32 years of IT experience transforming traditional IT organizations.Successfully managing multiple Data Center teams.Technology innovator and disruptor.Challenge Data Center status-quo through exhaustive research and development (R&D).Responsible for innovation, strategy, transforming compute, storage, operating system and database teams.A true technologist who is not afraid of moving traditional IT to adopt positive change through automation 'Infrastructure-as-code'.

1993 – Present Travelport, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia April 2016 – April 2020Principal Systems EngineerResponsibilities include:- Cloud Computing Advisor:- Cloud Computing research and use case analysis since October 2011 to 2017- On-Prem IaaS and PaaS (Cloud Foundry) and public cloud integration (Azure & AWS)- Worldwide Compute/Storage architecture design/planning (over 16K+ physical & virtual machines)- Worldwide Compute/Storage Life-cycle management and reporting- Worldwide Compute, Network, Storage, OS ITSM- Data Center and DR; facility planning, power, cooling, server rack design and layout- Virtualization – 2005 Implemented VMware ESX 2.5.2 ~ to present - ESXi 6.x :- Manage over 8,800+ virtual machines worldwide- Manage VMware migrations from legacy ESX platforms to ESXi 6.x- Architect new technologies; hyper-converged and IP storage infrastructure- Implemented Turbonomic, improved capacity planning and performance- Implemented Cisco UCS for standalone server applications and virtualization:- One of the largest Cisco UCS farms in the world- Over 5400 UCS blade servers, over 80+ UCS domains as of Nov 2014- Over 600+ UCS VMware ESX hosts- Over 1,400+ VDI virtual desktops support worldwide staff and development- Architected enterprise consumer payment systems- Architected HA Clusters (64bit), Multi-node (2node, 3node, 4node) clusters:- MS-SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, ProstgreSQL, MySQL, IBM WebSphere, MQ, Cassandra- Architected Big Data HDFS solutions, Cloudera and Hortonworks- SOA appliances – IBM DataPower XI50’s and XI52’s- Security –Key Management, SIEM appliances, Visa CISP, PII/PCI, SOS compliant- Microsemi - Symmetricom Time Sync Servers

1996 – April 2016 Travelport, LLCIT Manager of Travelport Infrastructure Services – Responsible for managing a multii-million dollar Technical Operations budget for internal Middle-Tier server complex for Travelport and its Co-Location Web-Hosting. Also responsible for managing, computing, network storage, firewall security, facility infrastructure teams, QA Quality Center Labs and Offshore contractors. Senior Advisor to E-Commerce and Marketing groups. Created Web-Hosting Contracts for Travelport, interfacing with VP’s, CTO/CIO’s and Presidents of other Web-Hosting customers. Delivering systems/projects on time and within budget.