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Roselle, Il, Us

Lake Forest, Illinois, Us

Lake Forest, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Key Accomplishments:• Directly led the largest acquisition integration in recent IDEX history (Akron Brass for $224M). Provided leadership and insight on project steering committees to combine operations and systems, achieving benefits as soon as possible.• Decreased on-premise storage requirements by over 60% by implementing Office 365, allowing the company to defer capital investment in new storage and server equipment with extended supported life-cycle.• Directed changes to externally facing identity systems resulting in improved login experience and eliminated external lockouts to attain 100% improvement on the net promoter scores.• Supervised a team that reduced the 20+ hours monthly security patching process down to 2 hours, utilizing features in existing technology. Oversaw team metrics that improved incident response and resolution intervals, reducing it by almost 50%.Major Responsibilities:• Direct global teams that engineer reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions designed to meet IDEX business needs and reinforce shareholder value with quantifiable business benefits.• Function as a program and project portfolio leader for the global Enterprise Infrastructure team and provide guidance and insight on various projects.• Ensure team goals are aligned with business goals by developing and implementing the departmental vision and strategy.• Formulate and manage the department budget, both capital (CapEx) and operational (OpEx).• Produce and manage training, growth, and development plans for the Enterprise Infrastructure team and IDEX business unit IT resources across the organization to ensure all employees are engaged, motivated and challenged.• Accountable for the team security strategy and influence the overall IT approach, govern IDEX’s Microsoft relationship, and determine the global cloud computing strategy.• Negotiate contract terms and conditions to guarantee win-win scenarios that generate the greatest value for IDEX.

Lake Forest, Il, Us

Key Accomplishments:• Managed the consolidation effort for a data center that saved millions of dollars in IT costs with 0% user-perceived downtime or negative business impact.• Saved millions of dollars in IT costs while directing enterprise-level programs and overseeing planning, design, and technical implementation activities.• Spearheaded the migration of email environment from Lotus Domino/Notes to Microsoft Exchange/Outlook exceeding all-time, quality, and cost objectives.• Reduced the financial and people requirements by nearly 50% and increased process reliability through the implementation of a solution framework to automate data and system migrations during IT acquisition integrations.Major Responsibilities: • Directed enterprise-level programs while supervising the planning, budgets, design, and technical implementation activities.• Upheld global end-user computing standards and policies while leading workload automation, quality assurance, and operational sustainability.• Established comprehensive global end-user computing strategies, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile device technologies.• Oversaw the overall PC deployment strategy using SCCM, Dell Automated Deployment, USMT, MDOP, MDT, etc.• Established and maintained project roadmaps for the specific vertical while adhering to the prescribed project management guidelines for RLS projects. • Demonstrated system availability, transaction/work output, business benefits attained, and quality improvement by defining and developing sustainable and pertinent metrics.• Managed the Microsoft desktop productivity suite and other end-user facing technologies. Oversaw the documentation for all operational and support processes and automated/scripted redundant processes wherever possible.

Lake Forest, Il, Us

• Lead Architect for SCCM 2007 R3, 2012 SP1, Windows 7, OCS 2007 R2, and several other major implementations.• Standardized Microsoft back-office solutions (Exchange, OCS, SCCM, etc.) by developing and implementing applicable strategies.• Delivered technologies that supported labor planning, scheduling, and deployment while managing the electronic software distribution and application packaging team. Coordinated tasks with 20 offshore resources.• Assessed and recommended desktop, laptop, and workstation offerings for enterprise-wide PC refresh strategy.• Defined company standards for application packaging and automated software deployment using Microsoft Windows Installer and SCCM.• Directed the migration of acquired companies’ desktop and data to company standards.• Served as a subject matter expert for many of the company’s standard applications.• Generated documentation for support engineers and architects to assist in the troubleshooting and understanding of new technologies.• Provided level 3 troubleshooting support for client and server issues. Developed roadmaps for desktop hardware and operating systems.• Defined program and project management roles and responsibilities for Pactiv’s matrix environment.• Coordinated with senior IT and executive leadership teams to communicate broader IT strategy to the business.• Functioned as the Project Manager on budget, deadline, and quality efforts of Data Center Consolidation, Office Communicator 2007 R2 (also lead architect), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD, iOS, Android), Microsoft Office 2003 to 2007 upgrade, and Windows Server 2008 R2 standards definition and deployment.

Worldwide, Oo

• Managed Blackberry Server upgrade project, successfully avoiding any service disruption for over 200 users.• Played a key role in implementing use of Active Directory for group policy enforcement, security policies and objects organization.• Directed the migration of the firm from Novell ZENworks to SMS 2003 for use in software deployment, software metering and operating system updates• Provided subject matter expertise and second-level support for network connectivity and end-user hardware/software problems.• Implemented McAfee AutoUpdate Architect to handle the updating of the firm’s virus definitions.• Developed performance counters in our Exchange environment when user’s complained of email delays and worked on a team that implemented a multiple Exchange server solution.• Deployed several SQL 2000 servers for use with firm specific software, such as Hummingbird DocsFusion, InterAction CRM and Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.• Participated in team effort that moved the entire firm from one location to another minimizing system downtime. • Managed a team of direct reports with responsibilities including employee reviews and growth / development plans• Developed software package solutions using Wise Package Studio• Performed quality analysis testing on firm-wide software releases.• Evaluated and recommended hardware and software for purchase.

• Managed daily network operation and branch website.• Designed network infrastructure.• Administered a Microsoft Exchange 2000 email server.• Supervised Internet security using a Sonicwall Pro firewall.• Managed virus protection using Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition.• Administered Windows 2000 Server with Citrix MetaFrame• Performed network backups/restores using Veritas Backup Exec.