Denver Metropolitan Area
IT Infrastructure Manager at CAP Logistics, leading enterprise technology strategy across infrastructure, networking, security, and service management in hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments. I partner with executive leadership to align IT with business goals, drive operational excellence, and deliver secure, scalable solutions. Passionate about building high‑performing teams and leveraging emerging technologies, including AI-driven automation, to improve efficiency, resilience, and service delivery.
• Provide enterprise-level leadership for IT infrastructure, driving strategy, governance, and execution in alignment with organizational objectives and long-term growth. • Act as a senior advisor to the CIO and executive leadership, influencing technology direction, investment priorities, and risk management decisions. • Lead transformation initiatives across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments to modernize infrastructure, improve scalability, and enhance security posture. • Establish and enforce IT governance, operational standards, and performance metrics to ensure consistent, high-quality service delivery across the organization. • Own IT financial planning, including budgeting, forecasting, and capital investment strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and ROI expectations. • Drive enterprise risk management initiatives, including disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience planning, with integrated AI risk management to identify, assess, and mitigate AI-specific risks such as ethical and legal compliance issues, security vulnerabilities, and reputational impacts. • Lead cross-functional collaboration between IT and business units, translating complex technical concepts into actionable business insights and outcomes. • Champion continuous improvement and innovation, identifying technologies and process enhancements that increase operational efficiency and enable business growth.
Responsible for entire IT infrastructure of corporate headquarters and 9 remote offices. Collaborated with business and IT partners to support requirements identification, development, testing and implementation of projects. Directed IT team in designing, building, implementing, managing, supporting and enhancing key technologies. • Migrated ERP platform (Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017), all 3rd party add-ons including E-Ship, Chargelogic, Jet Reports, Power BI and EDI to Azure cloud. Migration increased stability, scalability and improved SQL performance reducing long-running activities by up to 50%. • Work directly with departments and internal IT security to design, implement and enforce applicable regulations and policies, SOX, PCI and more. • Implemented cloud forward initiatives, Office 365 (Migrated from Google G Suite), Slack, DocuSign, Salesforce, Concur, Jira, Magento and Zoom and integrated these solutions with Azure AD for governance and SAML/SSO. • Drove initiative to standardize security solution, end user hardware, network hardware, server hardware, and software packages minimizing support requirements and improving SLA times and end user satisfaction. • Oversaw day to day IT Functions (networking, telecommunications, systems and service desk). • Guided forward thinking campaigns before and during COVID-19 that allowed Charlotte’s Web to move from fully in office on-site workforce to less than 30% essential staff on-site with no impact to productivity; modernized networking and physical security (implemented emergency mass communication solution as part of physical security solution), services/software, VPN and pushed business continuity plans.
Lead engineer tasked with design, implementation and maintenance of SFC corporate infrastructure in addition to design and deployment of customer production environments which will utilize SFC’s proprietary encryption solution in the cloud. • Designed and implemented a full corporate technology refresh from the ground up. This includes switches, server and storage hardware, migration from legacy Windows Server OS to 2012R2/2016, Active Directory implementation, etc., all on VMware vSphere 6. • Implemented GPO’s in order to reduce variation and increase overall security posture for systems deployed throughout the organization. • Participate in presale activities such as product demonstration, RFI, POC architecture, etc. • Worked with executive, development, and QA teams to define product requirements. • Member of change management and procurement team. • Mentor junior staff; providing guidance within career and assisting with laying foundation for a solid understanding of IT principles. • Created and implemented security policies related to Mobile Device Management (MDM), Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD), document classification, Azure Rights Management, Email encryption, communication filters that track, restrict and monitor the transmission of PII and other confidential information.
Responsible for geographically dispersed mobile datacenters for the US Marine Corps in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bahrain. Was the manager & lead systems engineer in a 15 person team of highly skilled professionals to ensure maximum stability, reliability and growth while adhering to strict compliance standards. • Managed enterprise services and hardware in multiple distinct environments located across geographically dispersed datacenters, servicing critical US military personnel. • Upgraded and managed Exchange 2003/2007/2010 environments that required a 99.99% uptime, this environment was used for internal email as well as production environment alerts. • Lead team tasked with upgrading infrastructure; Forest level from 2003 to 2008, Active Directory 2003 to 2008, VMware Infrastructure 3.5 to vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.5 and other application upgrades. • Design and deployment of multiple Windows clusters to be used for critical services, as well as real time replication between datacenters. • Engineered and implemented solution that safely and securely archived over 10 years of US Marine Corps digital data using Dell PowerEdge servers, NetApp FAS, and Cisco switches. • Heavily involved in implementation and management of over 400 virtual servers and related hosts.