Jeff Sparks Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Renton, Wa

Greater Seattle Area

Established the company's initial nation-wide corporate IT organization beginning in 1996 directing all manner of IT services: LAN/WAN/SAN, VPN, Exchange, Lync, mobile, VoIP, AD, SQL services, SharePoint, file storage, perimeter security, managed desktop, backup, virtualization, etc. Servicing up to 5 national and international offices.- Network, infrastructure, and solutions architecture- Directed technical M&A activity - application, process, and domain integration- Technical leadership - Vendor relationships and contracts- Budgeting and reporting- Staff training and development- Business/IT service alignment- Operations/Service Desk- Solutions architecture and development- Compliance and remediation - Vulnerability scanning, systems hardening, and deployment/operations standards

Rescued critical project for NYPD by rapidly re-designing and developing a failed subcontractor project in delivering mainframe data via REST/XML to client booking systems at all precincts across the 5 boroughs of New YorkEstablished initial nation-wide corporate IT system and organization providing all manner of IT services Developed reusable library of web service APIs and protocol/data proxy services for criminal history information in fingerprint booking/enrollment processes for state and federal government agenciesArchitected and managed development of SOA-based content-based routing and workflow engine for inter-agency exchange of fingerprint data records. Deployed and operated www.bioapplicant.com service for New Jersey State employment screening

Designed and led rollout of NY State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance frame-relay network and workstations to 120 offices state-wide including computer disk imaging, software deployment, frame-relay network and central-site servicesDeveloped solution for automatically updating application software and middleware on remote workstations using VB6, HTTP, and SQL Server.Technical proposal contributor on FBI fingerprint conversion data processing RFP at Lockheed Martin - requirements analysis, process design, database design, imaging hardware evalutationProduced various applications for FBI image conversion project including reports, user account management, and production tracking and statistics applications. Established procedures for card production, exception handling and accounting.

Managed the digital scanning and processing of over 17 million fingerprint cards for over 15 state and national law enforcement customers including several international contracts in Asia, Europe, and Middle East - performed on-site requirements analysis and project scheduling Led expansion of conversion operations from daily throughput of 600 to 30,000 cards per day supporting 300 production operators.Managed technical team in support of 24x7 operations of over 200 distributed computing nodes including high-speed scanner workstations, image processing units, relational databases and optical disk output systems on AIX platform