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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 imaging.Managed database team during a global Active Directory remediation program, resulting in a stabilizing the environment and improved uptime performance to 4+ sigma. Changed the data model to better fit needs of transition team, improving reporting methodology, and improved program execution strategies.Team member in analysis and execution of new business acquisitions. Developed integration of acquisition into existing services and ERP while adding over $2M in revenue as member of Senior-Executive Team.Initiated lower-cost global standards for 260 remote locations in 140 countries. Planned and executed data center consolidations and relocations. Primary DC consolidation in India, EMEA and Asia, focus on VM and cloud migration focusing on lower support cost solutions. Supported client-facing (revenue) applications, web-based product support, including external trouble resolution for clients. Network and email support in Asia and India, global and regional databases and VDI farms (4K users). Improved global processes resulting in a savings of 40% including 30% staff reduction

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 domain.DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY (October 2011 to October 2015)• 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 1997 to October2011)• 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 e-commerce product introduced by Thomson Reuters. Managed infrastructure, product development team, and technical support (client facing).• 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 design and real time data replication and extensive monitoring of the applications. Leveraged VM and emerging technology to support objective. Sustained revenue growth of 45%.• Lowered operational expenditures by 10% for six consecutive years through early adoption of VM technologies.• Created portable disaster recovery solutions using data mobility and storage products such as EMC, VM, and Network Appliance software and services by synchronizing data changes hourly. Provided flexibility in how to manage DR and lowered cost by 60%. Concept leverage by TR to create scalable pod technology • Reduced operational and capital expenditures by 25% by implementing virtual technology• Increased end-user satisfaction by 40%.