Capability Portfolio

I help organizations improve security, resilience, and infrastructure strategy through practical, operations-aware leadership. My background spans infrastructure architecture, identity and access, messaging, disaster recovery, virtualization, and modernization planning — including VMware-to-Proxmox evaluation and migration readiness.

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Executive Profile

I am a technology leader, infrastructure architect, and senior systems engineer with more than 20 years in IT operations, including more than 16 years leading on-prem infrastructure strategy and execution in mid-sized environments.

My work centers on translating operational risk, technical debt, lifecycle pressure, and resilience concerns into prioritized roadmaps, staged cutovers, and practical improvement plans.

I focus not only on designing the right answer, but on helping organizations implement change in a way that is defensible, recoverable, and realistic in day-to-day operations.

Credentials, Education & Training

CISSP

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Issuer: (ISC)²
Broad, senior-level security credential covering security governance, risk, architecture, operations, and control design. Supports my ability to translate security concerns into practical technical and organizational priorities.

Certified vCISO – Level 2

Certified Virtual Chief Information Security Officer

Issuer: SecurityStudio
Focused on virtual CISO advisory work, including security leadership, prioritization, client guidance, and aligning security programs with business needs in organizations that may not require a full-time security executive.

CITM

Certified Information Technology Manager

Issuer: EXIN EPI
Management-oriented credential emphasizing structured IT leadership, governance, service alignment, and operational accountability. Reinforces my consulting focus on clear priorities, practical direction, and sustainable execution.

Executive Leadership Program

Issuer: Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity
Leadership development program that complements my technical background with a stronger framework for accountability, direction-setting, and developing others through delegated responsibility rather than task-only management.

Proxmox VE Administration

Issuer: Weehooey Inc.
Hands-on Proxmox VE training covering clustering, Ceph, SDN/EVPN, HA/DR, Proxmox Backup Server, ESXi import, CLI workflows, and REST API usage. This training supports my VMware-to-Proxmox advisory positioning with current platform-specific knowledge.

B.S., Applied Networking and Systems Administration

Issuer: Rochester Institute of Technology
Formal foundation in systems administration, networking, and infrastructure engineering that underpins my work across identity, messaging, virtualization, networking, and recoverability.

Selected Experience

Infrastructure Design Authority

Served as infrastructure design authority for core platforms including compute, storage, identity, messaging, and networking; set standards and approved patterns affecting availability, security, and recoverability.

Disaster Recovery & Resilience

Led disaster recovery architecture and procedure updates, including scalable storage design, replication reliability improvements, and recovery-focused infrastructure decisions aimed at improving resilience while controlling cost.

Identity, Access & Email Trust

Drove MFA strategy for remote access and internet-facing services, and improved email trust and deliverability through SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, S/MIME, and related integrity controls.

Platform Modernization

Led capacity and lifecycle modernization efforts including server refreshes, VMware/vSAN expansions, bandwidth upgrades, storage migrations, and core network improvement work to reduce lifecycle risk and maintain performance headroom.

VMware to Proxmox Practical Experience

Led a VMware vCenter/ESXi to Proxmox VE migration in a personal lab, validating VM import and conversion, storage design using ZFS and LVM, network segmentation with bridges and VLANs, and tested backup and restore workflows using Proxmox Backup Server.

HA, Recovery & Cutover Discipline

Designed and maintained high-availability patterns including VMware/vSAN clustering, SQL failover clustering, and redundant core networking, while mentoring operations staff and coordinating staged cutovers and rollback plans with minimal downtime.

Capability Domains

Security Leadership & Risk Translation

Turning operational and technical risk into clear priorities, roadmaps, and actionable decisions.

Infrastructure Architecture & Modernization

Compute, storage, lifecycle planning, platform transitions, and environment hardening.

Resilience, DR & Recoverability

Backup strategy, restore testing, continuity planning, and recovery-aware design.

Identity, Access & Administrative Control

Authentication, privilege boundaries, access patterns, and practical control improvement.

Messaging & Collaboration Systems

Exchange, email trust, deliverability, authentication, and communication platform risk reduction.

Virtualization, Storage & Networking

VMware, Proxmox, clustering, storage platforms, VLANs, routing, firewalls, and operational design.

How I Work

My approach is practical, technical, and operations-aware. I focus on recommendations that can be understood, defended, and implemented in the real world — not just impressive diagrams or generic best-practice lists. I aim to improve resilience and security while respecting the realities of the environment, the business, and the people responsible for running it. My leadership style is grounded in accountability, clear direction, and developing others so teams can operate with less dependency on any single individual.

Translate technical risk into business-relevant decisions
Prioritize what matters most instead of boiling the ocean
Plan changes with staged cutovers and rollback discipline
Design for recoverability, not just feature completeness
Develop teams by delegating responsibility, not just tasks

Need a pragmatic advisor?

Whether you need help with security direction, infrastructure modernization, resilience planning, identity hardening, messaging trust, or VMware-to-Proxmox evaluation, I’d be glad to discuss your goals and help you identify a sensible next step.

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