Twenty plus years running enterprise IT infrastructure and operations across construction and mining, clinical research, pharma, manufacturing, and education. Most recently a 450+ site environment of 8,000+ users and 3,000+ servers.
Any team can stand up new platforms. The work that matters happens when thousands of users, an ERP, and a compliance calendar are all live at once, and the environment still has to move forward. That is the job: mature service management from reactive to proactive, harden disaster recovery, and cut cost, all while the business never feels the seams.
A full migration off a legacy Oracle Supercluster into two Uptime Institute Tier IV data centers, run without losing the business a day of operations.
For 20+ years, my work has sat where enterprise infrastructure meets operations: environments where thousands of users need reliable systems, compliance is not optional, and downtime is measured in dollars per minute. That work has run across construction and mining, clinical research, pharma, manufacturing, and education.
Most recently at Martin Marietta, running a 450+ site environment of 8,000+ users and 3,000+ servers across the US, Canada, and the Bahamas, my team migrated 3,000 systems off a legacy Oracle Supercluster into two Tier IV data centers, cutting annual run-rate from $7.1M to $6M while it stayed in production. Disaster recovery went from a 48 hour recovery time objective to 29, and a 4 hour recovery point objective to 15 minutes.
Beyond the migration, the environment matured through ITIL service management, Ansible and AIOps automation, and Zero Trust cloud landing zones designed with the CISO. It cleared annual SOX IT general control audits, aligned to ISO 27001, and carried a $6M budget that finished about $425K under plan each year.
Now providing fractional CIO services through Tristero Technologies while exploring Director, Senior Director, and VP roles in IT Infrastructure and Operations at enterprise scale. MBA in Information Systems, UNC Wilmington. AWS, Azure, and CSM certified.
Support Engineer, Microsoft (contract via Volt Systems), 2004 to 2005: Small Business Server support across Exchange, Active Directory, ISA, SQL, and IIS. Network Administrator, Capital One, 2003: enabled migration off Novell and IBM to Active Directory and Exchange supporting 20,000+ users.
Open to Director, Senior Director, and VP roles in IT Infrastructure and Operations at enterprise scale. On-site, hybrid, or remote. Based in Apex, NC, and open to relocation across the Southeast.