It Director
Dallas, Tx, Us
Identified, implemented and supported technology opportunities for corporate operations. Created overall corporate IT strategies focusing on SaaS models to engineer flexible, stable platforms for growth. Provided clients with technology assessments and vision plans to encompass growth, expansion and reorganization criteria. Built structured relationships with hosting partners for managed messaging, database, VoIP and other business-centric applications. Guided development team to build a unified integration platform centralizing reporting, data access, analysis and facilitating Business Intelligence initiatives. Seamlessly integrated new office expansion projects across the US, London and Hong Kong.Key Results:• Create MS Sharepoint environment for document sharing, software testing and solutions development with Yardi, Intuit, MRI, JDE, MS Project and others.• Initiated ‘office-in-a-box” techniques with Cisco Router/Switches, MS Exchange customizations, MS IIS, Java, VB and .Net technologies.• Maintained service level quality and offered end users greater access to technology while company growth rate was greater than 100% each year consecutively over 4 years.• Realized monthly savings of over $18k immediately after successful unified messaging solutions were put in place; e-mail, fax, voicemail, video and VoIP.• Realized gains in productivity by creating virtualization sandboxes on existing hardware.• Produced nationally recognized software survey for the real estate industries and published annually in the Journal for Property Management 2004-2007.• Reduced vendor services contract costs by 60% in various instances through consolidation efforts.• Developed standardization practices and policies, as well as streamlining overall IT management, led to a decrease of end user support issues by over 50%.