Served as a strategic partner for many clients providing technology assessments, project management, project implementations and consulting across an array of solutions involving: network, server, and storage infrastructures; application delivery; server, desktop, and application virtualization; disaster recovery; business continuity planning; backup, recovery, replication and archiving solutions; Intranet strategies with Microsoft SharePoint; operations and process improvement.

Director of IT and Assistant Vice President of Ogden BancShares, Inc., a $500M+ financial holding company with four community banks. Chad focused on leveraging technology in concert with overall business strategy, solving business problems, and creating business opportunities through process improvement and technology.• Served as project manager and project lead on all technology-related projects, including office expansion and technical design, relocation and design of data center, and the total technology infrastructure.• Reconfigured the wide area network to provide a stable, redundant, and cost-effective network topology capable of scaling with the growing business and ever-changing technology landscape.• Promoted cost savings by consolidating and virtualizing entire server environment, introducing a storage area network for critical data storage, and simplifying existing architecture. Also improved disaster recovery capabilities and reduced downtime.• Improved performance and productivity through application delivery solutions, custom application development efforts, expanded data mining, reporting database model, built an Intranet, deployed internal instant messaging, web conferencing, VOIP phone systems, and help desk management.• Performed budget planning, systems selection, vendor management, contract negotiations, and managed technology and operational relationships. Chaired the organization’s Technology Committee.• Addressed ongoing banking regulatory compliance needs through development of a business continuity plan, IT standards and guidelines, incident response program, and risk assessments—all focusing on protecting the integrity of the business, network, systems, applications, and data.• Developed comprehensive external customer websites and extranet for partners and directors.

• Led and managed multiple projects, primarily focused around the global pension business E-commerce initiatives and Internet sites. Involved in initiating, analyzing, defining scope, designing, planning, documenting, implementing, and closing projects.• Assisted with technology development through innovative design and knowledge of business-growth-enabling tools and processes.