I am an independent business technologist, working at the intersection of business and technology, in the commercial and social enterprise arenas, acting as a IT business analyst and partner, business and technology strategist, and trusted advisor, and someone who simply wants help business and IT leaders and organizations to realize the true purpose and value of technology. I do this under the umbrella business, Gil Technology Group, LLC. I've spent most of my career in information technology (IT) in disciplines ranging from software programming, system engineering, business analysis, technology strategy, planning, management, and consulting. I've served in positions ranging from software developer, so0ftware systems engineer, independent technology consultant and service provider, IT strategic planner and business analyst, and IT associate, manager and director. I've worked in industries including government, telecommunications, management and technology consulting, and nonprofit.I have 26+ combined years of professional experience in information technology field. I have 7+ years of experience planning and directing IT organization's strategic goals and objectives, working with corporate management in maintaining overall business and technology alignment, recommending and approving technology acquisitions and setting IT policy and procedures. I have 4+ years of experience leading and directing all of the IT function, ensuring the IT organization's strategic goals and objectives are aligned with the enterprise, and working with executive management in establishing IT strategy.

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Provide overall leadership and direct the organization's technology efforts to ensure continuous development and execution of technical strategies that enable effective use of business technology; provide vision and leadership for developing and implementing information technology initiatives; support business operations in order to improve cost effectiveness and service quality within the operations and focus areas of the organization.Maintain information technology strategies by managing technology resources; researching and implementing technological strategic solutions and provide leadership for the organization's effective and efficient use of business technology by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.

• Analyzed and validated functional requirements specifications for a food assistance non-profit agency to assist in the acquisition of a donor, event, and volunteer database management system.• Provided advice and guidance to assist various organization clients in the exploration, selection, evaluation, and implementation of several information/database management systems.

• Provided IT business analysis and consulting to small and medium-sized management and technology consulting firms needing supplemental resources and expertise to ease staff workload, reduce implementation cost, and improve customer solution acceptance.• Analyzed business technology needs and goals, translated them into business requirements, formulated technology solution plans driven by business outcomes, focused on capacity building, and resulted in working plans.

• Shared responsibility for developing strategic technology plans and solution requirements documentation and leading business requirements gathering and verification for web-database application development.

• Designed, developed and tested, deliverable device and application-level software to manage the image download process for 32 switch-shelf circuit packs, performance monitoring, hardware initialization, and system test software of an optical networking transport system. Performed all standard and required verification testing.• Served as the developing team technical lead for the Performance Monitoring Development Group.

• Constructed, configured, and installed over 100 desktop computer/workstations for individual consumers, small businesses, faith-based and community-based organizations.• Designed, installed, and configured several computer labs with 5 to 15 computers for several CBOs and small businesses to increase client services and to support client training.• Designed, installed, and configured several office LANs with 5 to 10 computer workstations for several small businesses and community-based organizations to support file, print, and internet sharing capabilities.

• Developed and administered certification test plans for 2 prototype network control stations test bed systems to evaluate army radio communication terminals in satellite multiple access mode.• Shared responsibilities to developed wide area munitions prototype software. Directly responsible for developing the code to control the system clock timing, scheduling, reporting, and encryption algorithm emulation. • Developed software task plans, project effort and cost estimates to numerate future effort and tasking needed to support government defense customers and project leaders.