It Director / Chief Information Officer
Pottawattamie County
Prioritize and prepare strategic plans and budgets for technology projects. Provide vendor and stakeholder management. Advise, plan, manage and completed re-engineering integration of appropriate IT solutions with products, systems and databases to facilitate the timely delivery of data.Communicated and coordinated with various departments acting as liaison between all stakeholders, departmental users and technology teams/support teams.Instituted virtualization initiative converting 23 physical servers to well over 130 virtual servers in 16 months, including hosting applications for other agencies.Reduced maintenance cost by 55% by executing HiPath Siemens VoIP roll-out initiative encompassing multiple locations including integration with outdated Rolm PBX system. Negotiated, managed and implemented SLA’s / contracts from various vendors and / or organizations with regards to hardware, software and telephone services.Successfully oversaw Public Safety software conversion including 911, Jail, Sheriff and mobile computers which in part reduced the booking process by 66%. Maintained information security processes and security control standards for application development, technology deployment as well as network infrastructure controls.