Chief Information Officer
St. Petersburg, Florida, Us
Power Design Inc. provides electrical contracting services in the United States. It offers design-build, preconstruction, construction, and engineering services, fire and life safety, telecom, audio, visual, security, lighting control, and distributed antenna systems, and lighting products and services.Led technology practice that allowed for business growth from $100M to $600M in 8 year period.• Managed a team of 25 staff and contractors to implement a disaster recovery plan, update the primary data center to industry level standards for reliability and security, and establish a second data center that synchronized data real time with the first center.• As Chief Information officer (CIO) provided executive leadership and created/headed the IT Steering Committee comprised of (6) other divisional leaders. Committee aligned business needs with IT objectives• Managed all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation and support of companywide objectives• Implemented Oracle E Business ERP with Ceridian Payroll and established a second data center and disaster recovery (DR) Plan Data Center & Disaster Recovery• Developed and executed a plan to enhance the primary data center and establish a DR Center • Data was synchronized real time between data centers and eventually split data load between centers to mitigate risk for the company• Project ensured the company can operate and recover from a disasterERP Replacement• Selected a new ERP platform to replace antiquated application that did not meet the needs of an expanding business. Evaluated a number of systems and decided on Oracle E-Business.• System allowed company to grow from $100M to $600M in 8 years• Project enabled growth of the company, increased financial reporting, streamlined processes, and pushed data to the field resulting in an eliminating double entry of data.