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Enterprise Cloud and Infrastructure Services Director

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IT Director and Solutions Architect, with over 19 years of experience managing a 50+ member team and budgets of over $30M. Standardize business management practices, and specific business objectives to established standardized processes for development, production and quality assurance. Implemented a multi-million dollar Private Cloud Infrastructure across multiple datacenter, which drove down operational costs and increases Return On Investment (ROI), while providing a highly scalable and robust virtual platform to be the business needs. Specializes in designing, implementing and managing complex IT infrastructures, including Private and Public Cloud technology solutions. Infrastructure expertise includes Virtual systems, Hyper Converge Infrastructure (HCI), servers, networks, Storage Area Network (SAN), Backup and Disaster Recovery Systems. Experience in datacenter management and migrations, geared on maintaining and focus on achieving bottom line results while formulating and implementing advanced technological solutions to meet the business needs. Leadership Working with top minds of technologies and leaderships, I focus on the knowledge that the people of the organization are the number one priority. Having the right skillset and experience and empowering the workforce will bring forth innovation that will ensure a high-performance result in any organization. Service Delivery Years of experience and proven successful track record in the design, implementation and service delivery of a wide array of scalable cost-effective technologies, including Private and Public Cloud solutions, datacenter management, system migration, and large multi-protocol, multi-platform network. Business Focus Adopt a customer focused approach to ensure successful and a productive relationship. Achieve and maintain bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced technical business processes and solutions, to meet a diversity of technological transformation needs.