Senior Technology professional with experience managing people and infrastructure projects, and IT service management globally. I am a current PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP). I am passionate about helping organizations execute business strategy with the help of people implementing processes using technologies that adds value for everyone.
Extensive international experience working with vendors and remote company office personnel in locations around the world, such as, England, France, Germany; Italy; South Africa; Dubai; India; Singapore, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, Brazil as well as many U.S. locations. I negotiate annual support agreements, manage the support contractors (short & long-term, purchase equipment in local currencies (servers, switches, laptops, audio visual, user support, etc...), develop budgets for IT support, deploy applications, train end-users, and anything IT related working with them in their time zone. I consider my international and virtual-team experience to be one of my strengths.
Specialties (all on a global / international scale):
People & performance management (strength)
IT Infrastructure operations & engineering
Business process development & management
Strategy
Infrastructure planning
Project planning (infrastructure and cross-functional projects - strength)
Implementation management and coordination (strength)
Vendor management
Purchasing / Contract negotiations / Budget management
Information technology & systems management
Information communications technologies
Enterprise Architecture
Capabilities management