Brian Doskocil

• Actively leading the CyberArk PAM (privileged access management) global roll-out, a network hardware refresh across all 45 distribution centers, and Zoom room roll-outs at over 40 distribution centers.

• Researched and recommended methods to prevent green gentrification displacement (GGD) to support Ann Arbor’s A2Zero carbon neutrality program
• Authored in-depth GGD research paper, which will be incorporated into community outreach education material and A2Zero new-hire orientation required reading
• Presented GGD prevention recommendations to the Sustainability and Innovations Director.

• Full-time Master of Public Affairs (MPA) student at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R
• Ford School of Public Policy
• Coursework included rigorous quantitative policy analysis and developing high-level public and nonprofit management, leadership, and communication skills, focusing on complex domestic and international policy issues.

• Managed large and highly complex data center networking projects for the Americas
• Projects included data center builds, expansions, acquisitions, and decommissions
• Utilized an international team of engineers across North America and LATAM.

• Led data center consolidation program consolidating the North American footprint from five to two data centers
• The mission-critical program consisting of new data center build and migrating over 4,000 CIs including VMs, physical servers, storage arrays, and network infrastructure
• The program included migrating the production environment, including revenue-generating customer-facing applications
• Led a team of over 20 engineers to plan, design, and implement data center build, migrations, and closures
• Worked closely with product and application teams for planning and coordination of migrations and customer communications
• Regularly presented program status to C-suite.

• Led end-to-end data center migration project from on-prem to AWS and VMC
• Highly visible project including an AWS buildout, VCP buildout, physical data center buildout, migrating over 1400 servers, 400 databases, and impacting over 180 apps in dev and prod environments over ten months
• Successfully led a team of 15 engineers to plan, design, and implement data center migration
• Worked closely with executive leadership, application teams, and the business for planning and migration timelines
• Ran project as Scrum Master within JIRA utilizing Agile methodologies, i.e., epics, stories, sprints, etc.

• Technical Project Manager leading numerous highly visible and global Infrastructure and Security projects across the organization
• Managed 10+ diverse infrastructure projects concurrently
• Led highly visible infrastructure projects from end-to-end requiring cross-functional and global planning and support (i.e., Global NAC, Network switch upgrade, Server and Application Migration to AWS, Application migrations, UAG to APM migration)
• Worked directly with InfoSec leadership for planning, product selections, decisions, and implementation of crucial InfoSec deliverables (i.e., DLP implementation, eDiscovery, SIEM/SecOps buildout within ServiceNow, etc.)
• Led numerous global projects working with stakeholders and resources globally (i.e., LATAM, EMEA, APAC, etc.)
• Reported status weekly to critical stakeholders, including C-level Executives
• Managed financial forecasting and budgeting for projects
• Reviewed SOWs, assisted in product selection and scorecard creations
• Used Agile methodology for project management.

• Led $10MM end-to-end data center migration program encompassing applications, infrastructure (network, storage security, physical, virtual, cloud (AWS) servers,) and databases for Citi’s Real Estate Lending business
• Worked directly with Citi Real Estate Lending business for timing and priority of application migrations
• Worked closely with architects for the detailed design of infrastructure and hosts sizing to create cost savings and reduction in server footprint for specified applications
• Mission-critical initiative for Citi, highly visible, weekly updates with executives
• Managed three project managers within the program
• Used Agile and Waterfall methodologies for project management
• Managed project budget.

• Led the Disaster Recovery Program for Oncor’s AMS (Advanced Metering System) suite of applications utilizing Veritas, Oracle, VMware, and UNIX technologies to provide fully redundant local and global failover mission-critical applications to meet mandated state requirements
• Managed end-to-end project deliverables, including requirements definition, design, testing, documentation, training, and handover to operations
• Managed 30+ resources, vendors, and consultants
• Managed $10MM+ project budget
• Conducted interviews, built team, hired and released resources
• Highly regulated environment–ensured the project met State of Texas regulations and requirements
• Fast-paced and high-stress environment
• Project timelines required 60+ hour work weeks.

• Managed software development projects for AIG’s highly customized IT service management platform, ServiceNow
• Worked closely with various IT service groups, gathering and validating software requirements and ensuring they met AIG corporate standards
• Managed software developers and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget, and met agreed to requirements
• Drove the high-quality completion of ServiceNow, essential ITSM, CA toolset development, and other software development programs & projects
• Led teams across broad technical, financial, and business disciplines
• Managed budgets of up to $3MM
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data
• Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project, moved between PMI and agile methodologies depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures (WBS).

• Full life-cycle management of VMWare projects, data center migrations, network buildouts, and implementation and upgrade programs & projects
• Tracked project progress to ensure milestones were completed on time, on budget, and with the desired results
• Created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures
• Mitigated project risks through careful analysis of financial and statistical data.

• Managed day-to-day operations of IT department, staff, and budget; regularly worked with executive management for budget forecasting and strategic planning; developed business case justifications and cost/benefit analysis for IT spending and initiatives
• Implemented VMware virtualizing over 90% of our environment, saving the company over 200k dollars vs
• Physical upgrades
• Set vision direction of IT for the organization based on the needs of the business
• Implemented a new VoIP system replacing the PBX system saving the company over 100k dollars over five years.

• Supported desktop systems such as Lotus Notes, OSX, and VMware
• Supported server systems such as Lotus Notes, Active Directory, VPN, and user accounts
• Implemented a new desktop support procedure to save time responding to customer issues
• Assisted with planning and implementing a large data center migration
• Played a crucial logistics role in documenting laptop and server migrations to a new data center
• Received numerous “Spotlight” awards for going above and beyond what was required.

• Improved end-user satisfaction by providing efficient desktop support and resolving technical issues

• Collaborated with IT management to develop and execute an efficient desktop support strategy, ensuring consistent service levels across the organization