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Greater Boston Area

MANAGER / GLOBAL REMOTE OFFICES (October 2014 to November 2015)Directed and project managed global security remediation program for 8K global servers and 70K global desktop assets, utilizing a staff of 400, managing $700K budget delivering on time and within budget. Results safe-guarded corporate assets, leveraged Mandiant technology, VM and desktop.

Greater Boston Area

• Thomson Scientific, Boston, Massachusetts,Supervised migrating data from 1200 global servers and 3K global desktops using 40 full-time employees, in 27 international locations in seven countries to new Microsoft.
• Merged three IT teams into a single cohesive unit while lowering cost by 20%
• Initiated and coordinated IT projects and activities with business partners and C level executives while managing $3M budget.
• Increased end-user satisfaction by 30%.
• Completed divestiture transfer of technological information within 90-day timeline and within budget.
• Lowered operating cost by 30%

Greater Boston Area

• Thomson Compu-Mark, Boston, MassachusettsSupervised and managed operations of data center generating $65M in revenue in trademark research and brand protection organization.DIRECTOR, TECHNOLOGY THOMSON COMPU-MARK (July.
• Oversaw operations of 38 employees in support of 600 desktops and 500 servers with annual budget of $4M.
• Supervised team providing multi-faceted hardware and application support, including web-based revenue. Established cooperative relationships with vendors, superiors, colleagues, and staff.
• Generated $12M revenue with 90% profit margin by creating innovative, E commerce web service for the organization. Environment was fault-tolerant with support extended to selected end-users. This was the first.
• Data Center management: Sustained five Sigma uptime for six years and increased customer satisfaction by 40% through improving data applications and systems to fault tolerant criteria. Accomplished via redundant system.
• Lowered operational expenditures by 10% for six consecutive years through early adoption of VM technologies.