Guiding the Information Technology resources and vision of the entire, multi-office, multi-region company, meeting the goals and objectives of ownership and senior management through hands on management and administration of all corporate IT infrastructure.Proof of concept of new IT initiatives and ideas to help provide IT value to business functions and procedures. Manage ISP role of maintaining interconnected MPLS IPSEC VPN connections between 4 remote sites(NY, MO, MI, Canada).Disaster Recovery planning and procedures.Created a redundant, highly available FC VMware vSphere 6 environment prior to ERP Go Live and day to day monitoring and maintenance of vSphere infrastructure.Manage 3rd Party vendors for onsite support, projects and contracts Project Highlights:• Implemented new policies and procedures to improve workflow and response time of IT to end user’s needs• Created comprehensive IT inventory of all hardware and software assets• Implemented a help desk software solution to properly track issues, service management and response times• Updated vSphere to 6.0 and ESXi hosts to 6.0 with a redundant FC Fabric• Changed backup infrastructure from non-standard methods to LTO7 Tape Library system• Changed backup software and DR planning with Veeam and Singlehop to provide off site backup/replication of all x86 Servers• Configured Fortinet Load Balancer for web based ERP implementationRelevant Technologies: Active Directory 2008, Windows Servers 2003-2008R2, Windows OS 7-10, VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0, MS Office Suite 2010-Office365, MS Project, Veeam 9.x, Singlehop, Google Android, iPhone/iPad, , Cisco 5515 ASA, IBM servers, IBM StorWize Storage Arrays, JD Edwards Enterprise One ERP

Management of Junior IT staff’s time, and attendance, as well as goals and performance reviews.Proof of concept of new IT initiatives and ideas to help provide IT value to business functions and procedures. Creation of MS Exchange 2013 high availability cluster with hosts in NY and Southern California, and witness server in Northern California, as well as day to day management of Exchange server with regards to capacity planning, maintenance and space considerations on our storage systems.Manage ISP role of maintaining interconnected IPSEC VPN connections between 4 remote sites.Monitor and maintain offsite replication of mission critical servers.Day to day maintenance and monitoring of Citrix environment.Work with phone vendor for all adds, removes, changes.Day to day monitoring and maintenance of vSphere infrastructure.Day to day monitoring and maintenance of EMC storage array. Project Highlights:• Implemented new policies and procedures to improve workflow and response time of IT to end user’s needs• Created comprehensive IT inventory of all hardware and software assets• Implemented a help desk software solution to properly track issues, service management and response times• Stabilizing an environment with frequent downtime, to achieve 99.9% uptime• Created MS Exchange 2013 DAG with multi-region Exchange hosts• Solved exiting application performance issues utilizing Citrix services with Labworks LIMS• Updated vSphere to 6.0 and ESXi hosts to 6.0• Changed backup infrastructure from non-standard methods to LTO6 Tape Library systemRelevant Technologies: Active Directory 2008, Windows Servers 2003-2008R2, Windows OS 7-10, VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0, MS Office Suite 2010-Office365, MS Project, Citrix PS/XenApp 5.5-6.5, Veeam, Google Android, iPhone/iPad, Kaspersky Anti-virus, Fortinet Firewall/VPN, Dell PowerConnect Switches, EMC VNXe 3150 iSCSI SAN, HP Switches, Dell/HP Servers

Oversee all technical aspects of the company working closely with Executive Management to grow the company through the use of technological resources using an active and practical approach. Establish the company’s technical vision and lead all aspects of the company’s technological development in strategic direction, development and future growth.Works in a consultative, collaborative fashion with other department heads, such as marketing, construction, assetmangement and operations as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness.Provide leadership to department heads in a fashion that supports the company’s culture, mission and values. Conducts research and case studies on leading edge technologies and makes determinations on the probability of implementation.Acts as a good steward of the company’s resources and ensures control of IT and IO departmental budgets.Project highlights consist of architecting, purchasing and implementing a $125,000 entire infrastructure redesign, implementation of document imaging system, replacement of traditional digital PBX with hosted VoIP application for a $20,000 annual cost savings, migration from on site Lotus Notes to Google Apps then to Office365.com.Relevant Technologies: Active Directory, Windows Servers NT-2008, Windows OS 2000-8, VMWare 5.5, Linux, Lotus Notes/Domino, MS Office Suite 2003-Office365, Citrix MetaFrame/PS/XenApp 1.8-4.5, Backup Exec, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Apple Mac OS X, Google Android, iPhone/iPad.