Terry Hall Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Artificial Intelligence...Cloud Services...Big Data...Mobile Computing...Data Security -- today's rapidly evolving IT challenges demand the most sophisticated solutions that reduce costs and risks while adding flexibility and scalability and driving business value. The RDBC Group has a track record of success in creating and deploying innovative technology.

Retained to drive my client's business expansion through the creation of a Sales & Marketing function, with the objective of the acquisition of new clients and revenue growth from existing clients.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• For fifty years, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles has had a mission to provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of high-quality, affordable, comprehensive reproductive health care and sexual.
• Transitional support and mentoring to a newly hired IT Director
• Developing short, medium and long-term strategic goals
• Systems security, including data-at-rest, data-in-motion, secure perimeter, and Active Directory policies
• IT infrastructure audit, which led to over $100,000 in realizable savings through identifying buyers for obsolete equipment
• 'Rightsizing' IT infrastructure and advising on hyper-converged and hybrid infrastructure as a future goal

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Three W International is North America’s foremost international student management company with operations in the U.S. and China. The company partners with highly desired private educational institutions by supplying.
• Re-architecting the global Enterprise infrastructure utilizing the TOGAF framework with a focus on migrating core IT processes to Azure cloud, creating a DevOps facility leveraging Docker microservices, with a mix of.
• Creating the strategic technology roadmap with a focus on Workflow Management & Business Process Automation/Orchestration
• Creating a methodology for evaluating, selecting, managing and renegotiating vendor relationships, resulting in reducing overall IT costs by 22% by way of: - reducing telecoms expenditures by more than 40% - reducing.
• Leading the project for evaluating & selecting the most appropriate ITIL Service Management vendor for China IT Operations
• Conducting an extensive vulnerability assessment, and applying the SANS Institute’s 20 Critical Controls for security management

Los Angeles, California, US

• My client is a worldwide provider of media content, technology, and connectivity solutions to the travel industry. Through the industry's most comprehensive product and services platform, GEE provides airlines with a.
• Systems Integration and Consolidation
• Business Process Reengineering and Automation/Orchestration
• ITIL-focused Service Management
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Data Security

• My client produces a software development environment/IDE widely used within the European defense industry. They had been approached by several clients to develop SaaS applications, and the CEO realized that to exploit.
• implementing a blended Zachman/TOGAF EA framework for re-architecting the Enterprise
• creating the strategic technology roadmap and prioritizing workloads
• building a PMO and DevOps facility using a Bimodal IT model
• transitioning from a Waterfall SDLC to an AGILE development methodology
• creating high-level business cases, assessing risks, and performing ROI analysis

• My client is part of a 12-member co-operative that generates ‘Green Power’ from renewable sources, and was established to coordinate selling the electricity generated by the co-ops onto the National Grid. A new project.
• reviewing GSEC’s current infrastructure, then in close consultation with the CIO, PMO, DevOps and IT Support teams, creating a Strategic Plan that delivers the Enterprise Vision, utilizing a Gartner-esque EA framework.
• designing a hybrid hyperconverged on-prem/cloud datacenter
• ‘rightsizing’ the physical infrastructure to support the Strategic Plan
• creating an Agile DevOps facility for Line Of Business (LOB) applications
• selecting and deploying an ITIL-compliant Service Management application

• Architecting and implementing a data center specifically to provide Mining as a Service (MaaS) for the cryptocurrency industry, involving sourcing custom-built hardware and software, selecting appropriate hosting.
• Providing consulting services to high net worth individuals on cryptocurrency investments (i.e. BitCoin, LiteCoin, etc), including coin mining, currency trading and accepting cryptocurrencies in exchange for goods and.
• Client and project specifics are covered by Confidentiality and/or Non-Disclosure Agreements

Oxnard, California, US

• Birns, Inc is a world-leading manufacturer of lighting and data & power connection equipment for sub-sea and nuclear industries. The CEO is a personal friend and I was brought on board to both remediate system.
• planning and management of all activities related to data processing, information systems, systems analysis and computer programming
• development and interpretation of IT-related organizational goals, policies, and procedures
• when assigning projects to subcontractors, evaluating their proposals to assess project feasibility and requirements
• reevaluating existing and negotiating new vendor relationships with a focus on cost reduction and quality improvement
• designing, architecting and implementing computer systems for all aspects of the business

Glendale, CA, US

• The two partners who created Educational Technologies (a 10-year old market-leading providers of website design and hosting services to educational institutions) decided to split the company into two separate.
• Successfully building a highly virtualized infrastructure hosted on VMware ESXi 4.1 that enabled Edlio to hit aggressive project milestones and to provide Enterprise-class web hosting services for their c1500 clients
• Installing, configuring and supporting eight physical servers hosting c40 virtual Windows 2008R2/2012 & Linux servers for production, development and test environments; configuring and supporting Dell EqualLogic iSCSI.
• Successfully transferring over 2TB of live client data and resources from Educational Technologies in New York to Edlio's datacenter in Los Angeles without significant service interruption

US

• Media In Motion is a boutique graphic design, website development and video production consultancy. They had been struggling to cope with their workload, and lacked a plan to grow their business. My responsibilities.
• Advising on business and technical operations to help increase revenues and decrease costs
• Assisting in sourcing and securing business, and advising on utilization of social media
• Selection, purchase, installation and remote maintenance of all hardware and software
• Video editing, website development and publication design for Media In Motion clientsAchievements include:
• Increasing revenues 225% year-on-year; decreased costs by 25%

Sherman Oaks, CA, US

• This was an Executive-level CIO-equivalent position on a fixed-term contract as part of the Board of Directors of one of the USA's Top-50 independent schools, and was both a hands-on operational and strategic.
• Generating 800% ROI by eliminating redundant headcount as a result of introducing the following technologies: helpdesk, remote desktop management, remote deployment of apps and patches, centralized management/remote.
• Utilizing SANS Institute Best Practices for Enterprise-wide security with a particular focus on managing the ramifications of BYOD, constructing a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plan to meet RTO/RPO objectives.
• Deploying vSphere ESXi 4.0, hosting 40+ virtual Windows 2008 servers including multiple Domain Managers, File/Print, clustered Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, SCCM, SCOM, Symantec Backup Exec/Enterprise Vault.
• Deploying IP-video security monitoring, web-based emergency notification system, streaming video servers to deliver educational content to the desktop, and 3-D video projection in Science labs for augmented reality
• Increasing Wi-Fi capacity by factor of three and bandwidth by factor of eight by which facilitated doubling the number of laptops available for use by students and faculty

San Francisco, CA, US

• This was an Executive-level CIO-equivalent position on a fixed-term contract as part of the Board of Directors of one of the Bay Area's leading independent schools, and was both a hands-on operational and strategic.
• Increasing internet bandwidth by a factor of 10 whilst reducing costs by 85%
• Reducing telecom costs by 75%
• Reducing service calls by 80%
• Increasing student access to laptops by 200%
• Increasing internal network bandwidth by a factor of 10

• Bold Type was a publishing company suffering from declining revenues, outdated operational practices and poor management. My remit was to turn around the business and provide increased shareholder value. I had full P&L.
• Hire/fire and directly managing 15 staff
• Leveraging new technologies to streamline operations
• Developing operating procedures
• High-level representation of the enterprise at trade events
• Implementing community outreach programs

• EuroLink was a $400Million Technology Consulting, Project Delivery and Project Outsourcing corporation with operations in four continents. My challenge was to turnaround an underperforming region and accelerate revenue.
• P&L responsibility for $10Million operating and $0.2Million capital budget and $20Million of revenue generation. Overseeing regional operations, services and sales teams, including strategic planning, budgeting and.
• Providing technical support to over 200 end users and managing 45 staff across 3 offices and the US NOC, and indirectly managing project teams totaling hundreds of IT specialists which required extensive travel.
• Managing Corporate IT for US operations by directing IT Operations and Development Managers and their staff in the US NOC, including tech support, apps development, e-mail & data management, data security, disaster.
• Growing and maintaining regional revenue through directing Area Sales Directors and their staff, including generating management reports, responding to RFP’s and project bids, managing logistics of global projects.
• Reducing IT costs by 26% and generating 320% ROI by replacing legacy AS/400 system with Intel Xeon-based server cluster and replacing Siebel CRM with Salesforce.com SaaS CRM

• Computec was a $150Million IT Consulting and Staffing agency with operations in three continents. My challenges included:
• Securing projects with Global 2000 companies to deliver teams of IT specialists with rare or specialized skills sourced from outside the USA
• Developing global resource pipelines to enable solutions delivery
• Creating market awareness in cold territories for the company’s specialized practices focusing on ERP, CRM, DW/BI and EAI skillsAchievements include:
• Managing projects in Europe and AsiaPacific to deliver solutions to US-based clients, generating an average order value of $1.8M and in excess of $13M of annualized business against quota of $8M

• Windows People was a “green field” start-up offshoot of an existing UK-based technology and staffing consultancy which I was hired to create and manage. My challenges included:
• Aggressively building market share throughout Europe in emerging technologies associated with the Microsoft product range
• Developing the complete operational infrastructure to support this company's services, including order management, billing, integration, customer service, direct sales, and pre and post sales support
• Creating corporate Client/Server network, providing tech support, e-mail & data management, data security, PC hardware & software upgrades, and purchasing of IT assetsAchievements included:
• Generating an average of £12.5Million p.a. in total revenue
• Building employee base from 0 to 20 within 12 months