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New Jersey, United States

Hired to establish best practices and improve the maturity of the infrastructure, operations, and networking teams at MHA. Charged with increasing the capabilities and performance of critical technology teams to drive business results.

- Head of Information Security for the firm, solely responsible for all aspects of security, including cloud, server, networking, and desktop. - Completed SOC 2 audit for the company including preparedness, audit, and issuance of SOC report.- Responsible for the firms security roadmap, trend analysis, ensure that the firm is maintaining a strong security presence.- Implemented access control policies and procedures that defines roles within each department and the requisite access levels within each role.- Lead the creation of the firms DR plan.

Gladstone, Nj

Head of Technology for the Organization- Responsible for IT policies including Business Continuity Plan, Data Security Plan, and Acceptable Use policies- Created and adhere to a $500,000 budget- Prepared for and and worked with an audit firm to complete the firms first SOC 2 audit.- Responsible for maintaining and distributing Vendor Management packages to clients- Implemented organization wide cybersecurity training- Head of IT Steering Committee responsible for defining the direction of technology for the firm- Solely responsible for IT Infrastructure, Firewall, Network, Microsoft AZURE, VMWare 6.5, MS Server 2012 & 2016, Hosted VOIP, Office 365

Consolidated IT infrastructure significantly reducing cost. - Virtualized 80% of the server environment utilizing VMWare.Migrated from traditional Avaya PBX to a hosted VOIP solution. - Significantly reduced the cost of voice services. - Increased functionality and reliability.Moved from an in-house CRM solution to Salesforce. - Managed porting and mapping of data from old system to Salesforce. - Enabled the sales staff to more effectively target and manage market penetration.Transitioned company from in-house Microsoft Exchange environment to a hosted solution. - Increased functionality and performance for our user community. - Reduced infrastructure cost.Absorbed the workload of a significant staff reduction while maintaing a stable supportable environment.IT department head reporting to the company CEO.

Manage all aspects of IT and Infrastructure.