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Extensive experience designing, implementing, supporting, and ensuring optimal uptime and performance of critical applications, databases, interfaces, and infrastructures leveraged by internal users and customers.Proven success in defining sound financial structures that have mitigated potential risks, improved forecasting, and enabled the achievement of organizational goals. Skill in developing, tracking, and analyzing financial data for decision-making.Strength guiding the implementation and adoption of new tools, policies, and procedures that have strengthened security postures, reduced vulnerabilities, and enabled organizations to comply with regulatory requirements.Experience in recruiting, training, mentoring, and leading teams in analyzing needs, recommending solutions, solving issues, and delivering technology implementation, upgrade, modernization, conversion, and automation projects.★ ★ ★ In each of my roles, I have leveraged my strong technical, business, fiscal, problem-solving, team development and leadership, collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills to fuel innovation, improve delivery of services, and achieve financial and compliance goals.Innovation and Creative Problem Solving >>➥ Instrumental in enabling the Montana State Auditor Agency to define and implement a telework process due to the COVID-19 pandemic.➥ Built 2 highly successful businesses providing technology and home improvement services to commercial and residential customers throughout the City of Helena.➥ Granted the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Application Development and Project Management during my tenure with Montana Office of Public Instruction.Operational, Financial, and Technology Management >>➥ Established strong operational and financial structures for 2 businesses that resulted in profitable growth.➥ Provided the technical expertise to enable clients to modernize systems, reduce costs, and improve productivity.➥ Managed the build-out and administration of infrastructure and systems to support the needs of the Montana Democratic Party for 3 consecutive years.Risk Mitigation & Compliance >>➥ Earned my Global Assurance Certified Incident Handler Certification and assumed responsibility for monitoring, identifying, responding to, and mitigating security breaches across desktop computing environment for Montana State Auditor Agency.➥ Held critical roles in developing, updating, and enforcing information security policies for the Montana State Auditor Agency that mitigated unauthorized access of data.

Listed skills include Leadership, Information Technology, Information Security, Windows Server, and 43 others.