Direct the day-to-day Technical Operations in a fast paced 24x7x365 deadline driven environment. Responsibilities include: Data Center, Systems Administration, Network and Telecommunications administration, Help Desk, Tech Bar, Wireless and IT vendor management• Responsible for Infrastructure systems, vendor selection and technology direction for the Chicago Sun-Times and the 50+ surrounding newspapers in the Sun-Times Media group. • Implement and oversee vendor management practices for company-wide cloud computing applications• Participate in technology direction to support system consolidation efforts across the organization.• Analyzed the financial and operational benefits of outsourcing Invoice processing. Successfully lead the project teams in the implementation.• Responsible for capital and expense budgets with values over $15 million.• Responsible for maintaining and supporting IT infrastructure to keep pace with technology and changing business needs. • Restructured network infrastructure circuits resulting in $1,200,000 in annual wire-line cost reductions.• Renegotiated wireless contracts resulting in $300,000 annual cost reduction• Implemented company initiatives to replace legacy systems in multiple newspapers to a centralized platform utilizing “Cloud” Technology that has reduced costs, increased functionality and provided additional revenue opportunities.• Led project teams in selection and implementation of Google Apps company-wide. • Implement ITIL based processes, procedures and controls for the organization resulting in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley(SOX) initiative.• Implement central Tech Bar to improve customer response times• Participated in company wide cloud application contract creations, focusing in on Service level agreements• Implement company-wide IT service desk (ITSM) • Experienced in bankruptcy management as well as mergers and acquisitions

• Implemented ITIL based policies and procedures across numerous IT operations areas• Oversaw the creation and testing of a client service based Business Continuity plan• Created IT department SLA scorecard• Created COBIT based IT controls framework

• Responsible for all IT management aspects of the Project A (electronic trading) systemDirectly responsible for redesigning the system, resulting in an 800% increase in trading volume capacity• Responsible for administration of all production Sun, Tandem and NT systems. Responsibilities included performance monitoring, system security, new system configuration • Directly responsible for coordinating the implementation of all technology for the new trading floor.