• Designed and implemented enterprise and IT architecture strategies aligned with business goals, reducing operational inefficiencies by up to 40%.
• Delivered $10M in cost savings by automating infrastructure and application deployments, optimizing cloud usage, and improving process efficiency.
• Spearheaded large-scale IT modernization projects, transforming legacy systems into secure, scalable hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
• Championed adoption, enabling agile development with reusable Terraform IaC templates and landing zones, decreasing time-to-deployment by 60%.
• Collaborated with C-suite executives and stakeholders to align IT strategies with business objectives, expediting time-to-market for critical services.
• Technical lead and contributor as technical SME on 10+ RFPs/RFIs, securing over $350M in contracts by translating technical solutions into business-aligned proposals.

• Cloud Computing Leadership: Spearheaded the implementation and oversight of comprehensive cloud computing strategies, driving multiple IT cloud modernization initiatives and optimizing hybrid cloud architectures.
• Cross-Functional Solution Design: Collaborated with engineering, infrastructure, development, and operations teams to architect and implement mission-critical solutions, fostering seamless integration and operational efficiency.
• Cloud Migration Expertise: Led the design and execution of cloud migrations from on-premises and AWS cloud environments to the Microsoft Azure Government (MAG) platform, emphasizing scalability, security, and high availability.
• Azure Cloud Environment Design: Designed and implemented Azure Government cloud environments utilizing advanced resources such as Azure AD, IAM, Azure Policy, Networking (VNETs, Subnets, VPNs, NSGs), Storage, and cloud PaaS Web App and Database services.
• Technical Architecture and Administration: Configured, administered, and supported Microsoft Windows Server technologies, including Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Hyper-V clusters, SQL clusters, and disaster recovery services, ensuring high availability and robust performance.

Accomplishments:

• Innovative Cloud Solutions: Designed and deployed mission-critical architecture in support of an encrypted cross-connect VPN tunnel solution for connectivity between AWS and MAG cloud platforms, ensuring uninterrupted, secure communication for critical operations supporting an Agile team of 20+ developers
• Accelerated Deployment Pipelines: Designed and implemented innovative solution to streamline end-to-end production releases using Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines. Reduced deployment timelines from weeks to days to nightly deployments.
• Data Center Consolidation: Successfully architected and implemented the consolidation of on-premises production environments into a private cloud, reducing the physical footprint by more than 65%.

• Architected scalable, secure, and cost-effective IT infrastructure for large enterprise organization, ensuring seamless alignment between IT capabilities and business needs.
• Architected and deployed first successful VMware vCloud cloud services provider environment to include the migration of all non-production environments resources resulting in the discovery of a bug during migration and integration of the organization’s 3 key ERP systems that would have led to up to 2 years of retroactive time, labor and business damages.

• Designed, engineered, and implemented robust system and network infrastructure solutions, supporting enterprise scalability, reliability, and security.
• Conducted comprehensive system analyses, delivering detailed findings, actionable options, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders for optimal system performance and modernization.

• Requirements Analysis and Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnered with cross-functional teams, including internal and external stakeholders, to define and refine business and technical requirements, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance standards.
• Reputation for Excellence: Consistently recognized by stakeholders and program managers for delivering secure, IA-compliant, production-ready IT systems and infrastructure ahead of schedule, exceeding stringent performance and compliance standards.
• Turnkey System Design: Designed and developed turnkey IT systems and solutions, delivering production go-live IT systems and solutions 3x quicker by establishing trust and rapport amongst several multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams.

• Advisory Role: Provided expert guidance to senior leadership on Host-Based Security System (HBSS) and Retina/ACAS assessment capabilities, offering actionable insights for implementation and enhanced security posture.
• Security and Compliance Management: Conducted Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) and Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) implementations, performing system imaging, scanning, and remediation to ensure compliance with organizational policies and standards.

• Architected scalable, secure, and cost-effective IT infrastructure for large enterprise organization, ensuring seamless alignment between IT capabilities and business needs.
• Architected and deployed first successful VMware vCloud cloud services provider environment to include the migration of all non-production environments resources resulting in the discovery of a bug during migration and integration of the organization’s 3 key ERP systems that would have led to up to 2 years of retroactive time, labor and business damages.

• Designed and led organization wide migration of 16 NT4.0/Exchange 5.5 environments to AD/Exchange 2003 including consolidating 16 disparate Windows NT domains into a single AD forest with 4 child domains reducing technical debt by over 75% by reducing significant redundancies in systems and applications no longer required.
• Designed innovative training and migration simulation solution using real-world environments restored state-side for training the 16 overseas deployment teams with technical and non-technical staff to perform end-to-end Windows NT/Exchange 5.5 migrations to 2003 directly resulting in all 16 site deployments being 100% successful.