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Oakland, California, US

Oakland, California, US

Nashville, TN, US

• Orchestrate all services/infrastructure migration out of parent company into new divested entity, conduct design sessions, coordinate solutions, define technical, business side and vendor roles, maintain issue/risk.
• Perform as single point of contact for Technical Vendor relationships, organize presentations and proposals and finalize selection for Data Center, DaaS, WorkForce Management, Security Office, Contact Center, and more.

Irving, Texas, US

• Chosen as 1 of only 7 to plan and execute highly confidential divestiture of Care Management Business Unit to Private Equity over 6 months, prepared technical material on infrastructure, applications, capital spend.
• Promoted twice based on stellar performance and was primary technical liaison between Business Unit and Corporate IT
• Conducted pre-sales technical calls, RFPs and post-sales audits, building vendor and external customer trust-based relationships that often resolved problems
• Oversaw end-to-end security aspects and single point of contact for client and third-party audits, RFI and RFPs, facilitating certifications on applications and driving contract renewals or closing new contracts.
• Collaborated on Disaster Recovery documentation process and plan with Technology and Business groups on how to avoid disaster, communicate in event of disaster, and perform restore procedures for timely recovery of.
• Simulated disasters and tested recovery processes, achieving under 5 minutes RTO and 15 seconds RPO.

Irving, Texas, US

• Led complex data center migration in 2010 to consolidate business unit infrastructure in 4 different locations to 2 data centers, coordinated staff, customers, vendors, new purchases and logistics, completing.
• Prepared and executed Business Cases, managed ROI and TCO for projects, and ensured projects aligned with business needs
• Managed Operational and Capital budget via quarterly reviews to ensure financial goals were met and led allocations review process, saving $900K in 10 months and receiving kudos from senior management.
• Initiated and built dedicated PMO office for IT Operations from ground up and developed processes to handle projects end to end, saving money for department and resulting in permanent adoption of system.

Irving, Texas, US

• Successfully migrated all backend database servers to RH Linux-based systems after submitting proposal and budget to senior leadership and gaining approval, finishing project with zero downtime; upgraded Oracle version.
• Launched ETL DataStage tool project due to performance issues with current version that prevented team from processing in time; researched and finalized upgraded version, saving hours of processing for technical staff.

US

• Supervised Mass Storage solution (Netapp) project which had ROI of about $2.3M million on investment of $1M, generating High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities for mission critical applications.
• Reduced maintenance cost by centralizing inventory of all hardware devices (servers, storage, network switches), generating centralized inventory list and reducing staff time spent on maintenance activities.
• Oversaw enterprise-wide upgrade of Oracle Databases to latest supportable version and delivered presentation, earning praise from CIO for excellent job and one of best updates she had ever heard.

US

Pune, Maharashtra, IN