Experience

Combined Systems Technology

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Feb 2016 - Present

  Managing an engineering team that provides installation and infrastructure support services to our customers. We design and deliver Information Technology (IT) solutions which integrate architecture, engineering, hardware, software, and services that support our client’s business processes. We operate within a broad range of markets in both the public and private sectors. We uses a range of engineering and technology expertise to unify and simplify our clients' information technology. Working with our strategic technology partners - Cisco, Dell, Ruckus, Fujitsu, HP, Microsoft, and VMware, we design, implement and manage a broad portfolio of integrated technology solutions. Everything we do is focused on robust systems that deliver higher performance, increased availability, and straightforward scalability, resulting in significantly reduced CAPEX and OPEX expenditure for our clients. We help our clients gain a competitive advantage by deploying proven technology solutions to make their businesses more resilient to market opportunities and threats. When we improve the IT infrastructure availability for our clients, they often strengthen relationships with their customers by improving productivity and reduce information technology costs. Show less



Marsh McLennan

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Infrastructure Senior Manager

  • Sep 2010 - Jan 2015

  Effectively managed a global distributed operational team that provided infrastructure support services 24x7x365 for our business partners. Supervised a diversified team of international and domestic professionals consisting of four direct managers and 45 indirect technical professionals. Managed the support of these technology which consisted of SAN switches, Windows, UNIX, Blades and VMware servers, SAN, NAS, CAS storage arrays, tape and disk based backup devices. Provided technical oversight, direction, modification and ongoing maintenance of statement of works, lease agreements, enterprise license agreements, global maintenance contracts, service catalogs, and service/operational level agreements. Implemented large complex data center and remote office infrastructure projects, including technology consolidation, virtualization, refreshes and new technology installations. These projects executed life-cycle management of the existing assets by migrating the technology solutions over to the new infrastructure with little to no downtime, reducing overall space and energy in our data centers throughout the world. This effort took a large amount of planning and collaboration with our vendors, technology partners, application owners and business partners to successfully perform these migrations. Effectively managed the backup retention policies to adhere to the corporate data retention policy, which included daily, monthly, yearly backups, legal holds, and long-term data retention. Managed the infrastructure maintenance life-cycles of the hardware and software platforms to ensure vendor supportability, maintenance, increased functionality, and performance of the environments used by our customers. Managed budgets of $15 Million annually, identified cost savings opportunities which saved from $1-2 Million annually, and participated in and managed IT platform financial charge back models. Successfully installed new Data Domain backup devices and replaced tape. Show less



Wells Fargo

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President, Technology Manager

  • Feb 1994 - Sep 2010

  Oversaw the operational team for Wells Fargo that provided infrastructure support services 24x7x365 for our business partners. Supervised a team of international and domestic professionals consisting of five direct managers and 80 indirect technical professionals. Managed the support of these technology solutions which consisted of SAN switches, Windows, UNIX, Blades and VMware servers, SAN, NAS, CAS storage arrays and tape and disk based backup devices. These solutions provided interoperability with vendors like Cisco, HDS, EMC, IBM, NetApp, Oracle, HP, Dell and Symantec. Provided oversight for the creation, modification and ongoing maintenance of statement of works, enterprise license agreements, global maintenance contracts, service catalogs, and service/operational level agreements. Implemented large complex data center and remote office infrastructure to support business application projects, which included technology consolidation, virtualization, refreshes and new technology installations. These projects executed life-cycle management of the existing assets or the installation of new assets to meet the business requirements. This effort took a large amount of planning and collaboration with our vendors, technology partners, application owners and business partners to successfully perform the migration and/or setup of these environments. Effectively managed the backup retention policies to adhere to the corporate data retention policy, which included daily, monthly, yearly backups, legal holds, and long-term data retention. Consistently managed the infrastructure maintenance life-cycles of the hardware and software platforms to ensure vendor supportability, maintenance, increased functionality, and performance of the environments used by our customers. Managed budgets of $25 Million annually, identified cost savings opportunities which saved from $2-3 Million annually, and participated in and managed IT platform financial charge back models. Show less



Halliburton

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Client/Server Engineer

  • Aug 1987 - Feb 1994

  Maintained, monitored, and controlled ComputerVision's CADDS5X hardware and software components while providing system administrator duties. Wrote system and application software using C, shell scripts, User Programming Language (UPL), and CVMAC programs. Trained and supported engineers and drafters using CADD/CAM applications. Designed and implemented a new automated platform which reduced the customer oil field product life-cycle design from 44 days to 24 hours. Automated all of the engineering design processes that allowed different types of customer “what if“ scenarios based on business requirements. This allowed the customer to see what the different costs were related to the materials used to drill new oil fields. Different materials were used based on the different regional environments related to soil density. As part of the overall design of this application platform, leveraged a software package called ART-IM, ORACLE and ComputerVision's Parametric CADD package (CADDS5); all of these products were integrated together as one service delivery platform. Consistently managed the infrastructure maintenance life-cycles of the hardware and software platforms to ensure vendor supportability, maintenance, increased functionality, and performance of the environments used by our engineering teams. Maintained version control for the assembly and detail drawing that was used by manufacturing to machine the products. Effectively managed the backup retention policies, which included daily, monthly, yearly backups. All of these efforts met their business requirements. Show less



Trinity Industries, Inc.

• United States
• Truck Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• CAD/CAM Designer/Sever Administrator

  • Aug 1984 - Aug 1987

  Had responsibility for maintaining, monitoring, and controlling ComputerVision's CADDS5X hardware and software while providing system administrator duties. Work with mechanical engineers to create detailed designs and assembly drawings which were stored in a software version control system. These detailed drawing were sent to our manufacturing team to produce the final product to fulfill our customer orders. Also wrote software code to automate the production of these drawing to increase productivity within the environment. Show less