Project Manager Management

Louis J. DeCorpo www.linkedin.com/in/louis-decorpo-53760410

********@*********.*** 832-***-**** Spring Tx 77386

Professional Overview

Sr IT & Telcom Manager, Kendra Scott – (Nov 2019 – Present) – Austin TX

Migrated the CASS financial system over to a streamlined transportation spend using a modern expense management system reducing our spend and accuracies reaches 250K% yearly ROI and inventory accuracies at 95%

oReplacing the DIA circuitry with Business class fiber ASEOD & BB throughout the 150 locations savings averaging 200K$ annually.

oReplaced the 4 tier VoIP system incorporating Ring Central / Office at hand as the MSP for operation and turn-key architecture – eliminating onsite PM work, redefining the VoIP footprint with a single vertical system with savings and additional functionality of over 700K$ ROI – 3 Year

oImplemented a load sharing configuration within the VMware Velocloud infrastructure, prioritizing wireless and VoIP traffic for more efficient data and voice propagation.

oMigrating into a new SASE environment with Netskope SSE technology for our remote and external customers – reducing our appliance footprint from ASA & Zscaler tunnels to ZTNA for communications

oReplaced the current external LTE demands for off site Kiosks setup and comms with Surface Pro / internal ESims on our new Premier IOT structure for faster and more reliable communications.

oResponsible for vendor sourcing, RFP’s and selection for procurement and life cycle management and replacement

oManager for review and design and approval of infrastructure changes through MSP providers

oExecutive team member for project proposals, budget projections and forecast, management of the IT / Telcom budget for over 2.5 million annually.

oRe- Negotiated the SLA agreements, Net-aggregation, SD WAN and VoIP contracts with AT&T and partners for much improved costing, MSP support and SLA requirements deserved and required.

Sr IT Manager Engineering, Credit One – (Oct -2017 – 2019) - Nevada LV

Managed the 3.5M+ Budget for Data Center Operations and the Office upgrades

Managed the development and execution of IT projects. Led global IT teams. Managed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and multiple IT business applications in accordance with all regulations.

oDeveloped and implemented technology solutions and cost-efficient strategies for hiring, training, development, and succession planning to build an extensible IT organization.

oProvide vision and leadership for developing and implementing strategies, required for architecture and migration changes incurred with our new Data Center; configurations consisting of all Nexus 9/7/2/ switches, extranet / DMZ, operational monitoring and application development and support.

oEstablished a weekly reporting structure for the executive team outlining the specifics of project initiatives expenditures, budget forecasts, timelines, schedules, roles, and responsibilities.

oBudget accountability and forecasting, Life Cycle Management yearly expenditures / Opex / Augmentation and Pro services contracts and SLAs needed for short- and long-term initiatives.

oManaged the Data Center migration move from facility to a new Data center encompassing a dual mirrored environment for redundancy.

oMigration of the Viptella Sd WAN to a SASE environment utilizing VMWare and Zscaler for our SSE IPsec and tunneling deployment

oImplementing an ACI deployment with APic’s appliances and F5 Load Balances supporting the 2000+ servers within the Data Centers

oAWS implementation with EC2 & S3 instances

Sr IT Manager Network Engineering -- American International Group (1999 to 2017) – Houston TX

Manager, Engineering – AIG - American International Group (2010 to 2016)

Managed the $6M + yearly budget spread across both capex, opex and professional services.

I led the team responsible for the design and implementation of both our multiple data centers and over 600+ remote locations across the US, Latin and South America, Mexico, and Canada.

Working closely with Sr management and the various PMO and Business teams, securing relationships by providing a secure, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure both LAN and WAN.

oManaged a staff of 23+ employees both FTE and augmented resources for the over 75+ yearly projects, upgrades, installs and consolidations across the landscape.

oManaged the 75+ yearly projects for Data / Voice Engineering consisting of Technology advancements, DMVPN, SaaS / SASE, Cloud services, Extranet, Site mergers, consolidations, SLA partnerships and procurement acquisitions.

oSupported Global AIG data center re-architecture for one of largest insurance/financial providers worldwide. Drove initiatives such as data center deployment standards, architecture, design, proof-

of-concept testing, Capacity Planning initiative, and implementation of WAN services, Drove the IT strategy for Disaster Recovery and Production Engineering.

oDeveloped an enterprise-operational framework model for upward reporting that established lifecycles, processes, guidelines, policies, leadership, methodologies, and standards for enterprise technical infrastructure.

oLed architecture review boards to ensure adherence to project standards. Aligned strategic directions of IS and business through flexible and cost-effective methods utilizing ITIL (ISTM).

oBrokered IT arrangements with vendors such as Cisco, DiData, SHI, CDW, AT&T VMware to name a few.

Senior IT Design Engineer – AIG - American International Group (Feb -1999-2010) – Houston TX

Project managed business IT integration, consolidations maintenance and system upgrades.

oArchitected, planned and implemented IT solutions deploying, migrating and upgrading multiple technologies including MPLS, Point-to-Point, and VPN Solutions, DMVPN, Traffic Engineering, LAN, WAN, MAN, QoS, Cisco Wireless, Cisco and Avaya VoIP solutions, Video Conferencing/Streaming,

oCisco ACE to F5 LB migration supporting over 9000 servers

oSD WAN deployment utilizing MPLS, Meraki, Velocloud and Netskope SASE solutions

oGlobal WAN routing optimization with our EMEA and ASIA Pac and South America partners utilizing Cisco 8000 series routers.

oLAN enhancements within the DC utilizing a Cisco DNA technology featuring Cisco series Nexus switches both 9K, 7K, 5K & 2K top to rack switches featuring an east – west transfer optimization method

oImplementation of BCP - disaster recovery site, OC-3 / 192 network, and procurement of equipment under set guidelines specific to our review board and Vendor Policy, Data Center Disaster Recovery, VDI.

oTriaged and migrated the AS400 mainframe across three Data Centers onto a Sandbox storage environment utilizing V-Block technology with EMC, Cisco, and Dell Technologies.

oEngaged with open systems and hardware services teams to develop LEAN processes reducing time for server deployment from three months to two weeks

Education & Professional Development

Technologies and Strategies

SASE deployments with SSE security provisioning – utilizing Zscaler and Netskope deployments.

Cisco ACI spine and leaf technology with APIC appliances

Cisco Viptella SD WAN technology with Vbond and Vsmart controllers

Cisco Technologies including the 6880 / 3850 / 4500 series L3 switches – Cisco 3945 / 3825 / 2951 Routers

AWS EC2 / S3, F5 LB, Cisco DNA / DNS SEC

Meraki MX / MS / MR technologies, FW securities / Threat Grid / AMP

Cisco DNA / DDI technologies

Business Management Studies (3yrs), New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH

Computer Science Technologies Studies, Northern Essex College

University of Houston Project Management I & II University of Houston Project Leadership Management I & II

Cisco Routing & Switching Cisco DNA Meraki F5 LB ACI / APIC Velocloud FWaas / SaaS/ SSE Zscaler ASA MPLS Nexus OSPF BGP EIGRP – Design, Implementation FW Extranet DMZ TQM ISO SDN Essentials the Future of Networking

Additional Experience

Information Systems &Technology Manager -- Lawrence Public Schools (1992 – 1998) – Lawrence Ma.

Managed the information technology infrastructure for 23 facilities including the Central Office.

oDesigned and led three WAN infrastructures build outs.

oManaged contractual access with vendors, RFB / IFB support with access, availability to incorporate a cross-platform infrastructure and support model that supported 4K new devices, Extranet, DMZ, MF and MS server infrastructure.

Managed (15) direct reports - responsible for the allocation, management, and maintenance of all computer essentials, peripherals, mainframe, Lotus Notes, Novel, MS infrastructure, record and inventory software delivery and backups.

oManaged all financials to the comptroller office, expenditures, budget forecast, initiatives and schedules. Leveraged school and comptroller’s process for RFPs, contract arrangement.

oCompleted the migration of all server platforms with virtually no costs to the school system.

oLiaised with the School Board to secure project funds, coordinate technology upgrades, and submit purchase requisitions.

Lean Network Engineer -- Lawrence Public Schools

Project managed the migration from Bay-Networks and Novell to Cisco and MS platforms.

Led the technical and operational aspects of the Novell migration to an MS platform across 23 facilities.

oImplemented WAN Extranet / DMZ for Internet access.

Initiated AS400 Data migration for administrative data mining and records collection.

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