Project Manager: Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Drove client projects by leading teams and inspiring a cohesive vision to deliver optimal technologies and services in various industries including government, manufacturing, distribution, financial services, healthcare, retail, and education. Effective stakeholder communications throughout the project lifecycle.
- Accomplished migration of client’s infrastructure to IBM and Azure Clouds for a $4.5M managed services deal leading a team of 35.
- Directed teams to move Oracle ERP applications to the Cloud for high availability.
- Led global teams in utilizing Agile methodology to complete projects ahead of schedule saving $300K in transition cost.
- Led company Asset Management Program, reviewed and maintained hardware and software asset inventory records.
- Responsible for planning, creation, utilization, maintenance, renewal, and disposal of the company assets. Led risk assessments, data collection from assets.
- Tracked network assets to validate that they are at a minimum of N-1 and have not reached EOS/EOL.
- Managed SSL renewal for web servers.
- Upgraded Citrix licenses on servers to support a new desktop/VDI environment.
- Upgraded dev/test environment for the latest OS on servers which included recent releases of Oracle, SAP, and other business applications for a major hospital.
- Responsible for the backup environment, including software, for all devices to ensure recovery and compliance with BCRS.
- Shifted client’s AD/IAM to hybrid cloud to provide stronger data security to comply with appropriate regulations.
- Consolidated large transportation company’s data centers to increase customer’s response by 17% in migrating applications to zCloud.
- Migrated major healthcare insurer’s applications and mainframes to new IBM data centers reducing operating expenses by 8%.
- Spearheaded contract negotiations resulting in a $12M seven year deal for a global law firm managed service for servers, network and call center with third party vendor.
- Accelerated client’s engagement of SD-WAN to save 17% of telco costs and provide additional security.
- Optimized network technologies in deploying ACI thereby reducing client’s cost by 14% and decreasing outages.
- Introduced configuration management for the client’s environment to comply with ITIL standards to meet security regulations and avoiding potential financial impact.
- Guided clients to invoke recognized best practices in change management reducing overhead costs by 32%.
- Transitioned client to new data center maximizing state-of-the-art infrastructure lessening cooling costs and footprint by 25%.
- Led project team to solution Workday enterprise for a major hospital completing on time and 8% under budget.
- Recruited and managed10 multifarious technical staff members to comply with $30M public hospital services contract.
- Expanded services by $800K enabling rollout of Backup as a Service, internet redundancy and new security devices and policies with Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto.
- Expanded contract value in guiding client to globally employ new Unified Communications technology resulting in $3.3M scope increase.
- Collaborated with client and vendor to provide guidance in reducing false alerts by 28%.
- Program Manager in leading the IBM/client/vendor teams to upgrade Clarity and Epic on new platforms resulting in improved performance and reliability.
- Designed and upgraded network to improve clinical communications with advanced technology platforms for a major level 1 hospital.
- Orchestrated project teams as Program Manager for data center migration to IBM sites finishing 8% under budget.
- Transitioned global banking company as lead Project Manager to a new contact center and mobile device management platform resulting in $1.3M savings in telecommunications costs over 5 years.
- Initiated proof of concept for IoT leading to a global deployment for large retailer increasing sales by 11% and contract value by $9M.
- Accelerated client’s migration to IBM’s Storage Cloud producing additional scope for a data center migration of $2M.
Senior Managing Consultant: Jan 2007 - Jan 2015
Performed technical assessments of client infrastructures and produced solutions to design and recommend future state environment. Conducted presentations of findings and proposed solutions to C-level executives in the Engagement Manager role generating additional sales in excess of $100M.
- Awarded $45M contract for data center consolidation, optimization, and migration for financial services clients creating intellectual capital.
- Generated over $15M in services and equipment to build, test and deliver new data center with client’s relocation.
- Sold $3M in additional services and equipment to engage exploration software for a leading oil company.
- Expanded scope with client to provide new products and services of network equipment exceeding $10M for intense application, development and deployment on distributed systems.
- Maximized client’s relocation by building data center to best practice standards resulting in a cost savings of 30%.
- Built IBM’s Cloud infrastructure at various data centers highlighting presence in emerging markets.
- Led consultant on network and security assessment and recommendations for consumer products client resulting in 20% savings.
- Performed major upgrade of new technology for a 30% reduction in response time on gaming platforms by online gamers.
- Added to design, testing, and implementation of a network for mainframe migration to allow replication with less than 40 ms response.
- Grew business with major Midwest bank in excess of $30M to design, implement, and migrate a data center to new location.
