Robert England Email & Phone Number

Branchville, Nj, Us

Technology professional part of the senior IT leadership team, experienced in leading IT initiatives in support of business strategies and objectives. Results oriented, employee and client focused, process driven, cost-conscious technology leader with proven success in the creation and management of effective teams. Significant experience managing change and realizing efficiency as a result of mergers, consolidations, and downsizing. Extensive exposure and comfort interacting with all management levels within an organization and with managing distributed, virtual teams, and managed service providers. Proponent of standards-based computing and process-driven IT, leveraging ITIL based standards with a comprehensive background in managing complex projects, establishing priorities, and leveraging technology to meet both strategic and tactical business needs. Demonstrates ability to manage large-scale projects with strong leadership, decision making, planning, cost control and communications skills. Practical experience turning programs and projects around to add positive business benefit. Proven experience in negotiating and managing large-scale vendor agreements. Proficient in all major technologies, Service Management concepts, and security governance.Oversaw all aspects of Infrastructure & Operations (Architecture, Engineering and Operations) including Voice and Data Communications, Cloud, Systems, Data Centers, Business Systems and Platforms, Collaboration, Messaging, End User Support, Service Desk, ITSM Change & Release management, and Database. Focus on enterprise growth and maturity through implementation of technology and governing process.

Branchville, Nj, Us

As the AVP for our Enterprise Development Services department, responsibilities include managing a team responsible for the support of critical enterprise platforms and custom application used to support the business. This team is responsible for enterprise customer developed application and enterprise platform. Provided enterprise level support for our SDLC platforms comprised of source code controls, artifact repositories, package and SDLC ticket management platforms within our DevOps environments. Evolving our integration platform team into a high performing Integration COE. Integration platforms were used for most if not all significant business application. Integrations cover internal to internal and external B2B applications. Directed the flawless execution/deployment of our corporate communication and collaboration platform to the entire company within a 10 week window during the pandemic of 2020. Selective needed a way to conduct business as usually while ~98% of the work force was transitioned to working remote almost overnight. We were able to successfully deploy this new technology to the entire employee base without issues. Responsibilities included the support of our collaboration platform used to facilitate real time document and data collaboration, content/records management, internal voice/video communications including chat as well as external inbound/outbound PSTN functionality. IT Liaison for Marketing and Corporate Comm departments, supported departmental and business objectives through proper alignment of talented resources. Became the trusted advisor and Delivery Manager on a $2.2M Campaign Automation project, where we delivered a complex and highly integrated solution, which was delivered on scope, schedule and budget. Successful delivery of this significant project allowed our marketing department to gain significant efficiencies and increased their overall effectiveness as if relates to creation and delivery of marketing campaigns.

Branchville, Nj, Us

As the AVP for Infrastructure, Security and Cloud architecture, responsibilities include managing a team responsible for researching, defining and developing corporate technology roadmaps and developing enterprise technologies strategies. Partnered with business teams to provide enterprise solutions to meet corporate and enterprise needs. Developed corporate strategies across all domains, and lead our CCOE to advance the cloud forward initiative. Defined the cloud G2G initiative, which was to develop to build-out the public cloud eco-system based on cloud reference architectures. Worked with the various teams within IT to define the Plan, Build and Running of the cloud environment. Architected numerous security solutions and strategies across the enterprise to enabling us to build a top notch environment with layer of security to protect our corporate IP and brand.Leveraged proven expertise in Security, Cloud, Storage/Data Protection, Networking, and Compute technologies in delivering comprehensive IT solutions and services. Collaborated with operations and delivery teams on security concerns around cloud computing, data/storage, network and application projects. Presented information security solutions for business-specific issues to senior leadership, department heads. Architected or provided architectural guidance on many of the corporate infrastructure, security and cloud initiatives. In many cases, my team was responsible for the creation of the cloud forward-looking strategy and technology roadmaps used by the organizational planning. Developed and mentored direct and dotted line reports to create career advancement, and professional growth.

Somerset, Nj, Us

Senior Security professional and Risk Management. Delivered authentic security risk assessments, engineered technical solutions for security vulnerabilities. Experience in vulnerability assessments, encryption solutions, data loss prevention, incident handling and digital forensics. Provided vendor agnostic security solutions to customers while balancing their technical needs against applicable security standards and regulatory audit compliance requirements.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Built Pivotal relationships with business partners, vendor and external partners• Managed data center operations & expansion projects • Managed POCs, testing vendor solutions to meet business needs• Coordinated the cross functional teams to define & implement global storage standards (platform, allocation, policy and procedures) allowing for better support while reducing cost by 15%• Managed the development and deployment of an all-inclusive data archiving solutions, leveraging Cloud services and infrastructure• Designed data validation process for reporting on data protection levels within the company, (backup reporting, monthly data recoverability testing, etc.)• Defined and managed a comprehensive Storage Life-Cycle Management project resulting in saves of $1.5M in cost savings• Reducing operational costs by 15%, while increasing RTO and RPO by leading a global initiative in data replication of company critical data• Worked with management to sell vision on a virtualized environment, coordinated the VMWare deployment project, drove adoption and utilization from < 20% to 70% in 1.5 years• Successfully negotiated/executed on a 3 year multi-million dollar Microsoft EA • Implemented successful offshoring of the Network Operations Center (NOC) to Hydrabad, India• Introduced Identity Management (SSO) solution into LSI, reducing trouble tickets by 35%

San Jose, Ca, Us

Project management, architecture and operations for Engineering Design and Windows, Messaging and Collaboration Architecture• Executed a $6.2M designer productivity project, re-architecting the computing environment for greater efficiencies to align with designer needs• Worked with business units to re-architect the ClearCase infrastructure to address significant performance issues impacting the designers, resulting in an optimized environment• Reduced operational support costs by over 70% in 3 years while increasing availability by collapsing 27 NT4 domains into a single global 2003 Active Directory domain• Managed outsourcing vendors/transitions• Involved in the North America data center consolidation project. Planned and budgeted for consolidation of remote data centers into one Tier 3 data center, located in Allentown PA.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Senior Systems consultant / Lead Systems Administrator, Architect and operational support for global IP (DHCP/DNS/WINS) management, Windows AD architect and trainer.• Completed the migration of the micro.lucent.com DNS/DHCP to the agere.com as a result of the divestiture of the Lucent’s Micro Electronics division without issue• Consolidated over 60+ DNS names to a single vendor resulting in a reduction of $100K annually • Architected, deployed and supported Vital QIP on a national level• Developed and delivered courseware and training for the North America consultant practice• Architected Windows AD and Exchange deployments for Fortune 500 companies

Manager and Technical lead for Network Services team of 12. This team was responsible for helpdesk operations, desktop analysts, server engineers and network engineers.• Project manager & technical lead for all desktops analysts & network engineers.• Responsible for the Network Services budget of $1.5 million and created architectural and implementation plans to meet company objectives. • Desktop environment consisted of (Windows 95/98 & NT & 2000), the servers where (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Novell 3.12 & Unix), the infrastructure contained (IBM & Cisco routers, Cabletron SmartSwitch Routers. • Provided guidance and leadership to team on career developed. Developed and coordinated a internal training program for all staff members. This was to aid in their career development while achieving company objectives.• Re-architected the network infrastructure and deployed new LAN equipment in our Allentown and Canadian facility.• Architected an automated software and hardware inventory application, utilizing HP Open view Desktop Suite.• Architected and managed the Windows NT domain rollout. This included the deployment of Exchange 5.5 across the company.• Re-architected the enterprise backup, restore and DR strategies.• Re-architecture and deployed the new Day-Timers E-Commerce web site. This was built on Windows NT 4.0 EE, using IIS 4.0 for Web and FTP functions. This environment was built on a Compaq hardware platform. This solution utilized Exchange 5.5 to automated customer order acknowledgements and updates. This solution was deployed on a clustered SQL server running in an active/active configuration. This web site was protected by ACL’s and a firewall running Check Pointer Firewall-1.

Performed network discoveries, created project plan and deployment plans for desktop upgrade projects. Design and implementation of messaging solutions. Designed LAN / WAN infrastructure and DCHP implementation. Implemented firewalls and deployed backup solution. Project lead for Windows NT Secure Audits and Network analysis’s.

Network Administrator for a large Windows NT deployment, for a large manufacturing firm based in the Lehigh Valley. Desktop support for a large variety of both local and LAN based applications. First point of contact for customers experiencing difficulties with network and application resources.

Kutztown, Pa, Us

Field Services Engineer specializing in Microsoft Based Solutions. Deployed Desktop and Server based solutions to help businesses automate and streamline their business.

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Installation, Configuration, Field Service, Development, Training

Washington, Dc, Us

Electronics Technician - Radar, IFF, RF Equipment

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Technical Management

Technical Diploma, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology