Gabriel Sanchez Email & Phone Number

San Juan Capistrano, California, Us

[5 direct reports, 6 indirect reports, 850+ users, 1250+ devices, 10 locations, 4 continents] Responsible for managing all aspects of Fluidmaster’ s global I.T. operations (USA, Mexico, Slovenia, UK, Turkey, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, China, and Australia), which includes a global technology roadmap, annual budgets, personnel performance reviews, develop and mentor team on career path and opportunities, policies and procedures, standards, cybersecurity risk assessments engagements and compliance, systems availability, managing vendors and contractors, managing contracts, metrics.Recently focusing on improving our cybersecurity maturity level, management approved the upgrade of our MS plan from E1 to E3+E5 Security Addon (~$1M investment over 3 years), this allowed us to:• Replaced our malware solution globally to Microsoft Defender• Upgraded Office 2013 to the latest stable release of MS 365 Apps• Replaced Meraki device management solution to MS Intune• Upgraded MS Config Manager to the latest branch and configured in co-managed with Intune• Reduce cost (~40k/yr.) by leveraging MS license to perform internal cybersecurity simulations• Enable Azure Sentinel as our SIEM solutionOther recent projects that I was responsible for:• Implemented strong passwords, SPECOPS (blacklist/filter) passwords, and MFA to improve our security posture and to be compliant with the cybersecurity insurance requirements.• Mitigate ransomware by replicating backups to an Immutable storage (Amazon S3 buckets)• Implemented a new ITIL certified helpdesk solution (HaloITSM) that helped leverage global IT resources and improve inter-communication• Setup and moved to a new manufacturing plant in Slovenia and NetherlandsCurrently we have the following technologies deployed globally; Oracle JD Edwards, HyperV, MS SQL, Exchange , SharePoint, Dell , FortiGate, AOVPN, Extreme Networks, Meraki/Cisco Wireless, SCCM, Veeam, Win 10 Hello, Bitdefender, MS Defender and Intune, Azure MFA.

San Juan Capistrano, California, Us

Responsible for managing the global IT Operations resources (Mexico, China, UK, and USA). Summary of Achievements:• Reduced telecom expenses more than 30% (~$100k/yr.) and increased 200% the performance at the same time• Reduced ~$100k/yr. on Microsoft maintenance fees by not upgrading Office 2013 (incompatible with 3rd business apps.)• Reduced operating expense by virtualizing and consolidating 70% of our physical servers. We went from 40+ physical servers down to 12• Supported the integration of newly acquired companies globally• Designed and implemented Fluidmaster’ s global IT Disaster Recovery Plan• Created a self-service helpdesk portal reducing 10% our I.T. helpdesk tickets. This initiative allowed use to eliminate a PC Tech position that was vacant• Established I.T. metrics, overachieving our customer satisfaction goal of 3.5, on average we are receiving a score of 3.8 out of 4 • Created standards, work instructions, and implemented a corrective action process to name a few of the process improvement accomplished• High availability design and implementation of Oracle’s JD Edwards 9.1

San Juan Capistrano, California, Us

Supported the setup of a manufacturing plant in Mexico, negotiated the building lease, built the Finance, Accounting and Human resources departments, created the initial operation budget and was responsible for the financial and accounting operation of our new plant in Monterrey, Mexico.

San Juan Capistrano, California, Us

During this time I was responsible for managing the project to move assembly operations to Mexico. Managing an inter-disciplinary team, reporting to the corporate Finance controller. Applied Kepner-Tregoe methodology/tools to manage this project.

Hendersonville, Nc, Us

Team leader for the Kyocera Tycom IST (Information Systems & Technology) department. Responsible for managing internal and external resources to support global infrastructure and Business applications. Key accomplishments include designing, planning, installing and managing a globally distributed network (LAN/WAN/VPN), implementing solutions using .NET, integrating the Information Systems and Information Technology teams into one, leading various software and hardware projects, and managing all support contracts with external partners (ERP, Telecommunication, Software, Hardware, etc.).

Co-Owner of a small software company. Responsible for gathering specs, design the architecture, programming and implementation of a medical device management system that was custom build for QC Orthocare (Irvine). This application was FDA certified on 21 CFR PART11 (handling electronic records).

In charge of the IT department and software development. Installed IPX Network LAN based on Novell servers, implemented a NEC PBX, and developed solutions for point of sales, inventory, quality control, purchasing, etc. (using MS Foxpro and implemented nationally across sales offices). Performed troubleshooting for networks IPX and TCP/IP, windows PC’s and Novell servers. Also managed IT resources and vendors.

Specialty, Telecommunications Engineering

Specialization, Phyton For Everyone

Bd, Computer Engineering