QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 17 years combined experience in various functions of providing technical solutions, project management and facilitating client relationships in multiple industries including Financial, Legal, Retail, Manufacturing, Services and Healthcare focus on client/user needs and fit with business strategy ability to assess current technology infrastructures to develop plans to augment and upgrade the hardware, software and process. Key areas of competence include:
• Assess and analyze client needs to formulate solutions within the scope of business strategy
• Optimize aspects of network infrastructure to ensure project success, maintain costs, meet deadlines, secure access and monitor application activity
• Creative thinking and use of existing resources in network design, implementation and optimization
• Collaborate with internal clients/users, external vendors/consultants, and organizations to facilitate solutions with current technologies:
• Project management and control with outside vendors during building of new facilities and integration of acquired entities.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

IT DIRECTOR

Confidential

• Responsible for all systems, infrastructure, project management, PCI Compliance, IT budget, team management and communications in an automotive supercenter enterprise network encompassing 11 dealerships, 4 remote locations, utilizing Windows 2012 and Exchange 2013 serving 400 end users. Managed infrastructure growth during which monthly unit sales more than doubled over a 3 year period. Major accomplishments include:
• In combining disparate networks encompassing 9 buildings formerly under different ownership to one centralized Dealer Management System, replaced aging network components to allow a dramatic increase in data speeds for each of over 300 PCs that ensured highly reliable connectivity to all company resources.
• To upgrade a large-scale, extensively used, inefficient email system, designed a solution to retain the system in-house, collaborated with users for the implementation plan, and managed the system conversion that resulted in a low cost, effective and efficient email system meeting all user requirements.
• To integrate mobile insurance agents in all dealerships within a 3 week timeframe, repurposed unused bandwidth, configured network that allowed comprehensive, tailored print operations, extended topology to allow connectivity in all buildings. Successful implementation resulted in the 1 performing agency in the country for 2 of the first 3 months in existence.
• To integrate, upgrade, and unify central and remote systems in multiple business locations within a limited time frame utilizing minimal resources, collaborated with existing managed services companies to ensure secure connectivity. Succeeded in minimizing downtime during the migration of acquisition data integration.
• In strategic planning for a new dealership construction project on existing campus, managed communications subcontractors' timeframe and monitored installation quality of work, upgraded network connectivity in all locations by an additional 80 of expected use for substantial modifications of staff and office location requirements. Successfully opened dealership on time with a highly flexible structure.
• To allow access to company data for business intelligence, mining and marketing purposes by outside services, implemented authentication protocols while collaborating with data polling vendors for access, maintained secured resources and applications in designated systems, monitored security threats and potential vulnerabilities in real time for immediate resolution.

OWNER

Confidential

• Provided comprehensive solutions to streamline, upgrade and optimize small to midsized business operations.
• Demonstrated the ability to understand client needs, provided clear and transferable technology solutions.
• Delivered customized technology solutions for a diverse client base including Financial, Legal, Retail, Manufacturing, Services and Healthcare businesses.
• Partnered with other consulting practitioners to provide specific solutions and offer extended services.
• Designed secure remote connectivity for clients utilizing SSL, IPsec VPN and virtualization technologies.
• Provided LAN networking infrastructure solutions including structured cabling, wireless secure connectivity, and mobile remote access.
• Designed, installed and migrated AD Domains and Exchange solutions.
• Designed and built websites including transaction processing systems utilizing payment gateways.

ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE

SYSTEMS/TECHNOLOGY ANALYST

Confidential

• Maintained internal networking systems used for investment analysis and trading
• Attended investment symposiums held by major Wall Street firms to evaluate the technological and financial feasibility of potential investments.

TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS AND SKILLSET

Operating Systems, Applications and Skills

• VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, vMotion, FT, HA, DRS, vApp, vSAN and Hyper-V solutions.
• Windows Server 2003-2012, Exchange 2007-2013 implementation, management and migration.
• Active Directory deployment and object maintenance, PowerShell, Group Policy, and security.
• Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Visio, SQL Server, SDLC, Infrastructure documentation.
• TCP/IP, SIP, DNS, DHCP, VoIP, IIS, SNMP, SMTP, POP3, VPN,SSL UCC Certificate creation and implementation.

Network Design Installation and Maintenance

• Sonic Wall Routers and Sonic Point Wireless Access Points
• Cisco IOS Networking, VLAN, Layer 3 Switching and Routing, ACL, VPN.
• Netgear Managed Switches
• Fiber Connectivity- ST, SC, LC, Multimode 62.5 and 50 micron.
• VoIP Solutions