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Lake Charles, La, Us

Lake Charles, La, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Set direction for all corporate technology related projects. Acted as the principal for all IT systems related projects for every department across the organization.• Managed and retained a dynamic IT team that supported multiple business verticals. The team included support, infrastructure, analysis, project-management and application development members.• Managed projects that solved legacy issues regarding corporate wide signature capture solutions that insured that we were able to meet all customer chain of custody needs while also greatly increasing the reliability of our equipment.• Helmed IT strategy and operations improvements as technology leader driving growth-centric IT standards and practices for this company that is now experience greater than 20% year-over-year growth. Lead the IT team in winning both the Operational Excellence award and the Sales Growth and Development awards for 2015, 2016 and 2017.

New York City, Ny, Us

Development of departmental goals and objectives; designing, implementing and administering local and wide area network systems; providing high level technical support; supervising and training department staff; managing assigned projects; and providing leadership in the areas of technology usage.• Administered systems and servers related to the corporate LAN and WAN (e.g. email systems, accounts, workstation ID, IP assignments,computers, security, antivirus, spyware, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring availability of services to authorized users.• Designed network infrastructure (physical and virtual) for the purpose of ensuring effective and efficient networking systems.• Maintained network operations and software applications (e.g. servers (file, print, application, WEB, database, proxy, etc.), operatingsystems, corporate-wide server backup, routine maintenance programs, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring efficient operations.• Participated in a variety of planning and development activities, including corporate wide committees for the purpose of creating shortand long range plans for programming support to the company.• Prepared written materials (e.g. procedures, system level documentation, reports, memos, letters, etc.) for the purpose ofdocumenting activities, providing written reference, and/or conveying information.• Researched trends, products, equipment, tests, etc. for the purpose of recommending procedures and/or purchases.• Responded to emergency situations as needed for the purpose of resolving immediate concerns.• Responded to inquiries from a variety of sources (e.g. staff, administrators, site personnel, outside vendors and serviceproviders, etc. ) for the purpose of providing technical assistance and support.• Trained staff (primarily within the technology area) for the purpose of ensuring their ability to use new and/or existing operating systems and application software.

Maintained information technology strategies by managing staff; researching and implementing technological strategic solutions.• Accomplished information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.• Maintained staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.• Maintained organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.• Directed technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.• Completed projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.• Verified application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.• Preserved assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.• Recommended information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.• Accomplished financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.• Maintained quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.•Maintained professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.• Contributed to the team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.