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Built the Information infrastructure from its infancy into a major multi-country service with resilience to withstand major natural service disruptions.Led a TEM (Telecom Expense Management) project, consolidating and managing the telecom invoice expenses of the 20 subsidiary companies across North America, which earned refunds totaling $100K and an annual saving of $250K per year. Implemented a managed network in Canada with TELUS, and AT&T in the US. The project was implemented with a $0 cost increase to the budget, but accomplished an average of a 35% increase in general network performance and a 50% decrease in down time. Developed the corporate data centre located in Toronto to support the consolidated computing of the subsidiaries into a central computing centre. The data centre standardized the computing infrastructure on IBM’s blade server, Cisco networking and NetApp SAN technologies.Managed and maintained the Enterprise agreements with major vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, Citrix and WebSense, Telecom with AT&T, TELUS, and Verizon.Implemented VMware and Citrix XEN virtualization technologies which resulted in $900K+ of cost savings and enabled the corporation to quickly respond to business needs.Developed processes, templates and workflows to quickly integrate acquisitions into the corporate infrastructure. There were approximately 15 to 20 acquisitions per year.

HUB International Ontario, IC Insurance Brokers Limited• Redesigned and implemented the data network for the Ontario subsidiary. The redesign reduced their network cost by 30% and increased the network speed and through put by 50%Mother Parkers Tea and Coffee. • Developed, planned and implemented the corporate messaging strategy across North America.• Redesigned and implemented a new IP scheme for the North American IP network• Trained the internal staff on managing their new Lotus Notes infrastructureBell Distribution Inc. (Bell Stores) – Retail store and Corporate offices infrastructure design, planning and implementation • Designed, planned and implemented the infrastructure and technology for the Bell Stores, this included the communications network, the server and storage, firewall and security • Provided infrastructure and access to systems for remote/mobile sales force and remote/mobile temporary stores that could be set up at trade shows and sporting eventsMagna International & Divisions• Designed, planned and rolled out the corporate and worldwide (8 Divisions, 300 companies and 400+ locations) Lotus Notes email system consolidating the multiple email systems • Visited multiple sites in North America and Europe to assist and train their IT staff in implementing the Notes ModelBeacon Eye Institute • Managed the day to day operations of the IT infrastructure • Brought online several new offices, managing the servers and network integration• Managed the Exchange messaging infrastructure

- Implemented LAN technologies to the organization with Novell Netware.- Implemented and managed the Lotus Notes environment.- Switch the organization from Novel to Microsoft NT server technologies.- Switched the LAN network from IPX/SPX over to TCP/IP.

Certified Professional For Cybersecurity Certification

Capm, Project Management

Education record

Computer Application Programming and Design Training in Assembler, COBOL, FORTRAN and RPG