Adam Thompson Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

• Serve as an integral Senior Consultant following the successful completion of the PA Group acquisition by Sikich in 2021, ensuring continuity for both staff and customers during the transition.• Responsible for overseeing the migration of all data from PA into the Sikich organization, including teams, user permissions, data, email, OneDrive data in SharePoint sites, and more, identifying what would migrate and what would not, and working outside of the norm to identify solutions for complex problems.• Perform as a fractional CIO/CISO and provide support to key clients in managing organizational security infrastructure, as well as supporting Dynamics ERP functional consultant, PM, and enterprise customers.• Collaborated with executive leadership teams during Dynamics Finance and Operations (F&O) deployment and as an independent consultant to enhance business processes.• Assisted in establishing roadmaps to optimize infrastructure and security measures for corporations in Manufacturing, Steel, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, and Tech sectors, with revenues ranging from $200M to over $10B.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

• Recognized for consistent top performance and promoted to Director of IT Infrastructure and Security, leading teams of upwards of 20 resources in various projects, resolving issues, and making improvements while ensuring seamless daily operations.• Established a detailed project plan that included looking at power consumption to changing out components and led the end-to end transformation, transitioning the organization from 100% on-prem to 100% cloud-based.• Served as a fractional CIO/CISO and provided support to clients, ensuring compliance, security, and software selection while providing strategic direction and guidance into future security roadmaps for the organizations.• Managed all internal and customer IT requests and supported the challenges within a custom Manufacturing Execution System.• Responsible for overseeing MS Dynamics implementations and facilitating on- and off-site network and server installations and configurations.• Oversaw the organization’s Professional Services Automation (PSA) system and ensured the optimized performance supporting workflow, resources, and expenses.

Chattanooga, Tn

• Recruited to serve as the IT Manager and Technical Support Engineer, leveraging expertise to provide daily support for the PA Group MSP customers.• Continuously monitored the servers and network equipment within the data center, measuring, tracking, and analyzing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and utilizing the information to improve efficiency and availability.• Traveled globally and visited various manufacturing plants, assessing machine monitoring needs, recommending roadmaps for hardware implementation, and assisting with and supporting implementation.• Developed and cultivated customer relationships, addressing specific needs and ensuring a positive customer experience.• Responsible for leading migration for major professional Esports organizations, clearly defining objectives, including scope, timeline, and specific goals to achieve with migration, and successfully moving massive amounts of media data from Google to Microsoft.• Oversaw a complex project for a $2B renewable energy corporation, leading the consolidation of 5 different companies into 1 company environment from a data standpoint.• Directly responsible for planning and leading the end-to-end- global migration for a global publicly traded company, taking the American and European entities and moving them into 1 location.

Education record

Engineering