Experience
Nov 2007 to Mar 2009 Driscoll 's Strawberry Associates Watsonville, CA
Regional Technology Manager
Led support engineers, desktop support technicians, and software engineers in
support of
47 remote sites
Support remote sites with WAN/LAN access (US, Mexico & British Columbia)
Provide executive support and offsite meetings
Provide technical solutions for new sites LAN/WAN
Provide project management and ROI analysis
Implemented asset management
Implemented SharePoint Dashboard
Schedule site seasonal startup/shutdown and preventive maintenance
Provide cell phone/PDA account management for two major vendors
Developed enterprise policy for computer, cell phone PDA use
Evaluated remote management tools for adoption
Perform technology refresh analysis
Prepare/exercise Disaster Recovery Plan
Support 24/7 response
Oct 2007 to Nov 2007 Unemployed
2001 “ 2007 Palo Alto Research Center, Inc (Private) Palo Alto, CA
Director Information Technology, Telecommunications
Led/mentor to 7 support technicians and 6 system engineers
Responsible for $3.8 million budget
Strategic planning for infrastructure, LAN/WAN and telecommunications
Contract negotiations/administration
Project management lead
Maintain audit documents
Redesign client support web page
Develop/exercise Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Plan
Implemented audio and video conferencing solution (International)
Implemented external mobile device support “ Active Sync
1998 - 2000 Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox) Palo Alto, CA
Computing Systems Network Services Operations Manager
Manage 84 projects totaling $11.7 million
Supervise 11 technician/analysts
Responsible for $4.6 million budget
Support 800 PhD researchers
Environment: UNIX-Solaris, LINUX, Windows, MAC OS
1994 - 1998 Air Force Wargaming Institute (CADRE) USAF Montgomery, AL
Systems and Network Ops Manager
Supervised nineteen technicians, 12 software developers
Provided Presidential support
Managed campus infrastructure and staff for 4 major Air Force campuses
Manage $ 1.6 million Local Area Network
Manage $1.2 million maintenance contract
Distance Learning
Crisis Action Planning
Responsible for configuration management and technical support
Provide IT support staff for 180 political scientist and contingency doctrine
planners
Environment: UNIX-Solaris, LINUX, Windows, MAC OS
Held TS/SCI clearance
Environment: UNIX-Solaris, LINUX, Windows, MAC OS
1992 - 1994 US Forces Korea Joint Telecommunications “ J6 USAF Seoul, South
Korea
Systems and Network Ops Manager
Supervised seven technicians, three software engineers
Managed $600k LAN/WAN
Technical Support to Korean peninsula
Developed plans and courses of action
Senior tactical communications requirements manager
Responsible for secure communication for contingency
Air Force liaison officer to US Army and US Navy
Environment: UNIX-Solaris, Windows, MAC OS
Held TS Clearance
Skills
Soft Skills: Customer service oriented, staffing, training (staff and customer),
scheduling system and preventive maintenance, project management, vendor liaison,
project status presentations, MS Office Pro, garnering Sr Staff support, ROI
analysis, contract negotiation/ administration, conflict resolution, project
resourcing, ITIL (Footprints), ERP, OSS, current passport
Hardware: IBM PCs, Cyber mainframes, Cisco Routers, Sun Sparc workstations,
Cisco switches, Xylan switches Hubs, SGI workstations, Cisco wireless AP,
Shoretel VOIP. IBM and Dell Servers (x86), IBM NAS (Fibre), Dell desktops, Lenovo
(IBM) and Dell laptops
Software: Cloud Computing, Microsoft NT,MS Windows Server, Novell, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Banyan Vines, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, PC MS-DOS,
Microsoft Office 2003/2007, WordPerfect, MS Project, Oracle, MS Mail, Beyond
Mail, WordPerfect Mail, MS Access, Outlook, MS Exchange, Visio, Abode Acrobat,
FrontPage, Shoretel Call Manger, Unified Communications,MS Mobile 5/6, OWA “
Active Sync, workstation/server imaging (Ghost)
Diagnostic Tools: MSDN, TechNet, Tech Pro, Search engines, technical blogs,
periodicals and web news subscriptions.
Education Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
Information Technology Leadership
Wayland Baptist University
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Data Processing
Troy State University - Pacific
Masters of Science in Educational Leadership
Organizations
IEEE (Software Engineering Committee)
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