Granite TelecommunicationsDirector of IT Infrastructure
Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2025Quincy, Massachusetts, United States• Led a multi-year enterprise technology transformation, after initial assessment revealed technical debt, expanded scope beyond infrastructure to include security, data, reporting, networking, architecture, and service operations across a regulated telecom environment.
• Designed and executed migration from on-prem data centers to Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud, delivering a zero-disruption cutover widely praised by executives and partners.
• Partnered with the CFO to define cloud economics, budgets, and 3–5-year technology roadmaps, driving $11M in projected 5-year savings.
• Stabilized customer-facing platforms by replacing reactive operations with proactive, 24/7 monitoring and redundancy, reducing system availability issues.
• Built security organization, embedding zero-trust and DevSecOps principles across infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines; implemented modern SIEM, identity-first access SSO, vulnerability scanning, and established SOC 2 roadmap.
• Revitalized data and reporting function by migrating legacy databases and analytics platforms to cloud-native architectures and modern BI tooling, reducing revenue and operational report runtimes from 24 hours to less than 3 hours.
• Introduced Granite’s AI Center of Excellence and delivered AI-driven automation initiatives, including billing transformation using Google Document AI that improved invoice accuracy, reduced manual processing, and lowered customer billing complaints.
• Modernized end-user computing/collaboration by replacing legacy telephony with MS Teams Phones, deploying 2K+ laptops with Intune and endpoint security, enabling secure, scalable remote work across enterprise.
• Achieved the Julie Epps Service Award and Miami Presidents Club induction.