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22 years IT Leadership; 28 years in IT; Bachelor Computer Information Systems; Associates Degree in CISManaged a team of leaders responsible for Infrastructure and Operations; Networking, Data Center, Cloud, Desktop Support, IT Helpdesk, Asset Management, Release Management, IT Budgeting, DR/BCP, Permissions Management .Helped lead the efforts to stand up a new data center and disaster recovery cloud platform. Proposed and implemented Data Lake and Business Intelligence reporting platform in Microsoft Azure Cloud. Member of Technology Steering Committee, BCP Committee, and PCI Compliance Committee. Owner of a $15 Million budget along with the infrastructure technology in over 50 locations. Along with managing multiple projects simultaneously I've also had to manage IT teams to continue the 24/7 support work. I have presented strategic initiatives, project status's, and roadmaps to the CIO and other senior managers. I've managed all aspects of teams; performances, budgets, communications, roadmaps, etc.My experience and achievements include such things as:* Researched, justified, and led a $650k project to implement a Data Virtualization platform. This saved the company an immediate $1M in contractor services. Plus, it saved in hundreds of thousands of additional dollars of future ETL and data warehousing support work. My role included the following; requirement gathering, selecting a vendor, securing the funding, building the project team, and oversee the project teams deliverables.* Implement Enterprise Dashboard – the purpose of this project was simply to bring decision making data in front of senior management. The first delivered visual widgets displayed statistics on how effective investments are in Smart Grid devices. My role was selecting the visualization software, securing contractor resources, and managing the tasks of the development team.* One of 3 members of the Business Process Committee that documented the Agile software development process for the company.* Oracle ERP implementation – A $13M project. My role as IT Development Manager was managing the budget, resources, and deliverables of the development team to successfully program over 350 development objects.* Oracle ERP upgrade - PM in all aspects of the project including: selecting key team players, managing task schedule and assignments, maintaining budget, reporting progress to stakeholders, implementation, and post go live support.

Listed skills include Testing, Business Analysis, Integration, Management, and 15 others.