Danny High

Lantana, Texas *****

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Summary of Qualifications:

Project manager for upgrades: AIX, zVM, RHEL, MQ, vSphere, EDz/DGS, Akamai Cloudtest, Windows, voice mail, and VPN

Hardware upgrades: Gateway, Cisco ASA, Mainframes

SAN storage migration from Hitachi to IBM – Windows, AIX, Solaris, RHEL, VMWare

Proof of Concepts and RFS

Improved hardware and software contract terms, conditions, and pricing by working with Procurement, Vendor and Asset Management teams on RFP, RFI, SLA, SOW, and proposal reviews.

Sole management of 7-year IBM contract to ensure on time implementation and lowest cost that included software licensing, hardware, maintenance, professional services cloud, disaster recovery and services

Contract negotiations and coordination with legal and procurement collaborating with Master Software Licensing agreements, Service Level Agreements, NDA’s, Amendments / Addendums, Professional Services Agreements, SOW’s, RFP’s. MSA, CSA, and Vendor Service Agreements.

Bill of Material (BOM) for each hardware change with cost matrix for each billable component and maintained current record of BOM for each processor

Promote optimum performance, capacity, reliability and data integrity across all accounts and data centers

Client and data center migrations and consolidation locally and globally

Acquisition of new business (clients) with merging with other clients or stand alone based of client requirements for RFP

Microsoft products – EXCEL, Word, Power Point, Project

Change Management – Present changes, scheduling, approvals, and closure

ServiceNow – Asset Management, Configuration Management, Change Management

Areas of Expertise:

Strategic planning Asset management Forecasting and Budgeting Project Management

Configuration management Procurement Vendor Management Management Performance Capacity Planning and Modeling Team leadership Client and Account Interface Analytical Skills Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Migrations and Consolidations

Software and Hardware Upgrades Change Management

Professional Experience:

Senior Project Manager

T M Floyd

Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina (Client)

12/2021 to 7/2023

Managed projects for OS upgrades which included AIX, Windows, RHEL, Solaris, and other upgrades were zVM, MQ, vSphere, Akamai Cloudtest and EDz/DGS. Led hardware upgrades for Gateway, Cisco ASA, and SAN storage. Coordinated with clients to upgrade voice mail system for 7,000 users and VPN security changes. Supervised Proof of Concepts and RFS for Medicare projects. Managed SAN storage migration from Hitachi to IBM. Coordinate Change management with all Line of Businesses for approvals and monitor results. ServiceNow for Medicare Changes

Senior System Engineer / Senior Manager

DXC Technologies/Computer Science Corporation

06/1997 to 06/2019

DXC Technologies is a merger between Computer Science Corporation (CSC) and HPE. Formulated new procedures and strategies after merger. Promoted to leadership role in Global Strategic Planning Management Group accountable for maintaining key global business systems. Partner with senior leadership to guide short- and long-range technology planning. Plan, coordinate, and executer hardware and software upgrades. Serve as vital resource for Fixed Assets and Accounting for accuracy of mainframe assets. Cultivate and maintain relationships with IT vendors. Point of contact for hardware procurement and cost accuracy globally. Coordinate change management for all clients (globally and local) and monitor results.

Selected Projects:

Managed the on-time, on-budget completion of company-wide upgrade and refreshes to mainframes across 10 countries and 65 mainframes

Vendor management to SLAs

Project coordinator for global procurement and implementation based on life cycle of hardware and client requirements – interfaced with account/client, vendors, data center personnel, software, network, applications – 15 years

Reduced Corporate run rate for mainframe processing yearly at 10-15%

Sole management of 7-year IBM mainframe deal from conception thru execution – negotiated terms, pricing matrix across all countries, new procurement procedures, time schedules for each country, weekly status meetings

Coordinated the migration and consolidation of client and date centers globally for existing clients and new business clients

Migration of large insurance company (25,000 MIPS) from Los Angeles to Chicago

Facilitated migration for large client (11,000 MIPS) from Zurich to London

Sole source for new business proposals for mainframe options and cost

Successful renewal of clients based on lower cost options and consolidation – 95% success rate.

ServiceNow for Asset Management and Configuration Management

Vice President / Director

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

01/1987 to 06/1997

Provide technical support as part of outsourcer and then as part of end-user outsourced, performed system performance and capacity planning to meet Dean Witter service requirements, reduced Dean Witter outsourcing cost through application tuning. Designed disaster recovery onsite as well as remote recovery.

Selected Projects:

Yearly reduction of 10% ($1M) in application cost with application tuning and resources reduction

Successful disaster recovery testing at DR site and implementation of changes to reduce problems

Designed hardware configurations to recover from outages internally and executed successfully.

Education:

Stephen F Austin State University

Mathematics

Accrued 100 college hours

Scrum Master Certificate – in progress – December 2023

Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certificate – December 2023

Scrum Fundamentals Certificate – in progress – December 2023

Skills:

Accountancy – Budgeting – Business Systems Analysis – Capacity Planning – Computer Hardware – Consolidations – Customer Relations – Disaster Recovery Planning – Fixed Assets – IBM Mainframe

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