Responsible for providing design-time architectural guidance, education, and technology thought leadership on the Azure platform to a segment of Microsoft's enterprise customer base targeted for their potential for rapid Azure adoption and growth

- Researched, evaluated, and implemented software and hardware solutions to assess suitability for enterprise adoption. - Led cost-reduction initiatives focused on licensing reduction and optimization, consolidating infrastructure through virtualization, and incorporating infrastructure automation technologies. - Developed enterprise PaaS strategy and aligned new and existing application workloads with deployment model. - Designed geo-distributed HA solutions for applications and databases. - Handled post-acquisition data center integration of Dollar Thrifty applications and systems. - Prepared and presented technical proposals for IT and business leadership.- Supported hardware infrastructure, database management systems, storage, and virtualization technologies.- Managed access to and resources in the Hertz Microsoft Azure environment.

- Provided support for over 900 SQL Server databases.- Coordinated effort to upgrade 45 SQL Server 2000 instances- Installed and configured SQL Server instances as needed for projects.- Specialized in configuring SQL Server for customer facing solutions and those with high availability requirements.- Coordinated DB2 upgrades for www.hertz.com.- Monitored & tuned all aspects of database performance for SQL Server and DB2 LUW.- Developed x86 hardware strategy and solutions for database, HPC and virtualized workloads.- Installed and configured Windows and Linux servers as needed for projects.- Assisted with supporting 1500 Windows and Linux servers.

- Maintained existing DB2 LUW duties following the outsourcing of IT operations to IBM.

- Supported DB2 LUW databases used by the Hertz.com e-commerce channel.- Performed daily database change management activities.- Provided production support for all Hertz SQL Server database instances.- Advised developers on logical database design.

Political Field Activities- Coordinated voter registration and voter identification initiatives.- Responsible for planning and coordinating campaign events.- Responsible for recruiting staff and volunteers.- Clients included Mick Cornett's and Denise Bode's congressional campaigns and Ernest Istook's gubernatorial campaign, among others.Technology- Developed and maintained a comprehensive voter registration database.- Enhanced and aggregated existing multi-platform databases using information from data mining. - Created a database application used for data analysis & mining of available voter information.- Created a reporting application to generate geographically ordered lists based on user defined variables.- Collected and integrated geospatial information for the purpose of map generation and voter microtargeting.

Database Design- Developed SQL Server database and ASP.NET front-end application used for tracking Congressional voting records.- Converted paper-based method of handling constituent requests to an electronic database based approach.Systems Administration- Replaced hardware and performed migration of equipment from Windows NT to 30,000 node House.gov domain.- Responsible for policy enforcement, patch deployment, and rights management for accounts within the office’s AD OU, Exchange Server, and Blackberry Enterprise Server.

- Supervised daily operations of a 22 station database driven call center used by the Istook campaign and multiple other candidates in the Oklahoma City metro area.- Performed security oversight, daily maintenance, and data loads for call center MySQL databases.- Performed installation and configuration of the call center’s network hardware and cabling.- Coordinated campaign field staff and events.