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Developed 3-year infrastructure strategic roadmap to facilitate the transition to new CIO with strategy projected to deliver over $1.5M in annual operating cost savings and internal rate of return of over 20%.· Led design and vendor selection for implementation of SDWan and moved SharePoint to Microsoft’s SharePoint Online as part of Office 365 implementation.· Streamlined multiple meeting, telephony, and video services to UCaaS (MS Teams).· Developed a plan to consolidate 3 operations in South Florida to a single campus, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% while improving performance and reliability.· Collaborated with process control team, creating a plan to upgrade and consolidate process control servers in Portugal as a component of reducing infrastructure and eliminating redundant IT/OT costs.· Selected as IT Lead on the task force, to prepare for GDPR, critical for classifying data and establishing retention plans.

· Played a vital role in supporting the company’s growth by architecting, estimating costs, planning, staffing, and implementation of technical infrastructure integration and alignment for office and refineries in Belize, Germany, Italy, UK, and Portugal.· Partnered with external construction teams and FCC partners, overseeing all aspects of IT infrastructure and client workspaces in 2 new R&D facilities, automated syrup transfer station, and trading office in Brazil.· Played a key role in the company winning “SAP Customer Center of Excellence of the Year in 2014.· Identified new enterprise network provider, upgrading and expanding network capacity and reliability to include enterprise wireless, video conferencing, 4G redundancy, remote site backups, and hybrid cloud connectivity.· Selected as one of only 50 to the newly developed leadership training program as future high-potential IT leader.· Collaborated with application support and implemented eFax, digital whiteboards, and digital signage; procured low-cost digital signage solution to enable news feeds and updates for our purchasing agents and commodity traders.· Researched and gained approval to transition to new network provider; doubled capacity with no annual increase to operations budget.· Served in the lead role for due diligence as part of integration efforts for a new blending company with 67 employees, overseeing complete transition including support of Microsoft Datev ERP software; oversaw IT due diligence and development of transition plan after the acquisition of a specialty ingredients company in Germany.· Saved over $250K+ in hardware and software costs through introduction of Blue Jeans for video conferencing.

· Drove network improvements including WAN optimization and improved monitoring, reducing the need to invest in WAN links in rural and remote areas that are served.· Collaborated with partner Virtustream, IT Lead to move all production servers to virtual private cloud and recognized as the first company to run SAP production in the cloud.· Developed Engineering Team to support Networks and client management.· Researched, negotiated, and implemented new leasing partner and equipment standards for laptops and desktops, saving the company thousands of dollars annually in leasing costs.

· Acted as Infrastructure Lead for first M&A technical integration with purchase of C&H Sugars, now used as part of comprehensive M&A program; integrated infrastructure and endpoint standards in 3 months, enabling access to ERP systems and contributing to turning around failing business.· Standardized all infrastructure and client hardware across companies and geographies; provided the ability to deploy simple low-cost tools for management and maintenance.· Delivered up to 50% decrease in network and server infrastructure cost by eliminating redundant network and support costs by consolidating business and controls networks; improved centrally administrated network and server infrastructure.· Upgraded Corporate Tax processing to SaaS.· Developed disaster plan and recovery process in response to active hurricane season; enabled restoration of refinery and back office services in New Orleans within months of Hurricane Katrina.

· Led a national team of IT members to standardize and migrate corporate email from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook.· Facilitated shutdown of a refinery in Brooklyn which included decommissioning of all local networks, recycling, and repurposing IT assets and data migration.