• Engaged in specific strategic Security focused, application and Infrastructure development projects. • Primary focus is network operational enhancements, redesigns and cloud migrations.• Specializes in security and risk management, expense reduction and margin improvement.Infrastructure upgrades | Network device | Telecommunications | Contract negotiation | Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) assessments |Project Management | Program Management | Strategic application development | Data Encryption | Data Archival | Data Retention | Disaster Recovery | Business Continuity | Intrusion Prevention / Protection | Sarbanes Oxley | PCI | HIPAA Audit preparation / compliancy | Security assessments | Ransomware prevention | Cloud Migrations | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Azure | Office 365 | Google applications | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Center | Technology process improvements | Operational procedures / policies | Technical documentation | Operational design and management | CISSP | CIO as a Service | CMMC

Engaged in company-wide strategy consulting, security program design and digital transformation developments.

IT Infrastructure, Help desk, Corporate Applications and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) • Spearheaded Corporate office relocation, migrating all Business critical applications, corporate technologies, data center operations and technical staff from Chicago to California with zero impact to operations• Designed and established national Information technology operations supporting growth into 3 additional markets and 8 new office openings, increasing revenue enough to reach initial profitability for regional care centers• Built all internal Technology Security Standards and Controls and successfully represented organization in a Michigan state HIPAA compliancy audit; resulting in a pass.• Reduced software total cost of ownership (TCO) by approximately 75% ($1.45 Million) by conducting an enterprise wide deployment audit and remediation program• Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) of telecommunications costs by 50% ($900,000) by migrating operations to a cloud based solution while adding automated call center services

IT Infrastructure, Cloud operations, Corporate Applications and Application development• Implemented all Information Technology Cloud infrastructure in support of a revolutionary dual-language immersion product that ultimately was packaged and sold• Delivered several technology developments and innovations that equated to a 40% - 50% increase in Hispanic student retention rate

Specific strategic infrastructure development projects • Increased profitability by leading a business divestiture of low performing operational unit• Reduced costs by approximately $650,000 by converting student books to web based solution• Reduced risk of student protected information loss by building company data loss protection (DLP) and prevention program.

Networking Services, Infrastructure operations, Fortune 500, $5-Billion-dollar company, 4 United States office locations, 3 overseas offices, and 38 worldwide remote sales offices.• Reduced Service outages by 86% establishing 99.999% "five nines" of service availability.• Increased customer satisfaction by over 300% as measured by customer surveys• Reduced overall total cost of ownership (TCO) of wide area network by $6,000,000 over a 6-year period offering a return on investment (ROI) of 10 months

All technology infrastructure operations for a Fortune 500, $5 billion homebuilding company. Team of 17 with 2 reporting managers and a 5 million budget.• Reduced data center and disaster recovery site costs by 50% ($1,000,000) by migrating all network operations to a new facility (cut over executed in 14 hours, zero impact to operations).• Reduced core network support agreement costs by 40% ($445,000 per year) by conducting world-wide contract renegotiation• Lowered telecommunications costs company wide by approximately 40% migrating all operations to Voice of Internet Protocol (VOIP)

Managed remote office operations while serving as a senior design engineer in the Irvine corporate office and 18 US remote offices, $5 Billion dollar Global advertising companyTechnologies: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Active Directory, HP, VMware, Dell Blade servers, McAfee, EMC, LANDesk, T1/T3, DS-3, MPLS, Exchange 2000, SharePoint, SQL, Backup Exec, Norton, Cisco, Symantec, VoIP• Championed many nation-wide technology upgrades such as migration from Netware, nation-wide Citrix / Thin client implementation, Server refresh, Storage systems installation, Microsoft office upgrades, enterprise virus protection design and global data recovery plan.• Architected and deployed an Enterprise Active directory design• Designed and implemented an enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN) technology refresh,

Developed customer relationships as the single point of contact for any and all customer needs and/or requirements. Generated sales by engineering and presenting cost effective solutions at customer sites. Clients included: The Gap, Tosco Marketing, AVCO financial, Marie Calendars, Kinko Copies and Foodmaker (Jack in the Box).

Tropitone Furniture first big break into civilian technology engineering. Hired by the CIO at the time and started as the junior technology support / customer service engineer. Motivated to learn and balance a full working schedule and load at school. Comfortable enough within a year to lead several enterprise technology upgrades and was promoted to the Senior Network administrator specialist for the company.

I proudly served my country as a Lance Corporal - Aviation Electrician (AVI) engineer for the “HMH-365 Flying Tigers” heavy helicopter squadron based in Tustin California. During my time in the military I studied electronic theory, electrical component repair, aircraft counter measure devices and various other required military skillsets. Besides California, I was also fortunate enough to travel to and work in Japan, Korea, and the Philippine islands.