Tony Ricci Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Key areas of focus included assessing costs, workload tracking, and resource management
• Analysis of technical designs and development of appropriate infrastructure solutions based on BMO standards
• Review tactical and strategic plans and assess the feasibility and technical risk of incorporating a given architecture or solution into the internal technology environment and communicate the findings to management.
• Provided design, development and support server infrastructure estimates to management and/or project/work teams that are used in determining business initiative feasibility and priorities
• Review hardware/software design documents for new business/technical initiatives (e.g., High Level Requirements Document [HLRD] and High Level System Design Document [HLSD]) received from other Technical Specialists.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed a team that lead delivery of Infrastructure operations by developing, implementing and maintaining Infrastructure operations that allowed Rogers Media to meet both short and long term business goals, and.
• Managed team of 7 technical leads servicing 10 locations across Canada
• Managed the integration of new business acquisitions and companywide upgrades and refreshes
• Managed relationships with enterprise business partners, examining alternative methods of improving business efficiency & effectiveness
• Able to exceed target of 10% operational expense cost reduction initiative
• Architected and built a VMWare 3.5 Infrastructure environment including Brocade Fabric Switches and EMC storage arrays

Toronto, Canada Area

• Systems technical lead for Canada’s largest publisher of 61 consumer and trade publications, 52 radio stations and 9 television stations across Canada.Accomplishments:
• Team leader on several successful projects including Mac OS X and hardware upgrade from Mac OS 9; Active Directory Integration and Mac OS X 10.4 upgrade. SOX compliance for Macintosh Systems
• Other projects included upgrading to Adobe CS2 and migrating from QuarkXpress 4.11 to InDesign 4.0; migration from a Quark Publishing System to K4 Publishing System
• All projects were done with no interruption to the daily workflow for the end user or business unit

Toronto, Canada Area

• Recommended, implemented and maintained IT solutions in a team environment. Developed strategic plans with business leaders regarding hardware, software, and network upgrades. Accomplishments:
• Set standards with hardware and software configurations of all Macintosh departments including Art Studio, Creative and Account Management
• Maintained and improved operating efficiency of information technology systems including LAN and servers by reviewing current environment; recommending solutions, integrating standard solutions and acquiring and.
• Protected systems data through preventive maintenance, periodic replacements and upgrades, and through the design and enforcement of security and disaster procedures
• Worked closely with external IT consultants by providing information, reviewing proposals and coordinating activities

Toronto, Canada Area

• Technical lead for sales reps of institutional customers. Developed plans for integrations of new technology within existing environments by reviewing and recommending strategic direction. Coordinated customer needs.
• Participated in migrations of desktop systems of 150 or more for 2 law firms and 1 hospital in Toronto
• Developed database to assist with customer service tracking and call logging for in house phone support staff

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