes within enterprise class environments.

Infrastructure PM, project employee. DOH building completed.

Storage Area Network Project Engineer on international team covering Greater Europe Region, Greater Asia Region and America Region North and South America)EMC/Clariion/HP Fiber Channel SAN storageNetwork Appliance Network Attached StorageSr Systems Engineer - ITG - DuPont Site, DuPont WAAmericas Region IT Server Operations, IT Global Infrastructure -Server Operations, DuPont and Seattle Washington Sites.Responsible for the implementation, installation and integration of enterprise class Windows Servers into the corporate infrastructure.Using all facets of system administering and engineering served as a Senior Systems Engineer consultant and advisor with direct influence on the decisions and work of senior information technology managers, other information technology experts and business customers. Team member for Global Operations Server Work Groups and teams in the preplanning for the Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain Structure. Responsible for Intel Corporation’s Windows NT 4 to Windows 2000 Advanced Server Global Infrastructure Migration Project for Washington.Analyzed and resolved complex network and operating system issues. Acting District 1 Server Operations Team Lead as required. Lead duties included Server Operations Daily Server Outages, Status Meetings, and server metrics reliability charting - change management.Supported 24x7 Windows Servers within a raised floor Data Center environment.

Boeing Shared Services Group, Seattle Site Operations Division NT Windows Server Enterprise System AdministratorInstalled, configured, and maintained NT Windows Servers for the Seattle Region. Maintained Multiple Master Domain Model with 60 Compaq Proliant Servers and 22,000 end user base in 2 data centers for the Seattle area. Responsible for NT Server hardware/software installations, upgrades and server configurations. Lead for the Seattle Region NT Server Backup and Restore Team. Provided back up and restoration of customer files and directories as well as provided Internet Information Server IIS web server support.Counseled cross-functional organizations on NT Server technical issues. Diagnosed, optimized and fine tuned NT Server configurations. Analyzed and resolved complex network and operating system issues. Documented policies, processes and procedures on NT Server issues. Interfaced with a wide spectrum of Management and Business unit customers.Supported 24x7 NT Servers within a raised floor Data Center environment

Boeing 777 Manufacturing Engineer. Aft Strut Engine Fairing/heat shields, Tail Section Main Box Skin panels, BL zero rib and tail section to Section 48 Body Join. Primary flight control surfaces structures, engine strut fairings and Inconel heat shields.Responsible for the manufacturing design instructions for Aft Strut Engine Fairing/heat shields, Tail Section Main Box Skin panels and tail section to Section 48 Body Join. Tooling Engineer including assembly jigs and factory tooling to complete assembly build on the factory floor. Used computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application (CATIA) as a tool designer when deployed to Tool Design. Designed several tools currently used on the 777 main box skin panels on the horizontal stabilizer and vertical fin.