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• Executive team member which leads the engineering team in charge of building and managing enterprise-wide cloud platforms and solutions which support business operations. Supports 1800 employees at 19 locations with a.
• PCI Certification: Achieved PCI certification in 9 months.
• Audit and Compliance: No major audit findings in the last 3 years by working with GRC and Internal Audit.Maintained standards and developed procedures to achieve compliance with regards to FFEIC, GLBA, BSAand PCI.
• Rebuilt Teams: Broke down previous barriers between departments and created an effective high performingteam by instilling trust. Championed an approachable environment with clearly communicated expectations.Developed.
• Increased Security Posture: Reduced critical vulnerabilities by 95% and developed processes to ensurehardening and patching of all systemsRisk Management: Helped develop a risk management strategy and worked to create.
• Full Disaster Site Replication: Improved system stability in partnership with outside consultants by leading aback-up methodology study and establishing a 3-year plan for improvement. Identified business critical.

London, GB

Outgoing IT Professional looking for new opportunity in the role of CIO/CISO

Flandreau, South Dakota, US

• Led information technology operations as a senior leader for this growing multicultural organization. Provided additional IT leadership and support for the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe including tribal housing and a.
• Improved Uptime: Achieved and maintained 100% uptime for a system with a history of frequent system downtime (up to 3 consecutive days) which significantly impacted business continuity.
• Streamlined Processes: Eliminated more than 70% of help desk calls within first three months in position. Analyzed call history and created processes to address root cause issue resolution.
• Created Back-ups: Developed redundant systems including a secondary onsite backup as well as a cloud backup of all data. Wrote business recovery procedures to ensure safe / secure operations.
• Upgraded Systems: Prepared and led upgrade of hotel management systems to a cloud-based system with faster speeds and increased redundancy. Conducted staff training and follow-up.
• Turned-Around Teams: Restored company-wide trust in the information technology processes and staff by resolving underlying systems issues.

Butte, MT, US

• Promoted through progressively responsible information technology leadership roles. As Director, oversaw data center, help desk, and technical training operations which included up to 25 information technology staff.
• Attained 100% ticket resolution by developing L1 & L2 technical support teams. Provided advanced training to top performing staff which opened up additional career path options for entire IT team.
• Key leader in the integration of staff and processes after a successful company merger.
• Enhanced system and staff efficiency by leading implementation of virtual processes and applications. Utilized Citrix and m ware to create desktop and mobile cloud support. Implemented a SAN (Storage Area Network).
• Planned, budgeted, and led multiple SAP application upgrades, Exchange 2010 upgrade, Active Directory Upgrade 2008 for the entire network, as well as regular application upgrades.Additional Roles: Lead, Help Desk and.

Management Information Systems

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