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West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

• Work closely with organizational leadership to strategically affect the direction of operations.• Developed and maintain the IT infrastructure.• Implement and manage cloud solutions.• Analyze projects to determine resource requirements and procure necessary equipment and software. • Set budgets and project time frames and deadlines with clients.• Manage application developing with hardware, security, and infrastructure integration. • Conduct weekly internal meetings regarding progress.• Conduct weekly meetings with shareholders.• Administrative responsibility for the IT unit, including hiring and supervision of staff, budget, strategic planning, and management of the day-to-day service desk operations. • Manage client hosting infrastructure and pricing strategies.• Complete internal Network Assessment, and develop all documentation, to assure policies, procedures, security, backup, recovery, and disaster plans are in place.• Develop and manage staging and production environments.

Coconut Creek, Florida, Us

Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project initiation/proposals, project delivery, business liaison/stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out/handover.• Single point of contact for all communication between the customer and vendors.• Identified, analyzed, measured, and managed project risks.• Ensured projects conformed to methodology and required standards.• Kept accurate administrative records of expenditures, accounting, cost and billing.• Assisted the technical team in their design and development tasks.• Produced project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales, and resources.• Managed staff to ensure that all milestones were achieved within the agreed timeframes.• Ensured effective quality control processes were in place to monitor deliverables produced.• Conducted weekly internal meetings regarding progress.• Conducted Network Assessment assuring policies, procedures, security, backup, recovery, and disaster plans were in place.• Conducted quarterly and semiannual pen-tests to ensure firewall and network were secure. • Work with outside vendors to assure their infrastructure meets the SSAE 18 SOC1 Type II and AT101 SOC2 Type II Compliance.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Managed a $500K department budget and supervising two direct reports to oversee all aspects of the Club’s IT and AV resources. Interacted with the Club’s CEO and CFO on a regular basis and was responsible for all line of business (LOB) applications, technical services and IT operations. Worked closely with department staff while serving as the primary person supporting business applications, implementations, as well as maintenance of software. Infrastructure & Network Security • Maintained all aspects of daily system management, design, deployment, and maintenance• Oversaw internal information security policies, and conducted internal and external audits • Oversaw vendor selection, contract negotiation, implementation and vendor management• Worked closely with department directors and staff regarding training and policy procedures• Managed AV and lighting for live events held at the Club; conducted video editing • Attended IT seminars and adopted new technologies and protocols within budgetary guidelinesMigrations & System Upgrades• Completed a $27 million renovation by designing a new network infrastructure that incorporated data, phone, wireless, lighting, HVAC, and video; supervised the installation with outside contractors• Migrated from a legacy AS400 system to ClubTec in 2008 and then from ClubTec to IBS in 2013• Lead Engineer for the migration of an analog phone system to a VOIP phone system• Migrated from Exchange 2003 to 2010, Windows Server 2003 to 2008R2Deployments & Configurations• Designed, installed, configured, and maintained wireless environments and security access • Launched and monitored backup utilizing onsite and off-site DR with 1-hour recovery• Implemented an internet redundancy strategy utilizing AT&T and Comcast• Lead engineer for the implementation of VMware and redundancy • Installed and configured Office 2010 and trained end users in functionality• Implemented Sonic Wall firewalls to improve internal security

Hyderabad, Telanagane, In

Managed full P&L responsibility for the IT business unit at this this Microsoft Gold Partner consulting service, which worked with clients that included private country clubs, hospitals, law offices, construction companies, hotels, insurance agencies and churches. Led a department of five technicians to oversee all aspects of internal IT resources. Worked closely with the CEO and Executive VP to establish internal and external company technical services and operations. Maintained high-level accountability for department sales, purchasing, delivery, and customer service. Infrastructure & Network Security • Developed/implemented all internal information security policies, standards, and procedures• Conducted quarterly internal and external audits regarding security policy adherence• Strengthened infrastructure security in accordance with external client compliance guidelines• Conceptualized and implemented successful workflows and processes that streamlined IT change management for firewall port opening & closing, server decommissions, and user access • Conceived and established patch management policies and procedures to evaluate patch implications, conduct introductory testing, and closely monitor deployments as well as timing• Utilized Microsoft security policies in Windows 2000/2003 to lock down workstations and servers• Implemented multiple Checkpoint and Sonic Wall firewalls plus to wireless environments Deployments & Configurations• Installed and configured servers (Microsoft IIS, Exchange 2000/2003, SQL server, Windows 2000/2003, and Active Directory) utilizing Dell, IBM, and HP servers• Consulted and assisted in the implementation of Cisco telecom devices for the company• Directed the migration from Novell to a Microsoft Windows 2000 server environment• Lead engineer in the migration from Exchange 2000 to 2003 and Windows Server 2000 to 2003