
VMware vExpert. VMware Vanguard Award Winner. Global Virtualization & Cloud Computing Consultant.
Washington D.C. Metro Area

VMware vExpert. VMware Vanguard Award Winner. Global Virtualization & Cloud Computing Consultant.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Born in Alexandria, VA, I have lived throughout much of the east coast. I’ve held positions at companies such as Charles E. Smith (DC/VA), Citrix Systems (FL), Tyco Healthcare (MA), Computershare (MA) and am now the Director of Virtualization Services for the Infinite Group (IGI), focused on growing the virtualization services to both the commercial, state and federal sectors. I also function as the Chief Virtualization Architect for IGI, providing enterprise level design in virtualization and cloud computing in virtualized atmospheres.
I’ve been heavily involved with VMware implementations for both consolidation and disaster recovery efforts for the last 6+ years. I spoke at VMWorld 2006, won the VMware Vanguard Award in 2007 for Best DR Design, and was recently awarded a VMware vExpert Award in Cannes at VMWorld Europe 2009.
I also founded and manage the Washington, D.C. Metro Area VMware User Group.
enterprise risk management, vmware, vi3, cloud computing, hyper-v, virtual center, business continuity, disaster recovery, virtualization, green computing, continuity of operations, migrations, consolidation, mdop, svcmm, citrix
(Public Company; IMCI; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2009 — Present (1 month)
Responsible for growing the virtualization practice at Infinite Group (otc: IMCI), an Enterprise VMWare partner and Microsoft partner. Founder and current manager of the D.C. Metro VMWare User Group. Leader of D.C. Metro CloudCamp.
Globally pursuing virtualization opportunities for a recognized leader in the market.
• Have grown virtualization team's revenue and employee count.
• Developed solution and go-to-market strategy for cloud computing service offerings.
• Increased market exposure through speaking engagements, including upcoming events such as Virtualization Congress 2009.
• Developed cohesive solution package including partner selection and management.
• Managed award-winning virtualization team with over 10 direct reports.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
* Provide technical and business guidance related to cloud computing-based offerings.
(Public Company; IMCI; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for growing the virtualization practice at Infinite Group (otc: IMCI), an Enterprise VMWare partner and Microsoft partner. Founder and current manager of the D.C. Metro VMWare User Group.
Globally pursuing virtualization opportunities for a recognized leader in the market.
• Have grown virtualization team's revenue and employee count.
• Developed solution and go-to-market strategy for cloud computing service offerings./****
• Increased market exposure through speaking engagements, including upcoming events such as Virtualization Congress 2009.
• Developed cohesive solution package including partner selection and management.
• Managed award-winning virtualization team with over 8 direct reports.
(Media Production industry)
April 2009 — June 2009 (3 months)
Virtualization Consultant at Fortune 500 in NYC to support customer facing large-scale virtualization initiative.
(Internet industry)
December 2008 — February 2009 (3 months)
Consultant serving as resource for Germany-based Site Recovery Manager solution.
(Government Administration industry)
October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)
• Consultant serving as VMware resource for disaster recovery initiative.
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)
• Consultant serving as VMware resource for virtual server and virtual desktop proof of concept.
(Government Administration industry)
August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)
• Consultant serving as lead for VMware-based global project.
• Architect of global consolidation initiative reducing 128 sites globally into 1 data center
running a VMware-based infrastructure.
• Architect of server consolidation initiative comprised of
Solaris x86 servers running highly-visible Oracle database form applications.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
July 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 3 months)
• Featured in the October edition of Federal Computer Weekly discussing virtual appliances in
the federal and commercial marketspace.
• Chief architect for VMWare VI3 environment and custom Virtual Center architecture.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)
2007 VMWare Virtual Vanguard Award: Best Disaster Recovery Solution.
Look for our upcoming video testimonial on VMWare.com.
Participant in the VMWorld 2007 “Future of Virtualization” project.
Look for our upcoming article in Federal Computer Week .
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)
July 2007 — July 2007 (1 month)
• Invited presenter at VMWorld 2006 to discuss self-designed disaster recovery solution reducing failover time from 2 hours to 7 minutes.
• Presenter at New England VMWare User Group on self-designed tool to perform mass migrations, reducing total execution time by 90%.
• Virtualization architect Using HP Blade technology coupled with VMWare.
• Global architect for VMWare VI3 upgrade and implementation used by data centers in the US, UK, and Australia.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TYC; Hospital & Health Care industry)
November 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 6 months)
• Project Manager for over $2M of new technology acquired and installed since 2004.
• Architect of disaster recovery plan that reduced contracted servers from 21 to 6 and
reduced recovery time by 50%.
• Initiated complete Data Center redesign to increase efficiency through logical cabling
solutions reducing the average server introduction time by 3 days.
• Architect of VMWare ESX environment including highly-available solutions for tier-1
applications.
• Windows and Veritas cluster administrator; designed and coded web-based server
inventory system that used IIS, PHP and mySQL.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CTXS; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 5 months)
• Performed 8 interviews per quarter for positions within the Software Test Team.
• Completed full life cycle of the product including: pre-coding discussions, test case writing
and configuration of lab environment.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
October 2000 — June 2003 (2 years 9 months)
• Developed business rules for proprietary help desk software and trained users in how to
open self service help desk tickets.
• Managed workstation deployment of 200 systems including the documentation of
procedures for the company wide implementation. Included security through group policy
objects.
• Addressed IT merger related issues such as: migration of user accounts, network shares, disk
quotas, mailboxes, and policies. Performed migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
October 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 3 months)
• Managed a help desk of seven employees of various skill levels.
• Established policies which effectively decreased the average resolution time to less than two
hours.
• Configured Wyse terminals for remote sites in lieu of standard PC’s and published desktops
based on group memberships.
2005 — 2007
Rule #1, Washington DC Metro Area VMWare User Group
• Recipient of the VMWare vExpert Award (VMworld Europe 2009)
• Recipient of the 2007 VMWare Virtual Vanguard Award for Best Disaster Recovery
Solution, presented at VMWorld 2007.
• Featured in the October edition of Federal Computer Weekly discussing virtual appliances in
the federal and commercial marketspace.
• Invited presenter at VMWorld 2006 to discuss self-designed disaster recovery solution
reducing failover time from 2 hours to 7 minutes.