Eric B. Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Information Security Leader across multiple disciplines- vCISO / vCIO - Serve as a part time information security leader and information technology executive for a variety of customers across multiple verticalsPrimary duties include managing risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability by designing and applying technical, physical, and.

United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, Greater New York City Area

• Acquired and built sales pipelines for two new product lines previously unsupported. Each achieved over 1M in revenue in the first 18 months.
• Obtain a 9.79/10 customer satisfaction rating across all initiatives driven through network, database, storage and servers teams.
• Effectively direct and lead solution-oriented practice within Healthcare, gaming, IT and information management verticals to increase corporate revenues.
• Spearhead efforts to design a customer tracking solution integrated into gaming floor WIFI networking to increase operational efficiency.
• Present IT gaming strategies at Global Gaming Expo and National Indian Gaming Association.
• Skillfully build a turnkey private cloud solution competitively priced to Elastic Compute Cloud and Rackspace model.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Utilized extensive management and technical skills to drive core information technology functions for approximately 55,000 global employees, leading a 250-person team of direct and matrixed reports operating from a $30.
• Successfully rebuilt the organization to align with business strategic direction, creating an organization that scaled on-demand with growth while reducing annual IT operating costs by 30% and driving 50% increase in.
• Effectively led a cross organization technology transformation strategy involving 1,500 staff and $500 million budget.
• Re-tooled IT Infrastructure time to market strategy, increasing infrastructure to drive $10 million annually in cost avoidance.
• Effectively built a global server delivery practice enabling infrastructure deployments measured in hours instead of week or months.
• Built strategic partnerships with HP, Cisco and NetApp, created dedicated teams and matched business need to technology solution, delivering infrastructure projects six times faster over two years.

• Manage the groups responsible for the installation, configuration and deployment all Server, Application, Database, OS and LAN hardware and software in support of business environments.
• Develop and manage imaging, scripting and automation solutions to insure effective implementation process and documentation.
• Coordinate and manage datacenter and campus fiber and copper cabling plant and associated tasks, projects and resources
• Ensure the demand and supply of server build resources are matched through forecasting, workload balancing and project management.
• Develop working relationships with senior systems management in other businesses. Develop shared standards for all Platforms.
• Coordinate and collaborate with development and architecture teams to establish appropriate hardware, OS and application standards and images

Greater New York City Area

• Conceptualized, implemented and managed a department responsible for improving the end to end infrastructure delivery times. In the first year IT implementation times were reduced by 50% with a scope of ~200.
• Operational responsibility included Unix, Windows, Storage, and load balance devices (F5).
• Managed the closure of a 2000 device data center and migration to a new facility.

Greater New York City Area

• Operational responsibility for the day to day operations of Thomson Financial's Infrastructure Operations, including Unix, Windows, Storage, and Architecture.

Princeton NJ & Manhattan NYC

• Strategic and operational responsibility for all IT and DC functions across the company. Managed two company & data center moves.
• Built a technology infrastructure that enabled company growth from 2.5M to 18M in 5 years.