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Coopersburg, Pa, Us

Newtown Square, Pa, Us

Led a team of engaged, talented engineers and architects in the design, delivery, and support of business-critical IT services. Employing DevOps principles, hybrid Cloud infrastructures, and expert knowledge of platform and code, we brought our considerable resources to bear on the most intractable IT problems facing ALG today.

Bridgewater, Nj, Us

Recruited to coordinate IT operations for multinational system administration/site reliability team based in Bethlehem. Focused on resolving communications issues, improving workflow, and reducing time to resolution for over 60 customer-facing applications on over 1000 application servers in various configurations.Consolidated and standardized communications among six geographically-dispersed teams. Coordinated worldwide IT system administration and site reliability operations with three other global SRE managers. Implemented benchmarking and cross-training programs for local and remote employees to enforce consistency in application deployments, patching, incident/problem resolution, and configuration change. Reworked processes for new environments and automated documentation of existing systems using Chef. Improved stakeholder relationships within Synchronoss while maintaining system performance during a period of explosive company growth.

Assessed emerging opportunities. Led new product development, process optimization, IT systems and technology operations. Developed product pipeline, infrastructure plan, and technology vision.Rebuilt search technology for primary product line. Completed buildout of related and supporting technologies. Substantially increased performance (availability, speed, scale) year over year in alignment with global product strategy.Designed and executed multi-site infrastructure plan, process and system monitoring, data center virtualization, integration of cloud/colo products. Grew and engaged IT staff in a dynamic learning organization where creative problem solving meets a commitment to best practices and awesome technical expertise... with a strong emphasis on utility and usability.

Consulting services for small organizations: technology evaluation, selection, implementation, support. Workflow analysis, process optimization, cost-conscious and scalable technology application to provide the optimal business benefit for the organization's unique needs.Strong advocate of FOSS and hybrid cloud for various backoffice or infrastructural support, especially AWS, CentOS Linux and VMWare ESXi. Excellent track record running heterogenous networks of Windows, Linux and OSX guests on VMWare for cost savings and best performance.

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Responsible for IT over 3 sites. Part of international IT team. Coordinated projects in conjunction with other entities within Morgan. Migrated legacy systems. Participated in ISO 9001-2000 certification process. Led numerous systems projects including data center, network and workstation refresh, phone system deployment, automation of Windows updates, automated application deployment, VPN, and the like.

Managed all aspects of IT -- systems, custom development, applications, security, and the like. Worked closely with President and VP Strategy to optimize IT deployments for cost-effective, lightning-fast response to rapidly-changing business conditions.

Technology lead for successful "dot-com" company, the first of its kind to incorporate user-provided images into an avatar for previewing various articles of clothing or accessories before purchase over the Web.Acquired from parent company for > $1M after only 14 months' development. Patent received for the previewing system.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Responsible for 3 sites and 400 hosts, annual budget around $1M. Organized and executed rapid multi-site deployments of hardware, software, and services. Managed voice, data, and security systems with light staff under challenging resource constraints.

Design and development of CRM software. Project management and development team lead responsibilities. Remote workflow software programming. Business process/technology alignment. Several successful projects completed for large clients in the pharma sector.