Highly accomplished IT Director / Senior Leader & Architect, expert in anticipating and identifying secure infrastructure technology opportunities, implementing and operating such. Produces strategies for network, security, data center and collaboration/communications - on-prem and cloud based (primarily AWS and Azure). Designs and implements high-performance, secure and cost-effective solutions. Skilled in all phases of project life cycle, from original feasibility analysis in design, to delivery and ongoing enhancements, while operating departmental annual budgets in the range of over $46Mil. Assembles and drives culturally and expertise-level very diverse engineering teams, while operating under well-defined IT controlled processes. Key core competencies include: ▪ Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture and Security: Strategy, Planning, Design, Implementation, Optimization, Migration (to and from cloud) & Operation, for Data Centers, large organization Campus/Branch Offices and IaaS support for on-prem, public & hybrid cloud/co-lo solutions ▪ Infrastructure & Security Architecture ▪ Infrastructure & Security Organizations - analysis of existing stage, producing framework and providing assistance with evolution into Maturity Operating Model, with complete L1 capabilities, L2 functions and L3 supporting processes ▪ Software Defined Network (SDN) solutions for Data Centers and co-lo, in support of secure network segmentation and automation, as well as cloud integration + SD-WAN ▪ Software Defined Security (SDS) solutions for campus and branch offices ▪ Expert in Infrastructure integration for Mergers & Acquisitions and/or secure Divestitures