Mattel Inc.Global IT Infrastructure Architecture Manager
Jan. 2012 - Jan. 2013• Hired to help setup the companies two major data centers in Phoenix and Norcross.
• Supervise and direct the vendor’s team (Cisco) • Create Security and Infrastructure standards for the enterprise and assist in the deployment.
• Assist various project teams in migrating various applications from existing legacy data centers to the new data centers. (Technologies include Cisco Nexus , VMware, Nexus 1K, Netscalar, HP Bladeservers )
• Assist in troubleshooting various legacy equipment and help ensure that they are able to be migrated to the new standards.
• Work with infrastructure team to replace legacy mechanisms that could not be migrated with newest equipment decided as per applied standards.
• Assist the Quality Management team with determining the metrics and for tracking them.
• Worked with deploying various tools such as Orion / IPAM, DCNM, Cisco WCS and Cisco Security Manager.