IT Healthcare Executive

- Originally retained as a Project Manager to oversee the complete upgrade of network infrastructure across the enterprise; kept on and promoted to drive the deployment, optimization, and management of infrastructure across 550 nationwide railroad locations and corporate offices. * Held full accountability for architecting and managing multiple Citrix farms to facilitate maximum availability and integrity of over 300 Citrix servers and 200 applications for over 35,000 users.  * Directed a team of five in researching, recommending and facilitating the deployment of new technologies, tools and best practices into the environment to enhance availability and reduce costs. * Oversaw the deployment, monitoring, and supporting of server infrastructure, including security, back-up/recovery and remote access.* Managed risk assessment, issue resolution and change management initiatives. * Directed team of five and administered departmental capital, operation, and expense budgets.Selected Achievements: * Increased overall up-time from 70% to 95% within first year by leading the complete redesign and upgrade of infrastructure.* Facilitated the capture of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance within the first year.* Reduced overall hardware and support costs by overseeing the deployment of VMWare, consolidating more than 900 servers into 200 across two data centers.* Ensured business continuity in case of disasters by re-architecting disaster recovery strategy and facilitating the establishment of a co-location Hot Site.* Reducing server counts by 50% by overseeing Citrix infrastructure upgrade. * Increased back-up/recovery of mission-critical data by spearheading consolidation of 150 file servers.* Delivered cost savings by managing the creation of a 2-node MS SQL cluster to replace eight existing database servers.

Jason Carter