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Los Angeles, California, US

• Migration of company-wide IT infrastructure to a hybrid cloud environment, reducing operational costs by 30% while enhancing data security and system scalability.
• Spearheaded the digital transformation initiative, consolidating disparate systems into a unified cloud-based solution that increased operational efficiency by 30% and reduced IT overhead by 25%.
• Enhanced system scalability and achieving a 30% cost reduction while maintaining 99.99% uptime across IT services.
• Leads all IT initiatives for the company and manage infrastructure, software and hardware procurement, desktop and server support, and other related tasks for multiple locations.
• Collaborate with all levels across Post, Creative, including Film, TV, and Executive, Finance, Accounting, HR, and Legal teams.
• Provide user guided, one-on-one, high level support through monitored helpdesk available 24/7.

US

• Engineered a complete overhaul of the company's IT infrastructure, leading to a 35% cost reduction while improving system uptime by 99.9% through strategic vendor partnerships and the deployment of scalable cloud.
• Collaborative transition to develop and facilitate a new internal IT / Operations Support role establishing pandemic protocols as per parent company.
• Ensure IT and Facilities remain fully functional, maintained, and adhere to COVID-19 protocols such as Social Distancing and occupancy limitations in line with Federal, State, County, Municipal, and local Business.
• Manage IT plans going from on-prem to cloud using Azure, Microsoft 365, with a hybridized infrastructure.
• Create workflows for users and staff to migrate to a WFH model from scratch, provide the necessary equipment needed utilizing platforms such as Jump, RDC, Guacamole for Mac and PC platforms.
• Expand MDM through MaaS 360, JAMF, and Intune with deployments using Autopilot.

Culver City, California, US

• Brought in as a strategist to facilitate company growth and expansion. Find and resolve inefficiencies, streamline internal and external client processes, each having 25+ staff members.
• Managing all System and Network Engineers (6), Project Manager (1), and oversee Service Technicians (6) in their functional capacity. Handle vendor contracts and consultants, ISP, and client management requests.
• Create technical proposals for new clients, interface with Client Director and PMO on implementation.
• Revise budgets and accounting for all current clients, update the company service catalog.
• Identify weaknesses and strengths in engineer performance and duties. Mentor and encourage accountability & growth.
• Resolve any communication weaknesses and areas of notifiable dysfunction.

Irving, TX, US

• Steered RossVideo Inception News 10.1 (Red), Xpression (6.5), CueIT, BlackStorm Video Server and MOS protocol.
• Managed Harris/Imagine Nexio Video Record/Playout servers.
• Directed Telestream Vantage/Lightspeed installation, management, workflows, file naming, path conventions for all productions.
• Led Masstech MAM integration with SpectraLogic T50e LTO-7 R&D of DAM & PAM systems.
• Network monitoring, troubleshooting, performance via Cisco ASDM 7x, Solarwinds, Wireshark, etc.
• MacOS systems deployment, security, monitoring (ARD 3.9x)

Maintain scheduled deployment of hardware (50 - 750+ PC's, Macs, Servers). Advanced networking skills including LAN/WAN/MAN. Active Directory, ACL, and group policies. Network Engineering (TCP, CIDR, SMB, CIFS, NFS, NAT, IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN, 10GbE, SFP+, OM3).* Build company from single client and one consultant to more than 40 clients with 10.

• Established and trained technical staff while providing technical support to all divisions.* Managed the planning, infrastructure and system architecture for LAN systems, complied and conformed with all PCI Audits. *.

• In addition to my standard IT Consulting duties;
• Filled position as interim CIO, Chief Technology Specialist over Entertainment related systems and media, and talent representation.
• Acted as PR Agent for multiple clients.
• Initiated and established multiple accounts and solved numerous communication related issues.
• Act as go-between Client and tech to resolve conflicts.

* Managed staff of 3 - 10 designers, technicians, developers, and engineers. * Planned and installed initial build out of co-located web site, using Microsoft IIS, SQL, f5, Cisco at Exodus facility.* Acquire hardware and software to meet and exceed growth expectations of over 2 million pageviews/day.* Create and manage $2.7MM infrastructure upgrade cluster.

Washington, DC, US

* Administration of 300-user based Novell 4.11 NDS LAN. Migrating IPX to IP. * NT 4.0 Domain implementation, including server & workstation migrations. * Administration of MS IIS 4.0, DHCP, DNS and MTS.* Project planning of district wide telephone system upgrade form Nortel to Definity.Multi-Media Specialist* Designing publications, videos, animations.

Office upkeep and responsible for 500+ accounts worldwide. Assisted in the design and testing of new releases including scripting for PageMaker. Produce documentation, installation and designs for in-house applications.

Oversee staff of 30+ users in the sign and development of social and commercial typesetting. Installed/maintained a 50-user Novell 3.11 based LAN with 5250 and AppleTalk connectivity. Integrating Macintoshes and PCs for graphics exchange. Designed, developed and wrote applications to increase productivity and workflow. Developed training videos as well as.

Certification, Mcse

Computer Science, Graphic Design, Psychology