James is a Senior Information Technology Professional with extensive leadership skills focused on data center build and relocations, cost reduction and project management. He is a dynamic individual with a proven track record of successfully leading projects to strategically improve overall systems functionality. James has also created environments where project management of information technology processes are developed and maintained at the highest levels.James provides a unique perspective to IT management with experience in both full time and consulting opportunities. He leads the process to locate the proper support to process all of the companies' needs. As part of the outsourcing process, reduced costs and improved efficienciesare a priority. He has expertise in contract negotiations including cost, terms and service levels.Organizations have hired James to redevelop their IT departments including staff, processes and operations. At many of these organizations he has been tasked with the creation of the Program Management Office. Using in-house staff to streamline the process, he has leveraged best practices in order to drive improvements in all areas of Information Technology.Recent implementation has had performance improvements that have resulted in:Led build out, Outsourcing, Upgrade and Migration efforts to completion for 20 data centers.Reduced operating costs at each data center by 20%.Increased service levels and response time by 50%.Converted manual data collection process to electronic and reduced cost by 2 million dollars.Developed Project Management Office and Contracts Department to govern all IT functions.Consolidate and reduce duplicated functions within IT departments.Specialties: - Data Center Build Outs, Consolidations and Migration.- Information Technology Innovation- Information Technology Cost Reduction- Project Management Office creation and operation- Disaster Recovery- Data and Physical Security- Information Technology Leadership