Project Manager responsible for the migration of 1400 databases (400 servers) from physical to virtual servers and from legacy SQL versions to SQL 2012 and SQL 2014 database environments. Directed two dedicated DBAs and coordinated testing and deployment activities with the application teams. Captured and reported project metrics for status reporting and executive review.

Institutional Shareholder Services, (ISS) is the leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community. Previously a brand of the MSCI, ISS was sold to Vestar Capital Partners in 2014 requiring ISS to build out a new IT infrastructure (4 data centers) and the migration all existing productivity tools and applications into the new environments.Program Manager – Data center builds and application/data migrations (Contract Position )As program manager… Show more Institutional Shareholder Services, (ISS) is the leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community. Previously a brand of the MSCI, ISS was sold to Vestar Capital Partners in 2014 requiring ISS to build out a new IT infrastructure (4 data centers) and the migration all existing productivity tools and applications into the new environments.Program Manager – Data center builds and application/data migrations (Contract Position )As program manager, responsible for vendor management, company resource allocation and management, scope definition and management, risk management, communications, and overall accountability for the projects. Managed vendor and company teams in the migration of approximately 1000 users from a hybrid Exchange 2007/2010 environment to the cloud based MS Office 365 environment utilizing the SkyKick migration tool. Managed vendor and company teams in the build out of two data centers in Nevada and two data centers in Geneva, Switzerland as well as a global network linking the four data centers and 15 remote offices globally. Managed company teams with standing up Dev, UAT, Training, Production, and DR environments in the new data centers as well as the migration and synchronization of data to the new environments. Show less

Senior Project Manager - EMC Isilon deployment (Contract Position)Responsible for two data center deployments of EMC’s Isilon storage platforms in Memphis, TN and Manassas, VA. Project included migrating approximately 50 TB of legacy image files to the Isilon and replicating all data to secondary storage platform. The initial product supported by this environment is the Visionaire cutting blocks which are templates for knee replacement surgery to ensure precise knee sizing. Each cutting… Show more Senior Project Manager - EMC Isilon deployment (Contract Position)Responsible for two data center deployments of EMC’s Isilon storage platforms in Memphis, TN and Manassas, VA. Project included migrating approximately 50 TB of legacy image files to the Isilon and replicating all data to secondary storage platform. The initial product supported by this environment is the Visionaire cutting blocks which are templates for knee replacement surgery to ensure precise knee sizing. Each cutting block is custom made for the patienct from MRIs provided by the surgeon performing the knee replacement surgery. Smith & Nephew is a FDA validated organization requiring extensive validation and documentation efforts for all systems supporting their FDA validated products. Show less

OnX Enterprise Solutions is a global enterprise data center solutions provider offering a full suite of end-to-end solutions including the industry’s leading Federated cloud solution offerings. Today, OnX is among the world’s largest independent, multi-vendor enterprise data and solutions provider with offices throughout North America and Europe. Responsible for managing multiple enterprise class data center projects for major telecom and wireless communication clients.Scope of… Show more OnX Enterprise Solutions is a global enterprise data center solutions provider offering a full suite of end-to-end solutions including the industry’s leading Federated cloud solution offerings. Today, OnX is among the world’s largest independent, multi-vendor enterprise data and solutions provider with offices throughout North America and Europe. Responsible for managing multiple enterprise class data center projects for major telecom and wireless communication clients.Scope of responsibility includes;• Support for Solution Architect in presales activities• Publish Statement of Work• Engage required resources and vendors• Develop and publish project schedule• Develop and publish project communication plan• Develop and publish project risk management plan• Host project kickoff calls• Host periodic status calls and publish call minutes/status report to stakeholders• Communicate project statuses to Corporate PMO office• Initiate vendor payments and customer invoicing processes• Develop and publish project closure activities and documentation Show less

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 130 countries.Responsible for managing multiple projects supporting the migration of data center assets from regional data centers to AIG’s new Next Generation Data Centers (NGDC). Each project includes; assessing the requirements for the new data center build outs and application dependencies, monitoring new server and application deployments, monitoring database… Show more American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 130 countries.Responsible for managing multiple projects supporting the migration of data center assets from regional data centers to AIG’s new Next Generation Data Centers (NGDC). Each project includes; assessing the requirements for the new data center build outs and application dependencies, monitoring new server and application deployments, monitoring database migration and replication, assuring multi-tower dependencies, including security, backup, and DR compliances, are addressed prior to go-live assessment and go-live. Primarily responsible for internal business units (customers) including; Valic (Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company), The Advisor Group, and SAAMCo (SunAmerica Asset Management Corp). Show less

• Dedicated project management resource for Verizon Communications, Inc.• Manage multiple storage refresh projects (816 servers in total) to NetApp storage• Acquired, trained, and managed technical resources assigned to migrate each server’s storage• Coordinated system administrators, application owners, database managers, and storage team members to develop schedules and task plans for each server’s migration• Responsible for project coordination including call bridge, WebEx… Show more • Dedicated project management resource for Verizon Communications, Inc.• Manage multiple storage refresh projects (816 servers in total) to NetApp storage• Acquired, trained, and managed technical resources assigned to migrate each server’s storage• Coordinated system administrators, application owners, database managers, and storage team members to develop schedules and task plans for each server’s migration• Responsible for project coordination including call bridge, WebEx, and Sametime chat sessions for each migration activity• Responsible for change control activity, including submitting and monitoring change control requests for each server’s migration• Responsible for all project communication including customer meetings, technical planning, go/no-go meetings, and migration status reporting Show less

Responsible for managing customer facing projects with technologes including Networks, Security, Systems, and Storage for the southeast region.

Provide consulting services related to:• Request For Proposal (RFP) creation and response evaluation• Technology solutions including requirements development, product and service acquisition, data conversions, user acceptance testing and post mortem analysis• Disaster/recovery (business continuity) planning• IT governance including the development of Information Security Policies (ISP), Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), internal controls and compliance… Show more Provide consulting services related to:• Request For Proposal (RFP) creation and response evaluation• Technology solutions including requirements development, product and service acquisition, data conversions, user acceptance testing and post mortem analysis• Disaster/recovery (business continuity) planning• IT governance including the development of Information Security Policies (ISP), Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), internal controls and compliance verifications• Custom programming services including projects employing Pick/Unidata/Universe Basic and GNU C/C++ programming languages as well as Bourne, Korn, and Bash shell scripting languages• Custom programming services related to cross platform C programming on AIX, HP, Linux, and Solaris platforms• Linux, UNIX and Windows system administration• Integration solutions for heterogeneous networked environments Show less

Verizon is executing a project to realign Verizon business activities in 14 states to a new standalone corporate entity. This project entails the repurposing an enterprise data center and the realignment of customers’ private virtual lines.• Responsible for tracking data migrations into and out of the data center being repurposed.• Responsible for tracking security audits for all new servers and applications being stood up during the project.• Responsible for tracking the… Show more Verizon is executing a project to realign Verizon business activities in 14 states to a new standalone corporate entity. This project entails the repurposing an enterprise data center and the realignment of customers’ private virtual lines.• Responsible for tracking data migrations into and out of the data center being repurposed.• Responsible for tracking security audits for all new servers and applications being stood up during the project.• Responsible for tracking the realignment of customers’ private virtual lines, VPNs, and other secure connections to either or both of the repurposed data center and the remaining Verizon network. Show less

• Responsible for virtual environment (over 500 cores) deployments supporting data center build outs in the development data center (Herndon, VA), production data center (Dallas, TX) and disaster/recovery data center (Atlanta, GA) as well as two interim data centers in Atlanta, GA and St. Louis, MO.• Responsible for evaluating new requests for servers in the data centers.• Oversee design specifications, timelines, resources, and costs associated with all new environments that are being… Show more • Responsible for virtual environment (over 500 cores) deployments supporting data center build outs in the development data center (Herndon, VA), production data center (Dallas, TX) and disaster/recovery data center (Atlanta, GA) as well as two interim data centers in Atlanta, GA and St. Louis, MO.• Responsible for evaluating new requests for servers in the data centers.• Oversee design specifications, timelines, resources, and costs associated with all new environments that are being built in any of these data centers.• Attend daily and weekly operational planning meetings to coordinate our efforts with other departments to protect the integrity of the overall program timeline and critical path.• Server environments are being built using virtual servers employing VMware ESX 3.5 on HP blades with SAN attached storage.• Responsible for monitoring projects related to the upgrade of all VMware ESX 3.5 environments to VMware vSphere 4.• Responsible to communications with director level project sponsors, user communities, and technical staff to assure that each project is completed successfully, on time and within budget.• Responsible for standardizing repeatable processes to assure that all projects are executed in a consistent and efficient manner. Show less

•Dedicated program management resource for Verizon Communications, Inc.•Responsible for developing a master program plan to migrate approximately 900 Verizon servers to environments deploying NetApp virtual storage systems.•Servers include Windows, VMware ESX, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris and SUSE Linux operating environments.•Project documents include detailed step-by-step checklist templates of procedures for migrating servers based on the server’s operating environment. •Each template… Show more •Dedicated program management resource for Verizon Communications, Inc.•Responsible for developing a master program plan to migrate approximately 900 Verizon servers to environments deploying NetApp virtual storage systems.•Servers include Windows, VMware ESX, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris and SUSE Linux operating environments.•Project documents include detailed step-by-step checklist templates of procedures for migrating servers based on the server’s operating environment. •Each template was developed, tested, and approved by NetApp SAN Engineering with additional testing performed by NetApp Professional Services Engineers.•Verizon servers and NetApp storage systems are located in five geographically diverse data centers.•Both Verizon and NetApp team members are physically located in various cities throughout the county.•Virtual team members communicate and collaborate using various secure Internet-based applications. Show less

• Responsible for all Unix servers in a major global outsourcing project for PepsiCo, International.• Project included the build out of three datacenters, one each in Mexico, United Kingdom, and Singapore. • Project also includes the migration of all existing databases and applications from the current distributed environments to resources in one or more of the datacenters.• This is a customer facing position working with project management to assure the accurate distribution of… Show more • Responsible for all Unix servers in a major global outsourcing project for PepsiCo, International.• Project included the build out of three datacenters, one each in Mexico, United Kingdom, and Singapore. • Project also includes the migration of all existing databases and applications from the current distributed environments to resources in one or more of the datacenters.• This is a customer facing position working with project management to assure the accurate distribution of information between all stakeholders and to assure the successful transference of all applications and databases to the new datacenter environments. Show less

Provided leadership to 3 direct reports and a staff of 24 technical and professional employeesResponsible for department budget of approximately $2MResponsible for developing, deploying, and supporting all enterprise MIS applicationsResponsible for all MIS infrastructure from the datacenter to the desktopDirected the consolidation and migration of 58 individual servers to 28 virtual servers implemented with a VMWare ESX 3.0 virtualization environmentDirected the development… Show more Provided leadership to 3 direct reports and a staff of 24 technical and professional employeesResponsible for department budget of approximately $2MResponsible for developing, deploying, and supporting all enterprise MIS applicationsResponsible for all MIS infrastructure from the datacenter to the desktopDirected the consolidation and migration of 58 individual servers to 28 virtual servers implemented with a VMWare ESX 3.0 virtualization environmentDirected the development of a centralized customer database application with integrated work flowArchitect of MIS Disaster/Recovery (business continuity) plan including the implementation of a Highly Available (HA) datacenter in Largo, FL and a replicated redundant datacenter in Dallas, TXDirected the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Portal ServicesDirected the implementation of a public Web site that includes both public content and private content for customers and business partners (www.protobase.com) Show less

• Full time instructor for courses related to: LAN Administration, LAN Troubleshooting, Linux and UNIX (Solaris) Administration, DNS Administration, Shell Programming, Linux/Unix Security using Open Source Tools, Linux/UNIX Networking, Apache Web Server Administration, VB.NET, and ASP.NET Programming

• Founded original startup company (H. T. Dulin & Associates) as a software development company. The company grew to include hardware sales and system integration services. Name changed to ACISS Systems, Inc. to better reflect product and service offerings• Provided all top level administration including banking relations, financial management, contracting and legal issues, business plan, personnel decisions, and long term planning• Provided strategic and tactical planning for… Show more • Founded original startup company (H. T. Dulin & Associates) as a software development company. The company grew to include hardware sales and system integration services. Name changed to ACISS Systems, Inc. to better reflect product and service offerings• Provided all top level administration including banking relations, financial management, contracting and legal issues, business plan, personnel decisions, and long term planning• Provided strategic and tactical planning for marketing, new product development, customer services, and all other aspects of information technology, including both internal and customer oriented IT infrastructures• Planning, organizing, and directing the work of a highly skilled development, training, and support staff in the development of the company’s core products and in maintaining customer satisfaction and relationships• Provided mentoring and project management to internal and external teams on major projects• Designed and developed new methods for developing products and servicing customers• Provided training and mentoring to internal and customer personnel regarding products, services, technologies, hardware and software comparisons, and best practice approaches to technical solutions• Conducted oral and visual presentations, led and participated in meetings with prospective customers, current customers, vendors, staff, and other stakeholders Show less

Founder and Chief Architect of a software development company specializing in technology solutions for the law enforcement industry.