
Chief Contributor at thedatacenterblog.com
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Chief Contributor at thedatacenterblog.com
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Over fifteen years experience in the Information Technology (IT) field, and the past 7 dedicated to project management and a technical lead focus. Proven experience in planning, design, implementation and support of Greenfield and acquired locations for a large, international Fortune 500 company, and now for the first theme park in the US in the past 10 years.
Detail oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to examine and plan with strategic goals in mind, and the ability to work in a dynamic, multi-tasked environment.
After each project, I have a hunger for something larger.
Large scale projects, Greenfields and Acquisitions
(Medical Practice industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
IT Manager for a rural, non-profit medical center in Sumterville, FL.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Common sense Information and Discussion on Data Center Design
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
September 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Responsible for design and deployment of IT systems for theme park operations. This included the following:
• Common business office applications such as LDAP/Active Directory
• Enterprise messaging via Microsoft Exchange
• Point of Sale (POS) systems for Retail and Food & Beverage
• Back of House inventory management, ERP systems
• Ticketing admission systems
• A fault tolerant server solution based on centralized storage management, and virtualization
• A fault tolerant network design using best of breed cabling and hardware technology
• Hiring and managing a permanent IT staff to provide support for 24x7 operation for approx 3000 employees.
(Entertainment industry)
September 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Parent company of Hard Rock Park
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
October 2004 — September 2006 (2 years)
Primary responsibility included establishing subsidiary to Jabil Circuit that would cater to the Government, Military, and Aerospace sector. Received SECRET level security clearance.
Responsible for configuring system servers and desktop environment for the facility.
Primary point of contact for the manufacturing system in a 7x24 environment.
Responsible ensuring that all work met ITAR, Classified, or COMSEC level security requirements.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
May 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 3 months)
Primary responsibility included a Greenfield location in Memphis, Tennessee that was used as a Ship to Order direct fulfillment center for HP Printers. One of the primary people responsible for selecting building location.
Responsible for developing network infrastructure for LAN and WAN connectivity.
Responsible for configuring system servers and desktop environment for the facility.
Responsible for implementing Manufacturing System that communicated with HP’s ordering system.
Responsible for hiring IT staff to support the facility after it was successfully brought on-line.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)
Primary responsibility included an acquisition of two Philips Electronics locations in The Netherlands and Belgium. In addition to the Scope of Work, budgeting of capital assets, responsibilities also included migration of existing user data from previous company’s infrastructure, implementation of new business systems and establishing transition plan for leaving acquired company’s applications to Jabil’s.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
July 2002 — November 2002 (5 months)
Primary responsibility included a Greenfield location in McAllen, Texas that was used as a distribution center for warrantee repair work for Seagate hard drives. Responsible for Scope of Work, and budgeting for capital assets.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)
Primary responsibility included working on Active Directory project. Took existing materials and re-created Scope of Work to follow existing project standards. Created ROI (Return on Investment) documentation to justify project.
Responsible for presenting Domain Services input for Baseline Consolidation project. Assisted in developing questionnaire to be given to sites to determine services to consolidate. Assisted with leading meetings when project manager was out, and assisted the project with any task that I saw needing help.
Managed project to rebuild Domain Controllers at all Jabil sites. Developed Scope of Work and project plan. Worked with Regional resources to plan the dates of the rebuild and let the regional teams be responsible for the actual work. Provided weekly updates to management on the status of the project.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
July 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Primary responsibility included quoting, ordering, and configuring server systems for Jabil acquisitions, on-site configuration and troubleshooting, and training of local staff on Jabil processes and specifications.
Established relationships between local sites and Corporate IT.
Responsible for setting up IT infrastructure for manufacturing locations around the world.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JBL; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 3 months)
Primary responsibility included evaluating and deploying a successful Systems Management Server package to each site in Jabil. Went to each site around the world to configure and deploy an SMS server. Once on-site, trained local staff on SMS procedures.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)