SUMMARY

• IT professional with 20 years experience in medium and large international corporations. Experience includes IT direction and management at senior and management levels. Industry experience includes but is not limited to: pharmaceutical, chemical and consumer goods companies. Skills include management, IT, manufacturing, distribution/logistics and financial experience.
• An open, innovative and reliable IT professional who manages current technology, increases hardware efficiency and utilization, implements cost saving measures, virtualization, energy savings, green policies and a controller of server sprawl in the computer room balancing the workloads of the enterprise. A sponsor of open architecture, promoting an open design ecosystem.
• The future is bright with new technologies and applications integrating with smart computing devices (iPhone, Blackberry and other intelligent devices) that are rapidly changing the nature of IT. Darryl is a talented individual who embraces the new technology managing change implementing and providing for the explosive demand for information like never before.
• Specialist in environment, business management, operations, projects, software development, implementation, training, consulting and systems maintenance. Prepared, designed, built, implemented and maintained environments for development, production/operations, QA and testing for the following systems: ERP, EDI, shipping and fulfillment, supply chain management, portals, service and infrastructure support, change and release management, help desk and incident management, information security, disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP). Managed change control, testing, release management, approval and the implementation of new releases. Worked with teams to perform capacity and performance measurement planning. Collaborated with inter departmental disciplines to analyze, design, develop, test and implement new systems and releases.
• Established various management, steering and operational committees to manage, guide and collaborate IT with other company disciplines/departments.
• Managed, designed, planned and built environments and infrastructure. Active in virtualization and server consolidation, green, energy conservation technologies, minimizing complexity, improving efficiency and easy scalability. Leverages performance deploying virtualization, availability, security, energy and management software to exploit the power of the systems employed.
• Unique knowledge of systems, with broad experience in application development as well as hardware management in support of business processes and objectives. Good analytical and conceptual thinker using common sense, logic and reason bringing systems successfully online. Established and negotiating IT Services contracts with service providers. Solves complex IT and business problems effectively and efficiently.
• Successfully managed and implemented 50 ERP and bespoke systems.
• Utilized SDLC principles and processes to define requirements, code and test applications using diverse technologies.
• Defined, implemented and complied with strict controls and processes, including SOX and other audit requirements. 20 years experience in custom built and packaged solutions implementing changes and new releases. Coordinated change management processes ensuring changes to all projects are visible, analyzed, reviewed, documented and communicated.
• Great success rallying people, processes and systems together to deliver IT services. Successfully managed corporations through initial computerization to modernization in IT, adding or changing systems, technologies, applications and services in house or outsourcing, managing growth and diversity within the IT domain. Conducted project review meetings ensuring all required deliverables were complete. Good presentation and communication skills, influencing leadership and senior management.
• Managed projects, installed, implemented and maintained 50 plus systems at local and international corporations with multiple distribution, manufacturing and administrative facilities. Overall project lead and member of steering and strategy planning committees. Assisted, guided and managed IT departments Provided leadership and direction to the professionals in the IT Operations team, by promoting an enjoyable work environment and resolving internal conflicts between members of the team. Monitored resources, dependencies and conflicts.
• Coordinated with software development and architecture to ensure data, technologies and applications are incorporated into the enterprise technology strategy and projects.
• Coordinated strategy with IT technical support services to ensure delivery and support of technology, infrastructure, operations, customer satisfaction, performance and continuous productivity.
• Presented to all levels of management, users and groups.
• Strong financial, distribution/logistics and manufacturing background.
• Managed and planned small to large budgets.
• Ensured adherence to IT governance and methodologies, standards, goals, objectives and security. An active participant in setting standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Multiple computer technologies: IBM POWER6, iFamily, AS/400 and Windows platforms. LPAR and Virtualization.

Networks: Wired and wireless networks, VOIP, security, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, Remote Routing and Administration and Active Directory.

Web Development: Designed and built web based solutions and portals.

IBM i(AS/400) Development: RPG ILE, Free form RPG, SQL, CL, CLLE, COBOL, Web Query, Query/400, DBU, BCD WebSmart, Webfacing, NGS, AS/SET, JWALK, LookSoftware.

Operating Systems: IBM i, I5/OS, OS/400, PASE (AIX / UNIX), LINUX, Windows XP, 2008, 2003.

Software: MS Office, Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Project, Front Page, MS SQL, PHP and Visual Studio.

Application Software: EMS, S2K, System 2000, BPCS, KBM, PRMS (Data 3), CARE, SPSS Showcase, Kronos Timekeeper, LogPro (Logistics Pro), Transportation Execution, Rebate EIS, UPS interfaces, FedEx Ship Manager Server (FXRS), EDI Support, American Software, QuickBooks, Several PC accounting packages.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Chief Technical Officer/VP Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for IT infrastructure, personal, and systems at several companies that outsourced their operations to Confidential . Implemented virtual systems using LPARS (Logical Partitions) and virtual partitions using Microsoft and VMWare.
• Responsibilities at Confidential included learning and implementing new technologies, systems, procedures and processes and training staff and customers in the use of the new technologies and systems. Active in systems modernization since 2002 designing and developing client server technologies and web applications integrated to legacy systems.
• Implemented new systems, processes and procedures for clients, saving several million Dollars in IT capital and operations expenditures.
• Reviewed and select hardware and software solutions for in house use and recommendation to customers.