Strategically leading IT operations and cybersecurity initiatives, I oversee the development and execution of IT roadmaps aligned with corporate goals, fostering business growth and scalability. Providing expert advice to senior leadership, I ensure the deployment and maintenance of robust IT systems while managing budgets to drive cost-effective technology solutions.

As the Director of Information Technology team, I report to the CEO at Certified Power a premier value-added fluid power distributor, a leader in the engineering, manufacturing, and distribution of hydraulic systems and controls for the mobile and industrial OEM markets.Supported Business Application and Infrastructure Management for four divisions with 30 locations across North America.• Standardized security and network practices.• Led Office 365 & Network integrations of four acquisitions, 3 in one year.• Refreshed server architecture• Led the team for new data warehousing and reporting initiatives.

As the Global Director of Information Technology, I report to the CEO | CFO of a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of specialized products, primarily apparatus and scientific instruments used to advance life science research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, and government laboratories worldwide. I lead a $3M global infrastructure team, manage contracts, IT policies.Business Application and Infrastructure ManagementCompleted global infrastructure assessment of several ERP systems and hardware infrastructure. Developed and completed plans for a private to public cloud migration, global O365 deployment, and next gen firewalls. • Reduced latency for EU ERP latency by 99% improving productivity for manufacturing and operations, sales and finance team.• Managed Global deployment of Office 365, North America 3 sites, EU 5 sites, UK 1 site.• Managed Windows 7 EoL to Windows 10• Planned Storage & Compute MigrationsEnterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance Management• Led DSI Infrastructure and Business Analyst team for first SOX compliance audit.• Led team to develop several policies and controls to meet compliance.o Enabled SQL auditing for Database DDL changeso Developed procedure and policy for quarterly ERP change controlVendor Negotiation and Management• Reduced OpEx cost by nearly 9% by developing new vendor relationships and consolidating other agreements.Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery• Improved site’s ERP recovery time from 8 to 2 hours with no additional costs.I aim to provide leadership and direction on technologies that advance the company’s business objectives globally.

As DSI's IT Manager I reported to the CFO of an electrical implantable life science company and managed a $1.5M budget. I lead the Infrastructure team and set the IT strategy for: information security, switching, storage and compute. In this role I led the IT integration of two company acquisitions. M&A Program Management Integration For Complex Life Science Company.• Participated in a $4-million multi-departmental integration project of Buxco - A Respiratory company. • Planned and executed the IT integration of infrastructure of the Ponemah acquisition resulting in significant cost savings and improved service levels with minimum impact on business.Infrastructure Management For Complex Life Science Company.Developed and completed plan for a complete infrastructure refresh. This included updating Core Switching, User Switching, Next Gen Firewall resulting in improvements in our security posture, network throughput, availability and enabled a foundation for highly virtualized environment.• Deployed 3-tier storage and compute environment. Improving availability and recover ability by virtualization 98% of production and development systems.• Improved restore points by 400% and reduced backup times by nearly 75%. • Reduced operating costs by 100k by consolidating applications across the enterprise.• Developed Office 365 deployment plan that included department lead training, documentation, and numerous organization specific training videos.• Successfully deployed AV conference solutions for ad-hoc and global meetings while minimizing CapEx costs.• Reduced ERP build times by 65%, allowing the Infrastructure and Application teams to stay focused critical activities.

Throughout my career at Transoma my role has grew from a Systems Administrator IV in which I was responsible for our VoIP, Data, and Network infrastructure. During my tenure I over saw the migration of our two locations, and lead the team in consolidating them into our facilities new data center. I was successful in integrating and coordinating our acquisition's voice and data into part of our WAN. As the IT Supervisor I have additional responsibility for mentoring current employees through coaching's and creating and\or acquiring documentation to grow the skills and expand the abilities of my team. Responsible for maintaining our servers, SAN environments, and fielding team escalations. Other areas of responsibility include evaluating new technologies, making recommendations for our technology roadmap. Maintain vendor relationships, Contract Negotiation, Evaluate employee performance and salary reviews.

Responsible for Tivoli; BrightStor backup architecture.

Managed 28 servers running: Windows NT server, Windows server 2000, Server 2003, Exchange server 2003, IIS 5.0; 6.0, and IronPort.I provided project management, and implemented Live Communication Server 2005 SP1 and coordinated the roll-out of this software for our enterprise. I coordinated maintenance of our world wide call centers. This work included hardware\software upgrades. All upgrades and patches had to be coordinated with call centers worldwide to minimize downtime to allow Digital River to continue servicing revenue generating customers. Worked on Digital River’s acquisition team responsibilities included user account and DNS migration, and AD and Exchange consolidation. Created and managed training documentation for the IT department. This included training sessions on our PBX, and application integration on our CRP interaction with Siebel and our call center.

As the systems administrator I was responsible for 16+ servers, and 2 PBX's that directly affected our call center. These included Windows NT Server, SQL server, Widows server 2000, Exchange 2000\2003, and SMS 2.0. Our call center ran 24/7, and had 19 T1's and more than 400 in bound DID's. Our call center processed more than 250,000 emails and 500,000 voice minutes a month.Because Digital River is a commerce company and transactions are essential to our survival. This required 24 by 7 support, and providing stable environment. This required many after hour projects, and the ability to quickly troubleshoot, evaluate and solve issues ranging from application issues, to user support.

As a Customer Service Team Lead I supervised a team of 10 people. I fielded escalation calls for my team, and was responsible for our phone and email service levels. As a team lead I trained many of our new hires and field escalation issues.

Retail commission salesOpened the Minnesota market in the Brooklyn Center store in their advanced consumer electronics (ACE) department, and in less than a year I was training in new ACE employees. During my career at Circuit City I became a qualified sales counselor in Video, SoHo, 12-Volt (Car Audio), Home Audio and on many occasions stepped in to run the sales floor. Recognized for my dedication and continued success in the Minnesota Market I was select to open the Chicago market in their Schaumberg, IL store, which also set new opening day and weekend sales records.