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Chester, Nh, Us

Reporting to the President and partnering with all levels of leadership in kSARIA, leading a team of 9, responsible for managing all aspects of information technology: risk assessment and elimination, data center, ID, and workstation migration, while gaining end-user trust and adoption to newly developed IT standards. • Successfully migrated kSARIA’s network to be compliant with the NIST 800-171 framework in less than 20 months. Enabling the company to maintain and enhance many contracts with its customer base.• Ultimately migrated the company from 1 Data Center containing 18 physical servers with consumer infrastructure to 2 Data Centers, 2– 4 node VXRail clusters running 85 VMs – Reduced complexity, power and cooling costs, and conformed to standards.• Installed enterprise grade networking infrastructure to enable network security while continuing to support explosive growth.• Extended the Active Directory to all field locations enabling network security and visibility. • Created, enacted, and documented IT standardization for kSARIA.• Growing the company through organic and acquired growth from $20M to over $150M - 3 locations, 150 employees to 10 locations, 1000 employees.• Implemented a training curriculum for end users to recognize email based cyber threats, reducing the number of risky emails opened from 38% to 2.4%• Enacted a reliable, repeatable information technology business continuity \ disaster recovery plan. • Maintained open dialogue with key stakeholders to ensure business initiatives were being met in a timely and cost-effective manner.

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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Reported to the CTO, partnered with all levels of leadership in Anixter’s Security division. Managed all phases of the technical and business conversion projects of the Tri-Ed acquisition (65 locations, 600 employees): risk assessment and elimination, data center, ID, and workstation migration, and gained end-user trust and adoption to Anixter systems.• Migrated 60 virtual machines from 14 Hyper-V hosts to 4 VMware ESXi hosts – Reduced complexity, power and cooling costs, and conformed to standards.• Migrated 600 user IDs and workstations to Anixter domain with standardized syntax.• Maintained open dialogue with key stakeholders to ensure business initiatives were being met in a timely and cost effective manner.• Identified and acted upon over $100K in cost saving through synergies.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Direct responsibility for all voice and data systems in the western hemisphere outside of the primary corporate data center. Including, but not limited to secondary data centers, mergers and acquisitions. Oversaw the daily operations of regional desktop support and field server teams that ensured business IT systems were operating according to current standards.• Maintained open dialogue with key stakeholders that ensured business initiatives were met in timely and cost effective manner; adjusted department’s strategic initiatives as required.• Converted systems of acquired companies to achieve standardization: assess risk, document technical specification, and gain end-user trust and adoption to new systems.• Created and directed Infrastructure Logistics Team responsible for infrastructure wiring budget, design, scope-of-work, bid, and installation management of new and retrofit offices in the western hemisphere; created department from ground up.• Hire, train, manage and evaluate team of six regional managers. Provide feedback and oversight of extended teams of up to forty employees. • Concurrently managed multiple high-level projects and budgets. Prepared and administered annual budget of up to $6M.• Identified and implemented company-wide field data back-up strategy ensuring standardization across the enterprise resulting in legal compliance and reduced risk. • Maintained high-end support model while implementing large-scale outsource / reduction-in-force initiative.• Negotiated model selection and price on company-wide hardware upgrade for Windows 7 conversion. Vendor selection resulted in cost savings of over $1.5M.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led a team of eight desktop support and field server administrators supporting a multi-site end user base of 1,400 across 24 states.• Designed, developed, and documented the current main distribution frame (MDF) standard configuration for North America.• Created corporate baseline standards for workstations and servers. Ensured standards met the needs, compatibility, and budget across all departments within the organization.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led a team of three LAN Administrators to support a multi-site end user base of 550 across 10 states.• Co-designed and led a smooth migration from ‘dumb’ terminal to a personal computer environment. Responsible for project management, LAN/WAN reconfiguration, training, and vendor/consultant management.• Developed common operating environment image for both laptop and desktop workstations.• Effectively led a cross functional team to assess and implement Y2K compliance needs.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Created, championed, and implemented polices and procedures that maximized profit and provided superior service to Anixter’s client base.• Performed departmental audits and subsequently recommended key changes to local management.• Designed and implemented a process for tracking fixed assets recovery and replacement.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Washington, D.C., Us