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Phoenix, Az, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Publishes digital and print publications in major markets across the United States with affiliated digital properties, a digital agency, V Digital Services, and a national sales arm, VMG National. VMG reaches more than 1 million monthly readers in print and 14 million unique online visitors each month, in addition to 1.3 million email subscribers, over 2.5 million followers in social channels, and produces more than 30 signature food, music, and arts events annually nationwide. ▪ Responsible for managing Voice Media Group’s IT Operations & Application Development consisting of 18 employees in Infrastructure, Application Development, Web Development, and Web Services. ▪ Lead cross-functional teams to enhance organization with training programs, engineer customer projects, implementation of web services solutions, and optimize resource utilization ▪ Co-launch V Digital Services Web Service department from the ground up, and drove subsequent growth into leading digital marketing agency with Fortune 500 clients across the nation ▪ Interface to the CIO and Development team to ensure proper vetting of new product developments for integration into existing services and client solutions ▪ Provide ongoing product development and process refinement with the goal of operational efficiency and cost reduction while providing quality delivery ▪ Lead website development team responsible for building and launching over hundreds of client sites per year ▪ Manage private hosting virtual platform supporting many agency web services clients ▪ Provide pre-sales project engineering solutions, direction, and support to clients targeting their unique goals ▪ Lead support efforts related to environmental and system outages per business continuity objectives ▪ Mentor team members to find and develop skills for professional development in support of company growth

Denver, Co, Us

▪ Directed the IT Infrastructure team of 6 engineers while working directly with the CIO and CFO to plan, execute, and service all technology needs of more than 250 employees and company clients. ▪ Defined departmental budget and planning based on company performance and operational needs ▪ Developed NOC Team responsible for 24/7 systems network monitoring and response, achieving over 99.99% uptime across all internal platforms ▪ Converted all operations to a virtual private cloud while increasing quality of operations and end-user satisfaction ▪ Defined and implemented information security protocols for performance monitoring of key system networks ▪ Developed and implemented key performance indicators (KPI’s) with an automated log analysis platform for monitoring ▪ Planned and executed multi-year operational expense reduction while increasing compute capacity and reliability ▪ Adopted DevOps processes to reduce infrastructure process cycles ▪ Established requirements for log analyzation tool as the basis for “Kibana”; an open-source ELK stack-based solution ▪ Designed and implemented a PCI compliant payment gateway for high-volume low-value transaction charges ▪ Led design and implementation of redundant colocation space for regional high availability hosting of key private and public-facing infrastructure allowing service maintenance without interruption of key system services ▪ Coordinated cross-department training of key technical products to non-IT areas which reduced IT dependency when training new staff on operational application processes

A holding company that provides through its subsidiaries nationwide news publishing and advertising services.IT Operations Manager ▪ Led a national team of 21 IT Managers responsible for day-to-day IT operations and the needs of multiple offices in 14 states. ▪ Managed and fostered cooperation among all Sales teams, Business Units, Procurement, Legal, Finance, and HR to ensure effective client-focused responses and services levels ▪ Provided remote team leadership and direction, and maintained responsibility for multiple internal projects ▪ Consolidated system management roles by providing cross-platform training while also eliminating Mac, PC, and Linux specific roles ▪ Responsible for providing 24/7 Help Desk Support, DR, and business continuity planning and implementations ▪ Provided operational budgeting and ROI justifications for all technology needs across the entire enterprise ▪ Led teams of tech specialists into post-Hurricane affected company offices in Florida and Houston to successfully restore key operational services and the continued production of news outlets while in an active emergency ▪ Assisted in the design phase of office space requirements during office relocations by working with architects and construction contractors to ensure proper connectivity for data center and employee workspace ▪ Responsible for hiring, onboarding, training & development, monitoring, and termination of team members

A digital and print media company based in Phoenix with offices in 16 major metropolitan markets in the United States.IT Systems Analyst ▪ Responsible for platform onsite updates across 16 offices at New Times Media Group. ▪ Defined standards across all publications allowing for consolidation of roles and reduction in staff resulting in $1.5 million in annual operational costs savings ▪ Assisted in conversion of all production functions to direct-to-plate printing process ▪ Supported office relocation projects by planning and moving key systems and workstations with tight timelines and deadlines to minimize the impact on employee productivity ▪ Trained staff on process updates related to their specific roles within the business