Research areas of interest identified by Infrastructure Strategy CIO in collaboration with Business Unit executives. Focus on Compute Edge opportunities for Hybrid Cloud and Data Center implementations.Collaborate with new business teams to understand how potential customer products could be a mutual benefit.

Technical leader responsible for Infrastructure Team of Cloud and Network Engineers, Corporate IT Team, and IT Services Team including Product Support Engineers. Developed strategy and implemented modernization of network infrastructure through conversion to Zero Trust, always on global VPN, secure auditing of all network devices, and industry standard DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM). Cloud first strategy with all applications in AWS and Azure. Completed implementation of multi-site redundancy to remove reliance on corporate campus.

Working Technical Manager responsible for designing, implementing, and managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure, Corporate IT Infrastructure, and Enterprise Security while managing the Technical Support Engineering and Digital Analytics teams. Provide AWS and Linux expertise to Development along with handling Customer security issues and audit requests. Responsible for Corporate software including Salesforce, Google G Suite, Dialpad, Zoom, and Adobe Cloud.

Provide leadership to multi-site teams of five Linux Engineers, four Virtualization Engineers, and five Database Administrators supporting all development and production SaaS infrastructure. Focused on providing leading edge availability and performance to over 700 customers with nearly 700,000 active users out of over 1 million registered accounts while being held to a 99.9825% availability goal. Supported applications include Java based eProcurement and Windows .NET based Contract Management and Spend Analysis. Manage production co-location at three different SunGard locations along with customer specific hosting at various providers in the US, Canada, and Europe. Responsible for all Infrastructure purchasing including servers, storage, network equipment, and security components.

Managed up to 10 UNIX, Storage, and Intel System Administrators with responsibility for nearly 600 physical systems split between production data center, development/QA hosted site, and out of state disaster recovery data center. Responsible for submitting and managing infrastructure budget of over five million dollars and coordinating all project system purchases.

System Architect responsible for deployment of point of sale supporting nearly 15,000 terminals, Oracle Demand Planning, and Oracle Supply Chain. Technical advocate for virtualization including IBM LPARs, VMware, Sun Containers (Zones), and Sun Domains.

Technical lead for migrating from IBM RS/6000 SP “parallel” systems to virtualized IBM pSeries and deployment of Storage Area Network (SAN). Migrated corporate data warehouse ETL processing to 16-way IBM p670 to reduce end of month processing time by over 50% and meet time frame for possible “for profit” conversion.

Lead UNIX resource for deploying PeopleSoft Human Resources and Student Administration modules on IBM RS/6000 SP.

Manager of UNIX/Open Systems team. Technical manager for University of Florida electronic directory, e-mail, and security services.