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Corporate OverviewGuardian provides a solution to protect data at the end of its life cycle. GDD keeps you compliant with the laws and regulations insuring that data leakages don’t become problems for you and your customers. Our secure on site data erasure and data destruction services eliminates all data leaks from in transit, idle, from off lease or end of life it equipment meeting the latest corporate security policies. SECURE AND COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE … Show more Corporate OverviewGuardian provides a solution to protect data at the end of its life cycle. GDD keeps you compliant with the laws and regulations insuring that data leakages don’t become problems for you and your customers. Our secure on site data erasure and data destruction services eliminates all data leaks from in transit, idle, from off lease or end of life it equipment meeting the latest corporate security policies. SECURE AND COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE ON SITE HARD DRIVE SHREDDING & DESTRUCTION ON SITE HARD DRIVE ERASURE ENTERPRISE DATA ERASURE DECOMMISSIONING SERVICES DATA CENTER RELOCATIONS ASSET RECOVERY AND LOGISTICS E WASTE RECYCLINGWe are single source that offers a broad range of turnkey solutions for ON SITE data security for idle or end of life assets. Show less

Responsible for the management of field, systems and telecom teams with oversight of 4 managers and 11 associates that deliver technology services to 8 Mediabrands brands spanning 1900 staff across NA. Maintained vendor relationships and managed the hardware lifecycle for all North America Mediabrands entities per stated schedule to increase efficiency.Assisted and was responsible for MIT controls during the SOX audit to ensure compliance.Managed technology budget which was equal to… Show more Responsible for the management of field, systems and telecom teams with oversight of 4 managers and 11 associates that deliver technology services to 8 Mediabrands brands spanning 1900 staff across NA. Maintained vendor relationships and managed the hardware lifecycle for all North America Mediabrands entities per stated schedule to increase efficiency.Assisted and was responsible for MIT controls during the SOX audit to ensure compliance.Managed technology budget which was equal to $900K and was responsible for 2010 chargeback allocations for supported brands.With collaborative effort, relocated 350 users to a new location within budget and within a very short time line.Set hardware standards to streamline operations and to improve performance.Deployed Polycom video conference units across NA, assisted and tested with global deployment of Polycom video conference units - resulted In cutting global and domestic travel by 40%, with the savings in travel costs paying off the Polycom investment. Show less

Responsible for the management and oversight of 30 associates that delivered IT desktop services to 25 Publicis Group brands spanning 5,500 staff across the region. Team provided 2nd level support for 10 NY buildings with additional sites in NJ; Tactical partner to 5,500 supported staff in the North East region.Leveraged distributed management technologies to drive efficiencies while increasing capacity to deliver desktop service to clients.Assisted with deployment of new service desk… Show more Responsible for the management and oversight of 30 associates that delivered IT desktop services to 25 Publicis Group brands spanning 5,500 staff across the region. Team provided 2nd level support for 10 NY buildings with additional sites in NJ; Tactical partner to 5,500 supported staff in the North East region.Leveraged distributed management technologies to drive efficiencies while increasing capacity to deliver desktop service to clients.Assisted with deployment of new service desk which was outsourced to HP in Costa Rica and evaluated service desk agents in Costa Rica. New partnering with service desk met over 90% of SLA up from 40%Completed the dissolution of multiple brands from Publicis Groupe, which included the separation, and handoff of technology to the business unit.Maintained vendor relationships and managed the PC/MAC lifecycle for all North East Publicis entities per stated schedule to increase efficiency and improve performance.Managed inventory and refreshed equipment for all brands in NE by managing over 3 million dollar budget.Managed the field team to deploy Notes e-mail client from GroupWise client for over 5K users within timelines. Show less

Repositioned and restructured the field support from "fix the equipment" to a "fix the customer" team approach resulting in quality of service for end users.Extensive experience in multiple business unit management, new business start ups, and mergers.Experienced in supporting phone system (Lucent/Avaya G3) , voice mail system (Intuity) and faxes.Supported Video Conference Systems.Supported Hyperion and setup training classes.Managed vendors and lease… Show more Repositioned and restructured the field support from "fix the equipment" to a "fix the customer" team approach resulting in quality of service for end users.Extensive experience in multiple business unit management, new business start ups, and mergers.Experienced in supporting phone system (Lucent/Avaya G3) , voice mail system (Intuity) and faxes.Supported Video Conference Systems.Supported Hyperion and setup training classes.Managed vendors and lease returns to keep cost down. Show less

with Darcy and assisted with transition by transferring knowledge, handed over datacom and e-mail to Darcy IT teams.Assisted with transitioning from cc:mail to groupwise e-mail system.Resolved escalated issues from desktop technicians.Deployed Windows 2000 cluster server with fiber raid and backup system (up time over 95%) which improved performance, reliability and efficiency.Assisted with Y2K efforts.Created and supported FTP sites.Assisted deployment of PeopleSoft for… Show more with Darcy and assisted with transition by transferring knowledge, handed over datacom and e-mail to Darcy IT teams.Assisted with transitioning from cc:mail to groupwise e-mail system.Resolved escalated issues from desktop technicians.Deployed Windows 2000 cluster server with fiber raid and backup system (up time over 95%) which improved performance, reliability and efficiency.Assisted with Y2K efforts.Created and supported FTP sites.Assisted deployment of PeopleSoft for finance and HR within budget and meeting the timeline. Show less

Led the desktop support team when the contract ended with Bell Atlantic. Supported NY, Detroit and Chicago offices, total of 800 users.Managed server room including routers, switches, servers and Donovan dumb terminals.Managed cc:mail, Unix based servers, Novel server.Deployed Windows 4.0 servers replacing Unix servers.