As I.T. Director, I have expertise in leading a large, complex function that must be highly disciplined, process oriented and aligned with both company and customer needs. My goal is to ensure the business can leverage the maximum benefit from IT Solutions and provide superior capabilities to our business users. I believe in managing a team which deliver high value activities to the business whilst equally leveraging external outsourcing opportunities for commodity IT activities.Management Capabilities:- Multiple years experience at senior management level- Ability to define and translate strategic company goals into tangible, manageable project plans,- Highly process oriented, with significant experience in Performance Management, Resource/Capacity Management, Process Mapping, Lean/Six Sigma improvements.- Constant drive to innovate and improve but always in a planned, controlled manner.- Capable of Managing significant project portfolios- Capable of Managing large IT Teams across a number of sites, and the Performance Management of same- Certified Data Protection Practitioner and ISO 9001:2015- A Strategic Technologist through-and-through

Responsible for the strategic and operational management of the organization's information and technology needs, including the implementation and integration of system and technology initiatives necessary to achieve organizational goals

• Design/Installation and commissioning of IT infrastructure for new French Manufacturing plant. Scope covers data, voice, cabling, power (i.e. site UPS), technology standards and trends. Initiate/develop relationships with local IT/Engineering/Project Management providers on behalf of Fournier to facilitate planning/construction of Manufacturing site.• Maintenance of capital and budget expenses for the IT department.• Maintenance of IT capital and IT budget expenses for all departments.• Development/Administrator of the SCALA ERP system controlling both Finance and Production systems• Administrator of iFix Nanomill production system (multiple W2K/SQL server environment).• Responsible for documentation workflow/installation co-ordination for all 21 CFR 11 installations.• Responsible for purchase and installation of all I.T. equipment.• Responsible for setup and administration of site security systems i.e. FOB controlled doors, internal/external camera systems, SOP's, etc.• Sole contact with I.T. Service Providers/Suppliers, Telecoms Carriers• Set-up and administration of four IT Computer rooms providing complete data and voice resilience/disaster recovery for the plant.• Administration of Cisco VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephony system encompassing both Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity Voicemail Systems.• Setup, support and administration of 100+ Windows 2000 Professional workstations.• Setup, support and administration of firewalled Laboratory network hosting validated GxP systems. • Microsoft Access/Visual Basic developer. • Designer and creator of internally used PC auditing system (used for licensing consolidation and system standardisation.• Consulting/working with Fournier I.T. Director in establishing corporate standards and goals

• Member of the Global IS Technology Direction team.• Project Management-Previous projects included a Novell to NT migration, an Eircom to Esat migration, European Y2K/Euro compliance and a Manman to SAP ERP migration.• Completed projects included Gigabyte LAN, DECT wireless phone system and VOIP introduction.• Administrator of the Computer Associates Manman Manufacturing, Order Management, General Ledger and Accounts Payable system based on the HP3000 mainframe.• Administrator of eight Microsoft NT 4 and two Citrix Metaframe Terminal Servers.• Meridian phone administrator responsible for installation and maintenance of both digital and analog phones using both Option 11 and Phonemaster software. I was also responsible for the monitoring of same using the Ringmaster software.• Responsible for delegating duties to in-house Microsoft Access developer, PC/Network technician and Notes developer.• Microsoft Access/Foxpro/dBase/Quiz/Visual Basic software development primarily for optimising information interchange between MRP system and users.• Designer and creator of internally used Helpdesk system, PC auditing system (used for licensing consolidation whilst also automating the standardisation of system settings) and several LAN monitoring tools. (all developed in Visual Basic and Lotus Notes)

• Introduction and development of IBM AS400 mainframe to facilitate control of stock, orders and work in progress.• Maintenance of PC Novel Network and Apple Macintosh Network.• Development of database applications (dBase and Clipper) to control departmental production and to maintain the accuracy of company stock and order information at the highest level.• Production of daily departmental statistics to control production and operator efficiency.• Constant systems review for time saving methods, in particular in the areas of production data reporting and costing.

J• Software Support: This involved the diagnosis and repair of software related problems on our customers P.C.'s. These problems would include the incorrect installation of either application software or hardware.• dBase programming. I spent seven months designing and developing software application using dBASE for a certain branch of the dairy industry. The code was approximately 10,500 lines in length and since joining SharpText took up approximately 90% of my time. The program has been copyrighted and marketed by SharpText and at present is in operation in 17 separate sites around Ireland.• Novel 3.11. The company operated a Novell 3.11 network which I was trained in and subsequently became administrator of

I spent the period from July 1989 to July 1990 working with a company called 'Nuclear Electric' as part of my four year sandwich course at Bristol Polytechnic. Nuclear Electric Plc came into being on the 31st March 1990 and arose from the division of the Central Electricity Generating Board into three separate companies, the other two being Power Gen. and National Power. Nuclear Electric produces 20% of England's electricity by controlling the operation of seven operating magnox (magnesium oxide) nuclear power stations and five advanced gas cooled reactor (AGR) stations and are at present constructing a pressurised water reactor (PWR). I was based in the technology division of Nuclear Electric where I worked on a single project for the above period. This project involved the removal of a burst can detection system from Berkeley power station and it's installation into Hinkley B power station. A burst can detection system is a system used for detecting the failure of any reactor fuel cans by monitoring the radioactivity of the coolant gases which flow around these cans. The project involved approximately 80% software and 20% hardware, the software being written in Turbo C and a language called Swepspeed. Swepspeed is a language written by the engineers at Nuclear Electric and therefore unique to Nuclear Electric and is equivalent to an advanced form of BASIC. The hardware side of the project involved the creation of hardware schematics and using a series of different software packages develop the schematic design from the design stage through to circuit analysis and p.c.b. (printed circuit board) design. At the end of the year I had gained considerable experience in the use of industry standard packages used in the creation of designs (CADSTAR and AUTOCAD) and also, being the first person to use the p.c.b. layout package (ORCAD) I became the main trouble shooter for other employees who used the package after me