IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Jesse J. Herrera

*** ******* ***** #****

Conroe, TX 77384

Internet Mail: adl5mn@r.postjobfree.com

Phone (mobile) : 281-***-****

Summary of Qualifications

Seasoned project management professional with an extended record of excellence in complex matrix environments. Demonstrated success leading ambitious business change and technology projects in both structured and unstructured settings; ensure consistent attainment of deadlines, budget goals, and quality expectations. Forge productive relations with all departments and corporate levels. Confident leader and mentor who builds top-caliber teams by fostering the utmost staff morale and excellence. Project Management Professional, and Master in Telecommunications Management.

Experience

Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited – IT Infrastructure Program Manager (2018)

Developed IT Vision, provided leadership to the technology strategy and technology roadmaps as well as product recommendations providing full suite of IT services that enable Guyana upstream business to meet corporate goals.

Responsible for translating business needs into technical vision and solutions and defining solutions to business problems within EEPGL affiliate through reasoned application of technology.

Identified and assessed vendor skills, contract negotiation and management, established new vendor and supplier relationships for EEPGL affiliate.

Provides coaching and development to EMIT team members, providing direction and guidance for their work, and establishing expectations and standards for their work products.

Identifies the root cause of problems and outages too complex for normal processes and formulates resolutions functioning in Incident Management role. Leveraged cross-functional teams to provide timely resolution.

Onshore Portfolio IT ($20M) / Offshore IT ($40M) IT Infrastructure Project Manager – XTO Acquisition (2016 – 2018)

Developed and successfully executed IT Integration plan in order to provide (1) an interim trust between ExxonMobil and XTO active directory forests and (2) execute strategic plan to seamlessly integrate XTO business within the existing ExxonMobil IT family of services.

Establish Architectural Principles and Design Guidelines including define and document XTO standards in compliance with corporate standards.

Integration and security fortification managing remediation for 200 servers and 6000 workstations to ensure security compliance. Remediation includes use of McAfee HIPS malware inspection software for Internet facing applications, use of Threat Management Gateway for outbound Internet traffic, Fire Eye, Net Witness, SL Inspection and Web Sense to complete security suite.

Design and implementation of Mobility and Corporate DMZ within EMIT Security Framework

IT Infrastructure Project Manager – Divestment Portfolio (2008 – 2016)

Along with acquiring organization, developed and successfully executed IT Integration plan in order to provide (1) a stand-alone or (2) integrated set of IT services ensuring flawless execution and zero downtime to business.

Identified and assessed vendor skills, contract negotiation and management, establishing new vendor and supplier relationships and provide training as required for long term operational support.

Develop Automated Migration Tool (AMT) including ancillary infrastructure used for device migrations (workstation and server)

Cherry – Global Chemicals Films Divestment: 5 Films Manufacturing Plants, 250 servers, 1500 workstations / $600M USD

Tarpon – Americas South Downstream Divestment (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay): Campana Refinery, 400 service stations / $700M USD

Starfish – Malaysia Downstream Business Divestment: Port Dickson Refinery, 500 service stations and 500 users / $600M USD

Wolf – Switzerland Downstream Business Divestment: 200 services stations and 200 users / $1B USD

Apollo – Japan Downstream Business Divestment: 4 refineries, 5000 service stations, 4000 users / $5B USD

Education

Masters of Science in Telecommunications

Southern Methodist University - 1999

GPA: 3.75/4.0

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

University of Arizona - 1996

GPA: 3.45/4.0

Community Activities

United Way Leadership Giver

United Way Allocation Committee Lead (Adoption / Foster Care Programs) ExxonMobil Ambassador – Katy IISD / Fort Worth Christian School Kingsland Baptist Church – Children’s Ministry

Upward Basketball 1st / 2nd grade coach & Houston Youth Football 3rd grade coach Technical Editor and Reviewer Cisco Press

References

Available on request.

Additional Roles

ExxonMobil Information Technology

IT Retail Infrastructure Supervisor (2006 – 2008)

IT Project Interface Coordinator Supervisor (2004 – 2006) IT eBusiness Team Lead (2002 – 2004)

IT Network Engineer (1996 - 2002)

Project Related

ExxonMobil International Backbone (Merger)

Infrastructure Technical Lead responsible for integration of Exxon and Mobil international backbone networks. Includes defining a hierarchical IP addressing plan, structured network topology and design providing reliability and scalability, and migration to a single autonomous system and routing protocols. Extensive work with ExxonMobil Law, Public Affairs and American Registry of Internet Numbers to consolidate IP address ranges owned by ExxonMobil Corporation.

Network Standardization Project (Self-Starter)

Provide documented standard solutions for network equipment. Standard to include hardware recommendations based upon site population, criticality of service, etc. Technical lead responsible for ensuring implementation across all Americas Region network equipment. Creation of best practices (pre-genesis) to ensure on-going Wireless LAN Evaluation and Best Practices

Provide technical evaluation of wireless network equipment, development of security and controls documentation and completion of design and implementation genesis best practices. Implementation rollouts include OTC (onboard Truck Computing and Tiger Process Operator Care Project - Inteletrac)

VPN Evaluation and Best Practices

Technical evaluation of virtual private networks focusing on network security and dramatic reduction of circuit costs to ExxonMobil Corporation. Initial development of security and controls documentation, design and implementation genesis best practices. Data Center Consolidation

Consolidation of retail card processing systems and associated support from regional to centralized model. Includes design and implementation of all related infrastructure, contractual obligations via third party service providers, ensuring proper alignment with support organization and ensuring all other related project activities. Required initial investigation phase to implement delay simulation equipment to ensure management buy in regarding cost effectiveness of centralized design. Engineering and Support

DMZ Stability and Engineering Enhancements

Solution to correct longstanding (3+ years) remote access support due to RPC Problems. Defined root cause as hardening script that was applied to server builds in DMZ. Decision Record to implement changes to Registry Keys working with GSO Engineered solution to provide stability to getAccess authentication systems due to runaway Java.exe process. GetAccess server outages intermittent on a daily basis with continual pages to eBusiness Operations. Defined root cause, created Decision Record and write script to kill java.exe. Work through Purchasing to procure SysInternal software Security

DMZ Penetration Testing

Assess, evaluate and investigate the risks and attacks that impact web systems, internet facing services. Participate in identification of parameters, detailed planning and completion of integrated penetration testing. Document results and create and steward planned remediation as applicable.

Incident Response

Worked as L3 technical lead for multiple Host Intrusion Detection incidents and perform review of security patches as required.

Security Evaluation - New Products

Security evaluation and documentation for enterprise wireless and virtual private network solutions.

Performance

URL Monitoring to enhance end-to-end Monitoring

Implement new URL checks to be able to verify functionality of individual servers internally/externally. Enhance eBusiness ability to localize failing components. Work with eBusiness Operations, DNS and NSI groups to implement changes. ETSS Primary Task Force Representative

Automated Customer Interface Task Force (ACI) ($22B revenue in 2004). Creation of ACI Cheat Sheet to strengthen initial system diagnostics and enhance ability of support staff. Wide Area Traffic Analysis - Internet (Self-Starter) Performed WAN traffic analysis to determine Internet based traffic globally using Houston gateway. Instrumental in decision to create multiple Internet gateways across Exxon Corporation.

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