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Merrillville, IN, US

• Work with Enterprise Architecture Leadership and stakeholders to capture, implement, maintain, and/or enhance EA processes Including defining new, or enhancing existing EA Process metrics. Provide thought leadership on.
• Understand the needs and wants of Enterprise Architecture Leadership and stakeholders to provide appropriate data, reports, and/or information from the EA Repositories.
• Guide and influence stakeholders to understand and utilize the defined EA Processes.
• Collaborate with organizational domains to develop and maintain a repository of approved processes and applications.
• Guide teams via the definition and recommendation of application architectural patterns, development practices and standards, and partner with leadership to promote their adoption across the organization.
• Provide day-to-day mentoring and coaching to application architects and technical professionals.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Supporting Clients Citrix, Northern Trust and Ingredion.Tasked with DR/BC process documentation, dependency mapping and virtual initiatives. Consulted for ServiceNow customization and reporting generation.
• Filled the role of NA Field Services manager when the need arose. Created a functioning team and increased ticket closure from 4/day to over 10/day per tech.
• Designed and qualified new redundant data centers as part of new client transition. Worked with data center and hardware vendors to design a fault tolerant enterprise environment. Created worldwide server consolidation.
• Designed SAP migration to SAP HANA from legacy hardware to Cisco UCS physical/virtual platform.
• Proposed zero-footprint remote site plan using Hyperconverged Infrastructure to allow for reliable recovery and backup while reducing the server count needed at remote plants.

Addison, IL, US

• Responsible for developing and maintaining a secure, high-availability, scalable infrastructure through design, recommendation, implementation and remediation of the entire infrastructure.
• Investigated and designed the implementation of hybrid co-lo and cloud solution model for future state data center operations.
• Principle in the development, coordination and leading of an incident response process and root cause analysis documents.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, US

• Supporting clients City of Chicago, Imation, Illinois Tollway, UL.Responsible for providing leadership to the Network, Security, Unix, Linux, Storage and Windows server teams based on organizational goals and company.
• Increased service availability 70% for the entire enterprise by implementing enhanced monitoring and enforcing maintenance schedules.
• Promoted and implemented an alternative virtual solution (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) for the Chicago Police Department to fit the client enterprise needs and budget.

Westmont, IL, US

• Supporting Client Nuveen Investments.Provide technical leadership and accountability to define, maintain, communicate, implement & execute the enterprise architecture, solution engineering, standards & strategy for.
• Designed and implemented highly resilient virtual environment allowing for production operations, business continuity and disaster recovery testing.

Conway, Arkansas, US

• Supporting client Dun & Bradstreet.Provided open systems solution architecture for enterprise environments including x86, Linux and Unix servers as well as SAN and backup technologies including Oracle and SQL databases.
• Provided strategy for server consolidation from NJ to AR data center. Proposed new hardware, physical-to-virtual, or pack and ship based on business requirements. Provided DR solution as part of migration.
• During a major data center migration (1,000+ servers), collaborated with client management and championed a greater consolidation ratio for VMware, saving over $200,000 in HW costs.

• Supporting Clients McDonald's, Havi, Sirva, Nike, Symetra Financial, Allergan.Remotely managed 26 direct reports worldwide (India, Mexico, Malaysia, Europe). Responsible for the engineering, availability and.
• Developed an internal cloud offering and successfully deployed to clients while generating over $500,000/year in additional revenue.
• Developed a hyper converged platform for clients. Offering was adopted by Nike as well as presented as a technical offering by one of the vendors involved.
• Managed a focused team of 40 engineers dedicated to virtualization projects for all of ACS's clients to provide the expertise necessary to implement best practices and cost savings related to virtualization.
• Personally designed a disaster recovery solution for Nike utilizing virtualization, replication and existing Unix hardware saving over $1 million/year in hosting costs alone, while reducing the recovery time from 72.

US

Responsible for server builds, support and configuration for enterprise; server and network monitoring with HP Insight Manager, Microsoft MOM, and custom scripting.

Provided direction and technical mentoring to the operations team, initiated performance reviews, and defined IT policies and procedures.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Principle team lead in the planning and implementation of Windows server upgrades and Citrix/Terminal Services strategies.

Fort Mill, SC, US

Provided server/desktop hardware and software support.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Led and mentored personnel with the coordination and execution of mission critical systems. Highly decorated leader in high-conflict situations in Saudi Arabia, Korea and Germany. Served 3 combat tours.