Highly skilled IT professional with 20+ years of experience in enterprise-wide network management and systems integration. Extensive hands-on experience supporting a complete systems infrastructure. History of successfully deploying new technologies to increase operational efficiencies. Able to clearly understand problems and find efficient solutions through the utilization of troubleshooting, critical thinking, teamwork, and communication• Reduced Data Center’s annual expenses $250K by implementing a corporate-wide server virtualization strategy, decreasing over 200 physical servers to 15 virtual servers.• Improved the overall efficiencies of the Helpdesk by implementing a single sign-on (SSO) capability. Efforts decreased Helpdesk requests by 30%.• Enhanced IT security by implementing proxy servers, Cisco intrusion prevention systems, Sophos anti-virus protection, Cisco firewalls, and desktop encryption.• Administered new technologies including Lync 2010 communications software and corporate network monitoring capabilities.• Managed two IT acquisitions integrations with combined annual revenue of $150M: evaluating IT resources, identifying synergies, and then developing and executing the integration plans, consolidating data centers, servers, applications.• Achieved multiple awards and recognition for successfully executing and/or migrating to various applications, such as Exchange 2010 & 2007, SSO, and VPN Solutions.• Implemented new manufacturing ERP system on-time and under budget, improving overall efficiencies within divisions, including reducing lead time by 50%, better inventories visibility, and tighter cost accounting controls.