Abram Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

https://www.mctadvisors.com• Providing technology and cybersecurity consulting services to small and mid-sized companies, meeting their specific needs.• Offering insights to private equity and venture capital investment firms on the cybersecurity market and product offerings.

Golden Valley, Minnesota, Us

Head of IT for Ceres Global Ag Corp and all subsidiaries, with locations across the US and Canada. Accountable to the Board of Directors for the “State of IT” and IT’s role in the future of the organization. Brought into CGAC to modernize IT by implementing industry best practices in security, infrastructure, enterprise systems, disaster recovery, and development. • Created, presented, and received approval from Board of Directors on a 5-year IT roadmap to provide the backbone for rapid company growth. Provided annual strategic planning review to Board of Directors. Initiatives from this roadmap facilitated dramatic sales growth from $580m in 2019 to $1.3B in 2023.• Developed and implemented Cybersecurity program, dramatically improving security posture and reducing risk for on-premise and cloud based infrastructure, including edge and datacenters, Azure, Microsoft 365, ERP systems, plant HMI, PLC, and SCADA environments, and database and data handling. • Lead recruitment, hiring, and mentoring to expand Technology team, leveraging a combination of direct hires and outsourcing, reducing both overall cost and timeline to complete initiatives.• Designed, collaborated on, and oversaw development of two “First-in-business” tools: full stack web applications backed by operational data stores integrated with ERP systems, delivered as mobile and desktop applications. And SQL data-warehouse/lake, built on SSMS with SSIS and stored procedures with a Power-Bi front end to support real-time decision making.• Designed and managed the overhaul of back-end infrastructure, leveraging hyper-converged and highly available systems and cloud technologies. Improving overall uptime from less than 96% to 99.9% and reducing RTO and RPO by weeks and days.• Member of Strategic Investments Committee to review, assess, and approve large capital expense projects. • Member of Pandemic Response Team, strategized solutions to evolving COVID-19 public health crisis.

Golden Valley, Minnesota, Us

Head of IT for Ceres Global Ag Corp (TSX - CRP) and all subsidiaries, with locations across the US and Canada. Accountable to the Board of Directors for “State of IT” and IT’s role in the future of the organization. Brought into CGAC to modernize IT by implementing industry best practices in security, infrastructure, ERP systems, Disaster Recovery, and development.

Cottage Grove, Mn, Us

Responsible for technology support, purchasing, strategic planning, implementation, and overall project management for the 6th largest school system in the state of Minnesota. Serving 30 locations with over 18,000 students and 4,000 staff.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Responsible for providing IT Operational Leadership including task management, IT road-mapping, and critical decision making. Led team of 7 direct reports and 25+ cross-functional team members on a rotating basis in vendor management, employee on-boarding, procurement, security, auditing, and other services. • Designed and oversaw the creation of a Home Point Financial Corporation’s (HPFC) web application that utilized API’s to automate employee on-boarding/off-boarding reducing the processes from 10 days to 1 day.• Led design and deployment of SCCM integrated with Azure EMS, managing over 2000 devices for onsite and remote employees, replacing multiple imaging and device management solutions. Increased HPFC scalability through decreased equipment deployment timelines and consolidated command and control of device management.• Created long-term plan to consolidate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for 50+ locations resulting in $120K+ annual cost savings. • Analyzed use of 250 multi-functional printers (MFPs) by creating use standards for each location based on staff count, function, and role; consolidated multiple contracts to one national contract saving $24K annually. • Designed and led Active Directory migration of HPFC’s largest acquisition to date and meet aggressive timelines and milestones established by Executive Team. • Developed an IT Access Control Team that consolidated IT account creation, modification, and removal. Utilizing best practice to increase security and control, and decrease error and organizational vulnerability.• Reduced new facility on-boarding from up to 70 days to as little as 10 days including renovation, network design, build, testing, equipment delivery, and installation. Established post lease commencement move-in service level agreement (SLA) at 5 days for branches and 20 days for ops centers. SLA’s were met 95% of the time.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Created IT solutions for business units through needs assessment, true–cost analysis, data and infrastructure design, and collaboration with IT Operations Group. • Developed spend tracking system for all HPFC purchases allowing for analysis of all expenses and vendor relationships resulting in a $1.8M annual savings through vendor consolidation and diversification where appropriate.• Designed and implemented HPFC’s first disaster recovery plan, documenting critical business applications and processes throughout the organization allowing for improved response time to disasters/incidents. Formal plans were made readily available to government and financial auditing agencies. • Advised on VDI migration that reduced monthly expense by over one third the cost and significantly improved performance and end user experience.• Built new standard network/infra models for new branch buildouts and was initial designer on all new network/infra adds reducing product launch times. • Appointed Project Manager for all IT special projects including the acquisition of a 10 branch team across 6 states and the acquisition of the largest independent mortgage company in California.

Provided and executed IT leadership and vision for a wide range of clients from startup to Fortune 500 businesses. • Directed bidding, Scope of Work (SOW), Project Proposals, IT Business Analysis, and Systems and Network Administration among other tasks for a wide range of clients.• Planned, managed, and executed projects and customer and contractor interactions in various settings including construction, sound and lighting, and systems deployment and securities.• Supervised and managed technical aspects and on-site technical staffing of national and international meetings, conferences, and conventions for MedEd-Link, Inc.• Created technical project proposals, managed project goals and staffing, and interfaced with employees, contractors, and onsite workers to maintain scope and budget.

Saline, Michigan, Us

• Designed, implemented, and coordinated the process for imaging, deploying, and managingover 2,500 computers, 300 switches, and 40 servers throughout the district.• Co-Led strategic planning to maintain viability and sustainability for the dynamic K-12 educationsystem in light of changes in State and Federal funding, grants, and donations.• Acted as a liaison between IT and District Staff and Administration for long-term planning andvision regarding systems integration.• Mentored and managed intern staff members within the IT department.

• Acted as the primary lead and project manager for all IT projects within the organization –including manufacturing and corporate facilities in KY, VT, IN, Canada, and Mexico.• Led the technical integration and merger of MHSC acquisitions; verified and assured theintegrity of acquired company data, processes, technologies, and infrastructure.• Managed IT and other staff members within MHSC Corporation to achieve project goals.• Designed and implemented solutions for MRP and Factory Floor solutions across companyfacilities in coordination with Plant Engineers and Plant Managers.• Planned, coordinated and executed the migration of five separate Active Directory domainsspanning three countries and seven facilities into one seamless AD domain, and the migration of non-AD servers from Windows 2000 and 2003 to CentOS and Debian Linux.• Designed and implemented Consolidated VoIP solution.

Saline, Michigan, Us

• Maintained and supported technologies across eight decentralized facilities (an administration building and seven school buildings) throughout the school district.• Designed and implemented user authentication, remote home directories, and remote imaging/management.• Administered, managed, and supported server farm and day-to-day technology needs.• Administered, managed, and supported telecommunications throughout district.

Ypsilanti, Mi, Us

• Instructed lab portion of COSC 136. Covered basic computer skills, such as understanding Microsoft Office, Basic HTML, and Hardware. • Worked as desktop technical support for staff of College of Arts and Sciences. Included basic troubleshooting of Windows and MacOS, and hardware and networking.

Teaching Certification, Education

Bachelor'S Degree, History/Chemistry