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Baton Rouge, LouisianA

SUMMARY
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER
Risk Assessment * Project Leadership * Scope Development * Budget Management

Leads from the intersection of business and technology to provide top-level strategic planning, analysis and operational leadership for advanced technology systems, services and solutions.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baton Rouge, Louisiana January 2006 – Present
(Louisiana Land Trust / Quadel Consulting)

IT Systems Manager

Organizational Development & Leadership

  • Managed through a period of accelerated expansion as business has experienced explosive growth (better than 100% increase in number of physical IT assets, volume of data, number of clients and users). Worked collaboratively with executive management on key strategic business and IT initiatives.
  • Developed Project Scope for $3M SCADA Grant Management Software Project in compliance with regulations per US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), along with The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
  • Established and implemented Change Request review procedure which ultimately Reduced Task Order spending by 60%.
  • Trained 160+ software users for the eGrants Web-Database including senior executives, staff, vendor and parish government employees across the State of Louisiana
  • Created IT policies, procedures, controls based upon best practice standards of the IT.
  • Internalized technology duties within the company and reduced external contractor dependency.
  • Coordinated procurement of essential IT services based upon the State of Louisiana procurement policy in responses to client RFPs and SFO’s.
  • Managed a complex internal audit of all IT operations, processes, standards and controls. Achieved an improved executive summary rating and brought all action items into compliance in 6 months.
  • Continually evaluated business processes to identify opportunities to streamline operations, standardize processes, eliminate repetition and accelerate productivity. Reduced IT team’s overall time on administrative functions from 28.4% to 11.5%.
  • Technology Leadership & Advancement
    Planned and directed 100+ technology development, installation and upgrade projects over the past 4 years (heavy emphasis on data security, software uniformity and disaster recovery processes). Major projects included:

  • Implemented Barracuda Local Backup Solution
  • Network & Desktop Security Programs
  • Coordinated Off-Site Disaster Recovery Tests
  • Established Regional Wide Area
  • Incorporated Professional Web and Spam Filtering
  • Symantec Endpoint Anti-Virus Upgrade
  • Windows XP-Windows Vista-Windows 7 OS Migration
  • Created Off-Site/Remote Equipment Use Protocol
  • Orchestrated upgrades to IT Infrastructure and automated ticket creation and reduced help desk resolution time.
  • Upgraded and expanded the Data Backup and Recovery process. Planned and directed disaster recovery programs, including annual off-site test of data recovery validation and recovery time.
  • Improved Disaster Recovery process and Reduced Local and Off-Site Backup Cost by 52%. Updated business continuity plans, managed vendors, and led implementation of new systems, software and services.
  • Partnered with IT vendors to forecast 5-year trends and identify future needs for hardware, data retention, data integrity, security and new business processes.
  • Cross-Trained IT staff to promote vertical and horizontal expansion while boosting employee morale.
  • EDUCATION
    Bachelor of Science in Management

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