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United States

At Teton Cloud Consulting, we’re dedicated to empowering businesses with innovative IT consulting solutions, specializing in cloud strategies, migration, and continuity planning. Our mission is to deliver tailored services that accelerate business outcomes and drive transformative success.

Data Center Transformation Strategic Road Maps DR and BCP Planning Business and Risk AssessmentsProject Management Compliance Auditing Strategy AssessmentsBusiness Impact Assessments Data Center Design Budgeting & Reporting Operational Cost Reduction Benchmarking and Best Practices

Evaluate the current state of the Colleges technology infrastructure; provide recommendations on organizational structure, alignment of IT projects and spending, delivery of a technology plan and budget to remediate the evaluations findings and foster an environment of continuous improvement. • Created 26 prioritized projects outlining issues and corrective actions needed to provide fiscal responsibility, operational efficiencies, development of standards, transparent accountability, and customer service. • Consolidated silos of IT functionality into single reporting structure allowing for improved lines of communication, enhancing accountability, intuitive transparency, and alignment of investments. • Centralized approval of all campus wide IT initiatives and spending through IT Director and IT Steering Committee to ensuring proper project alignment and fiscal responsibility. • Begun campus wide software evaluation and standardization, reduced anti-virus software used on campus from six different packages to one PC anti-virus solution providing simplified administration, management, patching, and reporting with an annual savings of 88%.• Implemented an enterprise backup strategy, ensuring centralized ownership of the process. Selection of a single campus backup solution, development of the metrics and processes needed to guarantee critical data has been successfully backed up, stored securely, and testing procedures verifying recoverability are in place. • Network Redesign, leveraging virtual chassis technology, improving network performance by a factor of 10 and reduced support costs by 65%.

Developed and managed the global IT budget of $4.5 million, drove strategic direction for all three divisions of IT, Application & Web Development, Infrastructure, and Desktop support.• Implemented a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) by developing a reusable framework and the collateral needed to perform a complete Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The outcome of the BIA drove the development of policies and procedures to maintain a DRP program. I created a multiply year investment strategy focused on minimizing the risk, reduction of the recovery times, virtualization strategies, and offsite storage and replication for prioritized business systems ensuring corporate survival ability in the event of a disaster. • Redesigned the sales process by leveraging Microsoft CRM 4.0 framework and managing off shore programming. Improve the sales cycle velocity by orchestration of the sales process. Eliminating non-value added activities by enabling mobile accessibility to data. Provided activity based milestones, improved visibility and accountability of the sales pipeline, creating a 360-degree view of the customer, and tracking of lead source effectiveness. • Managed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) selection project and led the executive steering team through the process of gathering requirements, defining what the future state should be and building an understanding of how a new ERP system will benefit the organization. Created awareness of the level of effort and change readiness needed for successful tier-1 deployment. • Led cross functional teams through root-cause analysis to identify existing website issues. Benchmarked other luxury brands and similar aviation sites. Totally redesigned navigation, branding and user experience. Developed Content Management System (CMS) that allowed more efficient updates by non-technical content owners.