Direct and architect all IT initiatives for Cambridge Biomedical, supporting laboratory testing, HIPAA compliance and Commercial Research group conducting FDA regulated and reportable research.Champion Mobility & Security First approach to IT, enabling a work from anywhere environment.Lead and advise on all required software validation efforts (IQ/OQ/PQ).Migrate Electronic Document Management System from unreliable and non-compliant document management SharePoint based platform to SaaS Documentum (CARA) system.Organize and communicate requirements gathering between all internal departments and vendor. Project lead deployment of LabVantage LIMS (ongoing)Organize and guide requirements gathering meetings for Diagnostic and Commercial Research departments allowing us to unify both departments on a single platform.Map all instruments and storage areas allowing for full chain of custody of samples.Lead design of automated sample entry through HL7 and bulk uploads via customer portal.Direct Infrastructure improvements to accommodate corporate growth.Rebuild aging network infrastructure with Juniper Virtual Chassis switches dramatically improving network performance and reliability.Replace unreliable and outdated wireless network with Ruckus AC wireless improving reliability and performance.Replace antiquated phone system with full featured cloud based VoiP system, expanding phone system from management only to all employees and increasing communication options by adding features such as office anywhere, simplified virtual meeting scheduling, individual and group chat, and E911.Secure corporate assets and information by replacing underpowered firewall with Fortigate firewall and deploying BitDefender antivirus software.Implement new business continuity plan and disaster recovery options by expanding available off-site backups from 4 days to 2 years, upgrading local SAN to EMC VNXe storage solution and moving off-site backups to AWS S3 storage solution.

U.S. Information Technology ManagerResponsible for all US IT infrastructure and programs supporting commercial launch operations for U.S. sales force, marketing, operations and finance departments. Management• Develop and budget long term road map for corporate IT, relying on IaaS/SaaS services to advance and facilitate corporate goals. • Direct and coordinate resources for implementations of IT projects according to budgets and schedules, including Windows WSUS, Microsoft DirectAccess, Office 365, data warehousing, Cisco routing and firewalls.Infrastructure• Conducted end-to-end review of all IT systems, hardware, telephony and security.• Architected expansion to corporate infrastructure in order to support mission critical sales and marketing launch.Collaboration• U.S. representative on the global corporate IT Steering Committee.• Coordinate IT initiatives with Oslo, Norway offices to ensure efficient utilization of company resources and avoid redundancy.Vendor Management • Manage IaaS, SaaS, and helpdesk vendors and contracts.• Conduct detailed evaluations of IaaS/SaaS services and contracts.• Oversee IT support from providers to perform required systems administration.• Evaluate new IaaS/SaaS providers in order to accommodate new business initiatives.

Promoted to IT Manager and project manager, responsible for researching, designing and budgeting new technical solutions to support corporate initiatives, writing and executing systems validations (CFR Part 11 and Sarbanes-Oxley) and insuring daily operations of the IT department. Oversaw and mentored a small team of systems administrators and consultants. Specific accomplishments include:● Planned deployment of corporate SAN across multiple sites to accommodate increasing user and application storage needs. Provided robust disaster recovery platform.● Designed, budgeted and lead the implementation of VMWare as the base platform for all company IT projects, creating a high availability environment while reducing server and hosting costs.● Directed virtualization of 95% of all corporate servers, including Oracle and SQL Servers, improving server performance, reducing downtime vulnerabilities, and reducing hardware and licensing costs.● Supported corporate goals by creating and maintaining SOPs and templates for the deployment of new virtual servers, allowing for rapid deployment of new systems to accommodate evolving company goals.● Lead IT in conjunction with biology and chemistry departments, transitioning company from paper lab notebooks to Accelerys suite of products including, Electronic Lab Notebook, Isentris and Logistics inventory tracking.● Accommodated multiple corporate moves and server room relocations, leveraging virtual server system architecture that is transportable with minimal or no downtime, while reducing hosting costs.

Principal DBA for all company Oracle and SQL Server databases:● Designed, installed, configured and maintained Oracle RAC configurations for SAP and Documentum implementations.● Installed and lead implementation of Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System.● Responsible for all performance tuning, patching and troubleshooting of Oracle instances and performed major version upgrades off all database installations from version 9i, 10g and 11g.● Principal administrator for VMWare ESXi farm of 20 hosts and hundreds virtual machines.● Implemented VMWare clusters at multiple hosting sites for VMware High Availability, Dynamic Resource Scheduler and distributed switches.● Red Hat Administrator of 20-25 servers.● Upgraded RHAS from version 3 to 4 and 5.● Created and maintained update schedule for VMWare, Red Hat and Windows servers using VMWare Update Manager.● HP LeftHand Networks ISCSI SAN Administrator.

Lead DBA for McCracken Financial Software. Created and maintained multiple 8i and 9i databases:● Responsible for all new database development including stored procedures, materialized views, reports, and web-enabled functions on Oracle and DB2.● Managed all database performance tuning.● Maintained source control for database schemas for multiple customers on different release versions.● Developed and maintained data models using Sybase PowerDesigner.● Maintained a 24/7/365 environment on all servers with 99.99% uptime.● Designed, implemented and maintained backup and recovery plan for all production and test● Oracle Databases. Installed and maintained oracle reports server ( 6i ). Upgraded databases to 9i ( 9.0.2.4).● Managed Unix ( Solaris ) servers. Developed Perl and shell scripts for server health and performance. Created and maintained cron jobs for scheduled processes.

Managed a team of three for implementing new databases and developing reports.Designed, developed, implemented and maintained seven production level Oracle databases, SQL server database, and numerous test databases, including a financial/billing system, customer activity database, fantasy sports engine and a data warehouse. Person primarily responsible for the upkeep, maintenance and tuning of all databases.Lead on all new database development.Maintained a 24/7 environment.Designed and implemented backup procedures using Oracle archive logs, exports and Rman.Implemented Veritas HA for Oracle to allow for failover. Used advanced Oracle replication, snapshots and embedded Java to replicate data and subsets of data to other Oracle servers and an LDAP database system.Upgraded an 8.0.4 Oracle database to version 8.1.7.Designed and implemented a series of Crystal and Perl reports including: Financial, Product usage, product trends, marketing acquisition and customer churn.Created Oracle stored procedures for periodic aggregation of data to a data warehouse.Implemented and maintained database and Perl CGI for a real time content delivery system.Implemented Veritas fast IO for Oracle.Installed and maintained a Portal Infranet Billing system.Created Perl scripts to: Monitor database status, insert data from text files, created CGI for customer support and creation of new customer email accounts.

Developed applications to assist in data capture using SQL, Perl, Java, Visual Basic.Responsible for the development and maintenance of the live site databases for Travelon.com and affiliated web sites. Designed, developed, and maintained MS SQL Server databases.Maintained and enhanced existing code for the purpose of webstat reporting and user email notification.Set up Access databases for webstat reporting.Designed and implemented backup recovery system for databases.Performed Quality Assurance testing of website pages.Responsible for setting up NT Workstations and NT Servers, ids, passwords, and IP addresses.Created and edited HTML documents used as templates for www.travelon.com, www.vacation.com websites pages. Created internal web pages used for webstat graphing, project classification and prioritization.