Gregory Beasley Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis Area

• Accountable for the advancement of IT long range plans aligned with the strategic direction, investment, capability, quality, and cost of global IT services.• Operate across R&D, Commercial, Enterprise Productivity, and Supply Chain globally to ensure success of critical business and IT strategies.• Developed micro and macro cost model analysis for the ITLT highlighting the corporate impact of cloud service and devops/agile transformation over the next five to ten years.• Leading critical Data center Transformation program to Private Cloud

Greater St. Louis Area

• Accountable for the advancement of strategic direction, investment, capability, quality, and cost of global infrastructure services.• Lead the collaboration and development of the global infrastructure LRP and LCM process that enabled creation of the first multiyear forecast. • Lead the Investment Steering team responsible for review, recommendation, and stewardship of capital for infrastructure globally. Enabled teams to execute on nearly double our customary capital in FY15 accelerating regional datacenter, ecosystem, and next generation backup strategies. • Launched the Global Network Transformation Program based on the critical needs for quality network services, new capabilities and supportable environment. Facilitated initial concept formation with cross functional teams, vendor coordination, and ultimately board approval for the multiyear, multi million dollar program.• Communicated the efficiency that allowed us to continue operating flat, while highlighting the technical debt that has created an unsustainable operating model at current investment levels.• Present all capital investment business cases to the executive team for approval. Drove shifts in capital approval culminating in capital approvals being completed prior to the beginning of the FY resulting in ability of teams to execute throughout the year.• Advocated for the need for focus on enhanced planning due to the complexity and inter dependencies of the technical strategies, life-cycle, service improvement plans allowing for better investment and progress towards supporting business initiatives.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Lead the Unix, Linux, VmWare, storage, Network and voice delivery teams. Responsible for cost center management and project delivery metrics.• Led the planning and execution of the global asset virtualization program resulting in significant savings and industry leading 70% virtualization. IT Value Award finalist.• Partnered with Cisco to migrate from Dell servers to UCS blades enabling Millions in savings, extended the life of the datacenter, and increased compute sourcing flexibility. IT value award finalist.• Motivated team and developed efficiencies that allowed for delivery of 80% increase in projects with half the delivery resources.• Collaborated closely with the Biotech and TPS teams to onboard new technologies such as sequencers, Illumina, solexa, and genomequest.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Lead team of IT resources responsible for supporting the Unix/Linux, VMS, and ESX infrastructure. • Performed as problem lead for all Unix & VMware production issues, followed by leading the post event root cause analysis, and any technical or process recommendations to prevent or minimize future impact to the business.• Reduced the number of preventable unplanned infrastructure outages by 57% resulting in higher availability and less disruption to the business.• Responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance for server infrastructure including managing the Sarbanes-Oxley process. No significant comments on any audits occurred.. • Completed global efforts to simplify environment by eliminating proprietary infrastructure technologies such as Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Tru64, & VMS. All services are now hosted on commodity hardware running ESX, Windows, and Linux.

Carlinville, Il

Feb 1998 – September 2001Director of Sales Technical Development• Evaluate and develop new technical service offerings• Lead team of Presales engineersMay 1994-Feb 1998Infrastructure Installation and Support Lead• Lead team supporting network, compute, storage and databases.• Responsible for all technical installation of new infrastructure and upgrades in North America June 1991-May 1994Installation and Conversion Team Lead• .Responsible for all technical installation of new infrastructure and upgrades in North America.May 1987-June 1991Installation and Training Administrator• Install Unix/VMS servers, telecommunications equipment, peripherals, and pull conversion data• Train company employees on turnkey software including GL, AR, AP, Inventory, Service management, Purchasing, and point of sale modules.