Provide specialized business and information technology leadership and consulting services.

Reporting to the President & Owner, responsible for heading up the IT function of Custom-Bilt Metals and their subsidiaries.-Implement help desk system to track and manage support issues. Through more effective communication with users, decreased volume of support cases.-Designed and executed a plan to upgrade the existing ERP solution that was plagued with issues and bad data for the primary company.-Designed and implemented a barcode strategy to improve automation and efficiency of processes in our manufacturing subsidiary-Planned and migrated Alumafold Pacific from internal email to Office 365.-Analyzed spend and vendors, finding unnecessary and redundant costs and services, eliminating them, reducing OpEx by 32%.

• Report to the owners of the businesses and responsible for total scope of the organization’s IT department, including directing IT resources with a WAN of 50 end users at three professional offices within the Dallas area.• Assess IT systems, business processes, and staff to identify long standing issues within environments of all companies• Design both IT and business strategic direction, goals and IT decisions.• Coach and manage professional staff. Identify opportunities to improve skills including communication, teamwork, organization, prioritizing, technical skills and customer service abilities. Change corporate culture from reactive to proactive. • Responsible for managing, administering, maintaining and supporting the network infrastructure, including technical direction and implementation of the network architecture. • Responsible for areas of compliance, such as PCI and HIPAA.

-Report to the CEO & responsible for the organization’s IT department, including directing IT resources with a WAN of 200+ end users at three manufacturing facilities in Hereford, TX, Plainview, TX, Russell, KS, also at corporate HQ, Dallas, TX.-Collaborate with the CEO & Executive Team on strategic direction, goals & IT decisions.-Successfully lead & manage professional staff. Effectively train & develop variety of skills including teamwork, organizational planning, prioritizing, resources,& technical skills. -Responsible for administering, maintaining & supporting the network infrastructure, including technical direction & implementation of the network architecture. -In spite of financial constrictions, created value by developing & delivering operational efficiencies, despite being faced with a possible asset sale & eventual equity sale. Successfully delivered consistent service & effective solutions with an IT spend at a significantly lower percentage of revenues than the average in our industry, as well as benchmark costs lower in IT spend per FTE (Source – Gartner).-Led a procurement & implementation project of truck scale & grain management systems at multiple plants, resulting in increased product output, as well as significantly improved accuracy in financials & transaction tracking.-Assisted in navigation through 18 months of a state of Chapter 11, various ownership changes, M&A opportunities, & JV projects, successfully continuing to deliver services & efficiencies throughout these challenges (2010-2014).-Led a project to convert server infrastructure from physical to virtual across all facilities, adding centralized storage & failover redundancy. -Led a successful Design/Architect Project for the entire WAN during the construction of two new plants in TX. Merged the existing plant in KS into the infrastructure – with a seamless migration. -Managed growth in end-users from start-up mode to the current size of 13 times original user base.

-Consulted with small to mid-range accounts in diverse industries, including Professional Services, Commercial Real Estate, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Construction.-Provided technical leadership, identified and presented solutions to meet client’s business requirements and goals, including: -Network infrastructure and design-Configurations, installations, upgrades and migrations-Deployment of back-office networks, servers and workstations for diverse clients. Significant Achievements -Assisted on consulting project that built White Energy’s first network with 15 end users. This accomplishment led to being recruited to White Energy as the IT Manager in 2007.-Managed client relations and maintained documentation within a CRM system. -Consulted on numerous terminal service and VPN environments to facilitate remote productivity. -Supported Timberline and MAS90 products from Sage Software.

Government infrastructure services and solutions provider, specializing in logistics projects for DOD, NASA, the State Department and Federal clients. Services include Acquisition Support, Facilities Management and Base Operations Support, IT Support, Logistics, Multimedia Services and Program Management Support. -Reported to the Technical Director. Consulted on multiple projects, including network architecture/design, disaster recovery, as well as upgrades, migrations, configurations and deployment of network infrastructure for robust technology solutions with government clients. -Managed a medium sized Helpdesk staff, including hiring, training and performance evaluations. -Played key role in the development of the company’s proprietary Help Desk System, led design and implemented the new Help Desk Ticketing software system. -Managed a migration project from a Windows NT and 2000 network to native mode 2003 Server environment SAN with VMware virtual services and ancillary aspects of the migration from Exchange 2000 to 2003, as well as redeployment of network services, SQL document management system and BES server. -Led migration project from hosted Exchange service to in-house Exchange 2000. -Partnered with NASA Security facilities to collaborate on a project at NASA sites that transitioned the departing contractor’s network and implemented a new network and computers. -Administered and configured a SQL-based document management system, Document Locator, which was a similar product to Microsoft SharePoint. -Planned, configured, deployed and administered Active Directory and Group Policy Objects. -Built, configured and upgraded and repaired back-office Windows 2000 and XP workstations. -Assisted in deployment and administration of various Internet services, including Web-based time reporting software, Outlook Web Access and a Document Management database system.-Developed documentation and processes to make organization ISO:9000 compliant.