Anthony Salazar Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Founded an IT consultancy focused on IT Project Management, Datacenter migrations, Cybersecurity, and Interim Technology Leadership roles. Currently available for long and short-term projects or contracts. Projects and Contracts: Project Manager and Vendor relationship Manager for a Data Center migration supporting a FinTech startup (April – July 2020)Interim Vice President of Information Technology for Ignyte Partners (Oct 2020 – Jun 2021)

Greater Los Angeles Area

During my time as Head of Information Technology, I effectively implemented comprehensive IT operations including networking, MDM, enterprise apps, access control, and endpoint protection, among others. I also ensured proper implementation of a help desk ticketing system utilizing Jira and a support structure to assist the user base. My strong analytical skills afforded me the ability to recruit and hire a talented team of Helpdesk Support staff and Senior System Administrators to better support internal business units. I was able to oversee the implementation of crowd strike for security and endpoint protection and design and execute the implementation of network infrastructure including wireless to support the business at all corporate locations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

As the Director of Information Technology for Roland Corp, I managed the implementation and modernization of the IT infrastructure including, technology road mapping, and team motivation. I utilized my strong relationship skills to collaborate with sales and marketing to redefine strategic vision for a high-profile Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM project. I also cemented updated layouts and workflows, providing value-add for sales, marketing, and artist relation teams. I successfully served as ERP Project Lead for Dynamics NAV implementation within North and South America.

Greater Los Angeles Area

During my tenure as an Executive Partner, I served as co-founder of an innovative consulting and market disrupting solutions form with a focus on customized Cloud, IoT, Product Realization, and Blockchain services to better solve business challenges. I also oversaw comprehensive operations and new business development with targeting banking and medical industries as needed. My vast knowledge of the field allowed me to provide subject matter expertise providing innovative strategies to assist clients develop business and deliver solutions. I also collaborated with clients to drive a “concept to profit” from design to operations in an effort to position clients as market leaders through application of new and modern technology.

El Segundo, Ca

As the Director of Information Technology, I oversaw comprehensive leadership, strategic planning, technology implementation, and internal business support for a $12M+ budget. My strong collaboration skills allowed me to work directly with multiple business units to better implement technology solutions, improved IT effectiveness, perception, and team morale through transparency of operations. I also implemented policies and procedures in key areas including infrastructure, services, contracts, and team management with a focus on improving best practices to transform high functioning departments. My strong oversight skills allowed me to manage a high performing team of 10+ IT professionals regarding maintaining and operating high performance online gaming platforms as well as corporate IT services including moving legacy games to bare metal and utilizing open source technology including cloud computing, rapid scale deployments, and agile game development.

El Segundo, Ca

During my time as Director of Network Infrastructure and Cloud Operations, I managed a high performing department with a team of 12 including three direct reports, 300+ end users, 20+ game developer companies, and three data centers with an annual operating budget of $20M+. I also oversaw multiple cloud teams with direct accountability for storage, computation, virtualization, and Active Directory. My strong knowledge of the field allowed me to successfully rebuild IT operations infrastructure and capabilities to better align with North America operations. Because of my strong work ethic, I oversaw an international team from Asia, Europe, and North America to rebuild Final Fantasy 14 MMO venture with management of $18M budget with 20M+ players with a minimum of 15K active sessions. I was awarded as first recipient of the Square Enix Presidential Leadership Award.

• Traveled to customer sites to install, troubleshoot, and maintain Xylan/Alcatel products. • Installed multiple Alcatel products switches, routers, and checkpoint firewalls. • Resident support engineer for high profile customers: - John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA - Gwinnett County Public Schools, Atlanta, GA (5th largest school system in the U.S.) - IBM Global Services ( in 1999 it was the Largest server farm in the world) • Worked in several different environments ranging from school systems like Gwinnett County Public Schools, in Atlanta Ga to government agencies such as NIST, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Navy. • Other customers included Wall Street firms such as Weiss Peck and Greer, American Express, and Solomon Smith Barney.• Configured and maintained a plethora of multimedia environments such as ATM, SONET, Ethernet, ISDN, Frame Relay, Gigabit and Wireless.

Phone support engineer for the Pipeline and Max 4000 series product line.

Honorable Discharge

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity Management And Policy

Bs, Computer Science With Concentration In Systems Programming, Deans List