Within my current role for this leading provider of dining services to consumers and public and private organizations throughout the Northeast of the United States, I am responsible for leading the IT team within a rapidly changing sector, while ensuring corporate vision is achieved through delivery of growth and innovation strategies. I have delivered significant improvements to business practices, processes and technologies through the introduction of an Inventory Accuracy Roadmap, which achieved 95% and higher Inventory Accuracy practices. Initiated a 3-5 year program to create a revolutionary in the Industry Line of Business Application for the School Nutrition business unit that will increase productivity, manage costs and save around a Million dollars in licensing fees in the next 5 years

Director of IT (2004-2010): Integrated critical applications. Engineered and implemented fully meshed 25-site MPLS network with QoS for data and voice applications, offsite MOZY data backup platform, and Cisco VoIP with more than 300 endpoints. Developed 5-year, multi-million dollar IT budget. Delivered business intelligence capabilities, including reporting models and analytics. Managed relationships with vendors and subsidiaries. Implemented e-mail file archiving solution using Symantec eVault. Introduced centralized wireless application, document management, workflow automation, and data center virtualization and virtual desktop using VMware technologies. Accelerated company growth from $50 million to $500 million by creating IT function and overseeing data center, network engineering, desktop support, application architecture, help desk outsourcing, and telecommunications. Aligned IT function with company business goals by creating IT governance committee.Re-engineered all networks by using Cisco switching, routing, and wireless technologies, and engineered communications platform using Exchange, Cisco Call Manager, Unity, and Blackberry Enterprise Server.Automated key business processes by managing application architecture. Developed set of measurable IT metrics by collecting data from databases

Supervised team of 4 employees. Managed Windows NT and 2000 / 2003 network with 15 servers and 200 workstations across Wide Area Network (WAN). Deployed Windows 2000 Active Directory, Exchange 2000, and SQL Server 7.5. Deployed WAN using DSL clouds and T1 lines. Administered Citrix MetaFrame XP Farm. Performed network administration and troubleshooting for TCP / IP network. Implemented corporate Antivirus policies. Used Veritas Backup Exec 8.0 to centralize backup policies. Configured Exchange Mail user mailboxes. Administered NT File Server backups using Backup Exec. Installed NT networks. Increased job costing and document management capabilities by programming company wide access and Visual Basic DB systems, and designing NT networks, networking systems, and infrastructure.Improved employee productivity by training personnel on new Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, and Project) and Primavera P3 and Expedition.

Designed Windows pier-to-pier network. Deployed Windows NT network, including cabling, ISDN lines, routers, hubs, NT and Exchange Server. Created Access and Visual Basic databases. Provided software training. Scheduled CPMs using Primavera's Suretrak, P3 Project Planner, and Microsoft Project.

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