As principal consultant I'm currently looking for contract consulting or business opportunities to participate in the strategic growth of any organization thru business development that supports the implementation of solid technology solutions within the public and private business sectors. I strongly believe that my experience working with multiple state legislators, agencies and stakeholders along with multiple divisions of Microsoft as their largest Government Cloud customer, specific domain knowledge within Public Safety and ability to drive successful implementations can be impact-full in these marketplaces. Skilled in technology modernization, Cloud Solutions, Legacy System Replacement, IT Roadmap development, CRM, Data\​Information Sharing solutions, translating the requirements created by functional analysts into the architecture for that solution and describing it through the set of architecture and design artifacts. Available for Contract consulting and Business Opportunites

Freewheel's custom solutions supports 95% of the buying and selling of media content between cable providers, advertisers and TV/Radio companies in the US. Clients include but not limited to Time Warner, Nielson Ratings, Comcast and Charter networks.On average, over $50 Billion in advertising dollars flow through Freewheel systems per year. In my current role I am responsible for creating and driving the technology road-map for Freewheel solutions in support of a Agile and Rapid Application Development model that increases Freewheel's competitive advantage and their customers ability to effectively manage increased Ad sales across multiple markets and media consumption devices / platforms.

I have been the Chief Information Officer for both the Illinois Department Corrections and Juvenile Justice. During my tenure, I developed and implemented technology solutions for the state’s largest single provider of medical services supporting nearly 49,000 adult inmates 2000 juveniles and supervision of approximately 26,000 parolees. I navigated existing procurement codes and process to introduce disruptive technology within government. I managed the vision, design and deployment of cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, and network systems for cloud hosting.I also successfully implemented Electronic Medical Records (EMR),  a Risk, Assets and Needs Assessment tool (RANA), Online GED, Mental Health, Medical, Court and Jail Data Integration; that meet federal compliance standards for data and information sharing, and the State of Illinois’ 1st “Cloud” Hosted enterprise application which included Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Management, Reporting and Advanced Analytics and the Nation's 1st Cloud based Offender Management System built on the archtecture of Microsoft Dynamics CRM hosted on the Windows Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Also served as the HIPAA compliance officer for both agencies in addition to chairing the States PKI Authority Board, and involvement in a Statewide Governing Committee for Integrated Criminal Justice DevelopmentResponsible for the strategy and operations of IT systems serving 27 adult correctional centers 6 Juvenile detention centers, 2 boot camps, 7 adult transition centers and 9 work camps. In support of approximately 11,600 corrections professionals

Developed strategic plans to advance the company's mission and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability and growth as an organization. Defined the financial value of the IT solutions available while establishing a strategic relationship with customers. Oversaw company operations to insure production efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources. Achieved 40MM+ in contracts. Responsible for the on-time, within budget delivery of multiple projects ranging in business value of up to $24 million. Perform budgeting for IT services, IT charging and billing activities. Calculated the cost of providing IT services, planned and implemented service strategies on behalf of contract clients. Set direction by communicating the strategy and vision of where the company was going. Funded projects, which supported the strategy, and ramped down projects, which lost money or didn’t support the strategy. Considered the company’s major expenditures, and managed the firm’s capital.Gave direction and leadership toward the achievement of the organization's philosophy, mission, strategy, and its annual goals and objectives, which was to help clients better understand and move toward a more secure, well-managed, and dynamic core IT infrastructure that will help reduce overall IT costs, make better use of enterprise resources, and make IT a strategic asset for the client.

The Bradford Group, is the worldwide leader in direct marketing and producer of fine collectibles. Successfully implemented an integrated system management solution. Captured, documented and communicated business, technical, functional and reporting requirements. Managed scope, schedule, budget, cost to date and estimate to complete. Produced project reporting including financial position, status reporting, risks, issues, and roadblocks. Interacted with technical teams in the IT infrastructure, IT architecture, production support services, PMO security and compliance, Web application, database and support desk areas in order to identify sound technical solutions , and to drive delivery in those teams based on schedule and budget. Interact with the IT leadership as the face for, raising issues, mitigating risk, reporting on progress, and coordinating deliverables that impact the project.

Provided leadership and utilized the project management framework of initiation, planning, execution, control, and formal closing (IPECC), for a IT Infrastructure data center upgrade at the 6th largest water and waste-water utility in the United States WSSC. Successfully implemented the following: Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) project, which established an adequate and scalable EMC SAN storage solution for WSSC’s data storage, data retention, data archiving, records management, content lifecycle, and data security. Oracle 11gR12 / 11i upgrade, Oracle ERP – OTL, WAM and IBM’s WebShere 6.1 implementation with the following Key Deliverables: enabled the ability for online bill payment and online permit processing, Provide infrastructure and environment for new FileNet®P8 4.0/GIS initiative. Manage the migration and deployment of WSSC’s applications and all web content to WCM v6.1. Also Responsible for writing objectives, conduct stakeholder analysis, and developing a work breakdown structure and risk management plan by using estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming.

Followed the logical methodology for the requirements process, lead a comprehensive assessment of client infrastructure including the capture and documentation of the Cisco Network Access Control Project (NAC) business and functional requirements, based on the ISO and NIST frameworks for network security, documented the results of mapping functional requirements to current policy to ascertain policy compliance and/or policy modification requirements, document the results of mapping business requirements to strategic goals to ascertain strategic goal compliance, documented the results of performing an assessment to determine the impact NAC will have on the user community. Communicate findings and results to the appropriate staff, and drive the effort to communicate findings and results to other members of the NAC project, and the Cyber Security Initiative (CYI) PMO.

Responsible for 2 of 5 corporate business units “Corporate Security” and “Corporate Real Estate”, worked with corporate leadership to understand strategic and tactical goals and translated them into effective IT support, infrastructure services and capabilities. Developed technology solutions and implementation activities, assigned staff, service providers and/or user personnel engaged in design, development, implementation, and maintenance of IT systems which provided efficiencies and competitive advantages for SBC/Ameritech

Responsible for all Information Systems Services in Washington DC office. Oversaw development and implementation of disaster recovery and prevention planning. Resolve problems of policy and service development. Coordinate acquisition of specialized resources for attorneys and client needs. Managed the operations department of the Information Systems Division. Maintenance contract management, inventory control, third party vendor services. Developed technology plans necessary to support strategic business objectives of the firm. Recommended and developed policies and procedures for compliance with network system configuration.

Managed the integration of multiple projects simultaneously, encompassing planning, re-sourcing and budgeting. Managed a team of Network Engineers, Systems Engineers and Network Technicians. Reviewed vendor RFP responses, prepared and conducted weekly executive level briefings. Interviewed, selected and managed multiple vendors. Provided strategic planning and needs assessment; developed short and long-term plans for technical improvements for one of the largest international law firms in the United States with eleven offices worldwide. Projects managed: Firm wide implementation of Internet access to the desktop, Frame Relay, Washington DC office relocation and acquisition. Desktop Image design and implementation, Remote Dial in/out solution, Implementation of DHCP

Created a detailed project plan, Staffing Model and Project Oversight for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/Windows 95 rollout. Responsibilities included the management and coordination of Shedd Aquarium staff and vendor resources, Microsoft NT Advance Server Implementation and Migration from NetWare 3.12, Microsoft Exchange Server Email implementation (including internet mail gateway), workstation TCP/IP address management, secure internet gateway, firewall, proxy etc. managed the server hardware upgrades and the installation and configuration of two Microsoft NT servers one of which with Microsoft Exchange. Created Windows ”95” desktop image and documented script for 350 new workstations with 10/100 BaseT operation.

Supported, managed, maintained and repaired all computer related equipment for a mixed NetWare and Microsoft NT 200 node LAN/WAN with remote and onsite users on multiplatforms. Responsible for all computer asset management maintenance agreements for the entire central region which included the support of a $10,000 per/hour in revenue procurement department. Formulated user guidelines; established standards for network use; communicated guidance and network status information to users.