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Wayne, Pennsylvania, US

• Reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources, the Director of Information Technology role works directly with the CFO and COO to research, develop, implement and improve all aspects of the Technology sector.
• Upgraded the Cisco VoIP phone system to Cisco’s WebEx Calling platform, reducing monthly costs by more than 80% and allowing for international expansion on the platform
• Oversaw the platform change for both ERP solutions in house from end of life, hardware-based applications to Cloud hosted modern solutions. Oracle backed Hyperion was moved to Host Analytics Cloud and IFS 3 was brought.
• On Prem hosted Exchange 2003 was migrated to Office 365 allowing global receipt, mobile clients and a more secure environment
• In order to accommodate our global organization, Microsoft File Server was replaced with Dropbox for Business giving worldwide access to data for our Executive Team while traveling to developing nations that we have.
• Utilizing our Managed Service Partner, Evolve IP we have upgraded our on prem Network to a Cloud based environment including Cloud Firewalls and an MPLS-lite scenario leveraging CloudConnect devices to amplify.

King Of Prussia, PA, US

• As Senior Lead within a Global IT organization, the Senior Infrastructure Engineer position required a high level of interaction with end users and Executive team alike communicating research, development, integration.
• Worked closely with Global Support Team to integrate NetSuite, Salesforce, and ServiceNow into daily services and applications. Boomi was used as the bridge between systems to allow for streamlined access and data.
• Created automated deployment system utilizing Windows Deployment Services to establish a global imaging platform able to distribute new hardware on demand in a high technological turn over environment
• Leveraging Crystal Communications partnership, we instituted Mobile Manager self-service portal for cellular usage that mitigated well over $500k in annual cellular costs in North America while expanding the services.
• Through a partnership with PCM, we negotiated the first global purchasing agreement with Hewlett Packard guaranteeing us in country SKUs, discounted pricing and on demand next day Technical Support throughout the.
• As Qlik expanded through acquisition, I was tasked with integrating disparate technologies purchased with the new groups, upgrading where applicable and depreciating that which was no longer viable while connecting to.