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Lovettsville, Virginia
POSITIONS HELD
Sr. Director, Enterprise Technology
Head of IT
Director, Infrastructure Engineering
Director, IT Operations
Chief of Staff
Program Manager
SECTOR EXPERIENCES
Financial
Technology
Energy
Media
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION
McMurray College, Abilene, Texas
Business Administration
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
Computer Science
ITILv3 Fundamentals
CANDIDATE SUMMARY
Broad-based experience in Information Technology operations support, organizational design, and life-cycle management. Deep expertise in strategy development and successful execution of enterprise (hardware & application software) build, implementation and support programs, organizational change management, financial planning and budgeting, vendor sourcing and management.
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Authored plan to reduce annual Operating Expenses from 22M to 17M over three years by reducing remote node locations domestic and international, consolidating U.S. data centers, implementation of IaaS solution with HP, organizational restructuring. (Compuware APM)
Managed internalization of previously outsourced IT including new data center build out. Building organization, process & technology infrastructure. (NYCE Corp.)
Managed the build of 6 new data centers (Teir3) and 3 new office buildings (NYCE, Janus Funds, Comcast, Marathon Oil)
Project management for data center consolidation. Client Capital One. Migration of HSBC and ING bank applications from legacy data centers in multiple states to CapOne target data centers.
Managed data center site selection and build, then application migrations from legacy data centers (Texas and Ohio) to new data center. (Marathon Oil)
Transition manager for outsourcing to off shore service providers HP & SAIC (Marathon Oil)
Program management for new data center design (90,000 sq. ft.) for a Federal Intelligence Agency. (Teir4)
Program Manager for effort to consolidate numerous domestic and international data centers and associated support organizations into a central site. (Oshkosh Truck)
Management of teams >100 FTE in multiple states. (Multiple companies)
CHRONOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Head of IT – Stores and Distribution Centers Infrastructure
LIDL US (German based Grocer) Jan 2017 August 2017
Alexandria, Virginia
Oversight for three IT Infrastructure teams, new IT infrastructure supporting US roll out.
oFacilities Infrastructure (Rack & Stack, Cabling, Wireless Access Points, Electrical (UPS, ATS, Generator)
oNetwork Infrastructure (Core Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Patching, Telco Carrier access)
oRetail Infrastructure (POS, Back Office Servers, Digital Displays, Tills, Digital Scales)
Program Manager/Consultant
Counter Consulting Jan 2016 to July 2016
Capital One – Richmond, Virginia
Program management for data center consolidation.
Migration of HSBC and ING bank applications from legacy data centers in multiple states to CapOne target data centers.
Director, Infrastructure Engineering
Compuware (now Dynatrace) SaaS/Application Performance Monitoring October 2012 to April 2016
Boston, Massachusetts
Oversight for 4 Boston area data centers and ~180 remote nodes in 40 countries globally.
Management of design, build and operations for Data Center, Server, Storage, Network, Remote nodes, Enterprise Security, Project Management (PMO) and associated Vendor Sourcing, Procurement, Management
Systems - HP, Hitachi, Cisco, F5, A10, Checkpoint, vmWare, Active Directory, SQL, Windows, Linux.
Transitioning to DevOps, Puppet, Agile environment.
Responsible for development and management of annual IT budget. 22M Operating and 4M Capital.
NextGen platform developed in AWS cloud.
Authored plan to reduce annual Operating Expenses from 22M to 17M over three years by reducing international node locations, consolidating U.S. data centers, implementation of IaaS solution with HP, organizational restructuring
Responsible for establishment of company’s first enterprise security program including SSAE-16 SOC2, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment programs.
Program Manager/Consultant
Counter Consulting January 2008 to September 2012
Marathon Oil & Gas, Findlay, Ohio
Managed data center site selection and build (Lebanon, Ohio), then application migrations from legacy data centers (Houston, Texas and Findlay, Ohio) to new data center. Build out included vendor management (HP/Server. EMC/Storage, Cisco/Network)
Transition manager for outsourcing to off shore service providers (HP and SAIC) including Database Support, Asset Management, Remote Monitoring Tools, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Network admin.
ICS Corp, Frederick, Maryland
Program management for new data center design (90,000 sq. ft.) for a federal government client.
Binary Visions, Oshkosh, WI
Program Manager for effort to consolidate numerous domestic and international data centers and associated support organizations into a central site.
Senior Director Enterprise Technology
Comcast (ISP/VoIP/Broadband cable) 2003 to 2007
Denver, Colorado
Management of three data centers in Denver and Philadelphia. Management of design, build and operations for Data Center, Systems Engineering, Storage Management, Database Administration, Network Support, Applications Support and Desktop & Cellular Support.
Total organizational responsibility for ~100 FTE.
Sun, HP, EMC, Cisco, Oracle environments.
Director Operations Services
Janus Mutual Funds, Denver, CO 2000 to 2003
Directed data centers in Denver and Austin.
Directed design, build and operations for Data Center Ops, Systems Engineering, Storage Management, Database Administration, Network Support, Applications Support and Middleware Support.
Total organizational responsibility for >50 FTE.
HP, Dell, Sun, EMC, Cisco, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 environment.
Director of Business Services/Chief of staff 1995-2000
NYCE Corp
Woodcliff Lakes, New Jersey
Management of corporate office staffs in New Jersey, New York and Colorado
Management of monthly reporting to Board of Directors on behalf of C level
Building and property management
Construction management
Management of annual auditing SAS70
Special projects on behalf of C level
Director, Data Center & NOC
NYCE Corp 1990-1995
Management of design, build and operations for data center, NOC, Network, Systems and Applications Development teams. IBM & Tandem mainframe environment.
Total organizational responsibility for >75 FTE.