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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

o Ensure system upgrades and new implementation adhere to Dept. of Defense Security Technical Implementation Guidelines o Complete and compile necessary artifacts to shepherd a system through the Risk Management Framework to obtain Authorization to Operate

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Program Manager for upgrading Oracle's Retail Merchandising System including item creation/maintenance, purchase order induction, cost management, regular and clearance pricing, purchase orders, allocations, promotional pricing, price strategies, replenishment, sales, and EDI.

Virginia Beach, VA

• o Provide management oversight and strategic direction for:
• Merchandise Financial Planning
• Replenishment
• Inventory
• Space Management
• Category Planning

Virginia Beach, VA

• Appointed to new position as Director, Infrastructure
• Maintained duties of Network Manager
• Additional areas of responsibility include:- Enterprise software licensing- Maintenance and deployment for more than 350 LINUX and UNIX servers- Maintenance and deployment of over 2000 LINUX-based POS terminals.

Virginia Beach, VA

• Manage local and wide area networks for 400+ Navy Exchange stores world wide
• Coordinate and manage remote team of 25+ for onsite support of world wide facilities
• Support and manage more than 200 system wide firewalls
• Deploy and support 600+ Microsoft Windows 2008 servers in a virtualized environment
• Provide wireless network services to Navy Exchange stores and distribution centers
• Maintain network security by complying with Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides for all networking and server hardware

Hampton, VA

• Developed strategic IT turnaround plan and restructured IT roles and responsibilities to support changes
• Enhanced financial reporting through customization of Enterprise Resource Planning system
• Standardized sales and customer reporting software
• Improved business intelligence system performance through redesign and restructuing
• Reduced support effort and cost by migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 and consolidating servers while increasing availability
• Identified and corrected license compliance issues and instituted programs to ensure future compliance

Newport News, VA

• Reduced IT operational expenses by 20% (approximately $200,000) while maintaining service levels
• Replaced antiquated ERP system with Windows, SQL-based system with modules for Sales, Quality, Warehouse Management, Production, Forecasting, and Finance
• Implemented radio frequency based Warehouse Management System for shipping, receiving, and automated put away which resulted in a 56% warehouse staff reduction (75 to 33)
• Developed inventory aging tools and reports which lowered ‘old’ inventory by 75%
• Employed radio frequency physical inventory system reducing the number of physical inventories per year from 4 to 1 and increasing the accuracy of our inventory to 99.99997%
• Increased EDI utilization from 30% to 60% thereby improving order accuracy and customer satisfaction

Richmond, VA

• Responsible for all facets of infrastructure design & support, including 2 iSeries running 6 partitions each, 255 windows 2000/2003 servers, Cisco’s IP telephony, and the local and wide area networks
• Consolidated 19 nationwide, iSeries systems into 1 using Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool technology
• Instituted a centralized purchasing program for PC’s and peripherals to reduce overall costs and drive standardization
• Developed a systems recovery plan with a 2 hour recovery time objective for iSeries systems
• Developed a systems recovery plan with a 1 hour recovery time objective for Windows systems
• Designed and implemented a centralized IP telephony system strategy

Winston-Salem, NC

• Supplied application change management tools and policies for NT client server and AS/400 applications
• Provided support for 450 internal users and 1000 external users with a 6 person Operations staff, a 15 person technical staff, and a budget in excess of 1.5 million dollars
• Promoted planning and negotiations to outsource parts of System Administration resulting in significantly improved services and a savings of $750,000 over 3 years
• Installed and configured NT-based firewall technology for Internet access including Virtual Private Networking between Inmar and its clients
• Implemented secure NT remote access services using SecurID authentication for internal and external clients
• Furnished disaster recovery services for all Inmar systems

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