• Provided technical consulting for an assessment of global cloud service providers.
• Reviewed all infrastructure capacity requests for compliance with security and internal business controls.
• Design WAN and LAN connectivity, working with system and application administration teams and studio technical teams to design proper network traffic flow, and to troubleshoot and correct existing issues
• Design and implement server and storage technologies
• Improve our networks and connectivity, focusing on performance and reliability
• Partner with security team to secure network traffic using best practices, including appropriate use of encryption/VPNs, firewalls, etc
• Strong experience with virtual networking with VMware technologies

• Infrastructure Architect and Team Lead.
• Managed storage capacity, approved new requests, and planned for future growth.
• Set Enterprise standards for storage and backup products and services.
• Storage SME for Data Center Redesign project.
• Worked as  part of a multi functional team addressing enhancements to Cargill’s disaster recovery and high availability capabilities.

• Create comprehensive, complex IT architectural designs to transfer business requirements to solutions
• Design and manage total application & system architecture and technical environment, integrating application needs and technology trends with appropriate computing infrastructure and software capabilities
• Maintain detailed knowledge of business operations and provide guidance on how to best utilize software applications, services, and related technologies to support current and future business requirements
• Mentor staff on root cause analysis and other quality improvement techniques
• Provide advanced application and/or systems support and training
• Provide high level consultative services to businesses/functions
• Provide architectural and technical oversight of IT projects

• Design and implement the IT Infrastructure Roadmap
• Recommend new solutions that improve productivity and give Glu a competitive advantage
• Developed a global VMware ESX based server virtualization architecture that resulted in a 40% reduction in data center space and power costs and reduced server provisioning times by half.
• Developed a consolidated global infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, scaled for 22,000 users that reduced the need for several data centers to just two.
• Technical project lead for several server, storage, and management tool vendor studies from the request for proposal to the final contract, which resulted in global standards and 20% cost reductions.
• Designed a multi-tenant virtual solution to provide IaaS/SaaS service for customers that resulted in the elimination of an outsourced data center contract.
• Managed a global redeploy process to re-assign underutilized server and storage assets that reduced new purchases by 30%