Project Management Manager
Resume:
Robert Ruger
Flower Mound, Texas 75028
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Objective
Obtain a leadership position in a progressive organization that recognizes the value of effectively managed infrastructure and applications with an emphasis on the Business Alignment, Data Protection, Recovery Point Objectives, Recovery time Objectives, and proving compliance and security through an auditable processing environment.
Work Experience
3/2016 – Current, Principal Technical Consultant, Hitachi Data Systems
Architect responsible for the developed virtualized SAN, NAS, Archive, Cloud Storage, Converged Private Cloud solutions architecture.
Creation of Total Coat of Ownership models (TCO) to support cost savings for newly deployed architectures.
Creation of coordinated data Protection plans including replication, backup and recovery.
6/2010 – 3/2016, Storage Solution Engineer, HP Enterprise Systems
Lead weekly worldwide Storage Solution Designer huddles during 2012 through 2014. These meeting addressed the needs and problems of the Storage and BUR Solution. They also provided a consistent feed of education to address the features and functionalities of all supported HPES hardware through HPE ITIL practices. These vendors included NetApps, EMC, Brocade, and HP.
Presales Solution Architect responsible for the developed virtualized SAN, NAS, Archive, Cloud Storage, and BUR architecture and migrations in support of customer defined RTO and RPO requirements. These designs included the complete re-architecture of the customer’s data centers and the associated staffing and management of multiple facilities.
Lead the way in introduction and solutioning of B6200 Catalyst mode ahead of standard portfolio offerings. As a result of these efforts this technology has been moved to the very first priority of HPES Portfolio.
Provided all storage and BUR leadership directed at addressing RED account status on two customers in 2012. These efforts have resulted in the customer providing HPES with a green status and the renewal of their contracts during 2013.
Pre sales Lead Solutioning and POC activities using 3Par SSD technologies. These efforts lead to the increased use of 3PAR technologies to fulfill the majority of SAN requirements for our renewal customers.
Identified the need for leveraging more aggressive SAN consumption rates when competing against other vendors touting space savings technologies. Before this effort customer volume was conserved to be migrated into an HP facility on a gigabyte to gigabyte relationship.
Recognition:
1. 2010, 11’, 12’, 13’, 14’, 15’ multiple spot awards each for quality of solutions, teamwork, win/win attitude, and accuracy,
2.2010, 11’, 12’, 13’, and 14’ mid and yearend reviews - Exceeded all expatiations in all evaluated areas.
3.2014 Recognized by Meg Whitman for exceptional client understanding and solutions, and
4.2010, 11’, 12’, 13’, 14’ yearend stock and cash awards for quality of work and leadership.
11/2009 – 6/2010, Solution Director, CompuCom
Presales Solution Architect Developed staffing models in response to customer initiated RFP’s and RFI’s. These responses included staffing for all aspects of data center management including storage (SAN, NAS, CAS, and COS), servers (Linux, UNIX, AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows), network, and security for physical and virtual environments.
7/2009 – 11/2009, Contract Systems Engineering Planner (Capital One Auto Finance)
Provided Infrastructure project planning to eight concurrent implementation projects.
Responsible for all aspects of project management including; risk, scope, time, cost, quality, and resources.
Insured project deliverable were meet via proper resource allocation and management.
Gathered requirements and produced design documents for Infrastructure design reviews.
Managed Telecommunications, Security, Network and Firewall Engineers in conjunction with UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Storage administrators and SQL and Oracle DBA.
Managed server deployments that include SRDF/A for physical server and VMware server deployments.
Insured adherence to corporate standards for all software and hardware components.
1/2004 – 12/2008, Advisory Technical Consultant, EMC, Dallas, TX
Presales Solution Architect responsible for the design of SAN and NAS environments in excess of 1 PB, included determination of correct interoperability requirements of server OS including AIX, UNIX, Linux, Windows.
Gathered business requirements and lead Professional Service teams to develop a Scope of Work (SOW) for multiple independent and simultaneous engagements..
Coordinated design specification between multiple tower leads including application, Server, Storage, and Telecommunications.
Achieved the specialist certification of ESTA-CAS by successfully completing competency test that included all aspects of ITIL framework and CMM.
Provided Mega Deal presale support for storage solutions and migration. These solutions included WAN, LAN, SAN, NAS, CAS, Backup to Disk and COS as well as comprehensive HA, DR and Backup components including SFDF/S, SRDF/A. SRDF/STAR, SRDF/FAR, Mirrorview/A and Mirrorview/S in support of EDS’s ITIL framework.
Coordinated all POC activities including scope of requirements, data samples, hardware and software acquisition and implementation, placement of components within the desired environment, securing all associated resources, and definition of all success criteria.
Designed Multiple Virtual Storage environments that leveraged the CISCO Invista product. These solutions were deployed in inside and outside of VMware environments for proposed and existing clients. These efforts enabled the ability to increase storage utilization, centralize storage management, migrate data without disruption, and reduce total cost of storage ownership.
Solutioned RSA’s two factor authentication, RSA key manager, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and RSA envision.
Defined Data Classification and lead teams in the identification of components required for DLP implementation including; Work Flow analysis, Policy definition, Risk assessments, and integration.
Developed phased migration of Applications, servers, and storage. These data migration methodologies were then used by Professional Services to develop their Scope of Work necessary to support the migration from legacy storage environments into leveraged or dedicated EDS infrastructure.
8/2003 - 1/2004, Senior Consultant, Vega Consulting Solutions, Inc.,
Performed Data and Process Modeling of the Celanese’s existing IT project approval process.
Developed an IT Project Management Request and Approval process that enabled Celanese (a global, integrated producer of specialty and intermediate chemical products) to manage an ever increasing demand for IT services against a limited IT budget.
6/2000 - 8/2003, IT Manager, Atmel Corporation, Irving, TX 75063, Irving, TX
Complete Management of IT related budgets, projects, infrastructure, and staff for the production of ICs within the semiconductor manufacturing facility.
Provided all Project Management functions related to the site startup including network, telephone, servers, security, safety, office applications, manufacturing applications, ISO9000 documentation and tracking systems, internet and intranet sites, reporting systems, WAN, LAN, and VPN.
Complete staff management including: mentorship, coaching, performance evaluation, disciplinary counseling, hiring and goal setting.
Designed methodology to deploy identical hardware and software environments in ATMEL's Irving, TX and North Tyneside, UK facilities. This mythology yielded significant cost and time saving in second site's implementation of approximately $5.9 million.
8/1999 - 6/2000, Project Leader, Computer Science Corporation, Dallas TX
1/1998 - 1/1999, IT Manager, HITACHI SEMICONDUCTOR (AMERICA) INC., Irving, TX
12/1994 - 1/1998, Senior Applications Specialist, SAP America, Newtown Square, PA 19073
7/1990 - 12/1994, Senior Consultant, KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Radnor, PA 19087-4568
7/1989 - 7/1990, Senior Analyst, Day Data Systems Consulting, Philadelphia, PA 19103
1/1984 - 7/1989, Analyst/Programmer A, Marine Midland Bank, Buffalo, NY
Education
2/2010 – ITIL Foundations Certification
10/2008 – EMC ESTA-CAS Certified Specialist (Content addressable Storage, CMM, and ITIL Foundations)
11/2003 – George Washington University, Dallas, TX, Certification, Project Management
3/1995 – SAP Partner Academy, Irving, TX, Certification, SAP HR, Payroll, Time Management, PA, and PD
12/1983 – Grumman Data Systems Institute, Syosset, NY, Vocational, Computer Programming
6/1981 – Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, Bachelor's Degree, Science and Math
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