Mark Sonstein

Experience

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  US Army

  Apr 1988 - Oct 2011

  Signal Officer

  Full responsibility for all voice and data communications including tactical radios, cell, satellite, VoIP phones, intranet and internet connectivity, server administration, fiber-optic infrastructure, and spectrum management. Coordinated training, resources and guided staff of 27. Managed 5 IT Directors.

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  101st Airborne

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  ADAMO (Network Systems Manager)

  Implemented, operated, monitored and maintained all voice, automation, and network systems infrastructure for fixed facility and mobile locations.

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  3/6 CAV

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Squadron Signal Officer (Information Officer)

  Principle information systems and communications manager for a 400 member organization with digital and voice communications requirements to 21 aircraft covering entire South Korean Peninsula.

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  Professional School

  Jan 2005 - Jun 2005

  Captain Career Course

  Honor graduate of a 20 week professional development course consisting of instruction in telecommunications, data networking and tactical network planning. Provided leadership, counseling and mentoring to new membersInformation Technology 200 hoursInformation Management 38 hoursNetwork Management 41 hoursNetwork Security 80 hours

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  11th Cavalry Regiment

  Jun 2006 - May 2008

  Regimental Signal Officer (Senior Information Officer)

  Planned, trained, and executed all communications support requirements for a 2000 member organization including tactical radios, installation level trunked radio network; office, cell and satellite phones, computers, servers, and networking equipment.

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  HHT, RSS 11th Cavalry

  Jun 2007 - May 2008

  Commander (Senior Manager)

  Commander of a company providing administrative support, field food services, supply services and equipment maintenance for a 400 member organization. Accountable for planning, training and resourcing of all company activities as well as logistical support to 10 additional customer organizations.

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  United States Military Academy

  May 2008 - Sept 2011

  Assistant Professor

  Assistant Professor and Course Director for the Leadership Development Course, Department of Military Instruction at West Point. Established course objectives and measures of effectiveness as well as lesson planning, assessment development and course resourcing for a third year course.

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  CGI Federal

  Jun 2011 - Sept 2017

  Responsible for managing the technical operations of an information technology organization including supervising subordinate managers; developing and refining business policies, processes and measurements to assess and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of global IT operations. Develop and implement innovative strategies and plans for improving business processes; and ensuring enterprise-wide compliance with federal information security regulations and directives, and managing infrastructure security solutions, establishing strategic vision, requirements and resourcing a global, managed hybrid cloud solution. Provide direct oversight of designs, security strategies, architectural and engineering. Direct research on potential technology innovations, solutions, and implementations in support of new strategic and global initiatives. Manage client and corporate operational lines including Transition Management, Business Engineering, Service Delivery, Tier I-III Service Desk, Network Operations Center, and Program Management Office. Staffed and led 32 member professional IT staff, including 6 Director level direct reports. Responsible for the professional development, career advancement and daily activities of assigned staff. Accountable for $6.5M annual budgetBuild alliances across internal and external business partners to achieve goals by cultivating collaborative working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders. Establish relationships across government and industry through the presentation of complex technologies as a speaker at organizational forums, industry day presentations, and direct engagements. Sought out by business engineers for direct client engagement, to overcome complex problems in both security and computing domains. Show less

  • Director, Cloud Operations

    Aug 2014 - Sept 2017

  • Technical Director

    Oct 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Program Director

    Jun 2011 - Aug 2014
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  Purdue University

  Oct 2017 - now

  Reporting to the Vice President for Information Technology & System Chief Information Officer, the Executive Director, IT Infrastructure Services designs and executes a strategic vision coupled to the IT strategic plan ‎for the University's infrastructure services. Oversees activities relating to the engineering, design, development, implementation, testing and overall technical support to insure the IT infrastructure services environment meets the business needs of the University. These services including multi-platform hardware and operating systems, high performance computing, data center facilities, messaging, database administration, storage, and networking and telecommunications and represent both cloud based and on premise services. Develops, ‎reviews, and oversees the execution of the objectives, policies, and procedures to ensure that the ‎information systems ‎and ‎services provided are secure, cost effective and of the highest quality. ‎‎Manages IT resource requirements to ensure ‎appropriate balance between tactical and ‎strategic demands and asset's full life cycle value is achieved. Provides technical leadership to the University in the ‎use of infrastructure services, network architecture & ‎operation (both LAN & WAN) and telecommunications to improve the ‎University's processes and data ‎management. Provides technical leadership in designing, implementing and operating the supporting grid components and platforms of a high performance computing environment. Manages and maintains relationships with strategic vendor partners along with negotiating contracts and service agreements. Ensures that operational credibility is maintained at all levels within the organization. Show less

  • Doctoral Student

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Chief Technology Officer

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

  • Executive Director, Purdue System Cloud and IT Infrastructure Services

    Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
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  Doyon Utilities

  Nov 2024 - now

  Chief Information Officer