Andrew Baker Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Responsible for creating an EA practice at Scripps. Created current state architecture diagrams fro multiple areas of the company. Worked with each IT area to create a strategy documents for that fed the 3-5 year stratgeic plans.Developed, formalized, and standardized enterprise architecture practice and directed the performance of two principal architects. Pioneered Enterprise Architecture Review Board charter, created strategy for the current and future state architecture for the enterprise, authored strategic documents for each functional area of the IT organization, and led periodic meetings to review, discuss, and approve issues and decisions.· Researched various enterprise architecture software tools, selected ADOIT, and directed the implementation based upon impactful demonstrations and reasonable cost.· Led team to collaborate cross-functionally with diverse technology groups to collect asset inventories, created current state diagrams for various teams, and formulated a long-term vision and objectives.· Partnered with diverse business units to develop a strategic document serving as a basis for three to five-year plans which were reviewed by IT leadership, enabling each area of Scripps Technology to ensure alignment and prioritize internal project lists and roadmaps.

Cincinnati Area, Oh

Responsible for the infrastructure at The E.W. Scrips company including the WAN, LAN's, corporate data centers, AWS and Azure environments, servers, and databases, desktop support, and service desk.Oversaw the comprehensive infrastructure for enterprise, including the networking, corporate data centers, AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure, servers, databases, desktop support, and service desk. Maintained accountability over the infrastructure supporting 6K employees and 10K endpoints by leading team of 15 direct reports to drive business continuity. Enabled presales technological due diligence supporting the Ion Media, Tribune, and Cordillera acquisitions and leveraged change management to drive integration of new corporations into the Scripps infrastructure.· Spearheaded pre-purchase due diligence of IT and broadcast infrastructures in advance of acquisitions of eight television stations from Tribune Media, 15 stations from Cordillera Communications, as well as the family of Ion Media Networks channels.· Facilitated integration of people, processes, and technologies into Scripps infrastructure within critical timeframes and established budgets.· Conducted vendor selection process to evaluate prospective Apple Mac management systems, resulting in successful implementation of JAMF to manage a 2,500 Mac endpoint population.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Led a team of 20 IT professionals to ensure a stable computing environment providing reliability and mitigating redundancy through automation and process improvements. Established strategic direction for the IT Infrastructure group, maintaining a focus on accountability, customer service, and optimizing business outcomes. Developed and implemented roadmap to integrate and manage corporate IT services and support new enterprise-wide initiatives. Accountable for annual operating, capital, and resource plans for business unit and optimized quality of service while reducing technical debt; delivered quarterly forecasts and analyzed financial variance. Directed the architecture, design, and integration of computing systems and infrastructure components. Supported applications spanning Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP, IBM Contract and Document Management, Employee Portal, Active Directory, email, and proprietary business applications, leveraging UNIX, Linux, Sun, HP, Dell, MySQL, VMWare, SQL Server, and PHP.· Contributed to architecting a plan facilitating migration of 20+ newspaper applications centralized across servers from collocated data centers into corporate sites to reduce maintenance expenses and optimize performance of 24x7x365 critical applications.· Assisted in creation of transition services agreement for divestiture spanning 34 previously owned radio stations and managed the user, system, and endpoint migration from Scripps to acquiring companies, yielding timely completion within budget.· Developed workflows to separate two corporate data centers and migrate active directories following a series of acquisitions and divestitures, ensuring relevant data was associated with appropriate ownership across a portfolio of television and radio stations, as well as newspaper publishing companies.· Documented, tested, and oversaw disaster recovery plan to mitigate operational disruption across infrastructure and enterprise systems and applications.