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OCM Content Developer (Professional Association Sector) [6/2023 – Present]Providing content development and messaging for communications. Collaborating and coordinating with various teams and organizational stakeholders to effectively realize messaging.Delivery Enterprise Architect / Project Coordinator (FinTech Sector) [10/2023 – 02/2024] • Provided essential services for the initial phase of a multi-million dollar data center migration for a major fintech firm by setting the communication and governance plans to enable the successful delivery and implementation of the proposed architectural solutions. • Collaborated with project teams, development teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that the designed architecture was effectively realized and met the intended business objectives.Project Manager (Healthcare Sector) [09/2023 – 11/2023] • Provided project management services for a company spun off from a major healthcare corporation. • Managed project focused on exporting archived emails from the corporation to the spun-off company. • Developed MS PowerPoint and Visio presentations; completed reports in MS Word and Excel. OCM Specialist (Technology Sector) [09/2023 – 09/2023]Contributing member of the leadership team that led the development of the Client’s Organizational Change Management Solution, producing pre-sales, delivery, and project completion collateral for their Clients, transforming elements of their IT environment, and seeking successful adoption.Collateral includes a framework for: • Understanding use cases and end-user personas • Generating content mapping • Overseeing end users through the transition process and education

In 2020 during the pandemic, I took the opportunity to spend time with my family and to evaluate my future professional direction. I decided to change course and focus my efforts on Organizational Change Management with the goal of helping organizations adopt and embrace change.I spent a significant amount of time learning some new skills and retooling old skills. I sharpened my coding skills with a certification in full-stack software development. I received a certification in Change Management from Cornell University and became a Procsi Certified Change Practitioner.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Developed communications strategies and executed technical pre-sales tactics for Clients seeking to leverage the Cloud as a file server replacement, significantly contributing to 2019 sales goals. • Developed cases for change and impact assessments for the Client’s organization • Created and delivered MS PowerPoint presentations and tailored live demonstrations. This personalized approach effectively communicated with Customers about their unique business needs. • Engaged with stakeholders to demonstrate integrations with third-party solutions • Working with Customers, created high-visibility strategic IT programs, coordinating with executive leadership, and influencing stakeholders as needed. • Facilitated ongoing end-user education and training

Tinton Falls, Nj, Us

Enabled Clients to successfully adopt an enterprise data protection and recovery solution by creating cases for change, conducting impact assessments, engaging with stakeholders, and providing education/training. • Developed communications strategies and executed on technical pre-sales tactics • Covered Enterprise, HealthCare, and SLED accounts in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania territories, delivering on year-over-year sales growth and sales goals • Established Ohio Commvault Users Group meetings • Facilitated ongoing end-user education and training

Leading the organization's Sales Engineers to assist in positioning solutions that best address our Client's goals and objectives.

Provided oversight and strategic development of communications for technical pre-sales enablement in addition to providing technical pre-sales support for Account Managers in the Midwest and East coast• Developed communication practices for Mobility and eDiscovery technologies• Created GTM strategy for partner relationships thus increasing revenue by 20%• Worked as part of a team to build/ execute communications plan for company sales strategy

Skokie, Illinois, Us

Provided communications leadership and advisory consultancy services specifically in the areas of Storage, Backup / Recovery / Data Protection, eDiscovery, Information Management, and Mobile Security as well as pre-sales and delivery roles for the Storage and Security Practices• Developed hundreds of SOWs for the delivery of services• Produced communications targeted at vendors including Commvault, EMC, HDS, and NetApp• Developed communication plan for GTM strategy for Security and Mobility as well as eDiscovery business - Produced training material to educate Sales Teams regarding the emerging market - Provided on-going Technical Enablement for Field Systems Engineers• Developed communications for a series of core services ranging from application development to vendor technology selection

Skokie, Illinois, Us

Provided communications for Customers and prospects for defensible and repeatable solutions that addressed eDiscovery needs for legal, records management, information technology, and the lines of business• Generated communications supporting the Sales Team through direct involvement or through ancillary and complimentary opportunities • Developed eDiscovery practice

Skokie, Illinois, Us

Managed a highly specialized team of Storage Advisory expert consultants that provide advisory services to enable organizations better align their storage environments with their business goals. Provided advice to IT organizations to help optimize their operating and capital expenditures.

Skokie, Illinois, Us

Managed server and storage professional services for implementation and advisory services for central United States.

Skokie, Illinois, Us

Strategic Consulting, including business planning and sales strategy development.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Provided strategic consulting and technical training, including tactical mapping of technology to meet the business plan. Performed systems administration of multi TB storage environment, including Tivoli Storage Manager (multiple instances) in a state of the art environment (Sun/StorageTek SL8500 / 10000 slot library; 9840c/T10K tape drives; Gresham EDT).

Southborough, Ma, Us

Provided executive level and senior technical strategy consultation with Fortune 100 companies as their storage teams struggle with complex issues that face large organizations. Created solutions and highly actionable strategies designed to address issues regarding the exploding growth of storage, compliance, regulatory, and security concerns. Developed internal methodologies to improve the work flow processes of the sales / delivery life cycle.

Irving, Texas, Us

Provided technical direction ADSM/TSM environment for a 2500+ organization with over 100 remotes sites. Administered backups for over 400 server clients (HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Windows, NetWare). Coordinated with database, e-mail, and server administrators to achieve reliable backups and restores. • Scheduled and budgeted StorageTek ACSLS / Gresham EDT (tape library and drive sharing) implementation project to bring it back on track after project initially stalled. By implementing the tape drive-sharing technologies achieved a cost reduction of $300,000 in operations and increased tape library utilization from 65% to 97%. Implementation was deployed amongst 3 TSM servers to dynamically share ten 3590E tape drives in an IBM Magstar 3494 tape library. • Inherited initial mass storage and data management expansion projects that were over budget and stalled. Successfully completed projects under budget by $1 million and on time.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Company Profile: Paranet provided primarily IT staff augmentation for large enterprise scale organizations and was known for it’s capability maturity assessment of the IT network environment. Sprint acquired Paranet for $425 million and with its focus on the acquisition of MCI, dissolved the Sprint/Paranet organization.As a Technical Consultant, provided enterprise-level backup/data protection expertise to fortune 100 corporations resulting in 100% billable hours. In addition to consultant responsibilities, reduced consultancy employee turnover through development of staff and mentoring program. Received corporate recognition. • Successfully implemented Tivoli Data Protection for Domino to backup IBM Lotus Domino E-mail & application databases without service interruption for 2000 person enterprise organization. Resulted in nightly backups with ability to restore data to the minute of the transaction. Developed procedures and created certification program for data operators resulting in higher productivity and greater job satisfaction from data operators. • Reduced hardware downtime by setting maintenance schedules and tracking hardware errors resulting in lower operation costs and higher equipment uptime through effective collaboration with IBM Global Services System Engineers. Reviewed and approved all technical procedures/implementations regarding tape storage. Provided supervision and training for staff tape storage team as needed.

Irving, Texas, Us

Provided system administration, project manager, and end user trainer services to world’s largest engineering company.

Management Information Systems

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