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La Jolla, CA, US

• Determine capital investment parameters, priorities and risks for enterprise-wide IT initiatives to maximize the return on investment.
• Make key contribution to the formulation of the company’s business and digital strategies.
• Develop an IT vision / strategy and lead the IT team and its business partners in effective execution.
• Ensure that current and planned technical architecture, investments and solutions are aligned with company business objectives.
• Prepare and monitor IT operational budgets that meet prevailing objectives and constraints.
• Ensure transparency and collaboration between the IT organization and its business partners

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Oversees all aspects of the IT infrastructure, telecommunications, networks, technical support including helpdesk, release management, and business continuity for internal and company solutions
• Responsible for the design, development, release and maintenance of technology systems and services for all enterprise business functions
• Act as technical head of all Information Technology and related activities regarding the business and our customer product lines
• Establish, plan, and administer overall policies and goals for the IT and Production Operations areas
• Coordinate with business partners and develop strategies to implement various IT solutions effectively
• Administer and delivery of all IT projects on time and on budget

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

* Manage Infrastructure Cloud and Locally based technologies* Manage Multiple Environments and Code Releases to those Environments* Implement Alerting, Monitoring and Trending into environments to identify and re mediate potential bottlenecks before they occur.* Implement and champion the Change Management Process for both Cloud Based and on premise based.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Act as administrative and technical head of all Information Technology and related activities.
• Establishes, plans, and administers the overall policies and goals for the information technology department.
• Responsible for the operational implementation and ongoing management of outsourcing strategies including negotiations, contracts and service level agreements.
• Manages implementation risk and project economics, defines deliverable content, and ensures buy-in of proposed solutions.
• Design IT infrastructure for a global/multi-site organization.
• Addresses all ERP/IT demands. Work with functional areas to help optimize corporate and departmental ERP effectiveness.

Edina, Minnesota, US

Consulted on a project to migrate 150 servers from one data center to a new data center. Responsible for identifying key services per server along with dependencies and then schedule times to move the services or decommission the ones no longer used.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Responsible for the IT and communications infrastructure for the corporate campus along with global infrastructure needs to 18 remote sites. Accountable for all day to day operational tasks along with managing new IT.
• Network (LAN / WAN)
• Server
• Database \ Storage
• Help Desk
• PC Support

US

• Manage 20 FTEs within the Automated Solutions group
• 2 teams, spread out between Duluth, Greensboro NC and Trumbull CT. 2 Resources in India.
• Responsible for Automation opportunities within the QPPID area
• Interact with different business management areas to create technology solutions to maintain their inventory.
• Each member of the dept is equivalent to 22 FTEs on the floor which is a 10 FTE rise since June.
• Implemented a variety of access and sql databases for business units to leverage to be more efficient and save cost.

Frisco, TX, US

• Responsible for all internal IT hardware, software, and processes
• Responsible for IT vendor interaction with contracts and billing
• Supervise the network support and application support teams
• Responsible for 24X7 Level 2 internal and external customer support
• Responsible for Level 1 Internal customer support
• Designed and implemented an internal application deployment system that enabled end users to deploy the software builds without IT intervention. Process saved 2 FTE’s from being hired

Frisco, TX, US

• Manage internal Networking team
• Supervise one manager responsible for Application support team
• Responsible for supporting servers, network devices, phone systems, and Desktops
• Responsible for 24x7 networking on call support
• Responsible for 24x7 Application on call support
• Responsible for evaluating, recommending, purchasing, and implementing all new hardware and software

US

• Design and oversaw implementation of SQL 2000 cluster using EMX San technology.
• Administer, and maintain a clustered Production database server
• Administer and maintain 2 internal staging database servers
• Administer and maintain a development database server
• Review and deploy database change scripts for all software releases to production
• Defined process for customers to get custom reports created and deployed to production environment

Frisco, TX, US

• Manage Database services
• Manage Network services
• Designed and Implemented ISA Server
• Designed and Implemented Sharepoint Server
• Designed and Implemented Project 2003 server
• Designed and Implementing Exchange 2003 server

Frisco, TX, US

• Administer, monitor, and maintain 6 remote client database servers
• Administer and maintain 2 internal production database servers
• Administer and maintain 2 development database servers
• Create and maintain deploy scripts for all software releases
• Make recommendations and assist developers with design and T-SQL coding
• Research, recommend, and implement new hardware and software solutions

- Administer, monitor, and maintain 9 production SQL Servers (5 local and 4 remote) that contain over 300gb of information in 40+ different databases and 3 development SQL Servers.- Document SQL policy and procedure.- Research, recommend, purchase, and implement any new software or hardware for SQL servers.- On call 24x7x365 for production related problems.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

implemented and monitored servers. was responsible for 10 servers including the exchange and sql 7 db server. responsibilities included ensuring systems were up and available and performance was maintained along with ensuring backups and recovery options.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

Monitor all production systems around the country for the Food Sector and Salt Divisions. Answer calls from employees located all over the world regarding technical problems experienced Mentor new employees and available on call for questions.