Randy Gadell

Attending Networking Events Researching Industry Leaders Tracking Industry Trends Participating in Industry Discussions

Managing a portfolio of projects to develop IT Platform as a Service for Washington University's 3500+ researchers. High-Performance Compute (HPC), High-Performance Data Storage Services, Research Software-as-a-Service, Research Data Compliance and Security NIST 800-171 and CMMC. Managing the introduction training programs for Researchers in Compute, Data Management, Storage, and Security.

Program Manager for the multi-year IT Research Infrastructure Services Program Providing a competitive IT advantage to the Washington University Researcher through specialized support, storage, compute, IT engineering, high-speed networks, cloud and IT Infrastructure-as- a-Service.

Office of the CIO, Capitol Projects Senior Project Manager, Senior Program Manager for their IT Research Infrastructure Services Program Developing baseline budgets for Shared IT Services and Shared Infrastructure across the all schools and major departments at the Washington University and Medical institutions. Managing the High Availability upgrade of the Student Information Systems SQL Database upgrade. Managing upgrades to process and procedures to the International Travel Registry. Managing storage and infrastructure expansion projects to create an IT Research Infrastructure-as-a-Service organization.

Senior Project Manager communications, network infrastructure, wireless infrastructure, P-25 radio communications and telecom infrastructure. Managed $35 million upgrade of statewide network infrastructure, came in under budget and ahead of schedule, $4 million savings. Managed $25 million upgrade of statewide radio communication systems, ahead of schedule and $2 million under budget. Managed multi-state communications tower electrical interference protection project, statewide fiber SONET Ring upgrade project, multi-state wireless device upgrade project, MS Internet Explorer 11 upgrade project. Managed to scope, budget, schedule and quality, matrixed teams, contractors and vendors.

Managing Global Infrastructure related projects. DB, Server and Storage projects. Management of 3rd party assessments of enterprise wide infrastructure, HA High-availability of systems, support and processes, application testing and readiness. IT proof-of-concept planning and testing. Hadoop upgrades. Research and systems monitoring upgrades. Cloud Foundry and Pivotal POC.

I am managing the Oracle ASM Automatic Storage Management project. The purpose is to simplify storage management and reclaim many terabytes of underutilized storage throughout the enterprise, This covers testing and implementation of a storage volume manager. I am managing the on-shore and off-shore teams in testing ASM on the major storage systems and server types used by over 100 instances of Oracle at Emerson. This includes functional and performance testing on multiple Solaris OS versions, EMC VMAX and IBM XIV storage platforms.

Management of a customer facing, revenue producing, security product development project. This project reaches across multiple departments and the business to monetize a security service for the cloud and hosted platform business.

IT infrastructure project management for Centric and affiliated companies. LAN, WAN, Call Center, Workforce Management, Warehouse moves, IVR, PCI security, ERP wireless WMS, POS

Project management, Cisco VoIP implementation, call center, fiber infrastructure projects.

Manage program and project teams. Consultant for planning and implementation of world wide IT security initiatives for the corporation. 60,000 users and 4000+ servers in 800 sites worldwide.

Senior Project Manager for IT Infrastructure for the EPIC electronic health records EHR HRS and Hyland OnBase electronic imaging system planing and implementation. Network, Servers and Storage for two data centers.