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Greater Salt Lake City Area

CIO for The Everest Group, Century 21 Everest, All Valley Escrow, and affiliated companies. Provide strategic direction and support for the IT infrastructure in an effort to provide better and more reliable service to our constituents.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Managing all aspects of corporate networks for clients including Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, Web Servers, converged infrastructure, VMware, Hyper-V, colocation and replication. Provide managed services, Exchange and Active Directory migrations, project management, and security consulting to companies in a wide variety of industries.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Manage all aspects of the IT infrastructure at Castle & Cooke Mortgage for our corporate headquarters and 40 branches from Florida to Hawaii including telecommunications and data communications. Procure, provision, and support all IT needs at all locations to support loan origination while managing the servers and infrastructure on the back-end to allow us to close everything in world class time.

Ogden, Ut

Directed all network and communications infrastructure for UMB Fund Services (formerly JD Clark & Company), a third party hedge fund administrator. Responsibilities included security, firewalls, anti-virus, patch management and software deployment. Guided software development of in-house fund accounting package and handled all patches and software revisions. Managed company web and ftp sites for communication with clients, prospects, and auditors. Administered all aspects of communication: email, fax, voice and wireless. Maintained all servers both physical and virtual as well as iSCSI network storage and tape backup. Tested and documented tape backup and recovery procedures for audit purposes. Established network and process documentation and managed control narratives to ensure compliance with SAS 70 audit requirements. Transitioned all network data, services, and computing infrastructure to UMB as part of their acquisition of JD Clark & Company.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Managed the infrastructure and technology of Wasatch Advisors, a mutual fund company with over $10 billion in AUM. Responsible for strategic planning, network design and infrastructure, and software development. Ensured security of all corporate data through roles-based provisioning, firewalls, patching, and physical and logical security as evidenced by independent quarterly security assessments. Selected, implemented, and maintained investment management systems including portfolio accounting, reconciliation, and on-line trading systems. Initiated a server consolidation project to reduce physical server count by 60 percent while reducing costs and improving performance, reliability, and business continuity utilizing virtualization technologies. Documented policies and procedures and implemented change management process to ensure compliance with SAS 70 audit requirements. Managed network infrastructure staff responsible for operation of 50+ virtual servers and 20+ physical servers running Windows, Exchange, SQL and Linux on a 15 terabyte SAN and IBM tape library. Supervised developers and business analysts in the creation of business software solutions and application integration utilizing web services built in a .NET environment. Established business continuity capability by SAN mirroring to an off-site datacenter and utilizing boot-from-SAN, VLAN’s, and virtual servers to create redundancy. Initiated data warehouse implementation to centralize Security Master functions and act as a central repository for custom development and to feed data to other applications.

Mba, International Business

Ba, Finance