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Southampton, NY, US

• Design of robust technology solutions for companies in Publishing, Non-Profit, Advertising, Public Relations, Pharmaceutical, Hospitality, Education & Real Estate
• Focusing on CMS, DAM, CRM and ERP implementations

New York, NY, US

• Management of ALL technology resources including internal and external digital operations for high profile publishing/web environment with New York Family Magazine,Avenue Magazine, Dan’s Papers and Latin Trade
• CRM systems migration in 3 months integrating sales, print, digital and back-office
• Management of 30 off-shore development teams
• Development of Real Estate solutions for NY and Hamptons clientele
• Vendor Management and Contract negotiations for all Infrastructure and Digital Operations
• Business continuity and disaster recovery assessment and implementation

New York, New York, US

• As part of Cerberus Capital Management Mergers & Acquistion team placed as interim Director of Technology tasked with defining strategic direction of all technology resources across digital, print, sales divisions..
• Management of all technology resources including internal and external digital operations for high profile publishing/ web environment with
• CRM systems redesign with Salesforce in 6 weeks.
• Upgrading entire network, desktop, telecommunications and storage infrastructure Including remote offices and production facilities.
• Contract and vendor negotiations creating 1 million in immediate savings in 3 months
• Business continuity and disaster recovery assessment and implementation

New York, US

• Responsible for all aspects of technology developmentfor a staffing company experiencing explosive growth. Managed staff of six IT supportpersonnel and various external programmers and developers with a budget of 2.
• Opened 4 offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, Syracuse, and London in 4 months, growing from 80to 160 employees while expanding operations in New York, San Francisco and Orange County.
• Implemented financial back office migration from quick books to Microsoft Dynamics in 3months while process re-engineering external to internal payroll for bi-weekly processing of800 freelance and internal employees.
• Designed state of the art video conferencing system utilizing Life Size products with animmediate cost savings of 500k annually.
• Architect of high-speed fault tolerant WAN architecture connecting all offices telephony,internet, and other technology resources with complete off-site disaster recovery environmentin Syracuse.
• Redesigned 24 Seven’s websites in a PHP/SQL framework. In addition to developing self containedcandidate application utilizing.NET, AJAX, Cold Fusion, SQL and OLAP framework.

US

• Reported directly to CFO/COO of a premier Omnicom advertising agency. Responsiblefor all aspects of technology development and support including budget planning, vendor,negotiation and staffing. Managed annual IT.
• Served as one of seven members on IT steering committee for Omnicom worldwidedeveloping global technology standards, creating a savings of $20 MM in centralizingsoftware and hardware initiatives for over 60,000.
• Redesigned network infrastructure with hands-on approach to incorporate latest email(Exchange 2003), server technologies (Windows 2003, Linux, Solaris, OSX Server/RAID)wireless devices (Blackberry), firewall security.
• Defined company IT policies and procedures for supporting multi-platform Mac and PCenvironment consisting of latest Windows XP/Mac OSX workstations and Windows/Linux/OSX servers.
• Migrated and implemented Great Plains accounting system for the
• Implemented video conferencing and telecommunications solution utilizing Polycomand Avaya/Cisco VOIP, creating an instant savings of $100k annually while improving newbusiness presentations and day-to-day client.

• Successfully launched a new content-based web site for the empowerment of Hispanicwomen in the same genre as ivillage.com and oxygen.com. Designed and developed stateof the art website architecture with $5MM budget.
• Hired and supervised 30+ staff of programmers, developers and other internal technicians.
• Built 24/7 data center server farm supporting high-end Sun-Unix and Windows platformshosting Oracle databases in a redundant Cisco network architecture.
• Responsible for all aspects of technology development and support including budgetplanning, vendor negotiation, staffing and client interaction.
• Given full leadership, negotiating and decision making responsibility for creatingtechnology plan and overall success of establishing additional sales channels, co-branding,and sponsorship opportunities. Presented.
• Created loyalty and incentive programs boosting user activity and registration. Utilizedlatest CRM based technologies such as Siebel, Delano, and

New York, NY, US

• Led the design, development and execution of four major internet/intranet sites.Handled all aspects of team development, requirements documentation, contractnegotiations, software development and network design that.
• Successfully pitched new business and served in all aspects of presentation andproposal writing while handling all vendor and contract negotiations with major hostingand communications providers.
• Developed strategic client strategy while identifying latest technology solutions for multipleInternet and interactive projects such as IKEA.com, Christian Dior, Tanqueray.com, Bank ofAmerica and many more.
• Managed multifunctional teams while developing technology, business strategy, andbudgeting overall site construction for clients.
• Introduced new technologies and created a competitive advantage for those companies.
• Developed innovative technology solutions to integrated marketing problems. Project cyclesranged as much as one year for IKEA.com, a multi-faceted complex site, to two monthsfor a project such as Christian Dior.

New York, NY, US

• Reporting to CFO and Donny Deutsch. Given full strategic planning, leadership anddecision-making authority for building the entire IT department and network infrastructureof the only privately owned top ten advertising.
• Maintained budget and technology resources of up to $2MM agency-wide includingremote offices in Los Angeles.
• Constructed and maintained LAN/WAN network in NY and LA offices utilizing Novell,Windows, and SCO/UNIX server operating systems. Supported multiplatform workstationsand servers (UNIX/PC/Mac) as well as outsourced media.
• Recruited trained and developed a staff of up to 10 support personnel and technologistsin NY and LA
• Established help desk support procedures while training new creatives

New York, NY, US