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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Sheffield, England, GB

Lead IT-related teams and practices throughout North American sites.

- Build IT infrastructure from ground up for fast-paced agricultural grower. Network framework adaptability is key in agriculture market. Implement industry standard best practices for both physical security and data protection.- Establish and reenforce internal IT best-practices per ITIL recommendations.- Test various plant sensors (PH, humidity, CO2.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Strong management and communication skills to consult with business leaders to analyze the needs for Information Systems to determine scope priorities of projects, infrastructure and manage operations.
• Manage a wide variety of projects that includes a infrastructure, ERP upgrade, and applications/development.
• Manage a small applications/development team with strong project management skills.
• Manage a large number of priorities and manage customer expectations.
• Understand and promote the strategic direction of the Company and Business Unit where appropriate. Communicate with all to ensure an understanding of requirements and exception to policy.
• Recommend and develop plans for systems development and operations, hardware and software purchase, budget and staffing.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Strong management and communication skills to consult with business leaders to analyze the needs for Information Systems to determine scope priorities of projects, infrastructure and manage operations.
• Manage a wide variety of projects that includes a infrastructure, ERP upgrade, and applications/development.
• Manage a small applications/development team with strong project management skills.
• Manage a large number of priorities and manage customer expectations.
• Understand and promote the strategic direction of the Company and Business Unit where appropriate. Communicate with all to ensure an understanding of requirements and exception to policy.
• Recommend and develop plans for systems development and operations, hardware and software purchase, budget and staffing.

Glen Allen, VA, US

Served as Migration Transition SDM/Project Manager to oversee on-boarding of Network, Voice, and Security Services into SAIC governance leading up to Transition Go Live.

Chino, California, US

Responsible for the management and direction our IT infrastructure & Facility. This includes project management, vendor negotiations, budgeting and hardware/software implementation execution. Assess ERP solutions for Enterprise-wide implementation for improvements in Best Practices and efficiencies. Maintain organization's effectiveness and efficiency by.

Serving as a Senior-level IT Infrastructure Manager for a Small/Mid-sized IT-related projects in a technical and project management capacity for a medium-sized legal services firm. Projects include VoiP, Windows Active Directory, WAN connectivity to remote offices, Office 365 Deployment, NAS Backups, applications/Service Desk Support/Data Center.

Lewis Center, Ohio, US

Provided leadership of Managed Services division to customers in the Western US region.- P&L, business strategy and service delivery responsibility for managed service branches within the Western Region (California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada)- Managed logistical operations, customer sat. metrics, and solution development.- Worked.

Provide Senior Project Leadership for a Dell Services customer in closing down and consolidating numerous Data Centers into larger, regional mega-data centers.

Brought on to manage several enterprise-wide projects including Desktop refresh for nearly half of all campus PC's located across two hospitals. Also managing server farms and backup processes.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Manage the 7 SoCal area Desktop teams and Telecom personnel.

Manage the Regional IT Staff at 8 hospitals who support over 15000 Users and 20000 PCs. Also manage IT-related projects which affect the entire Health System.

Manage Local IT and Technical Operations Group who support over 250 Radio Market servers.