United States
Senior IT executive with over 25 years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, including 8 years leading global teams across security, operations, DevOps, systems, and network engineering. Expert in designing and scaling public and hybrid cloud platforms, implementing Infrastructure as Code, and modernizing legacy infrastructure. Proven track record of leading digital transformation, driving engineering maturity, and managing 24/7 mission-critical environments. • Strategic, logical and creative problem-solving skills. • Strong written and oral communication skills. • Team Leadership & Development through mentoring and training. • Highly organized and attentive to details. • Effective communication within technology teams, executives, and vendors.
• Lead global teams across infrastructure, cloud, network, and security engineering supporting transformation to Azure Cloud and Edge CDN platforms. • Spearheaded expansion of Azure environment across North America, Europe, and Asia to support global operations. • Directed enterprise migration from on-prem to cloud-native infrastructure with emphasis on availability, security, and scale. • Developed and enforced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards via Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, separating app vs infra DevOps for better governance. • Established cloud tagging policies enabling accounting-based chargebacks and cost tracking. • Championed governance, compliance, and security policies including GDPR, MFA/SSO (Okta), Purview, SIEM, Pen Testing, and vulnerability remediation. • Manage O365/M365 environments: Email, Teams, Intune, Security & Compliance, Domain/DNS registrar. • Evaluate cost reductions with internal FinOps and Commercial departments for strategic vendor evaluations and contract negotiations. • Oversee Operations team including patch management, monitoring (Ansible/Puppet), BCDR and incident response. • Partnered with Microsoft, VMware, HPE, Cloudflare, Veeam, and other vendors for large scale infrastructure modernization. • Crafted Security Operating Procedure (SOP) for email Indicators of Compromise (IoC) detection and remediation. • Influenced organizational design to improve team resilience, knowledge sharing, and role clarity.
• Managed 5,000+ virtual and 1,000+ physical servers across North America supporting core digital properties and practice systems. • Led datacenter redesign to improve network stability, scalability, and operational efficiency. • Delivered infrastructure documentation and knowledge transfer for operational continuity. • Influenced re-organization of Service Desk, Operations and Engineering departments to be more efficient on escalations and be more proactive. • Engineering lead on multiple acquisitions which entail numerous phases of onboarding.
• Redesigned global production partner network with HA firewall deployment, reducing cost and complexity and improving stability. • Deployed VMware Enterprise for high availability and resource optimization (HA, DRS, sDRS, vMotion). • Led migration of corporate datacenter to co-lo facility, reducing costs by $1M and improving performance and uptime. • Incorporated WAN accelerators to remote offices saving company $500,000 a year in productivity loss due to bandwidth and latency limitations. • Improved corporate email security by stopping 1M+ daily email messages. • Expanded headquarters to 3 remote sites using FCoE, PoE and RSTP for physical link redundancy and seamless connectivity for network and telecom systems. • Managed 1,300+ IPSec VPN connections with partner theater chains, ensuring secure integration with POS systems. • Mentored team of engineers and admins to maintain system architecture and integrity.
• Provided network and system consulting to clients in aerospace, telecom, and ISP sectors. • Audited and optimized IT infrastructure for improved reliability and performance.
• Supported high-traffic Hollywood websites including CBS Survivor. • Developed and implemented a company-wide disaster recovery plan. • Provided desktop and server support across Windows, Mac (Apple), and Linux platforms.
• Provided broad-band T-1 Internet speeds via line-of-slight radio antenna for 200 local businesses when only slower dial-up or DSL speeds were available. • Managed ISP business operations including network, sales, and billing.