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Antioch, Tennessee, Us

- Responsible for providing leadership and direction to the technology team to ensure availability, stability, and security of business technology and IT infrastructure platforms. Working with multiple teams of technology professionals inside and outside of FinishMaster, projects focus on information systems activities for gaining market share, increasing operating income, leading acquisitions and developing vendor relationships.- Restructure corporate IT teams to improve customer service reputation and engage the business in value added initiatives.- Replace failing systems with Microsoft cloud technologies including Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Skype, Teams, and Dynamics 365 CRM.- Implement new ecommerce systems increasing electronic orders by 45%.- Implement and manage Information Security controls and Business Continuity Planning.- Integrate multiple multi-state acquisitions into infrastructure and Oracle JD Edwards ERP.- Implement the Service-Now cloud helpdesk solution for the IT department and expand to support other corporate departments including HR, Marketing, Supply Chain, Accounting and Sales Support.- Automate pick, pack and ship processes via mobile bar code scanning terminals for customers and internal warehouses driving a 30% reduction in inventory management labor hours.- Implement Microsoft Power BI business intelligence dashboards and reports for internal business metrics and customer facing supply chain management dashboards.- Deploy cloud based HR technologies supporting HRIS, Talent Acquisition and I-9 compliance management.- Drive and maintain IT costs to below 1% of revenue.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

- Lead a geographically dispersed team including Client Technology, Server & Storage, Network & Telecommunications, Helpdesk Support, Service Management, Application Support, Database Administration & Integrations, Information Security and Datacenter Operations supporting business divisions and manufacturing facilities.- Establish highly productive working relationships with business leaders in all locations and partnerships with them to plan, establish and forecast budgets for technology related projects and expenses.- Lead creation and implementation of new process, procedure and support structures to restore business confidence in a struggling IT team.- Institute onsite Dale Carnegie leadership development program for Information Technology team.- Implement first Information Security program by working with business leaders to reduce risks with balanced controls.- Restructure Information Technology team members from plant and division alignments into centrally managed yet geographically dispersed functional teams reducing Infrastructure staffing required from 50 to 30 team members while improving service.- Modernize the existing datacenter including power, cooling and network improvements with the addition of a secondary site for highly available services.- Implement first enterprise IT Service Management system for requests, incidents, problems and changes.- Introduce DevOps concepts to support accelerated Agile development releases through daily SCRUMs, version controlled configuration, and better task management with Kanbans.- Standardize enterprise service, support contracts and purchasing to reduce procurement costs.- Implement PCI DSS compliant infrastructure to support ecommerce credit card transactions.- Implement enterprise technologies such as MetroEthernet, WAN acceleration, enterprise Wi-Fi, SAN, server virtualization, cloud services, web content management, configuration management and software distribution.

Valhalla, Ny, Us

- Direct Infrastructure, Support, Engineering, Security, Operations, Database and Application Development teams consisting of 150 geographically dispersed team members supporting multiple business units across the country.- Manage, forecast and administrate 16+ million dollar production departmental and national budgets in addition to several multi-million dollar project implementation budgets.- Create and implement new process, procedure and support structures to support a nationwide organization.- Information Security Officer for my subsidiary implementing high security physical and logical banking controls in the Insurance Services division.- Institute and maintain business continuity plans for all technology services and solutions.- Restructure Information Technology team members from regional alignments into centrally managed yet geographically dispersed functional teams minimizing staff turnover to better align with business objectives.- Establish change control management reducing risk in development and configuration areas.- Reorganize infrastructure and applications from local offices into centralized data centers supporting multiple platform systems including Windows, Netware, UNIX, RS6000, and AS400.- Manage two high security, high availability, and 24x7 national data centers. Constructing one and upgrading the other to meet acceptable security and availability standards.- Convert organization to centrally supported Active Directory & Exchange, SharePoint, Hyperion, Content Management and business line ERPs.- Standardize network on Cisco networking equipment and Two-factor VPN secure remote access.- Implement enterprise technologies such as SAN, high-density blades, virtual servers, secure data encryption, automated helpdesk and software distribution.- Promoted through multiple positions during tenure including Regional Network Manager, Indiana IT Director, and Midwest Regional CIO.

Muncie, In, Us

- Direct the activities of Micro/LAN Consulting, consisting of 8 staff, 2 Graduate Assistants and 14 student consultants supporting centralized technology as well as specialty systems and applications for the many different university departments including Business, Nursing, Journalism, Telecommunications, Architecture, Education, and Fine Arts.- Coordinate the installation and support of instructional computing applications and infrastructure for classrooms and public labs.- Oversee the management of administrative and college network servers.- Prepare and teach training sessions for faculty on the use of classroom technologies.- Produce and teach workshops for K-12 technology coordinators across the state of Indiana.- Coordinate the public lab devoted to disabled students, which included special software and hardware for speech synthesis, large print video output, text recognition scanning, enhanced keyboard filters, and Braille output.- Personally originated Ball State’s presence on the World Wide Web (1993).- Hands on experience with a large cross section of technologies including VAX, UNIX, DOS, Netware, Windows, Macintosh, Linux and various networking systems. - Promoted through multiple positions of increasing technical and managerial duties from undergraduate student to graduate assistant to full time employment; including Lab Assistant, Lab Technician, Lab Technical Coordinator, Network Services Analyst, Adaptive Technology Lab Manager, and Micro/LAN Analyst.

Muncie, In, Us

- Teach Business Education and Office Administration classes on computer applications for Business (BEOA225) and Business Information Systems (BEOA210).

Master Of Information And Communications Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Psychological Science / Computer Science