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Results-oriented technology thought leader designing and managing complex IT solutions at the enterprise level. Leverage twenty five + years of infrastructure design, software development and managed IT services to drive business development, revenue generation and customer retention• Provide leadership vision through strategic planning. Deliver tactical solutions when necessary based on business and technology requirements• Extensive experience designing and managing large data centers and high volume SaaS/Cloud operations including network design and security. • Broad knowledge of corporate systems and solutions delivery with experience designing and leading the development of high performance software solutions. • Expert at industry audit compliance and highly skilled at identifying and remediating security risks. • Extensive background in virtualization, network architecture, scalability design and data integration and transformation. Accomplishments• Principle partner in building two successful businesses: - Capitol Wire, Inc. established in 1999 and acquired by The Associated Press in 2001 - Co-founder of Performance Pathways, Inc., a technology company delivering software solutions to the K-12 education market, established in 2002. Expanded product into 50 states. Acquired by SunGard K12 Education in 2009• Transformed non-functional IT organization into a procedural and policy-driven functional team• Designed and implemented high-volume service desk based on ITIL v3.0 standards• Launched managed services group to manage client environments• Designed and developed ODL, an enterprise operational data layer allowing for the integration of legacy and modern applications across the entire enterprise. ODL gives the organization the ability to peal off legacy applications and replace them with new, modern solutions without downtime. It also minimizes the need to rework data integrations that link all critical enterprise applications• Implemented comprehensive security footprint across diverse business units to conform to both NIST and FTC Safeguards

Listed skills include Saas, Integration, Security, Data Center, and 53 others.

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  Penn State University

  Finance