It Director
Current• Manage the IT teams and day to day operations of a large Civil Engineering network infrastructure with multiple data centers, office locations and remote staff. • Network Infrastructure Architect for internal and external customers.• Moved the IT department response to its clients from a reactionary position to a proactive position through education, network monitoring and collaboration with teams.• Increased network production up-time to 99.97% by implementing a virtualized fail-over cluster network.• Architected a new data center and network infrastructure for a new corporate headquarters resulting in a construction build out savings of over $275,000.• Reduced reliance on third party contracts for maintenance and support with in-house training of IT staff, resulting in a 70% reduction in recurring contract expenses.• Defined and documented all IT policies and procedures.• Developed enterprise wide disaster recovery plans.• Created standards and policies for IT security and risk management.• Provide hands-on technical knowledge to assist IT staff.• Ensuring achievement of departmental goals in budgeting, staff performance and client satisfaction.• End to end IT project management joining programming staff, to networking infrastructure staff and customer management.
