Experience

Quisitive

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Practice Manager

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  - Provided leadership, mentorship, and professional development to the global infrastructure team members - Provided Azure cloud architectural design, delivering diverse and expansive technology needs. - Instituted architectural standards and recommendations for multiple technology solutions. - Delivered cutting edge digital cloud solutions across multiple public and government sector enterprises. - Provided architectural oversight over several Azure and M365… Show more - Provided leadership, mentorship, and professional development to the global infrastructure team members - Provided Azure cloud architectural design, delivering diverse and expansive technology needs. - Instituted architectural standards and recommendations for multiple technology solutions. - Delivered cutting edge digital cloud solutions across multiple public and government sector enterprises. - Provided architectural oversight over several Azure and M365 projects. - Delivered several successful on premise to Azure and Tenant to Tenant migrations, which have included both PaaS, IaaS, SaaS Azure and M365 offerings. - Provided architectural planning and delivery of multiple digital solutions. (custom/vendor apps) - Deep understanding of several different governmental security standards. (i.e. HIPPA, HITRUST, PCI, NIST-XXX, Sarbanes Oxley. - Negotiated contracts with multiple vendors. - Provided fiscal and delivery oversight of multiple large-scale projects. - Worked closely with Sales and Account Services on opportunity/account strategy and penetration. - Coordinating Practice presales assistance including Statement of Work (SOW) reviews and generating content with your team. - Provided skillset alignment and team allocation to assigned projects. - Provided client/delivery team meetings and communication. - Issue resolution - first point of contact for delivery issue escalation for assigned projects. - Applying delivery playbook rigor to each Client engagement. - Working closely with the Infrastructure Technical Director (TD) and Practice Technical Leads (PTLs) on employee skills development, delivery readiness development, solution offerings development, and management of the Infrastructure Services Catalog. - Managing team member activities and assignments. - Employee performance management including establishing and measuring performance objectives. - Making hiring recommendations and conducting interviews. Show less



Community Gospel Baptist Church

• Senior Pastor

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Dover, Tennessee



Advizex

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect

  • Dec 2017 - Dec 2019

  Greater Nashville Area, TN Actively engaged in professional services pre-sales pursuits, scoping engagements, developing new service offerings, providing oversight of services engagements, and supporting Consulting Managers in various capacities as needed. Demonstrated a combination of strong technical skills, excellent business communication abilities, and delivery confidence with the successful delivery of complex enterprise-wide projects in dynamic and challenging environments. Successfully designed… Show more Actively engaged in professional services pre-sales pursuits, scoping engagements, developing new service offerings, providing oversight of services engagements, and supporting Consulting Managers in various capacities as needed. Demonstrated a combination of strong technical skills, excellent business communication abilities, and delivery confidence with the successful delivery of complex enterprise-wide projects in dynamic and challenging environments. Successfully designed, delivered, and oversaw multiple complex technical projects, across all project phases, for multiple engagements covering cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on prem environments. Architected and implemented several O365 and on prem Exchange migrations and upgrades, ranging in size and complexity from 200 to well over 100,000 mailboxes. Developed security focused solution architecture to support core business processes and technology transformation programs. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence decision making with Executives and drove regional revenue. Work collaboratively with peers in other regions to provide seamless multi-disciplinary services integration for clients. Provided technical vision and developed team talent to support the organization. Show less



Provisions Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Enterprise Architect

  • Mar 2017 - Nov 2017

  Franklin, TN Developed security focused solution architecture to support core business processes and technology transformation programs. Deployed multiple application firewalls. Actively engage in professional services pre-sales pursuits, scoping engagements, developing new service offerings, providing oversight of services engagements, and supporting Consulting Managers in various capacities as assigned. Provided for the successful design, delivery, and oversight of multiple complex… Show more Developed security focused solution architecture to support core business processes and technology transformation programs. Deployed multiple application firewalls. Actively engage in professional services pre-sales pursuits, scoping engagements, developing new service offerings, providing oversight of services engagements, and supporting Consulting Managers in various capacities as assigned. Provided for the successful design, delivery, and oversight of multiple complex technical projects leveraging cloud and local infrastructure solutions. Responded to various RFPs and conducted presentations for current and potential clients. Provided various architecture outlines and design solutions in various environments. i.e. public/private cloud, on-prem solutions. Successfully architected, implemented, and delivered multiple secure solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure and Office 365 platforms. Successfully integrated process and procedures which allowed greater collaboration between the developer, infrastructure, cloud, network teams. Provided day to day leadership to delivery teams. Show less



UBS

• Switzerland
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solutions Architect

  • Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

  Nashville, Tennessee Provided day to day management of the solution design team. Successfully led and participated in 3 Global datacenter migrations. Provided for the successful design, delivery, and oversight of multiple complex technical projects leveraging cloud and local infrastructure solutions. Led and mentored the project, engineering, development, and DBA teams from both technical and functional perspectives including data architecture, integration development, requirements… Show more Provided day to day management of the solution design team. Successfully led and participated in 3 Global datacenter migrations. Provided for the successful design, delivery, and oversight of multiple complex technical projects leveraging cloud and local infrastructure solutions. Led and mentored the project, engineering, development, and DBA teams from both technical and functional perspectives including data architecture, integration development, requirements identifications, testing, and project management. Adhered to Agile framework for cross functional collaboration. Architected multiple collaboration enterprise platforms. (Skype for Business/Good for Enterprise – mobile) Developed estimation and planning models for system integration projects. Developed methodologies for packaged solution and business transformation projects. Provided technical, solution development, and project management expertise to various projects throughout the bank. Created security focused solution architecture and planned the development effort while leveraging both traditional and cloud-based infrastructure. Researched and analyzed new technology offerings and identified more efficient technology solutions. (Hyper-converged, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, etc.) Successfully leveraged a mixture of Private and Public cloud offerings which supported a wide array of applications. (Grid computing, targeted storage, developer sandbox, etc.) Participated on multiple internal technology review boards both as a presenter and as approver. Developed secure solution architecture to support core business processes and technology transformation programs. Analyzed current state technology environment and developed future state architecture. Leveraging the latest virtualization technologies, successfully expanded the current virtualization footprint by meeting virtualization targets of over 85% of servers being virtualized. Show less



Pugh Flat Baptist Church

• Senior Pastor

  • Mar 2012 - Jan 2016

  Cadiz, Kentucky



FIS

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Systems Engineer/Delivery Manager

  • Apr 2014 - Jun 2015

  Greater Nashville Area, TN Responsible for the efficient delivery of all applications targeted for re-hosting. Ensured a consistent solution design framework for the deployment and use of enterprise applications. Drove the adoption and implementation of ITIL standards throughout enterprise. Drove the adoption of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings from Microsoft and AWS (AWS for developer sandboxing) Provide enterprise IT project management for multiple projects ranging from messaging upgrades to… Show more Responsible for the efficient delivery of all applications targeted for re-hosting. Ensured a consistent solution design framework for the deployment and use of enterprise applications. Drove the adoption and implementation of ITIL standards throughout enterprise. Drove the adoption of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings from Microsoft and AWS (AWS for developer sandboxing) Provide enterprise IT project management for multiple projects ranging from messaging upgrades to application re-hosting Architected and implemented the successful migration of over 30,000 mailboxes to Office 365. Delivered top tier Exchange 2k3/7/10/O365 administration and support. Provided identity management solutions and support (FIM/DirSync-ADConnect/ADFS) Provided senior systems support for multi forest Microsoft AD environments. Provided top tier engineering and administration of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO’s etc. Show less



Velocity Technology

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

• Director of IT Operations and Service Delivery

  • Apr 2012 - Apr 2014

  Charlotte, North Carolina Area Provided leadership and oversight for all corporate technical operations, as well as 24x7 production support functions (production scheduling and workload management; automation; production operations support). Successfully led multiple datacenter migrations from client locations to Titan’s DC’s. Successfully worked with internal and external clients to ensure improvement and optimization of existing services, as well as expanding and transitioning to new services to support… Show more Provided leadership and oversight for all corporate technical operations, as well as 24x7 production support functions (production scheduling and workload management; automation; production operations support). Successfully led multiple datacenter migrations from client locations to Titan’s DC’s. Successfully worked with internal and external clients to ensure improvement and optimization of existing services, as well as expanding and transitioning to new services to support business and sales objectives. Responsible for financial planning and management. Reviewed and approved budget for hosting and infrastructure area and ensures that they are aligned with IT and business objectives and plans. Provided strategic IT direction by leveraging emerging technologies, industry best practices, and secure solutions. Successfully managed multiple teams, provided leadership, coaching, and guidance to ensure that goals and objectives are met and individuals on the team worked towards continuous improvement and development. Initiated, designed, and delivered highly scalable multi-tenant cloud computing platforms for ERP and messaging applications resulting in a reduction of 35% in delivery costs and generating $8M in new sales from competitive industry offerings. Delivered two full life-cycle SAP ERP implementations on time and on budget ($20M and $30M respectively), the latter being the largest SAP Dealer Business Management (DBM) implementation worldwide.

• Senior Systems Engineer

  • Apr 2011 - Apr 2012



Premier Medical Group

• Network Manager

  • Apr 2003 - Apr 2011

  Clarksville, Tennessee Area Responsible for the overall operation and availability of the IT environment.



United States Marine Corps

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Seargent

  • Sep 1986 - Nov 1991

  Multiple