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.

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

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.
• 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)

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.

Bachelors, Computer Science

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