
Accomplished IT Disaster Recovery & Infrastructure Leader with over 25 years of experience architecting, testing, and maintaining high-availability, mission-critical systems and network resilient frameworks. Former Senior Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies with deep expertise in enterprise data protection, business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Combines hands-on carrier networking experience with real-world municipal infrastructure management. Adept at conducting Business Impact Analyses (BIA), executing tabletop DR exercises, ensuring strict regulatory compliance, and aligning technology recovery with operational reliability requirements.
Oversee core network transport, routing, and firewall resilience for a regional Wireless & Fiber Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Architect redundant routing paths (BGP/OSPF), automated failover links, and multi-site transport topologies to maintain 99.9%+ network availability.
Participate in incident response, outage mitigation, and post-event root cause analysis to continuously enhance infrastructure resilience.
Direct business continuity and disaster recovery strategies for municipal government clients and critical public sector infrastructure.
Conduct comprehensive Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) to define critical systems, establish RTO/RPO targets, and map interdependencies across essential services.
Design, document, and test incident response plans, data backup verification systems, and failover workflows to ensure operational continuity during disruptions.
Facilitate discussions on disaster scenarios and application of recovery runbooks.
Served as enterprise technical authority for high-availability infrastructure architectures, data protection strategies, and continuous availability deployments.
Partnered with enterprise clients to design multi-site storage replication, disaster recovery failover architectures, and business continuity frameworks.
Developed comprehensive DR runbooks, recovery testing protocols, and procedural documentation for mission-critical enterprise environments.
Led post-incident reviews and root cause analysis (RCA) following major system events, implementing corrective action plans to prevent repeat failures.
Mentored cross-functional teams on resilience engineering, disaster recovery standards, and operational risk mitigation.
Expert in enterprise business continuity strategy and tactics
Operating system management, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows, Linux and all major Unix variants
High availability architectures including replication, storage arrays and virtualization platforms
Infrastructure and network routing, switching, firewalling and segmentation