Eric Colson Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, TX, US

I/T support for the Corporate office of a private conglomerate company specializing in the restaurant industry but also owning companies related to marketing, food processing, real estate, construction, horse and cattle breeding, horse racing etc.Provide support for W2008 servers, network support, application support for Timberline, Food Trak, Laserfiche.

Numerous positions including inside and outside B2B sales as a Business Technology Consultant for Best Buy For Business, BBFB and new hire training for store 1032 N. Irving, TX, computer and appliance sales, and Geek Squad computer setup and repair with hardware and software installations (part time and full time).

Short term consulting project on Asterisk (Linux) based VoIP phone system for The March Group, a merger and acquisitions company based out of Coral Ridge, FL. We selected PBXtra by Fonality based on ease of use, minimal license fees and ongoing support.

• Managed the I/T dept. of Winfree Academy Charter School’s DFW (TX) high school district rebuilding a network of 5 campuses with new computers, network equipment and cabling dramatically increasing network speed and.
• Developed all network administration and I/T dept. documentation for WACS consisting of vendor contacts and contracts, budgetary documents, trouble ticket trend analysis, asset inventory, state grant financial.
• Saved Winfree Academy Charter Schools $50K in a district rebuild project and $32K annually in telecom costs through volume purchasing/discounting and contract negotiations.

• Managed IBM US network of 25 technical education centers including LANS, all vendor contracts, $3.8M budget, problem determination/resolution, hardware/software upgrades, daily support, documentation etc.
• Upgraded 19 of the IBM 25 Ed centers from Token Ring to Ethernet managing the total project with a cost of $330,000.
• Lead small network team at IBM consisting of a server administrator, network security programmer and co-ops for local network support.
• Saved IBM $2M over 2 years and an additional $1M over 4 years through aggressive cost cutting, account management and consolidation, outsourcing, partnerships, technology upgrades etc.