Matthew Baird

Matthew Baird

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Salado, Texas, United States

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    Company Owner
    Gravel Gorillas
    Oct 2024 - Current (2 years)
  • Texas Health and Human Services
    Information Technology Project Manager
    Texas Health and Human Services
    Sep 2024 - Mar 2025 (7 months)
    Led a high-visibility data platform conversion (SAS to SQL) supporting statewide customer-facing services, driving end-to-end delivery planning, RAID management, and cutover readiness to protect continuity and data integrity. Managed coordination across engineering/support teams and executive stakeholders through a structured status/risk/decision cadence, accelerating issue resolution and keeping enhancements on track.
  • Austin Energy
    Senior Information Technology Project Manager
    Austin Energy
    Nov 2023 - Apr 2024 (6 months)
    Owned delivery of infrastructure and security projects from intake through closeout, including scope definition, schedule/budget baselining, vendor/SOW coordination, and CAB-ready change planning. Drove disciplined governance (status reporting, risks/issues, dependencies, and stakeholder escalations) and delivered with zero budget overruns in a highly regulated utility environment.
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    Senior Information Technology Project Manager
    Dept of State Health Services IES
    Apr 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 5 months)
    Owned delivery for a CDC-funded program spanning 22 projects, delivering on time and within budget. Led a metro wireless modernization upgrading 200 devices, consolidating wireless networks to improve connectivity and user experience. Managed budget requests, PO payments tied to milestones, weekly exec-ready reporting, vendor-led problem resolution, and multiple switch/router/firewall/circuit upgrades.
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    Company Owner
    Clutter Monkeys
    Nov 2020 - Current (5 years 11 months)
  • Dell Technologies
    IT Project Manager - Infrastructure
    Dell Technologies
    Mar 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 6 months)
  • Dell
    Infrastructure Program Manager
    Dell
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2020 (1 year 5 months)
    Recovered a program that was behind schedule and over budget by realigning global resources and budgets to original scope and deliverables. Delivered Modern Data Center (MDC) DMZ initiatives and directed an End-of-Life subset, decommissioning/consolidating 300 virtual and physical servers globally (80% completion). Led engineers and vendors through Cassandra-on-EMC ScaleIO proof-of-concept and productionization; defined and delivered VxRail configurations/installs; removed operational bottlenecks through issue triage and SOP standardization. Managed private cloud offerings integrated with AWS and Azure for client migrations.
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    Director of Infrastructure
    Fikes Wholesale
    Mar 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 9 months)
    Executed a 3-year strategy moving from on-prem platforms to a diversified XaaS model (DRaaS, SaaS, BUaaS, IaaS). Stabilized core infrastructure by installing a 30TB Nimble SAN, upgrading the corporate backbone to 10Gb, rebuilding VMware hosts for redundancy, and modernizing backup (Veeam + Cloud Connect). Implemented DRaaS using Zerto with a 15-minute RTO/RPO. Deployed monitoring covering 250 remote sites and 120 virtual servers, migrated users to Office 365, and drove endpoint modernization (Windows 7 → 10) and SCCM-based imaging/patching.
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    Infrastructure Manager
    Fikes Wholesale
    Mar 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 9 months)
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    Information Technology Manager
    City of Round Rock
    Aug 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 8 months)
    Partnered with local utilities to permit and install new fiber connections across 27 city sites. Established the city’s IT change management process and facilitated weekly governance to improve communication and reduce disruption. Led large-scale endpoint productivity upgrades, migrating 1,000 users from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and Office 2013 to Office 365, while coordinating vendors and annual refresh budgets.
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    IT Manager, Infrastructure and Customer Support
    City of Round Rock
    Jul 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 9 months)
  • Capgemini
    Program Manager
    Capgemini
    Mar 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year 5 months)
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    IT Manager
    C Connect
    Sep 2011 - Mar 2014 (2 years 7 months)
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    Account/Project Manager
    McLane Intelligent Solutions
    Aug 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 2 months)
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    IT Team Lead
    McLane Advanced Technologies
    Mar 2007 - Aug 2010 (3 years 6 months)
  • L Technologies
    Network Engineer/Project Manager
    L Technologies
    Dec 2005 - Mar 2007 (1 year 4 months)
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    Career Specialist
    Jan 2002 - Jan 2015 (13 years 1 month)
    Led and delivered infrastructure programs and operations across Capgemini, C3 Connect, McLane Advanced Technologies, L3 Communications, Temple ISD, and McLane Company. Highlights include oversight of 90+ projects with 99.97% SLA success; governance with 32 state agencies; mentoring 9–11 IT project managers; annual deployment of 1,100 new/reimaged desktops; adding 200 net-new workstations/phones; managing infrastructure portfolios from $50K–$1M and capital/expense budgets $10M+; and administering environments up to 50 physical servers and 120+ VMware servers.
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  • American InterContinental University
    Master of Business Administration (M.B.A, Management Information Systems, General
    American InterContinental University
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2009 (2 years 1 month)
  • University of Mary HardinBaylor
    Bachelor of Science (B.S, Computer Science
    University of Mary HardinBaylor
    Jan 1996 - Jan 2005 (9 years 1 month)