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Newport Beach, California, Us

New position with a great company to lead core infrastructure strategy across several major corporate locations and over 3,100 restaurants.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Leader of 40+ employees/contingent workers and a $20MM annual budget to develop and support quality technology solutions to address business challenges across all lines of business. Experience incudes several years as Manager/VP of the Intel Server Engineering Team prior to promotion to Senior Director in 2019. Environment included thousands of AIX/Linux/Windows servers and several PB of replicated and non-replicated storage. The team was responsible for all aspects of supporting tools. Throughout my tenure we achieved 90%+ virtualization across the server fleet. Also, lead a team of engineers and support personnel in the delivery/support of enterprise file transfer solutions. The platform processes millions of B2B transfers and billions of dollars per year. Major accomplishments included leading infrastructure resiliency across multiple data centers and infrastructure integration of a large Chicago bank with 90+ branches, locations, 2 data centers and a base of 2,500 users. Responsibilities included collaboration with security and governance teams on disaster recovery planning, internal/external audits, federal reviews, vulnerability management and security compliance.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Responsible for the design and implementation of infrastructure projects for all desktop, collaboration and remote access environments for a user base of ~25K. Interface with PMO, Security and Risk Management, Line of Business IT organizations and others to establish long term strategic roadmaps and deliver world class technical solutions on time and within budget. Responsibilities included budget planning/management of over $12MM annually, software/hardware contract negotiations and primary vendor management for Adobe, Microsoft and other key relationships. Leader of infrastructure architects across multiple disciplines including Desktop Architecture, Exchange, SharePoint, IBM Portal, Citrix, Remote Access, SCCM and software management processes. Key initiatives included Exchange 2010 migration, Cisco Telepresence, Windows XP to Windows 7 migration using MDT and SCCM, Mobility, VMWare ThinApp and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Responsible for end user experience initiatives across the enterprise to assess technology challenges, develop projects for resolution and present strategies to senior management. Key contributor on several bank acquisitions, offshore support process improvements and management of client experience support vendor. Directly responsible for development of remote workstation to collect key performance metrics to assess infrastructure changes and impact on the end user. Assessed multiple WAN optimization solutions and developed the strategy to provide enhanced internet performance and access to remote files and email.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Design and implementation of IT infrastructure solutions for all ERP initiatives within a $40 billion dollar division of GE. Interfaced with PMO and business units for project scope, infrastructure design, resource planning, work breakdown structure and project plan development. Close collaboration with infrastructure architects across multiple disciplines including network, server and storage to deliver high quality solutions.Leader of global team of direct employees and contract resources responsible for the design of centralized server solutions, directory services and messaging architecture for all GE Transportation and GE Energy business units. Responsibilities include the architectural design and implementation of information technologies for a base of approximately 70,000 users, 3,000+ servers and multiple data centers across the globe. Strategic programs included the migration of all e-mail services and accounts to a centralized corporate model, integration of disparate directories (Active Directory, Sun LDAP, Critical Path, etc.), consolidated ERP and implementation of utility computing. Participated in the creation of a centralized PMO to deliver technology solutions across the entire organization. Selected to attend advanced management training courses at GE’s renowned Crotonville training facility.Individual contributor responsible for the detailed design of Microsoft Active Directory 2.0 and migration of all Microsoft NT4.0 domains for GE Transportation. Server solutions leader for Business Development group on multiple business acquisitions and startup ventures across the globe. Chief architect for IT delivery and support of large international air shows for GE Aircraft Engines. Customer facing technical liaison to gather international customer feedback in support of the GE Aircraft Engines Customer Web Center.

Accounting, Business

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