Qualifications Profile Methodical and results-oriented professional with broad-based experience in all aspects of information technology services. Concept-to-execution driver with proven adeptness in analyzing business and technical requirements, as well as driving high-quality, under-budget, and timely completion of projects. Expert at overseeing operational strategies developing innovative solutions identifying deficiencies and opportunities and conceptualizing strategic plans to attain productivity and meet organizational objectives. Equipped with solid interpersonal skills in building strong relationships and working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, clients, and other professionals of all levels. Career Highlights: * Efficiently handled various projects including the following: * Consolidation of multiple email systems across the campus into a single Microsoft Exchange environments, thus decreasing operation cost by $60K and * Transfer of universities mainframe system to third-party hosting environment within time and budget constraints that significantly generated operating cost savings by $500K * Served as driving force in attaining decrease in operating cost by 5% to 7% yearly over the last five years virtualization in production datacenter by 98% and reduction in power usage by 50% and foot print by over 80% * Drove efforts in minimizing overall cost and saving operating cost by improving image-level backups for virtualization environment and Amazon web services (AWS) glacier cloud storage to streamline backups that enhanced critical and long-term backup solutions * Facilitated consolidation of Storage and Virtualization teams into a centralized storage administration group * Conceptualized plans in meeting requirements of board of trustees sanctioned project to integrate various datacenters across campus into central production datacenter with a possible cost savings of more than $8M for a four-year project Assistant Director Mar 2007 - May 2013 * Coordinated reports to the director of IT and datacenter services, while directly supervising various teams of 22 full-time employees (FTEs) in charge of working on Windows and Linux server administration, premise and cloud-based infrastructure, email, storage/virtualization, PeopleSoft Campus solutions application, and mainframe administration * Evaluated technical expertise of staff members and delegated projects based on individual's strengths and professional interests * Spearheaded aging IBM storage area network (SAN) volume controller (SVC) storage migration to EMC storage toward better alignment with application requirements and storage capacity * Closely worked with university units to transfer 20,000 email accounts from aging IMAP solution to Microsoft Exchange Career Highlights: * Enabled efficient utilization of resources and development of strong sense of team ownership by restructuring teams from central IT into datacenter services group in conjunction with the executive director of enterprise applications and systems Manager Feb 2004 - Mar 2010 * Rendered reports to the director of NSIT's network-based services while leading Web Administration Team * Initiated the design and assessment of new highly available and scalable Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) environment * Oversaw the migration of more than 1000 websites from single server environment to highly evadible web hosting environment Earlier Career University of Chicago, GSB * Chicago, IL Associate Director TSS/IBM * Downers Grove, IL Field Technician

Highlights:

• Campus Solutions
• EMC
• EMC Storage
• Enterprise Applications
• IBM
• IBM Storage
• Information Technology
• Infrastructure
• Microsoft Windows
• MySQL Database