Kenneth Terry

Fort Lauderdale, Florida ***** • 954-***-**** • adiiq0@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

20+ years of experience as a Senior Technical Professional, I successfully project managed many diverse and complex technical projects with a consistent solution-oriented approach to business and technical issues. Expertise in multitasking and coordinating diverse teams and resources in a Fast-paced Environment to complete the project objectives.

Proficiency: Strategic Management/planning, Project Management, Leadership, Budgeting, and Fiscal, Compliance, Presentation Skills, Business restructuring, Business Strategies • Capital budget • Change Management, Decision making, Smartsheets, Aha!, Planning, Policies, Problem resolution, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills, Collaboration, Leadership, Executive leadership, Verbal/ Written Communication, Time Management, Agile Methodology, Waterfall Methodology, Negotiation skills, Governance, Excel, Viso

Certification:

Organizational Change Management certified Training (2020), Kanban Certified Training (2020), AWS Professional (2015)

Experience:

Magic Leap, Plantation, Fl

Title: IT/Project Manager, Infrastructure Delivery, 06/2018 to 06/2020

As the Infrastructure Delivery manager within the PM office, I led a team of engineers to facilitate multiple sites build out projects. Magic Leap was a fast-paced multitasking environment which translated to a demanding workspace which the team had to Consistently work under pressure to maintained their Detail Oriented tasks. The scope of the projects was to ensure all due diligence across technology-related tasks have been planned, delegated and given a due date. Tasks included:

oIdentify how business-critical operations will be performed during the move, and when they will be interrupted.

oEstimate the costs of the move, including a contingency fund, to get a comprehensive budget.

oIdentify placement requirements for your equipment, peripherals, and connections.

oEvaluate your existing cabling and determine whether you need to expand or update it to meet the requirements of your new location and industry standards.

oAnalyzing the server room for your requirements regarding cooling, ventilation, electrical requirements, and security.

oDeveloped multiple contingency plans to cover any delays, equipment breakages, and security breaches.

Project Controls:

Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources

Schedule and manage project management team meetings.

Monitor and provide status reporting, project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.

Ensure project’s budget stays on track by meeting with the IT for finance department reporting

Project Planning:

Define and clarify project scope by working with the business owner, stakeholders and any 3rd party vendors that may be part of the project.

Prepare Presentation, estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project Lifecycle.

Gather and document functional and technical requirements using standard project management/business analysis methodologies such as team meetings, documents review, workflow analysis, etc.

Project Organization:

Identify services provided by external companies and establish project working relationships with them (as needed)

Ensure that product initiatives are developed, tested and released into production in a timely manner in accordance to business needs

Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project

Key Projects:

New international office build outs project in Lausanne, Switzerland: Planned, configured and installed remote sites. Including all hardware setup, purchasing, and initial configuration:

New office build outs project In San Francisco, California: Planned, configured and installed remote sites. Including all hardware setup, purchasing, and initial configuration:

New office build outs project In San Jose, California: Planned, configured and installed remote sites. Including all hardware setup, purchasing, and initial configuration:

Office relocations build out project in Culver City, California: Planned, configured and installed remote sites. Including all hardware setup, purchasing, and initial configuration:

Remote offices VMware infrastructure refresh project: Planned, configured and installed remote sites. Including all hardware setup, purchasing, and initial configuration.

Deep Learning hardware project refresh : Worked with a deep learning team to planned, purchased, installed and configured.

Magic Leap, Plantation, Fl

Title: Manager, Core Infrastructure Team, 06/2016 to 06/2018

As a Manager of the Core Infrastructure Team, I was responsible for a team of twenty direct reports and external partners to design, procure, and deliver new enterprise architecture for the Magic Leap. I directed my engineering team to fully take responsibility for the daily management of Magic Leap’s integrated enterprise infrastructure/ architecture and data platform. Under my management, to drive ongoing digital transformation, the team used its expertise to design, implement, and manage Magic Leap’s cloud and physical technology infrastructure, creating a reliable environment for Magic Leap to meet Magic Leap’s corporate objectives.

Core Functions:

Develop, evaluate the team’s success against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Generate and summarize IT budget recommendations for the budget cycle.

Collaborated with the leadership team on the corporate strategy, business growth strategy, and execution of strategic initiatives.

Communicate with C-Level executive sponsors and stakeholders to manage expectations and resolve issues

Collaborate with the legal team to ensuring software licensing legal requirements

Manage vendor evaluation and selection process for software and services

Project management when evaluating and implementing new systems and services

Manage equipment lifecycles and Support contacts

Incident Response Management

Performance review and Performance improvement plans

CommonWealth-Altadis USA, Inc., Fort Lauderdale FL. 7/2012 – 6/2016

Title: Sr. Virtualization/System Engineer

My role as a Senior Virtualization Engineer, is to present, research, design, and implement VMware solutions for various projects. This position requires a highly technical approach with an emphasis on customer solutions.

Planned, designed and implemented enterprise solutions involving VMware, NetApp, and Microsoft Technologies. Experience with the design, architecture and implementation of Virtual Infrastructure environments using VMware VI, Virtual Center, DRS, HA and VMotion Hands on experience with iSCSI, NFS and FoE on NetApp storage.

Developed and managed third party vendor relationships in the design, procurement and support processes. Investigated and implemented several storage and backup appliances upgrade projects in our remote data Center.

Developed Business solutions partnerships to established solution to support the on-going business processes. The solution included: datacenter build-out; data center migration, remote site infrastructure virtualization, storage refresh and O.S. installations

Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, FL. 12/2010 – 4/2012

Title: VMware Engineer (Data Center Consolidation Project)

Play key role in facilitating major data center consolidation and relocation project.

Provide engineering and Systems Administration support for vSphere infrastructure with 17 vSphere hosts and four HA / DRS clusters for production, test / dev, Oracle, and DMZ environments.

Handle provisioning and configuration of new vSphere hosts within the existing VMware infrastructure.

Prepare and maintain documentation for the virtualization It Infrastructure, including installation documentation, engineering design specifications, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Key Achievements:

Develop and execute server consolidation plan to reduce physical environment footprint using existing VMware vSphere infrastructure; utilized VMware Capacity Analyzer.

Serve as key point-of-contact with, help desk, system owners and vendors to verify suitability of production application for P2V process.

Develop procedures for physical relocation of data center in close collaboration with collocation team.

Assist in preparing “run books” for data center relocation.

Previous Technical Employment:

City of Fort Myers, Fort Myers Fl, Title: Sr Network Engineer: 09/2007 – 11/2010

Technical Scope: Windows XP / 7, Microsoft Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Services, Active Directory VMware ESX 3.5, VMware vSphere 4.0, Citrix XenServer 5.6, Citrix XenApps 4.5, Citrix Secure Gateway 3.1, Citrix

Gateway Technology Services, Fort Myers, Fl, Title: Technical Analyst 09/2005 – 6/2007

Technical Scope: Sales Solution Architects, Sales Initiatives Consultant, Strategic Planning

Emergency Consultancy, Fort Myers, Fl Title: Sr. Microsoft Windows Engineer 09/2002 – 03/2005

Technical Scope: Business Continuity, Medical Billing Workflow Project, System Architecture

Education:

National University, Santa Clara, CA

BS Computer Science

Mission College, Santa Clara, CA

AA, Computer Science

Heald Institute of Technology, San Jose, CA

AS, Electronic Engineering Technology

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