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Golden, Colorado, United States

Lead a team focused on delivering world-class infrastructure services in support of the enterprise. Define strategies for and delivering infrastructure platforms that maximize resources and provide flawless support of business services. Lead infrastructure teams to identify, evaluate, and implement emerging platform technologies that improve service levels and drive efficiencies into our service platforms. Own direct accountability for overall project/program delivery of the team to ensure the successful execution and delivery of projects that meet scope, timing and cost goals. Collaborate with business systems and enterprise architects to establish enterprise standards and to drive our application portfolios toward a simpler, more streamlined set of platforms. Leading security architecture. Understanding and influencing the integration of security into business strategies and processes while ensuring that the results are documented and actionable.

Englewood, Co

Provided direction and leadership to staff of network engineers and software developers. Organized team into agile scrum for high effectiveness and later into Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE). Performed as Product Owner for scrum team in a SAFE Agile Release Train (ART). Lead development of automated testing tool set to greatly enhance the speed, accuracy and consistency of test plan performance. Developed and maintained product integrity strategies and oversaw engineering initiatives including long-term road maps, project and test plan status for Charter's backbone and core networks. Coordinated, collaborated and supported other departments both in Advanced Engineering and Operations to ensure optimal customer experience. Developed and managed capital budgets and capital purchasing. Hired, set performance goals, evaluated and coached employees.

Lakwood, Co

Created course material and taught 7 of the 26 credits required for the Cyber-Security Specialist Certificate or 7 of 63 credits required for the Cyber-Security Specialist Degree.The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designated Red Rocks Community College a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Two-Year Education (CAE-2Y) in November 2016. The only community college in Colorado and one of only 40 in the country to receive this designation.

Denver

Performed as scrum master for the Service Development/Service Transition scrum team. Developed the framework and templates for the Service Transition function. Documented the process, provisioning and support of multiple services. Worked within the Service Transition team in concert with the Service Development and Service Operations teams to ensure that service platforms and customer services can be sold, provisioned, supported, invoiced and deprovisioned efficiently and effectively.

Managed network engineering staff. Ensured that Network Engineering meets SLA/uptime requirements by instituting solid project management skills. Mentored Engineering staff on skills required to improve their professional status. Worked with other departments on intercommunication to improve work flow model. Lead team in product delivery and documentation.

On assignment with Ultimate Electronics in Denver, CO in a contract-to-hire position. Reported to the Director of IT and maintained computer operations, network, and telephony capabilities by utilizing a combination of internal resources as well as external vendors. Maintained the health of the systems and allowed all computer operations to perform as specified. Lead an operational support team, improved processes, managed vendor relationships and maintained the day to day operations environment.

Established, planned, and administered the overall policies and strategic goals for the IT Infrastructure Group. Managed IT staff of 18 employees. Lead strategic initiatives to decrease total cost of ownership by unifying directory services, implementing a storage area network, and standardizing operating systems. Delivered infrastructure support with leadership for over 150 servers, 161 sites, storage area networks, data center, 16,000 desktops and 14,000 telephones. Managed an annual budget of $5,000,000. Implemented a high availability service strategic focus that improved enterprise services from 99.0% to above the industry benchmarks of 99.5%. Worked as project manager or supported in numerous cross-departmental enterprise-wide projects including the implementation of Exchange 2003, Student Information System, PeopleSoft ERP upgrades, SAN fabric and disk array implementations, data center upgrades, and wide area network and telephone system upgrade.

Hands-on supervisor for a team of networking professionals. Designed, managed, monitored and maintained a 161 site routed wide area network for 13,000 employees, 85,000 students and nearly 20,000 computers. Managed district Internet connectivity, Internet perimeter security, and Microsoft server infrastructure. Implemented various open-source and commercial automated performance monitoring and alerting systems. Provided network troubleshooting and consulting services for Field Support engineers for all sites. Lead for enterprise initiatives to upgrade the wide area network that included the implementation of voice over IP (VoIP).

Served as the following:08/84 - 06/86: Cobra Attack Helicopter Mechanic (67Y) - Sergeant/E-507/86 - 08/87: Officer Candidate School (OCS) - Officer Candidate09/87 - 03/88: Infantry Officer Basic Course/Airborne School - 2nd Lieutenant/O-103/88 - 10/88: Squad Officer - 5/19th Special Forces11/88 - 08/90: Platoon Leader - 220th Military Police Company - 1st Lieutenant08/90 - 05/91: Detachment Commander - 1158th Transportation Detachment, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia06/91 - 06/94: Company Commander - 220th Military Police Company - Captain07/94 - 07/98: Staff Officer - HQSTARC07/98 - 09/01: Assistant Operations Officer, Logistics Officer (S4) and Operations Officer (S3) 1/89th Troop Command Battalion - Major

Managed a small team of Microsoft and Linux systems engineers in support of Internet based services for the company. Performed as a hands-on manager to support Microsoft SQL servers, IIS, and other Microsoft-based services for the production, test and development environments. Planned, specified, procured, installed, configured, monitored and maintained various Internet systems, including servers, LAN, firewalls, storage and data center facilities.

Greater Denver Area

Provided pre-sales configuration and consultation for potential clients and sales staff. Implemented servers, LANs and WANs for customers. Provided internal server and network support for the Denver branch office. Troubleshot and repaired customer's network systems. Wrote procedures and provided LAN/WAN documentation.

Repaired and installed Side Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR), passive Infrared, 70mm panoramic and 5" aerial camera systems on the Mohawk OV-1D aerial surveillance aircraft. Also repaired the automated film processing system. Held Nato Secret clearance. Stationed in Stuttgart Germany and Hunter Army Airfield, Savannah, GA.

Mba, E-Business, Operations

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma NuMy emphasis was "E-Business" of the Master of Business Administration. I studied the core classes.

Bs, Business Administration

Went to school and worked part-time. I was also in the Colorado Army National Guard.