Manage IT resources providing IT support services for 7 manufacturing locations across S. California including IT networks, servers and a wide variety of applications. Worked with peer to develop division IT roadmap base on business direction, application portfolio and improving business effectiveness. Evaluated solutions, developed recommendations and oversaw system upgrades and rollouts. Areas of focus included;• Working with Quality to identify key opportunities for improving product quality through improvements in Quality Management, Document Management, Manufacturing Automation & Assembly systems.• Overseeing ERP system upgrades and system integrations• Evaluating & implementing multiple Human Resources & Health related systems for Employee Benefits, Mass Messaging & Thermal monitoring.

Managed corporate IT function, including infrastructure, operations, application development and support, security, and regulatory compliance, impacting 12 sites and hundreds of remote users across North America in hybrid-platform environment, utilizing both cloud and on-premise solutions. • Developed formal IT strategy to align IT efforts with business needs insuring IT resources were properly focused.• Established companywide team of Corporate and plant IT resources to develop and implement hardware, application, operating system and backup standards across the corporation.• Transitioned business to sustainable, standardized, secure infrastructure and application platforms increasing uptime and reducing cyber risk vulnerability.• Lead efforts working with executive management, IT security, human resources and engineering to implement security programs, policies, systems and training tools protecting the business against data loss and cyber intrusions, improving results of annual penetration testing.• Working with IT infrastructure and operations teams, designed fault tolerant infrastructure, reducing unplanned system outages and reduced costs of computing environments through virtualization. • In collaboration with Human Resources, Finance and IT Operations, implemented automated employee lifecycle management processes improving end user support by decreasing incident response times, improved communications, and reducing setup times for new employee onboarding and terminations.

Work with senior management to recognize growing business demands and develop strategies to support those needs. Establish Help Desk, Network infrastructure, Application Support, Project Management and Business Systems groups within the company. Develop and implement a standardized network infrastructure to support the business integration and communication requirements across multiple sites throughout North America, China and Germany. Standardize project management and modify policies and procedures to streamline application processes within IT. Ensure that business partners receive the tools that were developed to meet their needs.Achievements:• Grew Ceradyne's IT organization over a 13-year period to support 17 acquisition/location startups three countries as the business grew from $30M to $750M in revenues• Develop and implement application portfolios that improve IT efficiencies while providing flexible tools to meet the unique site-by-site business needs• Create a multi-site Help desk utilizing Symantec's Altiris Help Desk management system• Facilitate ERP system upgrades, Implementations and Conversions - Epicor, SAP• Headed corporation-wide rollout of Cisco VOIP phone system• Virtualized all application servers within main data center and at remote sites • Develop Cisco-based "Branch in a box" Approach to new site LAN/WAN/Voice integration• Implemented electronic workflow processes that include purchasing, sales quote, capital requests and invoice approval systems, as well as a variety of Microsoft systems • Established strategies to support HA and DR for primary business systems and critical applications, as well as various ETL tools to flow information between systems and support business intelligence reporting requirements