Rick Griffin Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Oversee the strategic direction, management, and implementation of information technology systems and processes within a company. Key responsibilities of VP Corporate IT:Establishing and enforcing IT policies, procedures, and standards across the organization. Responsible for maintaining an efficient and reliable technology infrastructure. This includes the design, implementation, and management of networks, servers, hardware, software, and other IT systems. Develop and implement robust cybersecurity measures, such as firewalls, encryption, and employee awareness programs. Key responsibilities of VP DevOps:Manages the DevOps team, including, defining roles and responsibilities, and fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture. Establish and maintain the necessary infrastructure, tools, and automation frameworks to enable frequent and reliable software releases.Identifies and implements appropriate tools and technologies to automate various aspects of the software development and deployment processes. Key responsibilities of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)Develop, implement, enhance and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise Information Security and IT risk management framework and program.Monitor potential vulnerabilities and/or non-compliance of security and data-related SOPs.Focus on Security, including Infrastructure, Laptop/Desktop, Office Networks, Communication, DNS, Internet Domain, Infrastructure implementations, and physical security.Perform Penetration Testing.Develop and test Disaster Recovery procedures and controls.Develop and test Business Continuity Planning procedures and controls.Perform security Awareness training to prevent and mitigate user risk.

New York, Ny, Us

Strategy | Amazon AWS Cloud | Azure Cloud | BCP/Disaster Recovery | Compliance | DEVOPS• Developed policies and procedures for IT practices used in corporate and customer-facing environments• Developed and implemented security practices including BCP and DR• Provided security related training for internal staff and vendors to ensure policies were executed properly.• Provided procurement support for technology items across the organization• Managed all vendor relations as they relate to IT, and all aspects of Desktop Support• Worked with product teams to understand, redesign and build infrastructure to support our products• Managed on-site equipment (macs, mac servers, Linux servers, printers and phone systems) • Managed and operated all production, staging and development environments, including outside vendors/cloud vendors (AWS, Azure and Rackspace)• DevOps scripting with PowerShell in Azure and Amazon CLI to control infrastructure provisioning and security changes

Hollywood, Md, Us

Strategy | Cloud Migration | Project Management | Compliance | • Maintained and serviced variety of accounts, upselling existing clients with new service. • Managed my former company IQPC who outsourced all IT related services.• Managed client expectations on SOW and MSA’s. • Provided presentations and documentation of services for upper management in client companies. • Assisted customers with streamlining operations and finding potential cost savings.

New York, Ny, Us

Strategy | Cloud Migration | Project Management | BCP/Disaster Recovery | Compliance | Budgets | DEVOPS• Migrated the entire Global Infrastructure and Data into Amazon AWS Cloud with three Virtual Private Clouds located in (US, EU and APAC). This included (Exchange, File Servers, Citrix Environment, Finance System, CRM System and Web Sites) from 9 offices around the globe• Exercised global responsibility for the core technology infrastructure, including, Technology Support Services, Application Support, IT Operations and VOIP/Data Networks• Migrated 150 TB of data from local office datacenters in 9 countries into AWS Cloud services• Developed DevOps scripting tools to ease deployment of new infrastructure as well as monitor and modify security rules for load balancers and firewalls.• Managed help desk operations which included support for (PC’s, macs, windows servers, mac servers, printers and phone systems)• Developed Critical Issue Response Team (CIRT) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process for IT teams with follow the sun support.• Managed a team of 20+ engineers globally• Managed local data and VOIP networks in 9 global offices• Managed annual Global IT Budget

New York, Ny, Us

SaaS/Cloud | Infrastructure | Cybersecurity | Data Center | BCP/Disaster Recovery | Compliance | DEVOPS• Managed technology organization of 20 staff (US and APAC), IT related projects and daily operations • Managed entire IT hosting environment which included: Infrastructure servers, SAN, network cybersecurity, communications, change management, capacity planning and incident management.• Managed compliance efforts for client audits and provided our response to client in due diligence process.• Operated in a highly regulated environment including writing and operating SOP’s, IQ, OQ and PQ documentation.• Managed Critical Issue Response Team (CIRT) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) response from IT.• Implemented IT procedures and equipment technology for maximum efficiency and cost containment. • Developed cost breakdown of our client infrastructure and services for billing purposes • Maintained DNS, DHCP and AD as it supported our client environments• Designed and built automated deployments with Chef using ruby. • Helped design scripts to control infrastructure and product deployments for windows and Linux OS.• Designed scripts to control updates to MSSQL and MySQL deployments.• Configured and maintained server and infrastructure monitoring solutions

Bachelors, Computer Science

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