SummaryResults-driven IT management professional with 20 years of experience in diverse industries, including Infrastructure and data center management. Expertise includes team leadership, technical architecture, training , recruiting, mentoring , development, disaster recovery planning, asset management, inventory control, VAR experience, contract to hire experience and information protection analysis. Knowledge of Enterprise Project Lifecycle methodology with a emphasis in Infrastructure engineering with strong background in project management, product support including break fix to the board level. More than 15 years in IT project management, skilled in installation, configuration, migration and implementation of rack systems, cable management, cable testing, server, power and cooling infrastructure including retrofitting, commissioning and decommissioning data centers from the ground up. Dynamic, resourceful, and extremely driven individual with a deep passion for creating and delivering programs and solutions that empower a team, company, and customer to meet and exceed desired expectations. HighlightsEnterprise platformsExperienced in infrastructure designForecasting specialistKnowledge of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)Supplier interfacePerformance criteria trackingEnd-to-end product lifecyclesCollaborativeInventory trackingVendor managementProject trackingHardware and software upgrade planningProduct requirements documentationSelf-directedBudgeting and resource managementMS VisioDecisiveCost reductionColo experience and management.Staffing augmentation, hiring and training. ExperienceSenior Data Center Lab Engineer,07 2016-CurrentApex Systems Middleton,WI,Insight Global contract positionInstall and perform repairs to hardware and peripheral equipment, following design and installation specifications including copper fiber cabling for connectivity. This includes Dell, HP servers and blades, Cisco switches and firewalls, HP switches, EMC arrays, F5 and related KVM devices etc.Provided feet and hands support for commissioning decommissioning, break fix to the board level, cabling installation and testing and rack installation for the Barrington, Chicago, Milwaukee and Wauwatosa data centers as required.Conduct computer diagnostics, firmware upgrades to investigate and resolve problems and provide technical assistance and support to product developers and programmers.Design, maintain and audit inventory according to present and forth coming projects.Provide space, power and cooling direction and installation according to project hardware and software requirements.Provide quarterly data center hardware audits using Visio to maintain FDA standards and requirements.Senior Data Center Engineer,10 2015-07 2016Accenture Fort Harrison,MT,Apex contract positionProvided daily commissioning and decommissioning of various types of equipment into racks based on HP Service Manager customer tickets including required copper,fiber cables including cable management.Provided vendor escorts to install and or provide break fix of customer equipment.Provided break fix for servers, switches, firewalls and other related equipment to the board level and beyond.Provided hands and feet services for off-site engineers to troubleshoot, install, repair, upgrade or anything required to return their equipment to operational status.Maintained the cleanliness of the data center including the floors and both the interior and exterior of each rack being installed in the data center.Set up and configure servers and blade servers in the lab racks prior to going live on the data center floor according to owner requirements.Participate in bridge calls requiring assistance for failed equipment and or connections until corrected as the on-site engineer.Maintain and monitor the power and cooling systems and related alarms. IBM Global Remote Data Center Manager,02 2015-06 2015Cincinnati Bell West Chester,OH,Compunnel contract position.Manage IBM Colo for Baxter pharmaceutical customer daily request for connectivity and hardware installation remotely.Project management to both decommission old customer equipment and to commission customers design in the COLO for new racks, equipment and connectivity.Managed customer split between Baxter pharmaceutical and Baxalta pharmaceutical and ensure that the connectivity and equipment is moved and reinstalled in the COLO ensuring to separate companies.Worked directly with customer network administration to complete customer request for network connectivity and hardware trouble shooting including issuing the proper TCP IP and VMWare scopes.Provided mentoring and trouble shooting experience with on-site remote hands engineers to complete customer new orders for cable, connectivity and hardware installation and trouble shooting. Infrastructure Manager,05 2009-06 2014Engility Corporation Fort Meade,MD,Directed and managed the infrastructure and engineers to bring the data online from a empty building to a fully operational 428,000 Sq. Ft. production data center.Managed day-to-day activities of 12 infrastructure technicians and D R data center, which included handling daily I.T.S.M tickets for power, server, switch and router installations, decommissioning and connectivity issues.Conducted performance reviews of engineers and scheduling of PTO, ECC and on call 24X7 coverage.Directed engineers course of action resolving Internet connectivity, general software and hardware issues.Directed hands-on management of racking, stacking, decommissions, inventory, asset management, cable tracing, cable clean up, cable testing and new circuit installations including Roadm and dark fiber.Redesigned recruiting process requiring stringent technical knowledge and experience and training for seven data centers including the training for engineers, colo space and remote hands.This involved the following Windows operating systems from XP thru Windows 7, Server 2003, Cisco Nexus 7000, 6500, 3750 s and 2800 series, Net scout, Netbotz 500, Compaq, RF code, HP and Dell servers, Liebert CRAC s and PDU s, Terminal server using Cisco 2600 and Cisco Airport s for wireless.Participated in the weekly change control and risk meetings collaborating with all levels of management from director to CTO.Hired, trained and mentored 75 new infrastructure engineers.Managed the 75 person local data center infrastructure team, allocating resources to ongoing projects and enforcing deadlines.Collaborated with the global team to resolve IT support cases in the data centers.Self employed,03 2008-05 2009Sentinel Technologies Inc Bloomington,IL,Assisted residential and small business owners with daily hardware and software support.This included break fix, re-imaging, network connectivity, wireless networks, cabling and network installation and maintenance.This involved the following Windows from 98 thru Vista, Microsoft Office 97 thru 2007, Linksys and D-Link routers and switches, phone support.Premise Technician,09 2007-03 2008Granite Telecommunications Llc Chicago,IL,Installed U-Verse into customer s homes and businesses on a daily basis, which involved making cross connects at the VRAD and then completing the connection using a balun at the customers NID.Cat5 coax was then installed throughout the home or business, which was terminated, tested and certified and connected to a television and or computer.This involved the following Windows from 98 thru Vista, Microsoft Office 97 thru 2007, Linksys and D-Link routers and switches including trouble tickets.System Integration Manager,10 2006-04 2007Amerisourcebergen Corporation - Corporate Dothan,AL,CompuCom contract positionManaged contract account for GE Healthcare including budget, profit margin, hiring, recruiting and mentoring.This included the projects for each of my teams in cooperation with GE managers, which consisted of 45 technicians ranging from tier one to designer.Responsible for the daily operation of GE end users and responded to help desk tickets to meet SOP and SLA s, which ranged from windows UNIX server issues and everything in between.This involved Windows XP and Server 2000 and 2003, UNIX 9, 10 and Linux on HP, Compaq, Dell and Sun servers. Facility Data Center Manager,06 2006-09 2006Zurich Farmers Insurance City,STATE,Teksystems contract position.Installed server racks and servers into the data center and maintained and monitored their connectivity.Also maintained the Liebert 750KVA UPS and Liebert CRAC units using Liebert sitescan 3.0.This included the Liebert PDU s and halon fire suppression system on a 24 7 on-call basis.This involved Windows 2000 Server, UNIX and HP AUX.SIS Project Manager,04 2006-05 2006Wisconsin Department Of Corrections City,STATE,Teksystems contract positionManaged the project to transfer all ownership and technical support of the Department of Corrections computer systems to the Department of Engineering, which included transferring eight thousand and five hundred Microsoft Outlook accounts and six hundred and fifty print servers.This involved Outlook 2003 and process management.Data Center Engineer,2006-04 2006JP Morgan-Chase City,STATE,Teksystems contract position.Installed and de-installed servers on a daily basis and installed either the Windows server OS or the UNIX OS depending upon the requirement using a script.This also involved break fix on Dell, Compaq and HP servers to the board level and maintenance and monitoring of the Liebert power and cooling systems.Collaborated with the global team to decommission the data center and transfer the assets.NOC Manager,2005-04 2005Allergan Pharmaceutical City,STATE,Compucom contract position.Managed the daily operation of 55 tier one and tier two technicians that responded to help desk tickets for end user assistance ranging from file and folder issues to server connectivity issues.This also involved managing the SLA s, SOP s and Sarbanes-Oxley audits to ensure FDA regulation compliance.Handled the recruiting, hiring and mentoring of the staff, which included vendor management.Data Center Manager,01 2002-2005Publicis Groupe Leo Burnett USA, Inc City,STATE,Directed and managed the transition from a main frame data center to a traditional open systems data center including printing services.Managed three global data centers and participated in the building and project management of a fourth data center spanning Chicago, Michigan, New York and Europe.Directed the management of 9 analysts, 2 network telecom technicians and 3 electricians, which included training and mentoring.I also managed and was responsible for calculating the cooling and power needs of the data centers using Liebert UPS and CRAC s.This involved the daily break fix of all hardware within the data centers and the maintenance and management of the AS390 mainframe on a daily basis including transitioning from the mainframe to open systems solely.This involved Dell, Compaq and HP, Sun, HP AUX servers and Panduit racks using Windows NT 4.0 and 2000, Novell 4.11.Managed help desk ticket and phone support queue. Education A CNA certification,Expected in1997-Training Technologies-Rancho Cucamonga,CAGPA Status-Coursework in Computer Networking and Information Technology Skills15 years of experience in recruiting, hiring, training and mentoring infrastructure engineers.10 years of experience managing the daily functioning of 24 7 data centers.18 years of experience performing break fix to the board level on servers, desktops, laptops and most printers.10 years of experience upgrading, commissioning and decommissioning global data centers.  SEP  The Senior Manager, Data Architecture Data Engineering is responsible for translating business strategic goals into future-state data engineering and data science solutions. This includes delivery full life-cycle from execution roadmaps, to implementation, and to production operations. This role drives the creation and maintenance of enterprise data and analytics capabilities, data reference architectures, and integrated data analytics technology roadmaps that will guide our strategic investments and enterprise strategy.Translate business strategic goals into actionable future-state data engineering and data science architectures and solutions.Delivery of full life-cycle Data Solutions from execution roadmaps, to implementation, and to operations. This includes a specific focus on ELT and ETL Data Pipeline solutions from inception to production.Lead end to end solution delivery of enterprise data warehouse, data marts, and data lake with governance.Drive the creation and maintenance of enterprise data and analytics capabilities, data solutions, and integrated data analytics technology roadmaps that will guide our strategic investments and enterprise strategy.Deliver architecture connecting Data Science, Data Engineering, and Data Analytics practices together to deliver impactful data products.Strong partnership with DevOps, DataOps, business partners, engineering teams, and data management.A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in IT with a minimum (6) years in data architecture and data solutions are required.Successful track-record in managing a team of Data Engineers and Data ScientistsSkilled in hybrid cloud data platforms and analytical technologies including Azure andor GCP data infrastructure, Spark, Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Data Marts, BI reporting with PowerBI, Metadata Management, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Catalog, and Business Glossary.Ability to document, communicate, implement, and operationalize complex architectures.Experience with ELT and ETL Data Pipeline solutions from inception to production.Proficient in SQL, NoSQL and columnar databases.Experience with SparkPyspark and JSON.Excellent grasp of Computer Science fundamentals - data structures and algorithms.Must have Panda Data Frames knowledge and best practices, execution engines, DAGs (airflow, dagster, luigi, etc), and Kubernetes.Proficient with GitLabFamiliarity with Azure data factory preferred, Google data flow or AWS GlueExperience with Biomedical Informatics, S3Azure blob store, Machine Learning and AI, Unstructured Data, and Data Democratization is preferred.Experience with Agile methodologies, Kanban preferred, and using tools like Jira and Confluence to facilitate the work.Bachelor s degree in computer science or a related discipline required. Master s degree preferred. RECRUITERS NOTES The role will definitely be hands-on and will require excellent communication skills. The hiring manager mentioned the following technologies AImachine learning data warehouses product support Cloud experienceAzure must be open to new technologies. Working with the Product Development Team. Act as the point of contact will create a group that helps the product teams. Create data warehouses for analytics. MUST have excellent communication skills verbal and written. This person will envision strategy and must be able to effectively communicate that strategy to others. The organization has asked me not to advertise the compensation. If you contact me I would be more than willing to share it with you. For over 50 years this non-profit organization has made it their mission to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. More than 5,000 healthcare institutions and systems worldwide including four out of every five U.S. hospitals rely on the services of this organization to guide their operational and strategic decisions. In addition, they serve public and private payers, federal and state agencies, policymakers, ministries of health, associations, and accrediting agencies. Benefit from a healthy work-life balance while staying on the leading edge of technology and thriving in an innovative startup-like culture minus the risk. Sleep well knowing you are helping achieve a world where safe, high-quality healthcare is accessible to everyone. Excellent benefits to include work from home, flex-time and 19 days starting vacation. Its a nice place to work!