Mark D. Johns Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Delivering IT leadership for multiple late-stage Flagship portfolio companies, with responsibility for business & lab systems, Data sciences, IT services, infrastructure, projects, security, and partner relationships. Providing oversight and execution of the Information Technology related launch and site onboarding of new portfolio companies, creating systems roadmaps to meet strategic and operational needs of the company, planning, coordination, delivery and change management for IT projects.

Provide IT leadership, vision, and planning with hands-on technical project management for all cloud, infrastructure, enterprise applications, networking, and technical support services. Champion and facilitate the business-focused partnership between IT and its internal/external stakeholders, working closely with business leaders to design and deliver technical solutions. Implement best practices for high-availability IT systems including governance, operations, compliance and change management. Development for IT initiatives: cost analysis, budgeting, RFQ, vendor selection, negotiation, systems design and capacity planning. Project management, technical and hands-on leadership for IT team members and cross-functional employees. Lead and manage IT teams including infrastructure, networking, enterprise application support, and third-party consultants. Provide guidance, training and development for IT team employees. Manage relationships with 3rd party vendors.

Head of Information Technology for Winthrop Capital and its affiliates; Winthrop Management and First Winthrop Corporation. • Acquisition of New York REIT (NYSE:NYRT) and integration of their IT systems.o The acquisition was a hostile take-over requiring a rapid facilitation of IT integration with little knowledge transfer from previous IT teams. Full integration of their IT systems and data was necessary in an extraordinarily tight timeline.o Achieved the project timeline goals of two months to integrate a complex ERP system and data transfer integration.o Passed a stringent 3rd party Sarbanes-Oxley audit from KPMG without an exception.• Creation of a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan.o Converted hot site disaster recovery datacenter to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (Disaster Recovery as a service, DRaaS)o Unitrends migration to Veeam Backup, Replication and Cloud Connect with iland Secure Cloud.• VMware vSphere to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 migration.o Achieved $300,000 per year reduction in licensing costs by migrating from VMware to Hyper-V.o Converted all physical servers to virtual machines. Storage consolidation with Dell EqualLogic SAN.• Office 365 migration: Migrated 750 active mailboxes from on premise Exchange 2010 to the cloud with zero downtime or business interruption. Migrated SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online. Migrated from on premise to Lync/Skype for Business.• Veeam ONE installation for monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for our virtual environments.• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise upgrade and server consolidation. Consolidated seven SQL servers into two. • Consolidated two ERP accounting systems into one centralized system (MRI into Yardi).• Negotiated 50% reduction in Microsoft licensing. Saving $350,000 per year.• Citrix 6.5 Presentation farm upgrade to XenApp. Managed Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and annual audits with a 7-year track record of zero exceptions.

Boulogne Billancourt, Fr

Directed all IT functions for US-based operations. Reporting to the CIO in Paris, leading international teams responsible for infrastructure, networking, enterprise applications, disaster recovery, manufacturing and R&D software platforms. • Directed the IT integration of two company acquisitions: Vernalis and Tercica.o 250 employees across two countries (USA, UK). Email consolidation, file server consolidation. • Grew the company from Research, development, clinical, manufacturing and commercialization. private to going public (IPO)• New data center design and construction. Lead the conversion from physical to virtual computing and SAN storage technologies. o Enabling agile software development for research and development. • Lotus Notes to Google Apps migration project.• Managed multiple ERP system migrations: Sage to Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics. Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics to SAP.• International project manager for R&D, clinical and regulatory software applications. o Electronic Document Management System (EDMS). Electronic CTD submissions to the FDA. Electronic Lab Notebook.• International project manager for Cisco VOIP deployment.• Vendor management for enterprise applications, infrastructure, data and voice. SLA contractual agreements and negotiations.• Maintained FDA compliance in a GxP biologic manufacturing operation.• IT Security, deployment of 2-factor passwords based on RSA SecurID. • Firewall security design and maintenance.

Mba, Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Management Information Systems