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Seattle, Wa

Operate within a matrixed, multi-institutional research organization. Interact with organizational leadership, principle investigators, clinical operations managers, research biologists, and informaticians to improve the end-to-end processing of data generated from analysis on samples collected in our clinical trials. Work closely with customers to develop reports to provide information and insights for all departments within the organization.

San Francisco Bay Area

Clinical trial management group with multiple funding sources responsible for the planning and execution of more than twenty active trials.Oversee all IT aspects of clinical operations including applications integration, the clinical trial management system (CTMS), data warehouse administration, Project and SharePoint Server administration. Provide Business Intelligence insights into clinical site financial expenditures, patient recruitment performance, and clinical project milestone tracking using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SSIS ETL, and T-SQL querying. • Designed and implemented processes for service desk and call support hotline automation, streamlining site support and reducing response time

San Francisco, Ca

NIH funded clinical and mechanistic research organization with offices in San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. seeking cures for diseases of the immune system. $35 million annual funding including a $2 million IT budget. More than twenty active trials operating at over 125 sites in the U.S. and abroad. Eighty employees collaborating with over two hundred external physicians, researchers, site staff, and knowledge workers. Oversaw all IT budgets, infrastructure, operations, projects, contracts, voice and VOIP systems, IT vendors, policies, and processes. Oversaw administration of 130+ VMWare vSphere 5 virtualized servers running on a 30TB NetApp SAN utilizing Cisco WAN acceleration appliances to facilitate off site replication and achieve full Disaster Recovery capabilities. Supported 300+ Active Directory users working on a WAN/LAN connecting the three transcontinental sites via Cisco ASA 5500 Series routers and front-ended with a Microsoft TMG firewall.● Reduced costs and administrative overhead by consolidating or retiring servers in the infrastructure from 132 down to 73 servers over the period of twelve months and successfully consolidated these servers from two datacenters down to one.● Enhanced interdepartmental and external partner collaborative capabilities by deploying SharePoint as the document management platform to host the organization’s nearly 500,000 documents, replacing Xerox Docushare software. ● Improved delivery of IT support by establishing responsive, centralized helpdesk ultimately reducing ticket turnaround time by 70% and ticket volume by 40% over the period of 30 months.

San Francisco Bay Area

Built and oversaw highly responsive, customer oriented IT service desk with staff of five in support of the multiple units at UCSF comprising over 300 users on Windows and Mac computers located in dispersed locations nationally. - Improved overall IT response times by implementing ITIL best practices and deploying service desk software through which we processed over 7000 support tickets in five years.- Decreased user downtime on desktop deployments and rebuilds by establishing standardized images and integrating Microsoft MDT into IT Operations and utilized this platform to efficiently deploy Windows 7 and full disk encryption to over 200 users.

San Francisco Bay Area

A boutique hotel management company with over forty properties nationwide. Managed IT for up to nine hotels in San Francisco. Collaborated with property Controllers and General Managers to develop IT budgets annually. Coordinated all local IT contractor activities. Acted as primary system administrator for all on-site systems and networking equipment. Provided first and second level support for over two hundred users.● Instigated and drove the establishment of a helpdesk to provide first level support and improve IT operational efficiency by offloading that work from higher level IT staff and enable them to focus on more complex projects and tasks. ● Cut down IT support workload and user downtime (and associated costs) by gaining sponsorship of, and funding for, a broad server, network hardware, and PC replacement cycle at each of my hotels.● Transitioned all hotels to Windows Server/Active Directory/Exchange from Novell Netware systems. ● Oversaw the installation of guest wireless networks at eight hotels with a combined budget of $500,000.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

A $40 million annual children’s educational publishing company with nationwide distribution. Oversaw all aspects of IT for this small but fast growing company. Acted as system administrator, network manager, phone system manager, web site development/management/hosting, and desktop support ultimately hiring on three more staff to support the growing IT needs of this company. ● Improved warehouse efficiency by authoring and deploying a Visual Basic inventory management and barcode scanner application.● Improved customer call center’s effectiveness and efficiency by sourcing and managing the installation of a 100 handset on-premise Nortel PBX and voicemail system.● Increased productivity companywide by upgrading servers, network switches, and underperforming desktops.● Improved operational inter-office operational efficiency by deploying branch office Linux servers to remote offices and warehouses over a Metro Area Network using Cisco ISDN routers.

Winston-Salem, Nc

Provided second level technical support for 200 Investment Counselors using laptops across at branch offices four states. Acted as departmental systems administrator. Worked as technical analyst on large, multi-state deploymets. Provided technical support for mergers for Investments and Trust division.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Worked at Wachovia's central helpdesk the "Response Center" supporting the bank's 15,000 employees. Regularly had the highest ticket closure rate. Trained incoming helpdesk staff in supporting banking systems.

Worked on paper-to-digital media conversion products using the company's proprietary CD-ROM database and imaging software. Provided technical support for product to customers. Represented the company at trade shows. Developed interface components for Windows 3.12 version of product in C++.

Master Of Science, Information Management, Information Management

Specializations in Business Intelligence and Data Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Outdoor club, literary magazine

High School Diploma, College Preporatory

Activities and Societies: Latin Club. Yearbook.