Experience

MITRE

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Strategic Initiatives and Infrastructure Engineering

  • Nov 2010 - Present

  Center for National Security (CNS); Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, and Data. Center for National Security (CNS); Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, and Data.



Deltek

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations

  • Oct 2006 - Nov 2010

  Management of staff overseeing the Network, Telecommunications, Data Centers, Security, and Service Desk functions across multiple domestic and international locations ensuring reliable and consistent delivery of local and enterprise-wide services and solutions. Coordination of internal business unit and external vendor activities providing efficient capabilities, while balancing business strategy and changing economic conditions. • Oversight, redesign, and deployment of globally managed MPLS network providing improved wide area network connectivity, increased reliability, and a reduction in the number of external entry points.• Management of security controls for web reputation/content filtering, IDS/IPS, e-mail filtering, access point reduction• Oversight of installation for VoIP across 10 domestic and international locations reducing interoffice communication costs; effort included design, provisioning, vendor negotiations, scheduling, integration, end user training, and communications throughout all levels of the organization.• Increased capacity, productivity, and server availability while reducing overhead costs through oversight of VMware implementation; achieved a 67% virtualized environment.• Performance of marketing analysis, vendor analysis, infrastructure design, contract negotiations, and implementation of a hosted software distribution point OCONUS, facilitating a more robust delivery of products to international customers.• Delivery of the IT Infrastructure portion of the Deltek Insight annual user conference; management of the technical team and accountable for network design, coordination, logistics, support, and operational continuity planning.• IT representative for IT infrastructure during multiple mergers and acquisition efforts, office closures, and consolidations. • Completion of high level financial and risk assessment of data center relocation costs in comparison to co-location in alternate facilities.



American Red Cross

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Biomedical & Disaster Response Solutions

  • Aug 2000 - Oct 2006

  Led staff of Project Managers, Integration Managers, Database and Network Engineers in a FDA regulated environment. Oversaw the integration of COTS and in-house developed applications into The American Red Cross infrastructure. Managed special project teams through strategic initiatives to achieve cost reductions and respond to immediate technology threats and natural disasters.• Reported to the CIO as a primary leader of the IT Disaster Operations Support Center assembled for the hurricane Katrina response effort; coordinated the installation of a network and communications infrastructure providing capabilities to the Gulf coast and other states across the US.• Contributed to the infrastructure redesign of a blood testing system accountable for processing 50% of US blood supply; engineered an automated distribution system from local applications coupled with manual processes. • Virtualized and consolidated servers toward direct and indirect costs reductions; retired equipment and cancelled redundant software and licenses; successfully increased capacity through a smaller more efficient infrastructure.• Guided the team through the implementation of a VPN solution resulting in significant cost savings and increased efficiency and security for the organization.• Created an Incident Management process used to respond to various external, internal, and technology threats; Contributed to the rewriting and creation of multiple SOPs and redesign of the SDLC, embedding IT infrastructure and other non-functional requirements into the process.• Annually planned and coordinated infrastructure implementations to support hurricane seasons in compliance with business unit, Congressional expectations, and demands.



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • 1996 - 2000

  Supervised team members in the support of a client/server Department of Defense (DoD) Blood Standard System (DBSS). Project progressed through full life-cycle development including requirements collection, application design, testing, global implementation, support and maintenance. Interacted directly with DoD officials and end users to obtain customer requirements and report status. Forecasted labor estimates required for Tier 1, 2, 3 support of the system. • Participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions focused on reengineering and enhancing the blood system from a legacy command line C/UNIX application to a GUI/NT application. • Deployed the system to various global military installations that included Cuba, Iceland, and Puerto Rico, as well as other domestic locations.• Configured and created installation procedures for wartime use of systems on the USS Comfort and USS Mercy.• Created and maintained a knowledge base of known system problems that increased efficiency, reduced indirect costs, and expedited customer resolutions.• Established processes and procedures for program SEI/CMM level 3 certification.• Selected for Temporary Duty assignment of DoD Medical Evaluation Review Board (DoDMERB ) to rebaseline the schedule and redesign the application; developed, tested, and delivered DoDMERB software under rapid timetable.