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Leading teams focused on developing and supporting scalable technology infrastructure and solutions to support the institution’s goals for academic instruction, student success, faculty research, and business effectiveness.Driven to advance the University’s research excellence and develop central IT as the one-stop provider of choice for research computing and data services at ODU.Focused on IT Strategy Development, Governance & Planning - aligning IT Service Management with goals and priorities of the University. Meeting regularly with key stakeholders, customer groups, ITS leaders and staff to understand important University initiatives. Closely monitoring trends in Higher Education and IT to incorporate the direction and adoption of new technologies, introduction of new services and enhance effective use.Leading the adoption of formal Business, Customer, and Vendor Relationship management programs between newly formed BRM Teams within IT and the rest of the business.Fostering a culture of radical candor. Engaging with ITS staff members across the organization to encourage ideas, development of ideas to concepts, and to build a mindset and creativity of a transformational organization.Member of various Committees and Boards - High Performance Computing Advisory Committee, Research Computing Advisory Committee, Mid Atlantic Research Infrastructure Alliance, Association of Collegiate Computing Services of Virginia (ACCS-VA)

Provide expertise and leadership in the design, management and implementation of the convergence of network, server, and storage infrastructure with focus on automation and orchestration of services, public and private cloud services.Building shared understanding between the Operations, Network, Server, Storage, Cloud, and Research Computing Infrastructure Teams with emphasis on high alignment and loose coupling. Passionate about the development and continuous improvement of Service, Product, Project and Knowledge Management Programs within the area of Infrastructure Services. Expanding on service strategy and roadmap development as key towards relationship management with customers, both internal and external business partners, and vendors.Leading the Enterprise and Cloud Infrastructure Architecture development. Utilizing industry best practices in infrastructure DevOps to further enhance the service delivery model and reduce the total time to market for the implementation of core enabling infrastructure services.Leading the University's Information Technology backup, disaster recovery, continuity of operation and crisis and emergency management program through the transition of geographic redundancy built on top of cloud services.Leading the Research Computing Services development - building high performance computing and high throughput regional and national Research and Education (REN) network infrastructure resources that align with the research and scholarly activity of the University. Leading the Research and High Performance Computing Advisory Committees - responsible for Research and HPC Computing Services strategy development and coordination between key research stakeholders and IT.Member of the IT Project Portfolio Review, IT Strategy and Priority Planning, University IT Advisory, University Emergency Management Advisory Committees.

Provide expert network engineering supervision and support associated with network infrastructure design and security architecture, especially in the area of network virtualization, data center switching and routing to the University’s networking environment, enabling a reliable and secure high performance network infrastructure.Supported a high throughput regional transport network delivering wide area network connectivity services to multiple Higher Education and Government organizations within the Hampton Roads region. Adopted a service-based approach to allow for more focused strategy development and better prioritization during project planning, service and product delivery.Introduced a multi-tiered support structure and laid the foundation of a robust Knowledge Management program with a focus on process, procedure and template development.Pioneered Kanban boards and adapted and adopted Agile Project Management for Network and Infrastructure Services. Formed a robust NetDevOps team and leading an organization wide DevOps and Infrastructure as Code effort adding automation and orchestration of service delivery to reduce the overall TTM for new products and services.Built and leading a multi-disciplinary Cloud Acceleration Team focused on the deployment of a Hybrid Cloud / Multi Cloud service offering around the use cases of business continuity, on-demand high scale research computing, and administrative and academic service agility. Delivered an AWS-based environment focused on Disaster Recovery as well as general compute and high order service adoption.Developed an end-to-end fully integrated CI/CD/CT infrastructure and application DevSecOps pipeline through close collaboration between Application, Infrastructure and Security Teams.

Provide advanced technical specialist support to test, research and evaluate overall network infrastructure designs and concepts as they apply to the emerging campus network infrastructure.Create detailed designs of existing and proposed network architectures for planning and review.Provide advance technical support and attention to interoperability of ODU's infrastructure with regional and national optical networks.Coordinate with equipment vendors to ensure University network design remains current with best industry practices.Lead the migration away from Cisco towards and Aruba-based wireless network.Designed a new Data Center Interconnect using Cisco Nexus Overlay Transport Virtualization and Ciena DWDM Optical Network Platform.Migrated regional network connectivity to 100Gbps using Juniper Universal Routing Platform.Migrated to a template-based Application Delivery Controller system built on top of F5 Big-IP Load Balancing Platform.Migrated Campus and Internet Firewall Security deployment away from Cisco ASA and towards Palo Alto Networks Next Gen Firewalls.Introduced a new Site-to-Site and Client-Based IPSec VPN Solution on top of Palo Alto Network's Platform. Built a home-grown Network Security Vulnerability Management system using direct API integration with Rapid7 Nexpose VM.

Provide advance technical specialist support to manage and analyze University communication and network systems.Design and operate the underlying campus wired, wireless and data center networks.Utilize available network automation and scripting tools (Perl, Python, Expect, etc.) and best practices to determine performance baselines and thresholds and provide thorough and accurate assessments of actual network reliability and performance.Provide expert support particularly in the area of data center network infrastructure using virtualization technologies, BGP, MPLS, VPC, OTV and other relevant technologies.Lead Wireless Design engineer focused on RF optimization, site surveys, channel planning, moving towards density-based wireless designs and away from coverage-based deployments.Lead Virtual Network engineer focused on Cisco 1000v and VMware Distributed Virtual Switch administration and optimization. Introduced a new central network authentication service based on Aruba ClearPass to include device profiling for network access authorization.

Provide direct IT support for the CS department's faculty, staff, and students. Built and operated a VMware-based on-prem virtual environment.Built and operated a Eucalyptus-based AWS-compatible private cloud.

Provide direct IT support for the CS department's faculty, staff, and students. Design and operate the underlying network, security, server (Windows and *nix), and storage infrastructure.Provisioned and administer a variety of Operating Systems - Solaris, Linux, and Windows.Deployed and administered an enterprise class storage system based on EMC's Celerra and VNX product lines.Setup a departmental email system based on Microsoft Exchange and Sendmail.Administered various Database solutions - Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.Configured and administered Apache and Microsoft IIS Web Servers