Dennis Reitz Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Tokyo, JP

*Led program to establish common level of security across laboratories and manufacturing plants worldwide for this top 15 US pharmaceutical company and a division of Japan's largest pharmaceutical firm.*Establish and direct global operational technology (OT) security strategy; partnered with several Takeda business units to identify and determine security.

Tokyo, JP

• Tenure at Takeda Pharmaceuticals spans from 2004-PresentENTERPRISE IMPACT:
• Improved corporate security posture by developing the company's new security roadmap and program, including the implementation of a Security Incident & Event Management System and a Network Intrusion.
• Reduced corporate risk profile by obtaining consensus from Legal Dept. to roll out internal Instant Messaging, eliminating the use of public IMs for distributing corporate information.
• Enabled company to present a standard, global identity for email by instituting a single email address space on multiple email systems. Completed project in only six weeks.
• Enhanced corporate perception of IT Security through education, newsletter articles, and meetings with key decision makers to demonstrate the benefits and needs for greater security.
• Through a multi-year program, worked to successfully transform and unify Takeda's global infrastructure technologies in order to create a common user experience for the roughly 30,000 employees worldwide.

Tokyo, JP

• ENTERPRISE IMPACT:As IT Product Manager (2011):
• Led the implementation and/or upgrade of various technologies, including Active Directory, Identity Management, Servers, RDBMS systems, SharePoint, and Operating System Virtualization.As Team Lead - Infrastructure.
• Improved risk management and business continuity by spearheading a multi-year email redesign that provided email archiving and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Lowered IT spend as vital member of team that shifted organization to outsourced infrastructure support model. Served as Infrastructure technology and operations expert.
• Facilitated a large corporate merger by managing the integration of Directory Service and Messaging systems, migrating several thousand users to the Takeda infrastructure.
• Managed critical technology initiatives, including a global Active Directory integration.

US

• ENTERPRISE IMPACT:
• Increased revenues by developing and managing a technical training line of business.
• Managed all Microsoft Education offerings for the company.

200 Applied Parkway, University Park, IL, US

• ENTERPRISE IMPACT:As Manager, Infrastructure Platforms, Company Products Division (2002-2003):
• Improved efficiency by streamlining internal infrastructure.As Microsoft Eduction Instructor (2000-2003):
• Taught Microsoft Official Curriculum and coordinated Microsoft Education for the company. Classes included SQL Server, Network and Operating Systems, Windows Server, Systems Engineering, Windows Core Technologies.
• Served as Project Lead for high-level customer implementations. Supervised system design and configuration for company conferences/events. Subject Matter Expert for technical teams.Early roles at Applied Systems.