Leon Ziolkowski

About Leon Ziolkowski

I offer an exceptional record of achievement overseeing corporate technology operations, with special expertise in global data management, service delivery, architecture panning, ITIL management, and customer experience functions, and a consistent history of improving efficiency, enabling new capabilities, and facilitating growth, while simultaneously controlling costs and minimizing risk. I excel at building and leading top-performing teams, driving process improvement efforts, and serving as a final escalation point for complex issues. I’m highly experienced at directing consulting and technology evaluation, disaster recovery, and technology deployments and migrations. My strong business background includes business development, proposal preparation, and customer onboarding.“Leon is one of the best leaders we ever had in the organization. Without Leon there wouldn’t be a successful Backup team. He leads by example.” – Juan Carlos Duran, IT Director, Data Protection/Backups, NTT Data ServicesDemonstrated Value:• Successfully managed a critical project to transition one of the nation’s largest hospital organizations to NTT’s data services support. Project included 76 locations and 12 separate backup solutions.• Produced millions of dollars in savings at NTT Data Services by leading the redesign of the Leveraged Backup offering for the Data Protection Operations team. Evaluated backup solutions and selected the new platform.• Established and directed a new Data Protection Engineering team that migrated customers into NTT Data Services Data Protection Support. Team included engineers from the US, Mexico, and India.• Delivered major cost savings at Cardinal Health by designing and implementing a backup environment that included servers, appliances, and data replication between data centers for more than 1 PB of data.

Experience

1. Advisor, Services Project Program Management

   Dell Technologies

   Nov 2021 — Present

   Contract with Dell EMC to manage multiple projects associated with legacy EMC implementations.• Deliver complex projects while maintaining project quality, finances, governance and focus• Prepare detailed project plans including schedules, controls, resources and validated statements of work (SOW) to achieve proper compliance• Be the main point of contact for all aspects of the engagement, building strong and seamless relationships by maintaining communication with all partners• Guide the team during the project lifecycle and provide direction to project workstreams.

Education

• ICM School of Business

  Associate of Science - AS, Computer Management

Skills

• Storage Area Network (San)
• System Administration
• Infrastructure
• Microsoft Exchange
• Disaster Recovery
• Leadership
• Service Delivery
• Technical Support
• Vendor Management
• Emc Storage
• Management
• IT Management
• Replication
• San
• Process Improvement
• Data Center
• Hardware
• Operations Management
• Linux
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Enterprise Software
• Netbackup
• Virtualization
• Servers
• Backup Solutions
• Hp
• Storage Area Networks
• Business Process Improvement
• Computer Hardware