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Medina, Ohio, United States

Implement Utilize and Develop Strategy and Technology to assist the Auditor’s Office in carrying out the statutory requirements of the office

Responsibility: Provide strategic planning for companies emphasizing the effective use of technology to provide better results and achieve their stated goals. Utilization of emerging technologies to help smaller companies become more efficient and productive increasing their sustainability.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Responsibility: Analysis and evaluate companies prospective and business plans and modify them to streamline them to meet the clients goals and the financial markets expectations. Secure funding streams for our clients so they may complete their expectations.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for the creation, negotiation, and implementation of key strategic technology initiatives designed to enhance the enterprise to drive work efficiencies and eliminating duplication resulting in cost savings. Highlights include:• Print Management Solution to realize 1.0 mil savings per year• Microsoft Enterprise Management Agreement • Email migration and collaboration with State to reduce costs and drive stability• Development of Real Property enterprise solution to drive workflow processes

Charitable Organization Coordination of Delivery of Holiday food to the needy of Lakewood

Lead the Information Services Center the Technology arm of Cuyahoga County.Co-Chair the IT transition team providing a path to transitioning to a new form of Government and the suggested structure moving forward.Provide Strategic vision to implement IT from a regional perspectiveBuild and maintain Strategic Partnerships to move County and Region forward using technology to deliver services efficiently and effectively.

Responsibility: Enterprise Wide Strategic Planning, Management of the Unix/Linux, Database, SAP Technical, and Backup groups as well as consultants. Administrator of the County Enterprise Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, and County Enterprise Graphical Information System Technical Administrator Coordinated and helped engineer the plan for Cuyahoga County to roll out SIP trunking utilizing the 12 million dollar investment in the WAN and infrastructure to other local area governments. Executing MOU agreements with these governments to provide VOIP phone service at a fraction of the cost they know pay. The ROI for these governments average is 2.62 years with the cost savings stream anticipated to last 8 years. There are 5 pilot cities anticipated to be running by 3rd quarter of 2010. The goal is to provide other regional IT services piggybacking on the connectivity created by this use of technology.Liaison between Cuyahoga County and One Community to draft a grant and submit it for broadband stimulus dollars to build infrastructure to all the local governments, peace applications and law enforcement including MARS towers and 800mhz frequency network. Lead a team in the technical and functional creation of a web based open enrollment and employee self service system. The implementation of this portal will interface with the SAP HR system Foreclosure System integration of eight disparate systems using Oracle's Application and Collaboration Suite to provide a single interface to process the properties that are being foreclosed upon. The system will create an executive dashboard for government officials.Responsible for developing an enterprise infrastructure to deploy GIS to all county agencies, R.T.A., regional government for administration of the Data backups for the CCICS and the consolidation of outside County agency backup operations.

President

Responsibility: plan, budget, develop, implement and manage all technological initiatives and existing information systems within the Auditor's office. Generated from this analysis was an $18 million, 3-year plan, which standardized, and modernized the Auditor's systems.Re-engineered and upgraded the network infrastructure from a coax cable, controller based system to a fiber backbone Initiated the move to UNIX (Solaris), and NT client server based platforms; in the process changing the database structures from mainframe CIMS, and CICS hierarchical databases to Oracle, and SQL Server RDMS databases. Standardized hardware and software throughout office resulting in reduced costs, decreased downtime, and increased efficiencies, in the business processes. Lead the functional, system development and integration between the County Auditor's Real Property system, Mass Appraisal system and the Treasurer's Collection system. Manage the "Request for Proposal" process including development, evaluation of responses and selection of Vendors. Implementation of an Imaging system that utilizes workflow analysis software, OCR technology to capture key data used in the business process, and store images reducing allowing multiple viewing of documents and reduce retrieval times this process converts documents so they are available on the intranet. Mapped and put into operation the Auditor's strategy to Web enable the Auditor's systems moving towards the development of a portal solution, and browser based clients for local municipalities to input data directly to county databases.Chaired the Cuyahoga Counties Automated Data Processing Board, which is responsible for the review and approval of all county agency initiatives and expenditures involving technology.

Responsibility: Manage, analyze, and review the operations of Cashier, Escrow, and Uniform Commercial Code departments and their 60 employees.Created Bookkeeping Department to audit, and track, the revenue of Recorder's Office including the set up of draw down escrow accounts. Interpreted, and analyzed "The Ohio Revised Code", and its' effects on office operations implementing any required changes to stay compliant with the law.Implementation Committee for the Optical Imaging System, which when implemented changed the overall structure, and work process of the Recorder's office. Implementing changes in the workflow to mirror future this included the physical layout, minimizing the learning curve when the system went operational. Reviewed, and modified the technical and functional specifications, of the Imaging system to make sure they meet the offices requirements. Safety procedures coordinator for the Recorder's Office to insure compliance with OSHA and Workers Compensation mandates.

Responsibility: Review, plan, develop, and implement the business operationsSole responsibility for the fiscal outcome of projects $50,000 dollars and higher. This included the financial analysis of business operations and prospective projects ROI, NPV, and IRR, Cash flow analysis and capital expenditures (buy verses lease)Managed the day-to-day operations, new business development, and evaluation of investments, Pension and Insurance plans and was the primary liaison between personnel board and employees.

Directed Personnel Department Created in-house sales department for peripheral computer equipment and electronic parts used in bank ATM machines.

International Masters, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Small Business Administration Project Consultant

Bachelor, Business Administration; Finance And Economics