Cal Net was acquired by NexusTek

inhouseIT was acquired by CalNet Technology Group in 2016.

Responsible for research, architecture, and deployment of new technologies for Roland DG Corporation and its subsidiaries. Special emphasis was placed on using cloud resources to rapidly integrate IT systems between multiple subsidiaries worldwide.

Reporting to CIO, manage all aspects of technology infrastructure and IT Operations for a $600 million dollar computer peripherals company. Manage staff of 3, 200 servers and a $1.1 Million dollar annual budget.• Lead strategic initiatives to modernize Roland’s infrastructure, increasing resilience and redundancy while significantly reducing costs.• Streamline operations and align IT/business through the use of ITIL and COBIT standards.• Drive performance of direct reports on technology initiatives resulting in cost savings, and productivity gains through project insourcing and managed services.• Oversee all technology initiatives to provide the organization with cost-effective, efficient solutions, from concept, on through design and to implementation.• Serve as primary contact with outside vendors in the generation of RFP’s, and negotiations of bids, contract, and other major vendor interactions.• Develop strategies to safeguard network and intellectual property against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure, and to meet emergency data processing needs.• Create methodologies for the ongoing assessment of database performance and identification of problem areas.Key Accomplishments:• Dramatically reduced service impacts from an average of 11 days of downtime, to less than 5 hours per year establishing 99.95% service availability.• Developed SOP manual driving standards and compliance, significantly improving SOx audit results, while maturing internal processes.• Deployed fully redundant Blade Server, Network, and SAN environments with a 93% virtualization rate, protected through real-time replication to Nevada DR Site with a 1 hour RTO.• Moved organization to a proactive support model through the use of KPI’s and capacity planning.

• Deployed and maintained new VMWare cluster and NetAPP SAN. Successfully virtualize all existing application workloads, and decrease recovery time through snapshot technology.• Performed AD migration from 2000 to new 2003 Forest. Performed parallel migration from Exchange 5 to Exchange 2003 and flat network to VLAN configuration.

• Responsible for assuring users are provided efficient and timely first and second level support.• Deployed MOM, and ScriptLogic Desktop Authority to move organization to a proactive support model.• Managed hardware and software procurement, inventory lifecycles, and backup retention policies.

• Deployed WORM based reporting and data mining capabilities providing document management and centralized data access to an environment supporting Unix, Windows, OS2, and Mac clients.• Maintained two DEC VAX servers which provided interoperability between an environment of highly nonhomogeneous server operating systems.• Responsible for supporting internal and external users who accessed Eisenhower Medical Centers Information Systems environment and it’s infrastructure.

• Provided a wide range of IT services to clients in the legal, medical, and home building industries.