Data Center Project Manager

DAVID LABICKI

Lake Forest, IL ***** 847-***-**** ************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/labickiitmanager/

IT OPERATIONS / INFRASTRUCTURE

Implemented Liebert DSE system for Abbott’s main data center. A savings of $1.2M within 3 years.

Implemented a backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution, across 86 sites while bolstering security against ransomware threats. The result was 3X shorter recovery times and eliminated $18M in capital expense in year 6.

$1.2M budget oversight along with the day-to-day operations and improvements across (4) vCenters, 5,000 VMs, and 250 hosts.

Saved $500K by migrating from tape backup to Dell Avamar (including site replication)

Implemented MS Teams across the enterprise, eliminating $60K annual Cisco license fee.

Led a team to implement Ansible, an automated patching solution for over 14,000 servers.

Enabled single sign-on (SSO) for 1000+ users.

Generated $100K savings by decommissioning 115 Dell servers.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Project Management, Networks (LAN, WAN, SAN), IT Infrastructure, Windows, VMware, Virtual/Physical Servers, Clustered Hosts, Virtual Machines, AWS, Azure, Office365, ITIL, Active Directory (AD), Systems Monitoring, Systems Analysis, Systems / Network Administration, Dell/HP Hardware, Ansible, Pure Storage, Cohesity, VxRail, Power BI, SolarWinds, GitLab, Jira, VMware vCenter, Veeam, MS Azure, Active Directory, Symantec Backup Exec, Data Domain, SolarWinds.

EXPERIENCE

ABBOTT (2-2022 TO 12-2024)

Senior Project Manager (Contract Position)

Scope: Short term contract to work with the storage team and data facilities on current and future projects

Coordinated input from multiple areas or multiple project managers on related projects. Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules. Developed an implementation plan, conduct risk assessments, and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.

Lead cross-functional teams through project planning exercises to develop detailed schedules and integrated project plans.

Defined the nature of the stated business or technical problem. Developed project specifications and objectives, strategies, timelines and milestones/design and development plan. Utilized Jira, MS Project, DevOps to plan and track projects.

Developed alternatives to major business problems. Assisted management in selecting the specific action plans that will best meet the identified long-term business issues.

Assured that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long- and short-term business goals are attained. Recognized the broader implications of actions and proposals on the final project outcome, related systems and activities, and general business strategy.

Functioned as the liaison between the project contact and third-party vendors.

Provided leadership on strategic business issues. Drive cross-functional teams to meet milestones and deliverables established in project planning and agreed upon with senior leadership.

Accountable for the total project scope; completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Assigned workloads to ensure effective use of available resources.

Lead others in the completion of project tasks. Manage cross-functional teams which may consist of senior level contributors. Created a work environment that supports team effectiveness. Provided feedback to team members on performance.

Interacted with senior level management to reach agreement regarding significant program strategies. Interfaced with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, and project staff and internal/ external experts as required.

Prepared and presented written and oral reports to internal and external audiences. Adjusted presentation style and content to suit the audience.

MCDONALD’S (4-2021 TO 2-2022)

Identity Management-Project Manager (Contract Position)

Scope: Short term contract to migrate 50+ privileged accounts to SSO Migration to allow users to login to AWS through a dashboard and manage their own access.

Worked with the project teams on implementing the defined business roles within Access & Identity Management.

Reviewed and created AWS cloud roles and authorizations to maintain least privilege access.

Performed review of account owner’s access and generic accounts to mitigate risk to McDonalds.

Created, documented, and promoted detailed AWS IAM Role designs.

Partnered with application development teams to understand their AWS Roles and security requirements.

Granted least privileges possible for application users.

Provided guidance to ensure security policy, compliance requirements, and best-practices are implemented across the McDonald’s environment.

Produced AWS role designs and operational plans to enforce and maintain identity management workflows.

Participated in development of roadmaps and participate in the standards process for Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.

Promoted effective teamwork through Agile Scrum.

Managed the strategy and roadmap implementation for Identity and Access Management.

Managed identity and access management support to business and technical teams in the design of standardized products and customized solutions.

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION (6-2020 TO 9- 2020)

Technical Architect (3-month Contract Position)

Scope: Three-month contract to create a technical design for Vertica, which is being rebuilt to operate in EON mode.

Designed a solution to include an internal and external identity authorization store. Integrated authentication and authorization mechanisms (SSO, MFA) integration with BDBSA’s Digital Passport Identity and Access Management system. Integrated CyberArk (Privileged Access Management controls) and provisions for verifying user authorization assertions.

Designed a 12 Cisco Blade EON cluster to connect to their new PURE storage solution.

NOVARTIS (3-2020 TO 6- 2020)

Project Manager (3-month Contract Position)

Scope: Three-month contract to Migrate the Chicagoland users to Office365 including Exchange Online.

Managed enterprise-wide Exchange 2016 migration; documented work plans, facilitated daily stand-up meetings, developed migration strategy for mailbox migrations. Implemented Microsoft Office 365, Teams, Exchange, SharePoint, One Drive for Business and Power Platform for the entire team.

Planned information gathering, analysis, and reporting. Developed and presented written project plans, and delegated project tasks to the team. Created a deployment plan to migrate users to Office365. This included Microsoft Azure.

CF INDUSTRIES (3-2019 TO 2-2020)

Consultant (Contract Position)

Scope: Short term contract to support and upgrade Office365, VxRail, VMware, VNX, RecoverPoint

Migrated users from on-site Exchange to Office365. Upgraded EMC RecoverPoint and VNX to latest versions.

Supported datacenter functions including servers (physical and virtual), VMware, Dell/EMC storage, Exchange, mobility, system backups and replication, Windows server, Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Citrix

Established policies and procedures are followed by the team. Contributed to the creation of new or enhanced procedures. Supported standards and guidelines that guide the design of technology solutions across enterprise-wide hardware and software applications.

Led project teams related to systems administration, IT infrastructure modifications, and set-up. This work involved analyzing impact of IT projects on the Enterprise Operations infrastructure, evaluating alternatives, recommending solutions, developing work plans for modifications and leading change efforts.

W.W. GRAINGER, INC. (10-2017 TO 11-2018)

Infrastructure / Operations Project Engineer (Contract Position)

Scope: Long term contract with W.W. Grainger to support the VMware environment-250+Hosts, 5,000+virtual servers.

Managed the day-to-day operations across 4 vCenters datacenters, 5,000 VMs and 250 hosts by monitoring system performance, configuration, maintenance, and repair. Maintain, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMWare ESXi infrastructure. Maintained system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis, performance tuning, troubleshooting, system hardware, installation, firmware patching, and VMware software patching.

Responsible for planning, testing and implementation processes for migration of data and the vSphere infrastructure from Niles data center to Lake Forest data center. Created testing cycles and migrated 200 servers to AWS.

Worked with several IT departments for vSphere problem determination, capacity planning and root cause analysis.

ELCA (3-2017 TO 10- 2017)

Infrastructure / Operations Engineer (Contract Position)

Scope: 3-month contract to migrate Exchange on-prem to Office365 – 1000+ users, 300+ virtual servers

Migrated Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange Online. Performed system upgrades for their financial applications, including JHA Workflow and Sage Timberline. Migrated from EMC VNX 5500/ Clariion cx400 to hyper-converged storage solution, Nutanix.

Developed clear strategies and effective plans to drive the implementation of on-prem Microsoft Exchange to Exchange online.

Provided technical leadership in large scale infrastructure projects, including solution design, project management, and software upgrades.

Responsible for architecture, planning, testing and implementation processes for migration of on-prem to Office365/Exchange online for 1,200+ users in a hybrid implementation using Azure Active Directory.

Designed and implemented 3 SMTP servers for the relaying of scanned email and network alerts.

Provided Office365 guidance on implementation parameters related to lifecycle operations.

Responsible for project activities including work estimation, planning, stakeholder management and project quality.

BLICK ART MATERIALS (12-2014 TO 12-2016)

Network Project Manager

Scope: Total ownership of enterprise network with 1100+ users, 350+ virtual servers, $1.2M budget oversight.

Managed vendor relations, strategic planning, network implementations, storage requirements, and server backups. Collaborated with business units to develop technology strategies aligned with corporate goals and customer requirements; developed and maintained processes for configuration and release management; built and configured virtual servers; monitored systems; presented performance metrics to Board.

Improved network performance and increased collaboration across IT and business functions by gaining acceptance for Blick’s first Change Management policy.

Created reliable, efficient cloud data replication and backup solution through Blick’s first Data Retention policy.

Established Change Advisory Board committee bringing together stakeholders from all departments.

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS (6-2014 TO 12-2014)

Project Manager (Contract Position)

Scope: 6-month data center migration project 850 servers, 200 domains, 2000+ users, 100s of TB of data.

Assisted in building enterprise data center from ground up Performed systems analysis, data / storage migration, and VMware upgrades, managed project scheduling, migration planning, deliverables review, resource allocation, vendor contracts, and risk mitigation.

Assisted with a seamless corporate HQ move and delivered the new data center on time and within budget.

Played a key role in creating more efficient data network by implementing monitoring tools, upgraded firmware, and designed Office365 for 100+ domains.

ALDEN HEALTH CARE SERVICES (12-2011 TO 4-2014)

Network Manager

Scope: Managed network devices Maintained Active Directory supporting 1,000+ users.

Recruited to maintain and enhance healthcare IT network Defined and executed virtualization strategy, installed, and configured cloud-based solutions, planned, and led migration projects, implemented infrastructure, built and supported virtual and physical servers, installed and configured AD in multiple domain environments, and wrote / managed Microsoft group policies Helped train 3rd-party firm to handle level I and II help desk requests.

Virtualized all systems creating more efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and infrastructure stability.

Orchestrated migration to Office365 improving team collaboration and mobility Enabled single sign-on for 1000+ users and installed solution allowing IT to remotely control the wireless infrastructure.

Partnered with vendors to design and implement Cisco wireless solution, connecting 40 remote sites.

Designed and delivered Storage Area Network (SAN) solution for enterprise servers.

Allstate (5-2010 TO 11- 2011)

Citrix Engineer (Contract Position)

Scope: Tested and analyzed new virtualization solution on 400 VDI (Citrix) users

Managed Citrix XenApp 5 on Windows 2003 Server environment Configured and repaired user profiles (Citrix Profile Manager), wireless networking components, and related configurations, resolved and documented level III and IV technical issues; and managed AD, security groups, and group policy configurations.

Resolved 105 technical roadblocks allowing the BYOD project to continue moving forward.

PFIZER (5-2009 TO 4-2010)

Hardware Buyer (Contract Position)

Scope: Managed desktop hardware purchasing function supporting 10,000+ users

Served on IT Strategy team advising on short- and long-term technology standards Approved and executed all US desktop hardware bulk orders, partnered with vendors to create, and edit catalog items, quantified potential savings and productivity improvements, and provided recommendations to Global Sourcing Department.

Optimized equipment pricing by forging strong business relationships with vendors and suppliers.

Improved efficiency by modifying order processing workflows and standardizing procurement policies.

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL (5-2007 TO 4-2009)

Server Engineer (IT Infrastructure / Data Center Manager)

Scope: Managed 1500-server data center and printing infrastructure (1,200+ physical / 1,300+ virtual servers) supporting 8000+ users

Led data center operations to include capacity planning, infrastructure project management, and upgrades/installations. Built, secured, and managed the print server infrastructure. Served as PC LAN point-of-contact for Server and PC teams.

Designed and executed data center expansion helping Northwestern achieve business growth target.

Upgraded and stabilized print environment resulting in significantly fewer help desk tickets.

GARETH STEVENS (2-2005 TO 4-2007)

Network Manager

Scope: Automated shipping process, designed a solution that eliminated 80% of email spam, and implemented a SAN solution that resolved storage issues.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Senior Computer Support Specialist Software Tester / Auditor Help Desk Supervisor Senior Support Specialist

EDUCATION

MBA – Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Bachelor of Science, MIS – Cardinal Stritch University

Associate in science, Computer Science – Gateway Technical College

CERTIFICATIONS

PMP 2022

Scrum Master 2019

ITIL Certified

VMware Certified Associate

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

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