Lead operations, maintenance, and support for all Cloud Infrastructure.• Provide cloud design and operational leadership that will operate the technology environment, streamline associated processes, minimize service interruptions, report service levels with transparency, reduce cloud costs, and minimize risk associated with technology failures and cyber intrusions.• As IT operations thought leader, drive to deliver on strategic and tactical deliverables in support of teams by providing a scalable architecture, automation, and an ‘Always On’ end user experience.• As a key member of the Technical Operations leadership team, contribute to the development and execution of the enterprise wide IT strategy and is responsible for ensuring IO strategy is fully aligned, with business objectives. Introduces technologies, automation, resilience and operational practices to innovative infrastructure and operations capabilities.• Manage operations of all Cloud computing and contain Cloud consumption costs and ensure transparent billing. Provide operational support for mature the use of native cloud services to displace third party applications in partnership with IT peers and business stakeholders.

Build, deploy and maintain core infrastructure services aligned to migration of legacy data center migration to AWS cloud and application modernization to native cloud in a high growth environment. Focus on resiliency, performance and cost management.• Responsible for the operational health of the core systems that support AAMC most critical business services and require high availability. In this role you will seek and implement ways to improve uptime and operational efficiency. • Evaluate current business continuity and disaster recovery governance and framework. Design, plan and transition to cloud best practices in support of AWS migration and application modernization.• Monitor all aspects of business recovery plan, including initial emergency response, recovery procedures and business resumption processes.
 Conduct risk assessment and business impact analyses to identify vulnerable areas within IT's critical functions.• Build relationships cross functionally with applications and cloud migrations teams.
 Advocate for the importance of maintainability and disaster recovery plans during the transition to cloud.

• Leading multiple projects to migrated large number of customers from current hosted data center to new upgraded data center / cloud.• Coordinating technical, application, contract and customer resource to assess, design, improve, plan, build, test and cut-over multiple simultaneous migration projects.• Primary point of contact as customer liaison, managing communications and expectations to ensure seamless transition to new systems environment with least business disruption.

Technology consultancy providing:- IT Assessment, IT Architecture design & IT Strategies.- Cloud + Data Center Transformation - Infrastructure modernization.- Design sustainable, results-based End-To-End Support. - Collaborative technologies - audio, video, broadcast, web

Interface is a leader in the design, production and sales of modular flooring for the commercial, institutional, and residential markets. Interface is also a global leader in sustainability and biomimicry; $1 billion revenue. Interface is the world’s largest designer and maker of carpet tile. By reputation, we are a company of ideas and courage.As Sr Global Director, I lead the modernization and architectural strategy for IT infrastructure to ensure scalability, resiliency, security, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Direct $12M Budget with 40 employees and multiple managed services partners in Americas, EMEA & APAC supporting 5,000 employees and multiple ERP instances. • Championed Cloud strategy moving from Private cloud to Public cloud (AWS). Lead infrastructure integration with EU acquisition. Completed global Data Center Optimization project, consolidated 7 data centers into 3, standardizing architecture and technology. $4.6 M savings over 5 years.

Responsibility for designing, aligning, and sustaining core IT infrastructure and application lifecycle platforms for Interface Americas. Drive global standardization and consolidation strategies to establish and promote optimal use of existing IT assets, while researching next generation technologies and innovations. Define, monitor and communicate operational management processes for enterprise infrastructure.• Lead the re-architecting of the current disparate Americas infrastructure into a rationalized, leveraged, seamless global platform. Eliminated 3 data centers and reduced cost.

Fourth-largest independent oil refiner/marketer operating in Southwest US; $10.7 billion revenue. Directed IT strategic development and post-acquisition integration of larger, public enterprise; aligned IT strategy with overall business objectives; provided thought leadership as member of executive team. Led enterprise IT, including operations, tactical roadmap, infrastructure, networks, architecture, application development, outsourcing and support. Managed staff of 74 resources plus offshore providers and controlled $23 million operating and $10 million expense budgets; reported to CFO.

Electric/natural gas utilities, natural gas/oil & construction materials operating in 44 states; $3.4 billion revenue.Transformed IT function into strategic business partner; evangelized and implemented shared services model in matrix environment. Created IT strategy to converge with corporate strategy, developed tactical roadmap and championed use of common technology enterprise-wide. Directed IT services supporting five business units, 100 locations, 275 servers and 5,000 end users; managed $6 million P&L budget and 120 resources

Mail stream services - document management, mailing and shipping solutions operating globally; $4 billion revenue. Led global strategic technology initiatives, to support 17,000 end users and 300 IT resources, including SAP, Siebel CRM and Web applications for $300 million global IT shared services organization. Directed strategic analysis and operational planning, used for all service delivery processes, change management and quality metrics. Collaborated on IT architecture team to map and integrate data, technical application and process architectures into enterprise design. Facilitated $200 million project portfolio review

In charge of all IT support services (LAN, help desk, web development and application) for the CEO and direct report functions, including HR, finance, legal and facilities. Managed a staff of 16 IT professionals as well as an $8M budget. Partnered with other CIO’s to identify IT needs and seamlessly integrate new technologies with a focus on web, self-service, knowledge base, call center, data warehouse, and global ERP integration..