Background

I have over 29 years of experience in Information Technology. After completing 8 years in the US Air Force as a Civil Engineer, I pursued my career in Electronics and Computer Technology. I spent 2 years as a field engineer for Ralphs and Food for Less supermarket chain in southern California as a field service technician for all point-of-sale systems. After that , I spent a couple of years as a junior engineer and help-desk for a law firm in Santa Monica California. In 1995, he became the Network Administrator at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold’s (www.sdma.com) Los Angeles Office. SDMA was one of the top 100 law firms in California at the time. When he arrived in Sedgwick, the firm was in dire need of systems interoperability and upgrade. The 7 offices across the United States consisted of over 100 attorneys and over 400 support staff. In 2005 I became the Director of IT for Alliant Asset Management in Woodland Hills in California. Since joining Alliant, I have elevated the infrastructure to include the latest SAN, HP Blade servers, Fiber-Channel switching and Autonomy’s iManage document management system. I designed, planned and implemented a robust disaster recovery system by distributing redundant copies of all Alliant’s data across 3 datacenters. Alliant’s IT department grew in 2020 in response to the pandemic. Foreseeing the shift in work culture, I was able to ramp up the remote access VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) to accommodate the entire company’s shift to a remote workforce. Me and my team tirelessly ensure full availability of the system. I truly enjoyed working in conjunction with the company’s renewed direction and partnerships.. I left Alliant in 2021 and I am currently doing IT consulting for Troy Acoustics based in Georgia. I am helping them grow in to the 21st century in both IT and operations.