Matthew Soward Email & Phone Number

Osceola, IN, US

South Bend, Indiana, United States

• Leading the IT department’s operational and strategic planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources.
• Benchmarking, analyzing, reporting on, and making recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and IT systems.
• Managing financial aspects of the IT department, including purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
• Developing and implementing all IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing, and service provision.
• Negotiating and administering vendor, outsourcer, and consultant contracts and service agreements.
• Managing IT staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions.

South Bend, Indiana, United States

• Lead/manage engineering projects from inception to completion, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, timeline
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., project managers, developers, data scientists, stakeholders) defining projectscope, requirements, objectives
• Develop detailed project plans (e.g., tasks, timelines, resource allocation, risk assessment) ensuring successful projectexecution
• Provide technical expertise/guidance to project team (e.g., problem-solving, technical challenges)
• Facilitate regular project status meetings/communicate project progress/updates/potential risks tostakeholders/management
• Ensure compliance with project quality standards, industry best practices, company policies throughout project lifecycle

Kalamazoo, MI

• Managed high-level IT projects/tickets for multi-site Westview School Corporation (6 schools)
• Consulted providing IT infrastructure services to 1,500 corporate/public/government/non-profit clients across 3-state region
• Collaborated with users to understand needs, map workflows, define technical specificationbuilding/implementing/supporting high availability IT solutions/systems
• Trained/mentored users on new technologies
• Performed onsite troubleshooting, infrastructure consulting, desktop supportInfrastructure Design/Cost Reduction:
• Outlined/designed infrastructures consolidating/improving organizational networks

South Bend, Indiana Area

SENIOR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER Jun 2005 – Dec 2012Interlink Companies/ElkhartNet | South Bend, INHighlights: Migrated MS Servers from v2000, 2003, 2007 to 2010; migrated SBS from v2003/2008 to 2011; deployedbackend storage solution (NAS) for virtualized implementations; networked virtualized solutions using 10 gigE for NASbackendNETWORK.

Columbus, Indiana

Technical Scope: Windows, Linux, Lotus Notes (Server & Database), Symantec Backup Exec, MS OfficeCollected and catalogued Y2K compliance data for Cummins Engine Company across 160+ locations globally, facilitating client’s insurance claim against costs of preparing for Y2K compliance. Managed retention organizers at each location and partnered with.