Jason Woolsey

About Jason Woolsey

A leader who understands technology and thrives on building collaborative teams that enjoy and excel at creating solutions to difficult business problems. I’ve held a variety of leadership positions across my career, and have many years of experience running high-performing teams in both customer-facing and internal operational support roles. I’m always happy to meet new people, so please feel free to drop me a note to connect!20 years of progressive experience managing, and supervising support for all facets of IT technologies, including superior leadership skills, practiced in directing cross-functional project management teams to design and deploy IT infrastructure best practices. Proven areas of expertise include: New Product Introductions, Phase Review Process, Product Launch, Process Development/Improvements, Supplier Qualification, Product Reviews, Multi-Site Project Management, Network Operations, Application Operations, and design for Implementation, Process Budgetary planning, Helpdesk Operations, Process Development & Integration, Performance Metrics, Performance Objectives, employee development and coaching. Budget saving utilizing new technology and virtualization/consolidations. Duties include purchasing and submitting RFP’s for vendor contributions to maintenance contracts and services such as licensing. review requisitions and RFP outputs. Maintains procurement records including items or services purchased, costs, delivery and inventories. Manages vendor supplier and negotiate price, delivery and quality expectations and escalates when appropriate. Approves invoices for payment. Expedites delivery of goods to users.Builds relationships with IT and business teams/leaders to ensure a high level of support and cooperation across all of IT.Draws conclusions and makes recommendations.Oversees the management of communications and event notification methods and recipients. Currently managing at team of 40 technical engineers in AWS Cloud Services Support. Supporting (VPN, Client VPN, Transit Gateway VPC, Direct Connect and Virtual Private Cloud Services) Security(IAM, Security Hub, Shield, DDoS, SSO, Guard Duty, Cloud Trail, Control Tower).

Experience

1. Sr Technical Program Manager

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Apr 2017 — Present · US

Education

• University of Dallas

  MBA, Business Administration in the IT industry

  2004 — 2006

• DeVry University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

  1999 — 2001

• ITT Technical Institute-Arlington

  Engineer's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Switches
• Computer Security
• Network Architecture
• Ip
• Network Engineering
• Operating Systems
• Software Installation
• Wireless
• Computer Network Operations
• Checkpoint
• Telephony
• System Administration
• Network Administration
• Sql
• Network Security
• Technical Support
• Wan
• Group Policy
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Firewalls
• Solaris
• Routing
• Dhcp
• Networking
• Mpls
• Disaster Recovery
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Process Improvement
• Telecommunications
• Troubleshooting
• Lan-Wan
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Infrastructure
• Software Documentation
• Voip
• Data Center
• Managed Services