• Performed all duties of Planning Engineer for refinery and other industries.• Created custom PERL scripts and Excel reports for the following: o Manpower Allocation – Up to the minute reporting for overall company, per client, per discipline and per Project Manager. Graphic as well as tabular representation of results produced. o P6 Schedule Progress Curve Creation - Auto create progress curves detailing baseline, budgeted, forecast and actuals along with overall and monthly percent complete. o Estimate Translation – Auto produced estimates in client requested format (including formulas, visual formatting etc.) from Eichleay estimate format and pulled database data.

• Plan and maintain project schedules using Primavera P6 in a refinery environment.• Derive early phase plans from estimates, incorporate detailed design and construction schedules as available.• Conduct meetings with project engineers and designers to develop drawing books from project scope.• Walk jobs to verify construction progress.• Update schedules due to funding RFI’s, design/construction changes.• Resource load schedules to accommodate phase gate requirements.• Provide timely and accurate progress reports and earned value curves to our client.

• Direct and oversee Primavera project management, budgeting, planning\scheduling, technology implementation and process automation for an IT department.• Manage reporting software and OS upgrade projects for corporate and distribution centers.• Developed CRM and ERP system integration with Google Enterprise Apps, after obtaining buy-in from department stakeholders.• Architected Order Tracking System for imported art products using Silverlight front end and SQL Server backend, completely eliminating missed orders and shipments.• Designed and created the data validation and upload system for new item additions reducing data entry time by 95% while scrubbing the 60K+ item database.• Created automated catalog creation and delivery system for multiple customers and varied formats.

IT Manager\DBA (2006–Present) / Operations Manager (2005–2006)Promoted to operations manager before being selected to oversee all IT functions at Best Image Marketing. Define and implement technology strategies, initiate process improvements, manage vendor relationships and contracts, plan and manage development and upgrade projects, and advise internal teams on available technology solutions. Hire, train, and currently oversee eight technical staff. Manage IT purchasing and budgeting processes.- Cut IT costs 50% since 2006 contributing significantly to Best Image’s 36% margin; included resource reallocation, process enhancements, efficiency improvements, and renegotiating service agreements.- Analyzed and refined inter-departmental workflows in preparation for move to CRM; investigated, strongly advocated, and gained buy off for the project.- Initiated Disaster Recovery systems in three different geographical regions; improved systems security after thwarting serious SQL injection attacks with no data loss or corruption.

System Administrator / Build Engineer—Quantumshift, Novato, CA (2000-2001)▪ Configuration/Release Engineer – Organized and implemented all major and minor web and middle-tier releases to the software platform including; backup and recovery, automation of build procedures, acceptance testing and updating and organization of related documentation. Served as point person for all communications regarding configuration and connectivity issues for developers, QA and managers, developing a portal website to keep all informed.▪ Visual SourceSafe Administrator – Had full responsibility for the security and integrity of the entire code base for the organization. Performed all administrative tasks including; creation/organization of project structures, share/branch and merging of code, project archiving, maintenance and updates.▪ Windows NT/2000 System Administration – Responsible for successfully upgrading a multi-server 3-tier environment from NT4 to 2000. Configured and optimized servers to improve reliability and performance. Maintained server accounts.▪ IIS 4/5 Web Administrator – Configured, monitored, performed troubleshooting and maintenance on websites in an NT4/2000 environment, including COM/DCOM application implementation. Was responsible for applying code changes, software updates, security patches, and daily monitoring.

▪ Installed, configured and networked HP 9000 series workstations. Was fully responsible for the set-up of HP 300 series workstations including: physical installations and connections, software loading and kernel configuration, and networking into a heterogeneous environment of HP, Apollo and Sun platforms.▪ Worked as a resource for subnet stabilization projects. Performed configuration and maintenance tasks necessary to maintain a heterogeneous workstation LAN that included: physical connection design, logical link and printer/plotter configuration, recovery and backup, troubleshooting network communications.▪ Modified real-time data acquisition systems of climatic wind tunnels. Designed and developed FORTRAN programs on HP 1000 minicomputers to produce greater flexibility in the system's data entry capabilities.▪ Developed a queuing system using UNIX shell scripts for an in-house CAD application.