1. Timothy D. White
922 Huntington Drive 972.709.3977 or 469.446.6975
Duncanville, TX • 75137 twhiteldr1@yahoo.com
SENIOR IT LEADERSHIP PROFILE
Accomplished Senior Leader with a results charged career in the Information Technology
Leadership of several dynamic organizations. Accustomed to and effective in project
management of complex infrastructure, System architecture, Microsoft server and systems.
Offers high caliber qualifications, acute systems instincts, and experience backed judgment in
leadership roles, making high stakes decisions and overcoming complex business challenges
to achieve the IT requirements needed by the organizations. A true consensus-builder who
gets things done!
Core Competencies:
Leadership / IT Critical System Management
Management
Relationship Management Project Management
MS Server / Architecture Change Management
Six Sigma Training Local and Platform System Design
Strategic Planning National Systems infrastructure
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
• Managed team in Data Center (city to city) migration with processes and enhancements to
include: 1) the development, implementation, and execution of the project scope and plan
($1.7 M) 2) asset availability, selection and procurement, 3) budget and schedule
management 4) the use of PMBOK Methodology and retention of all old information.
Architected the consolidation and implementation of VMWare and SAN systems to reduce
footprint of MS Windows Server systems. Made use of Converter by VMWare to deliver
physical to virtual (P2V) consolidations. Reduced power and cooling requirements and
increased availability of overall service delivery.
Implementation of full service application development infrastructure environments.
Database systems, VMWare/Server systems and other UNIX and SAN supporting systems.
(i.e.: Test, Dev., Pre-Production and Production)
Established partnerships that yielded technology solutions for the business and remote user
communities. Examples: MS Windows server 20xx(00,03,08), VMWare ESX, SAN Storage,
VDI(virtual desktop), In sourcing of IT support, data center move and change of outsourced
vendor, build-out of new DC and office location. (Cost avoidance of 250
Laptops/workstations $0.5M)
Managed vendor relationships in the procurement and support for production hosted data
center environments with focus on resilience and high availability systems.
2. Institute best practices from the ITIL Methodology, Foundation training for staff,
transformation of support; improved change management, asset management, service desk,
SLA’s, and other services.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Carlisle and Gallagher Consulting Group – Executive Customer Representative
Jun 2010 - Current
• Project Assignment – Secret project for a prominent national organization in the Dallas –
Fort Worth area servicing the United States.
• Manage customer support and problem resolution in the executive offices.
• Trained and led various team members in the project to add skilled support into the project.
Making use of Citrix remote connectivity via secure Cisco VPN. (200 active member team)
• Recommended solutions and change management techniques to add quality to the
solutions provided by the project teams.
Broadlane. Inc. – Sr. Manager IT Operations Aug 2006 – Dec 2009
Managed teams to deliver coverage of production support, service desk, end user computing,
Server, storage and network.
• Data center management, Microsoft Server consolidation of 75% of hardware. (110 system
reduced to 28 systems), Communication solution (MS - OCS) and others resulted in
company savings and a lower cost support model.
• Piloted migration of 40 servers from MS server 2003 to MS server 2008. These systems
were used for SQL, application and MS exchange. Also worked on MS Office
communicator proof of concept as possible replacement solution for the site.
• Architected the consolidation and implementation of VMWare and SAN systems to reduce
footprint of Microsoft Server environments and systems. Maintained a 20:1 ratio on average
consolidations. Reduced power and cooling requirements and increased availability of
overall service delivery.
• Managed vendor relationships for production hosted data center environments. Key
deliverables around resilience and high availability systems. Implementation of VMWare
ESX and VC with HA and DRS active for resilience. Also working on DR and business
continuity.
• Established partnerships that yielded technology solutions for the business and remote
user communities. Examples: MS Server upgrades (2000, 2003 up to 2003 and 2008) ,
VMWare ESX (VC and VSphere), SAN Storage (EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp), VDI (virtual
desktop), in sourcing of IT support, data center move and change of outsourced vendor.
• Institute best practices from the ITIL Methodology, Foundation training for staff,
transformation of support; improved change management, asset management, service
desk, SLA’s, and other services.
EDS – PMD/ Project Management Delivery (Mar–Aug) 2006
Managed teams in Data Center (city to city) see major achievements
• Moved complete per plan with upgrades within budget ($1.7M) /deadline. Saved the
organization $0.8 M.
• Data Center equipment consisted of MS server (2000 and 2003) and VMWare servers,
SAN and enterprise systems. SUN, IBM, HP/Compaq and Dell systems took up 1.5 full AC
regulated 18 wheel trucks to move.
3. TXU-Business Services / CapGemini Energy, Dallas, TX Jun 1987 – Mar 2006
Manager: Security, Disaster Recovery, Data Center, & Serve Consolidation 2003 – 2006
• Managed ITIL Plans for Server department and processes to improve secondary site
operations. Directed and coordinated a managed Disaster Recovery Operation/Data Center
with enhancements, to include complex server consolidation of Wintel and UNIX including
IBM and SUN systems and security management. First year roll out of VMWare yielded
savings over $5M.
• Implemented VMWare systems that used MS SQL databases with SAN connected systems
for test and development teams. Applications installed in various phases of code life cycle.
• Managed roll out of company outsourced hosting for both Capgemini and its contracts for
new clients. Security isolation of physical network to VPN and how the maintenance and
monitoring for production would be achieved. Resulted in reduced FTE counts for support.
• Selected for special project to layout and construct a secondary backup data center for
primary and backup recovery support and operations. Site hosting a full service data center
populated with staff. Completed under budget and early, received special award.
• Project Team Lead for new storage solution initiative, consists of defining the technology
environment, scope, RFP requirements, proposal evaluation, selection process,
establishing a governance process, due diligence, contract negotiation, transition plan
development, and implementation. Resulted in fast turn around in Storage request being
fulfilled.
Manager: Distributed Platforms Corporate Servers 1998 – 2003
Managed team of 23 people in production server support group for UNIX and WinTtel
platforms. Implementation of IT infrastructure, consolidation of windows servers utilizing
VMWare. Migration of windows servers to VMWare host using P2V (physical to virtual)
toolset. Completed migrations of the development and test systems resulting in a 12 to 1 ratio.
Senior Engineer/Project manager: Power Plant-IT 1987 - 1998
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering; Southern University
CERTIFICATIONS
Six Sigma Yellow Belt ITIL Certified
Registered Microsoft Certified System Engineer Registered Professional Engineer
Platforms / Application Tools
IBM and Compaq UNIX / IBM / SUN MS/Windows Server/Clustering
VMWare / ESX Server MS Active Directory MS Project
MS Office MS OCS MS Exchange / Lotus Suite
VMWare (ESX and Virtual Center) DB2 and SQL MS Office Communication