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Brandon, FL, US

Tamps, Florida

Handpicked to create, develop, and lead a new function within the technology ecosystem to oversee technology risks, functions, and integrations related to UMA’s multi-million-dollar acquisition of new companies.Lead at the forefront of UMA’s growth strategies, developing and executing strategies to secure, stabilize, and improve capabilities for long-term.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Promoted to lead the planning, implementation, and operation of all physical and cloud infrastructure and Service Operations including data centers, network, voice, service monitoring, workstation management, servers.
• Provided planning, project management, and implementation leadership, identifying opportunities for automation, cost savings, and business improvement.
• Partners with key senior leadership to develop and implement infrastructure improvements built around Microsoft Azure and on-premises infrastructure.
• Provides architectural and design guidance on cloud and on-premises infrastructure projects to implement objectives that met or exceeded corporate objectives for growth and reliability.
• Develops, tracks and executes IT Infrastructure budgets to stay on target for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive disaster recovery architecture, including storage area networks, and redundant, highly available technologies that obtained 100% uptime during natural disasters.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Led in the implementation and operation of all technology infrastructure deployed at UMA, which includes data centers, network, service monitoring, workstation management, servers, storage, and related software in an.
• Responsible for technology infrastructure planning and deployment of technology services making technical decisions and working closely with cross-functional business units and IT groups.
• Provided planning, project management, and implementation leadership by identifying opportunities for automation, cost savings, and business improvement.
• Partnered with senior IT leadership to lead the technology infrastructure strategy and execution. Providing technical vision, enabling innovation, and seeking to leverage IT trends that created business value.
• Developed, tracked and executed IT Infrastructure budgets to stay on target for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
• Provided architectural and design guidance on cloud and on-premises infrastructure projects meeting corporate goals, future objectives, and industry-standard best practices.

Tampa, Florida

• Responsible for operational excellence and continuous improvement including effective communications and escalations that drive resolutions for enterprise systems, applications, and operational support.
• Coordinated and led System Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Database administrators, and network engineering.
• Interfaced with leadership, internal business partners, and other IT teams to provide leadership and support for technical operations and business initiatives.
• Led in the implementation of Engineering DEVOP methodologies allowing applications and infrastructure deployments to CI/CD that decreases deployment windows and improve reliability and predictability.
• Responsible for Change Management, implementing and coordinating all IT Change processes to ITIL standards reducing impacts associated with application and infrastructure changes.
• Coordinated, and implemented infrastructure and process changes in support of 100% remote work requirements that allowed 2000+ team members across multiple business units to migrate to a work-from-home environment with.

Tampa, Florida

• Provided technical leadership, hands-on implementation, and extensive troubleshooting skills for complex cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure for day-to-day operations.
• Successfully managed, coordinated, and implemented the migration of 3rd party hosted Exchange and on-premises collaboration tools to Office 365 with 99.9% uptime of business processes and while building corporate.
• Managed and implemented corporate expansion of Data Center Infrastructure to Microsoft Azure incorporating IaaS services around Compute, Networking, Authentication, and Storage.
• Proactively implemented solutions around resolution and alerting to ensure information systems and products that exceeded service level agreements with business units and customers.
• Acted as lead for Infrastructure during IT NIST 800-171 assessments.
• Served as liaison for engineering with other IT business units to facilitate cross-departmental communication.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Continually provide vision and leadership toward the development and implementation of information technology initiatives that align technologies with corporate strategies and integrate business processes. Oversees and.
• Responsible for all aspects of the organization’s information technology and systems,
• Managed the development of corporate core business applications.
• Implemented and managed Microsoft Azure providing data replication, business continuity, automated failover.
• Architected and implemented migration to Office 365 reducing costs and dependency on on-premises infrastructure by 50%, while increasing functionality and business continuity capabilities.
• Successfully transformed organization to a paperless office to resilient, searchable and policy driven SharePoint Solution

Raleigh/Durham

• Worked with corporate financial and telecom clients to provide development of corporate intranet portals, utilities, server installations, network administration and training utilizing the following technologies.
• Worked with corporate financial and telecom clients to provide development of corporate intranet portals, utilities, server installations, network administration, and training utilizing the following technologies.
• Provided training in Web Technologies, Intranet server installation, and administration in a corporate environment involving the following technologies: ASP, JavaScript, HTML, Web design fundamentals, ColdFusion.
• Development of corporate knowledge bases, vacation tracking and management utility, database design, employee information and management utilities, site security utilization on individual user sections, custom tags.
• Performed feasibility studies in the integration of custom query building within a ColdFusion environment, and utilization of XML to dynamically generate, manage and parse employee information. Projects utilized HTML.

Rocky Mount, North Carolina Area

• Project management and network administration for all Windows and SQL servers in order to develop systems for use in point-of-sale tracking, inventory control, order entry and invoicing to corporate clients. This.
• Provided project management and network administration for all Windows and SQL servers to develop systems for use in point-of-sale tracking, inventory control, order entry, and invoicing to corporate clients.
• Oversaw the management and training of technical staff and site builders.
• Supervision and management of IT staff and site builders.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2000/NT/9x clients and Servers.
• Implemented and managed daily maintenance of SQL 7.0 Servers, IIS 4.0/5.0 Servers, ColdFusion Servers, Windows 2000/NT Servers, Novell File/Print Server, Linux 6.2 Servers, and Windows 2000/9x workstations.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology

Activities and Societies: Co-Founder and President of Delta Upsilon Fraternity

Management Development

Obtained extensive training with a focus on personnel management, coaching and leadership.

Education record

Education record

Education record