**+ years of hands-on leadership at Henkel, Sun Products, Tory Burch, Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup, Impacted businesses from $2B to $20B and Budget oversight to $5M. Managed Teams of 7+ to

Enhanced performance of manufacturing, supply chain, digitization, e-commerce, sales, retail.

Skills Proficiencies

CERTIFICATIONS: Sliver Peak SDWAN Professional (SPSP),Fortinet Network Security Associate(NSE1 & NES2) CCNA (Previously Held in 1999), MCSE 4.0 (Previously held in 1998)

IT: SDWAN, Remote Networking, Edge Networking, TCP/IP, LAN, WLAN, Solarwinds, NetBrain, Infoblox

Experience

Americas Network Manager Henkel Corporation 2016 – 2021

Re-architected WAN design of the Americas region (North and Latin America) enabling digital transformation. Infrastructure implementations supported MS Team, Skype for Business, and video conferencing. Utilized modern technologies and tools to drive significant cost savings while greatly improving overall network performance and reliability. Replaced expensive MPLS circuits with business class internet circuits. This resulted in a savings of 60% annual circuit cost.

Mitigated risk by eliminating vulnerabilities in WAN and LAN. Implemented zScaler architecture and firewalls. Implemented proactive monitoring of networks using tools including NetBrain and SolarWinds. Overhauled aging wireless infrastructure enabling fail-over and significant performance improvements and securing both wired and wireless by implementing 802.1x.

Facilitated remote network access agility by leading the implementation of the Aruba branch office solution enabling faster access to company network and applications. Location activation duration was reduced from 90 days to 30 days.

Provide Vendor Management for Wide Area Network provider and Telecom carriers to insure 99999 connectivity. Worked with third party vendor to implement a managed network service to move day to day support from 3rd level Technical staff, to allow 3rd level Technical staff to focus on projects.

Global Network Manager Tory Burch 2012 – 2016

Provided strategic leadership to enable flexibility and resiliency for 160+ Tory Burch global retail stores. Redesigned global network to ensure PCI compliance, Cyber hardening, immediate recoverability and faster, more efficient stand up of new stores.

•Transformed the network to a digital ready network by architecting and implementing dynamic routing, network separation and segregation. Migrated the global network from static routing to enable new in-store technologies and customer data capture.

•Safeguarded company through implementation of a PCI compliant network. Led the implementation of Zscaler services. Architected global IPAM/DHCP redundancy and automatic failover to provide resiliency for all locations.

Reduced bandwidth cost by implementing Steelhead devices. Reduced bandwidth utilization by 50% while providing performance improvement to the Point of Sales devices and applications. Reduced annual circuit cost by 66%

Campbell Soup Global Technical Network Lead 2000 – 2012

Migrated production facilities to highly available network. Led the design and implementation of Cisco VSS technology. Positioned the networks for future IoT technologies and reduced required hands-on management.

Enabled improved network monitoring, problem determination and recovery by implementing Solarwinds Orion, Network Performance Monitor, Application Performance Monitor and Network Configuration Monitor. Enabled rapid recovery from failed devices and restoration of operations. Provided audit capabilities ensuring security configuration standards were applied to all network switches across the global network.

Migrated from Token Ring to Ethernet. Seamlessly migrated 15 locations from Token Ring to Ethernet without interrupting product production processes. The migration supported the implementation of robotics, PLC and HMI which improved product production quality.

Volunteering

Homes for the Braves 2020 – Present

•Assisted my son to raise money to provide Veterans Day meals for prior service members. Also provided sweat suits, socks and under garments

ORGANIZATIONS

Network Professional Association, The 320th Field Artillery Association

INTERESTING FACTS

Learning Spanish as a hobby; US Army Desert Storm Veteran

Homemade Bacon maker; Avid smoker of various meats; Baker of breads and pies

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