Western Governors University

Innovation Champion  -  Value Creator

Cumming, Georgia, United States

TransUnion

Information Security Advisor, DevSecOps

YouExec

Brand Ambassador

ADAPT Transformation

Founding Board Member

Developing Atlanta into the central international technology hub and talent pool.

Technology Association of Georgia

Chair

Focused on spreading the good word about how Equifax is transforming our people, our business, and our customers to help people live thier financial best.

Equifax

Chief Transformation Evangelist

AgileThought

Business Transformation Consultant

- Provide strategic direction & design review to all levels from developers to senior management.* Research and evaluate new technologies coming to market and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.* Provide strategic guidance and tactical solutions for multiple public, private, and hybrid global cloud environments spanning 6 datacenters and 5 major cloud providers.* Perform ongoing evaluations for Global Technology to identify cross platform integration and automation opportunities and identify next generation platform solutions and strategic roadmaps.

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®)

Technical Advisor

- Design and develop software defined data center automation, governance, and management using Cisco UCS Stack (UCSD, PSC, etc.) and Cloudforms.* Manage An Environment of Over 4,000 VM's Across Multiple Datacenters And Cloud Providers.* Manage workload orchestration, virtualization automation, and continuous deployment \ integration.* Gathered requirements, evangelized a new product, and garnered a $25K budget to track critical business intelligence data that would allow executives more in-depth visibility to the newly formed Platform services group and provide KPI’s to track growth and customer demand for resources.

Cox Automotive Inc.

Platform Services - Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

- SMB Private Healthcare Managed Service Provider* Provide HIPPAA / HITECH Evaluations* Provide Managed Services Through **HIPPA COMPLIANT** Vendors* Provide Quarterly / Yearly Remediation and Certification of Compliance of HIPPA Policies

Quintessential Networks

Owner

- Assisted in the architectural design and build out of a new Datacenter.* Managed and contributed in the architectural design of a new data center and was appointed Principal Engineer for the migration and virtualizing of over 2,000 business critical servers into a new company owned and operated Datacenter, saving them $75,000 / month in leased space rent.* Recovered the company from a staff failure causing a loss of critical HR / financial data of an unmeasurable amount into a new highly available infrastructure with a redesigned backup solution.* Spearheaded and exceeded expectations for a project to redesign all Active Directory environments worldwide to allow for higher availability and fault tolerance between datacenters.* Developed an automated system for the provisioning of mailboxes between on premise and cloud solutions based on several criteria.* Assisted In The Migration And Licensing Orchestration of over 21K users to Office 365. * Created an automated, multipurpose framework that acts as a combination tool providing information and inventory services to everyone from Project Managers to Engineers to Application Owners as well as compliance reporting and service deployment automation.• Provided change management, design, and configuration documentation for architectural solutions.

Manheim

Sr. Windows Consultant (Consultant)

- Managed all company projects from customer onboarding to service delivery, providing not only project based direction but technical leadership.* Principal engineer for largest clients.* Developed new security standards and protocols for all remote and datacenter access.* Built a library of over 300 technical documents ranging from project templates to branded marketing and onboarding materials to technician build guides.* Developed scalable boxed solutions to meet various sized MSP customers needs.* Managed an average workload of 36 concurrent projects at any time.

Altuscio Networks

Director of Project Management

- Lead engineer for the Microsoft Great Plains migration project for Cox Media Group.* Senior engineer on Windows Core Services Team for Cox Enterprises specializing in VMware, security, storage, and scripting providing tier 3 Windows server support.

Cox Enterprises

- Integral role as projects team Sr. Architect providing a portfolio of managed services including private cloud, hosted, and on premise solutions for businesses varying from SMB’s to multisite enterprise environments using VMware virtualization, scalable SAN storage arrays and VPN’s.* Resident expert and architect for Active Directory migrations, Exchange migrations, scripting automation, security auditing and systems hardening, and disaster recovery design.* Created and managed project plans, documentation and resource planning requiring pinpoint execution from initial design to completion averaging an 8-10 project workload for enterprise clients.

Leapfrog Services

Solutions Architect (Consultant)

- Senior technical lead on all projects for the company’s top clients specializing in firewall, SAN, virtualization and multisite VPN solutions.* Established vital operating procedures, build documentation, and corporate infrastructure redesign and implementation to transition company into a fully managed service provider.* Provided security auditing and systems hardening for higher profile non-profit clients with specialized VPN solutions and ASA firewalls.

TechBridge, Inc

Senior Consultant (Consultant)

- Designer and Sole Engineer of the Windows Shared Hosting project from inception to production.* Company First – Windows Level 2 Admin / Windows Level 3 Admin and IT Director.* Appointed IT Director after a security breach and completed a full restructure of the entire internal network, performed an overhaul of security, hardware and processes, implemented new DR policies, a new $100K+ network cabling and restructuring project, new desktop rollout, new multi-site switching network, and the establishment, staffing, and training of IT departments in Houston and Austin. * Built and lead a development team of PHP and C# programmers for internal product development.* Wrote C# management tools for automation and administration of over 2,000 servers.* Spearheaded growth of the Windows department as technical lead for over 20 administrators.

Hostgator, LLC

Windows Level 3 Admin / IT Director

Built from the ground up a hosting and cloud computing company.* Provide Control Panel / Billing Hosting for Partners / Resellers* Provide Website \ Email \ FTP Hosting* Provide Hosted Exchange, Sharepoint, and CRM Solutions* Provide Website Design & Logo Design Services* Provide Hosted VPS, Dedicated Server and Co-location Services* Provide Wireless Internet To Businesses In Select Areas* Provide Remote Backup and Replication Services* Provide Business Consulting Services in the Hosting Arena* Soon to Provide Public and Private Cloud Services

Quintessential Networks, LLC

- Designed and implemented solutions for clients based on feedback and environment evaluations.* Provided security consulting and penetration testing for enterprise and government organizations.* Performed security evaluations and overall systems auditing, remediation, and compliance testing.* Specialized in virtualization, storage networks, and systems security as a subject matter expert.

Network Intelligence

Senior Consultant / Application Delivery Specialist (Consultant)

- Administered over 2 Petabyte of RAID storage infrastructures worldwide.* Optimized and managed storage OLAs and SLAs using ITIL methodologies.* Key player in the design and addition of storage services of all NetApp equipment in China.* Technical Lead in global storage network administration of over 100 NetApp storage devices.* Upgraded the Datacenter backbone by installing 4 new 48K Brocade fiber channel directors.

Anheuser-Busch

Storage Consultant (Consultant)

- Flawlessly managed a worldwide Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 migration of 36K+ users at 30+ international locations using the organization’s first NetApp SAN infrastructure.* Engineered a backup and disaster recovery solution and yearly certification program.* Integrated and managed all Windows servers; implemented and deployed a Regional Data Center restructuring to comply with all cabling, redundancy and ISO standards.* Increased Exchange server systems efficiency by over 600% post platform migration.* Spearheaded the initiative of VMware virtualization to consolidate Regional Data Centers.

Senior Exchange Admininistrator / Senior RDC Systems Admin

- Provided enterprise interoperability with both unsecured and secured communication. * Sole security engineer for classified and unclassified networks handling communications for several DoD projects including the Tomahawk Missile and Presidential Helicopter projects.* Implemented PKI compliance standards and successfully passed the first-ever PKI audit held by the Department of Defense (DoD) for DoD contractors.

Titan L-3 Communications

Infrastructure Engineer (Consultant)

- Managed server assets on a team-based project for General Electric Company of Libya (GECOL).* Lead architect for all GECOL data centers design including rack designs, servers, routers, switches, fiber optic systems, DSLAM, storage networks and blade server solutions.* Managed all server software and hardware acquisitions and purchases. * Key player in the design, budgeting, implementation and management of the entire enterprise network in hardware and software server assets.

ATI WAVE

Senior Systems Engineer (Consultant)

- Provided security consultations for clients of home, office, and business networks.* Conducted site surveys, security audits, network installs, and software/hardware upgrades.* Served as a subject matter expert for all Microsoft products and Windows security.

Cypress Solutions, LLC

- Managed highly classified cryptographic equipment and re-keying.* Provided secure wartime networks with encrypted shell sessions over frequency-hopping radio bands.* Installed, secured and monitored DoD classified and unclassified data networks and servers* Installed, configured and implemented the Defense Messaging System and implemented the PKI solution for secure email, single-user logon, and web authentication for Camp Lejeune.* Led a team of 20 Marine IT technicians in all aspects of data communications support for Special Operations Capability Exercises for Marine Expeditionary Forces.* Supervised and trained 15 Marines; cut training time by 50% and increased efficiency by 150%+.* Managed $2M+ of government assets with 100% accountability.* Created a research and development lab for the 8th Communications Battalion.* Supervised and managed 35K+ end users with $20M+ in computer assets for Camp Lejeune and over 3K+ end users with $5M+ in computer assets as a InfoSec Officer for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sean Davis

Sean Davis