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Senior Director, Customer Marketing, Global Events and EBC

VERITAS Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world, is a leading provider of software and services to enable utility computing. In a utility computing model, IT resources are aligned with business needs, and business applications are delivered with optimal performance and availability on top of shared computing infrastructure, minimizing hardware, and labor costs. With 2004 revenue of $2.04 billion, VERITAS delivers products and services for data protection, storage & server management, high availability, and application performance management that are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500.

Seasoned technology professional and manager with enterprise and healthcare I.T. project management experience. • Consolidated datacenters, moving enterprise-wide, revenue-generating applications and infrastructure serving Symantec’s global customer base. Virtualized Symantec’s main revenue-generating portal, moving into new state-of-the-art datacenters (both primary and DR.) • Managed infrastructure for EMR/Epic adoption by Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) acquisitions of ambulatory clinics in the Bay Area. Accountable for site network upgrades, provisioning of infrastructure to support Epic workflows, and rollout/deployment of new technologies to several large, complex, multi-site ambulatory clinics within the Bay Area. • Managed complex network upgrade for 2,000-node, regional hospital authority in Oklahoma, overseeing matrix of hospital staff, consultants, and vendor personnel. • Completed $2.5 M project on-time and within budget, establishing technology platform for deployment of enhanced medical services, including telemedicine, VoIP, RFID, EHR, and HIPAA-compliant security. • Managed Technical Products Division of Fortune 500 distributor, leading staff of 10 managers, 40 product lines, and overseeing $2.1 million quarterly budget. • Produced complex, rich media website presence, including application development, architecture and design for Sun Microsystems (Systems and Software Divisions.) SKILLS SUMMARY • Data Center Consolidation • Application Migration • Network Upgrades • Global Team Integration • ITSM • EMR/Epic Deployments • Change Management • Agile/Scrum Methodologies • Design and Planning • Microsoft Project • Vendor Management • Competitive Bid Oversight • Budgeting/Financial Control • Sharepoint • Risk Mitigation • Project Resource/Labor Estimating • Public/Private Sector Experience Currently working towards PMP-certification; previously Associate Director, PMI-LA (South Bay Chapter.)