I built and led highly qualified North and Latin American IT team of 85 members in managing all phases of global IT systems and operations ranging from servers management to helpdesk support. I streamlined IT departmental procedures within $60M budgetary constraints. I improved business process designs and automated corporate information systems. I formulated IT strategic plans and designed Cisco load balancing and DHCP/DNS appliance architecture for network scalability, standardization, and high availability as well as business continuity, and disaster recovery. I successfully assimilated JDE ERP into Oracle ERP for seamless execution of financial, supply chain, and manufacturing operations.• Designed high availability architecture of hardware/software to attain 99.99% uptime for infrastructure and systems.• Reduced physical servers by 60%+ by implementing VMware ESX solution, with a 16-month project payback time.• Devised global data center consolidation plan to minimize 60+ data centers into six highly available data centers.• Optimized process efficiency and costs by combining multiple helpdesks into one shared service helpdesk.• Saved $20M+ costs annually by implementing improvement strategies and eliminating redundancies.• Revamped core network infrastructure with data center-class switches and load balancers.• Integrated storage solution with EMC and implemented SRDF/snap-clone technology to save $100K costs annually.• Achieved $15K savings per month and lessened recovery time from six to two hours by rationalizing backup process with EMC technology and enforcing virtual tape library.Additional experience as Director, Technology Operations | Director & Manager, Network & User Services, at Thomson Reuters, Operations Manager, Information Systems & Telecommunications at Episcopal Hospital, Managing Director at Philly Steak & Salad Express, and Network Specialist at US Marine Corps, and Marine Veteran.