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Longwood, Florida, Us

➤ Overseeing administration for common companywide IT systems including Google Apps, Slack, and Atlassian Suite.➤ Directing system analysts, software designers, and programmers to determine the best methods to achieve project goals.➤ Managing purchasing, inventory, maintenance, and upgrades for users and all company hardware in Co-Lo datacenter.➤ Applying project management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, and systems.➤ Developing, implementing, and maintaining Wireguard and OpenVPN VPN solutions for the machine learning lab.➤ Managing complex projects valued at from $5 to $7M in size and developing resource, risk, quality, and cost plans.➤ Overseeing the building of a new office including site selection, remodel, and designing the network infrastructure.➤ Coaching and mentoring project team members as well as other project managers in project management methodology.➤ Shutting down the Boulder office and moving all hardware development resources to the new Orlando office.➤ Acting as the subject matter expert, identifying project team training and tool needs, and developing training plans.➤ Taking over management of production of AI IP camera hardware and finding new US vendors for the parts used.➤ Contributing to the purchase of Boulder AI and successfully assimilating all BAI IT systems and infrastructure.

Longwood, Fl, Us

➤ Delivering general IT consulting and managing IoT projects for clients and overseeing the full technology lifecycle.➤ Managing all aspects of technology projects from initiating to planning, executing, and controlling through to closing.➤ Providing overall project management and logistics coordination for office buildouts, moves, and shutdowns.➤ Determining project scope, project approval matrices, and requirements documents and defining critical success factors.➤ Directing the development of architecture, purchasing required equipment, and overseeing deployment and inventory.➤ Defining, recommending, and securing contractual agreements for technical services and products needed from vendors.➤ Coordinating disposal/recycling of IT resources including chain of custody and documentation for HIPAA data.➤ Coordinating requirements, scheduling implementation and post-implement plans, and defining project quality gates.➤ Designing/deploying wireless networks and CCTV cameras and systems as an Axis Communications Partner/Reseller.➤ Developing service-level agreements for vendor partners and global resources firms and ensuring contract performance.➤ Building and maintaining VMware 6/7 cluster and Centos 7 as web/email server providing hosting services for clients.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

➤ Contributed to acquiring Voxeo's cloud services group and deployed cloud versions of their software in data centers.➤ Led interviewing and hiring to create a new infrastructure team for Networking, Virtualization, and Storage groups.➤ Directed team in architecting new systems, buildout and maintenance of power and cooling, networking, and storage.➤ Transitioned the hosting business model from bare metal hardware to a virtualized environment using VMware hosts.➤ Built data centers worldwide including evaluation and selection of location, hardware, and sourcing/selecting vendors.➤ Negotiated contract terms and pricing and oversaw logistics for shipping various items to appropriate global locations.➤ Hired, onboarded, trained, and managed a team of 14 direct reports including delivering annual performance evaluations.➤ Served as incident commander during service outages as well as led post-mortem meetings to analyze for outages.➤ Held role as company Fire Marshal responsible for office safety and preparations for evacuation or active shooter events.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

➤ Co-Founder & IT Director/Director of Data Center Management/Facilities Director – Voxeo, Orlando, FL – 02/2000 to 07/2013➤ Director of Hardware Development – Mediagate, Winter Park, FL – 08/1998 to 01/2000➤ Director of Hardware Development – IRdg, Winter Park, FL – 12/1996 to 08/1998➤ Technology Services – Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Tavares, FL – 10/1993 to 12/1996➤ Lead Technician – Intel-I-Comp, Mt. Dora, FL – 03/1992 to 09/1993➤ Technician – Prosoft Development, Altamonte Springs, FL – 03/1991 to 10/1991

Computer Science And Criminal Justice

High School Diploma