Norval Oswald 201 connections

Experienced Senior Manager with a unique 25 year background combining expertise in: project management; service management; business continuity management; technical, application and solution architecture, infrastructure engineering; application integration, IT transformation and large-scale software development. Skilled in motivating and managing technical and non-technical teams to achieve the desired results. Adept at taking projects from their conceptual origin through to physical implementation and successful delivery. Involvement with many major projects has contributed to a strong repertoire of skills in such areas as:

· Program and Project Management (PMP),
· Technical infrastructure management and deployment,
· Technical Architecture,
. IT governance and effectiveness,
· IT Integration and transformation,
· IT Process and procedure development,
· Service oriented architecture (SOA),
· System and storage architecture,
· Disaster recovery and business continuity planning,
· Service Support and Delivery (ITIL)
· Application and Solution Architecture
· Data centre strategy and migration,
· Server/storage virtualization and consolidation
· Operation and Data Centre management,
· Security, risk and threat mitigation.

Optimistic, responsive, independent, flexible and enthusiastic. Focuses on practical matters, applies sound business strategies and tactics to set and achieve targeted goals, making things work and getting things done.

Specialties:
Enterprise/Technical Architecture, Project Management, ITIL and Service Oriented Architecture, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Threat and Risk Assessments, Infrastructure Readiness Assessments, DataCenter Consolidation, etc.