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Chicago, Illinois, US

• Architect & Manage security perimeter for network with 100’s of network ingress/egress points.
• Modernize and optimize national healthcare network of over a million endpoints,50,000 network devices, and 1500+ circuits across 70+ carriers.
• Architect and manage multiple national multi-cloud environments - IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Build and manage highly skilled team of network, cloud, and security professionals to oversee massive ultra-critical healthcare network.
• Restructure complex carrier contracts resulting in higher SLA’s while saving over $10M in annual spend
• Implement major programs to eliminate technical debt and end-of-life equipment while implementing scalable, optimized, future-capable networks.

San Jose, California, US

• Provide technology vision, products, and strategy to customers, Sr. Management, internal product teams, trade organizations, analysts, and partners.
• Work with Fortune 50 companies to transform their IT architecture and processes to deliver a Service Oriented set of products & services. Sometimes required a major change in mindset away from a rigid hardware-based.
• Developed hosted/public and private cloud architecture and solutions in use today by many Fortune 500 companies.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Design, build, and deploy all aspects of customer datacenters & technologies – both dedicated and collocated.
• Specific areas of focus are large-scale datacenter design, DC migration, technology optimization, and sustainability & alternative power.
• Product manager for an outdoor deployable modular datacenter product and implementation.
• Lead in the project to deploy a 3MW/$250M+ datacenter in NJ for a single customer footprint in under 5 days from whitespace turnover to full-load online.
• Managed Network & Datacenter Design & Deployment for a 2M sq.ft./$2BN global Datacenter footprint.

San Jose, California, US

• Responsible for all aspects of architecting, designing, and delivering data management systems and solutions for large enterprise accounts.
• Included training and mentoring of IT Managers and Architects in the design of large-scale systems, datacenters, and infrastructures as well as deployment of specific technology designs.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Responsible for managing Computing Infrastructure Department. Supported datacenter environments that included tiered applications, optimized high-speed WANs, & complex processes.
• Managed 24x7 team of Sr. Engineers dedicated to the delivery of high-performance, highly integrated, customer focused solution sets for an “always on” Public Utility.
• Design, deployment, and management of ‘Arizona Flood Warning System’. A State of Arizona and Army Corps of Engineers sponsored project requiring a statewide network (WAN, Shortwave, & Satellite) to monitor real-time.
• Program Manager & Engineering lead for SPATIA -A Global Satellite based power management/control system to manage & monitor power & water assets anywhere on the globe. Valued at over $35M at startup, the product &.