SUMMARY:

• Global Technology Management / Technology Compliance, Governance & Security / WEB Infrastructure, Development & Ecommerce / Trusted Business Partner
• Innovative, solution - oriented Technology Executive offering solid record of increasing organizational efficiency, system availability, and delivering cost effective technological solutions in multiple segments of industry.
• Strategically positions organization for “competitive advantage” by partnering IT with the business and building roadmaps for technology delivery based on key business objectives.
• Utilizes best practices, leading edge standards, and solid business processes to maximize ROI, deliver projects “on time / budget” and proactively manages investments.
• Acts as “in house” consultant to internal and external clients while managing IT as a business and facilitating change. Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients, vendors, and staff, ensuring seamless communication between internal and external groups.

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Technology & Information Security
• Technology Architecture & Integration
• Vendor Management & Negotiations
• IT / Organizational Reengineering
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning
• Compliance & Governance (SOX, COBIT, HIPAA, HITEC)
• Infrastructure / Data Center Design & Implementation
• Strategic Planning / Project Management
• SLO / KPI Definition & Tracking
• Forward-Thinking Leadership
• Budgeting & Financial Management
• CPI (Continuous Process Improvement)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal Consultant

Confidential, Guttenberg, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Included the production and disaster recovery data centers, establishment of 24x7x365 ITIL Service Desk and the establishment/management of Technical Operations group (system admins, DBA’s, network, Service Desk, desktop and mobile/messaging).
• Performed all design/architecture, contract negotiations, establishment, RFP development, and system deployment for consolidation of legacy RHIO (regional health information organization) stand-alone systems into a high availability infrastructure.
• Established Incident/Problem/Change management programs and defined/managed information security program to insure compliance with HIPAA/HITECH.
• Established and managed Confidential budget in addition to internal/outsourced operations resources. supporting 23,000 users deploying over 100 virtual/physical servers in 7 enterprise data centers
• Deployment included more than 70 virtual/physical servers and 2 SAN arrays in 3 enterprise data centers (Global Program Manager).
• Managed enterprise data center migration for Quality Health including vendor selection and contract negotiation. Deployed high availability, hybrid cloud, multi data center solution with 60% capacity increase at a 47% price reduction over legacy deployment (Principal Consultant). delivering secure telecommunications, email and data storage for high end boutique investment house (CIO)

Chief Technology Officer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• delivering redundant, fault tolerant compute/storage infrastructure supporting client sites, applications, and databases.
• Increased production availability by 50% and allowed Confidential to be established for mission critical applications and systems.
• Created Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plan for organization encompassing infrastructure, applications and collocation agreements for data center floor space.

Principal Consultant

Confidential, Valley Village, CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with organizations for potential joint product development. Delivered monthly updates to senior management including recommendations for integration of new and emerging standards into Raritan’s product line (Principal Engineer).
• Delivered an enterprise student system (ERP) solution for higher learning organization holding company managing 150 campuses (US and Canada) including vendor selection and hosting agreement negotiation. This solution allowed for simplification of reporting and a standard platform to be utilized across all properties (AVP, Technical Operations)
• IT organization. Directed assessment, validation, testing and remediation efforts and coordinated with internal / external auditors to insure compliance with financial reporting guidelines (AVP, Technical Operations)

Chief technology officer

Confidential, Agoura Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed Information Technology group (Applications Development, Infrastructure & QA) providing support for a national wholesale sub-prime mortgage lending organization including corporate headquarters and 15 regional sales offices.
• Team is comprised of 26 information technology professionals.
• Financial responsibility of $7M.

Vice president

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Responsibilities:

• Management of Computer Operations group providing support (mainframe, midrange, data center operations, production control, post processing, Operations Control Center, script processing and data entry) for global entertainment organization.
• Team was comprised of 66 information technology professionals supporting 6 data centers.
• Financial Responsibility of $20M .

Director, Technical Operations

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed Technical Operations (infrastructure and data center) group for global search engine introducing “sponsored search” business model.
• Team was comprised of 12 information technology professionals and supported corporate offices and collocation facilities.
• Financial responsibility of $7.5M

Sr. Manager, Network Services

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed S-64 Data Center Project and delivered a fully hardened 8.300 sq. ft fully hardened facility for consolidation of mission critical systems, networks and applications.
• Designed and Implemented High Availability Production Wide Area Network (WAN) and Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) supporting production Conditional Access System, Local Broadcast Channels and Production Engineering testing.