Damen Chan Email & Phone Number

Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, US

Santa Clara, CA

Lead and manage information technology operations and projects for graduate medical education technology startup, Thalamus (thalamusgme.com). Serve as chief technology architect and advisor to company founders and leaders.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Lead IT operation and serve as the Chief Technology Architect. Align Information Technology with the policies and strategies of the school. Advisor to the school leadership team.

Newark, NJ

• Managed the Information Technology department of the largest federally qualified health care provider in New Jersey. Directed and managed the technical support efforts with responsibility for all system software.
• Served as chief IT strategist for the executive management team.
• Designed, planned and successfully executed new technology rollouts across seven company sites.
• Mentored and trained technical staff in virtualization technologies and best practices.

New York, NY

• Providing technical leadership, managed all aspects of the IT operation including infrastructures, systems development, budgets, contract negotiation, governance, product evaluation, vendor management, security and.
• Directed a team of IT professionals consist of system engineers, network administrators, helpdesk analysts, application developers, database administrators, business analysts and project managers.
• Managed a network infrastructure team supporting 300 employees, 5000 volunteers and 1 million customers.
• Led in-house and offshore application development teams that built and maintained systems supporting the multi-million-dollar e-commerce and fund-raising operations of the organization.
• Forecast and managed multi-million-dollar IT budgets across organizational divisions.
• Supported the infrastructures of high traffic websites that draws over 10 million visitors a day.

New York, NY

• Directed a 10 members team of database analysts, programmers, QA specialists and system architects in charge of the design and release of custom software application systems. Set and maintain SDLC standards and.
• Managed application development projects using waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Fostered and planned continual training for members of the development team.
• Conducted and led application design and project meetings.
• Gathered business requirements, performed analysis and created business/functional specification documents.

New York, NY

• Led a team of IT professionals charged with maintaining the IT infrastructure and maintaining online business operations.
• Managed and maintained database systems, network infrastructure and software development.
• Designed and built mobile race scoring hardware and network systems.
• Assisted and supported the VP of Information Technology in IT policy development and enforcement.
• Designed and implemented online registration applications and data search engines.

New York, NY

• Led network support functions and maintained the organization’s networkinfrastructure and help desk.
• Maintained Cisco routers and switches.
• Configured and implemented Linux firewall.
• Managed GroupWise.
• Integrated and managed mixed network services between Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux and Novell Netware.

Brooklyn, NY

• Designed technology solutions that fit clients’ needs and budgets based on assessments of the business requirements using commercial and open source technology solutions.
• Virtualized networks for customers using VMware and Xen.
• Converted Windows networks to Linux for clients that wanted to take advantage of open source software.
• Built custom web sites and online property listing applications using various web technologies including Java, PHP and ASP.Net.
• Performed IIS and Apache installations, and conducted performance optimizations.
• Custom built networks; servers and workstations based on hardware requirement needs.