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Centennial, Colorado, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

• Developed and led geographically dispersed team of 50 IT staff across North America (US and Canada), overseeing IT Operations, Project Delivery, End User Computing, and Level 2-3 IT support for several business units. • Proactively managed $5M internal IT budget while also providing oversight of $100M in annual IT related business spend, provided monthly forecasting, variance identification and overall budget management, achieving IT cost goal of less than 1% of company revenue.• Provided project management leadership for planning and execution of all end user IT deployments, completing many complex projects requiring extensive collaboration between IT staff and internal business stakeholders to understand requirements, formulate solutions, and remove all roadblocks to success.• Guided M&A activities, leading project teams of external and internal IT resources to ensure that acquired companies’ disparate systems and staff were rapidly and effectively integrated into corporate end user computing environment.• Supported Crisis and Situational escalations, responding effectively to operational emergencies while maintaining focus on longer term projects, following up with root cause analysis to mitigate future incidents.• Championed ITIL framework, developing and maintaining organizational scorecards and KPI metrics to achieve desired business outcomes.• Effectively collaborated with external resources, internal IT, and business stakeholders, identifying opportunities to apply data-driven decisions to new technology and products to increase business efficiency.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Developed and led team of 25 IT Support Analysts spread across wide geographic region in Northern US and Canada, overseeing all IT Operations, End User Computing, and Level 2 IT support within region of 11,000 employees and 150+ sites.• Proactively managed $3M internal IT budget while also providing oversight of $40M in annual IT related spend, including both operational and capital expenses.• Actively managed multiple vendors and vendor contracts throughout US and Canada, negotiating with vendors to realize annual savings of $550k.• Led project to achieve printer optimization across 150 sites, reducing 35% of corporate print devices, resulting in $2M annual savings.• Planned and executed all end user impacting projects and deployments, with minimal downtime.

• Led 10-person System Admin & DBA team which supported $500 million software development organization across multiple global sites, including Linux/UNIX, Oracle, Windows, Enterprise Data Storage to support development of software used in Geophysical and Geologic mapping.• Managed $10M annual IT budget, encompassing all operational technology costs in R&D.• Coordinated work with offshore development partners, maintaining collaboration zone used by each location to share data and foster development.

• Led project to consolidate two separate 100-person software development organizations and infrastructure, including Windows, UNIX/Linux, Data Storage, Exchange, SCCM, Web Servers and all networking equipment.• Created and executed design specifications and deployment of 2500 sq. ft. data center, supporting diverse range of software development efforts.• “Hands On” administration of all aspects of daily IT operations.

• Responsible for all technology needs and support of a $22 million software development organization• Managed team of IT professionals in project planning and execution, daily operations and maintenance issues. • Responsible for budgeting and forecasting all enterprise IT costs.• Evaluated and maintained all vendor relationships, effectively managed all operational costs.• “Hands On” administration of all aspects of daily IT operations.

• Responsible for design and maintenance of a network test environment. Environment included Microsoft, Novell, and Linux.• Authored and executed test plans to reveal defects in a multi-user, project-based geologic mapping system. • Designed and ran daily automated testing using various test tools.• Assisted Development teams in creating software requirements and architecture for multi-user project data sharing.

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