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Career Summary Over 25 years of experience with internal and external Enterprise IT solution design, implementation, management, advisory services and selling. Experience with cloud based solutions in start-up and multi-tenant private and hybrid clouds. Consistently assessing emerging disruptive technologies, with focus on solving real business challenges and maximizing efficiencies and profits through IT solutions. Promote adoption of the dynamic hybrid cloud consisting directly of: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, automation and related support and management services including integrated 3rd party solutions. Evangelist for Virtualization adoption within an organization. Full VMware vCloud Suite of products including vSphere, Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Operations Enterprise, and Networking and Security. I possess the unique experience of Managing multiple vCenters, 300+ hosts and 3500+ virtual machines in a global implementation. Contributed in pre-Beta and Beta evaluator programs with VMware and EMC. Member of VMware Customer Council for customer input and development of product futures. Advanced adoption of virtualizing top-tier business critical applications and demanding workloads, including SQL and Oracle. Designing for maximum performance and availability, realizing cost savings thru license consolidation. Advancing user self-service provisioning of private cloud resources. Research and analysis of public and hybrid cloud services to set future strategy for adoption. VMware Horizon View global VDI implementation 3,000+ virtual desktops hosted in 5 countries, ThinApp application delivery and persona management. Instituted desktop management strategic direction. Project Manager and Technical lead in global Active Directory design, planning, implementation and migration. Manage project scope, objectives, deliverables and project plan for 20k user migration. Integration of individual hospitals and organizations into a single health system. Maintain Windows based servers for a global enterprise. System performance, capacity and event monitoring tools setup and support. Establish equipment life cycle management plans. Enterprise storage design and administration. Development of Flash and SSD strategies along with traditional storage tiering, thin provisioning and storage virtualization strategies. Routine maintenance, performance monitoring and troubleshooting of EMC Arrays and Cisco SAN fabrics. Formed computer security incident response team (CSIRT) to specifically address and protect ePHI, meeting HIPAA and PCI compliance standards as well as formal response plan for ransomware or other data breach. This includes Business Impact Analysis for implementing Disaster Recovery solutions and Business Continuity plans. Healthcare Information Systems experience at a progressive institution recognized for its technological capabilities, financial strength, and clinical excellence. Understanding of the unique challenges in Healthcare in regards to security, compliance, financial funding and budget constraints. Ability to articulate ROI and TCO. Capex savings in hardware consolidation. Opex savings in service uptime, with elastic capacity, quickly expanding and reallocating resources to meet demands. Strong understanding of the service delivery lifecycle models.
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