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Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Direct over 130 IT professionals supporting operations and providing innovative guest facing solutions for 14 North American resorts.Accountable for the configuration and support of resort Property Management Systems for lodging operations, and over 3,000 Point-ofSale stations selling over 30,000 products - applications supporting the mission critical revenue streams for the company.Accountable for corporate cyber security & PCI Compliance, corporate data center operations & engineering, cloud based solutions for infrastructure (Azure & AWS), Office 365, and defining technicalroadmaps grounded in meeting the business need.Established very strong relationships with each resort President/COO by physically being present at their resorts to understand the challenges they face, and working to negotiating realistic timelines fordelivering solutions.Reduced annual spend with our 3rd party outsource vendor by $600K per year since taking over the relationship in January 2019. Used benchmark data to drive down unit costs, brought costly services back in-house, and improved service levels by implementing a consistent ITSM solution.

Mammoth Lakes, Ca, Us

CIO level responsibilities for $250M corporation operating and managing four west coast resorts. Responsible for all aspects of corporate web site development, e-Commerce applications, enterprise applications, data center operations, networking, cloud services, and IT strategy.Built an in-house .Net web development team developing custom ecommerce web applications for selling lodging and resort products. Implemented Agile development processes and increased annual e-Commerce revenue from $25M to $90M in just 3 years.Consolidated all corporate web sites into Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, Route 53), and a single .Net based Content Management System. Marketing can launch a new corporate-class e-commerce web site in a matter of hours.Led the project to achieve PCI Compliance and secure corporate assets from cyber-attack. Implemented a corporate information security awareness program to educate employees, intrusion detection systems to protect computing assets, and creation of effective general controls to satisfy PCI Compliance requirements.Project Manager for the technical acquisition of Big Bear Mountain Resorts - resolving a myriad of integration challenges across Active Directory, e-Commerce, Web Sites and enterprise applications.Drove efficiency by automating manual paper processes using SharePoint Server, Infopath forms, and custom approval workflows.

Van Nuys, Ca, Us

Accountable for the delivery of mission critical SAP application capabilities, data center operations, SOX compliance, and IT strategic planning for a medium size publicly traded manufacturing company.Instilled ITIL best practices & processes into an IT group that had none. Closed outstanding SOX Compliance deficiencies in the first year.Provided hands-on technical support, expertise, and direction in SAP Basis, EMC storage systems, Windows and VMware servers, Oracle and SQL Server databases, Project Server & SharePoint, and web platforms.Launched the company's first corporate SAP dashboard using Business Objects. It is used every morning by the executive team to track company performance.Successfully fought an Advanced Persistent Threat attempting to steal corporate Intellectual Property.Drove the adoption of Project Server and SharePoint for large corporate projects to better track and predict project timelines.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Directed a group of over 300 technical professionals across the western United States, India, and Malaysia developing and supporting SAP supply chain and manufacturing applications. Responsibility included operational support for Intel’s mission critical SAP production environments, database administration, applications development, and 1st and 2nd level internal call center support for Supply Chain, Finance, and HR enterprise applications.Delivered Basis engineering and support, Oracle DBA, SAP Security, server engineering, and network configuration work on time and within budget for over 20 full life cycle SAP implementations across MM, PP, FI/CO, and SD modules.Built off-shore SAP operations and engineering groups in Bangalore, India consisting of over 30 engineers and project managers. Conducted analysis to define and document the operating model between the India and US engineering teams, worked to transition SAP basis work overseas, and effectively worked through cultural barriers to establish a strong working relationship with India managers.Responsible for defining, documenting, and measuring the effectiveness of SOX General Controls for Intel's SAP financial applications.Managed large vendor relationships with suppliers of server operating systems (MSFT), database technologies (SQL Server & Oracle), backup and recovery solutions (Symantec), storage (EMC), and server hardware.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology

Master Of Science (M.S.), Applied Information Management