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Provide leadership, vision and strategy for delivering consistent and reliable IT infrastructure demand forecasting and capacity planning services.

Lead the efforts of all Providence California IS professionals in support of the mission of the Providence Tarzana Medical Center. Support the strategic planning for future IS systems, and ongoing optimization of existing systems.

Consulting for senior leadership at a large national healthcare organization. Contributing to development and deployment of multi-year IT infrastructure capital project planning, forecasting and governance improvements.

Directed the strategic planning and engineering activities for configuration management, infrastructure monitoring, event management and automation technology disciplines.

Conceived and deployed a team dedicated to infrastructure (servers, storage, software) lifecycle management. Created and staffed program office, project execution and financial management teams focused on strategic planning, governance and execution of projects to improve the currency of data center computing infrastructure.

Directed enterprise wide capacity planning and performance tuning strategic planning, forecasting and daily operational activities. Scope of infrastructure portfolio included mainframes, mid-range and Wintel servers, SAN storage and enterprise applications middleware.

Promoted the development of technology standards, service level agreements and operating procedures for storage infrastructure, backup and archiving systems.Directed the storage infrastructure strategy, capacity planning and operational management of enterprise shared SAN storage and backup infrastructure environments.

Managed capacity planning and performance tuning strategic planning, forecasting and daily operational activities for enterprise systems and applications running on IBM mainframe servers.

Managed an application development staff responsible for design and implementation of imaging applications and healthcare claims workflow systems.

Managed technical team accountable for mainframe and distributed server architecture, networking, storage management, data backup and operations.

Provided technical consulting to application developers and business partners regarding architectures and technologies best suited to support client/server, distributed computing and decision support applications.

Lead technical consultant and project manager for design and deployment of managed storage (DFSMS) software, automated tape libraries and backup systems in multiple data centers.