Steve Jesse Email & Phone Number

Norco, Ca

Mystic, Connecticut, United States

Groton, Ct

⦁ Served as leader to an IT organization of up to seven independent plant operations; drove hardware systems lifecycle management⦁ Managed all personnel actions for ten personnel⦁ Managed IT budgeting, capital and expense, for seven business operations⦁ Managed all projects, $1.5M in 2019⦁ Managed all contracts and compliance to ITAR, HIPAA, ISO, SOX⦁ Served as Server Administrator for 96 Virtual servers in redundant VMWare server sets at eight sites across the US, plus datacenter. Built and migrated Dell Converged Server and SAN sets with VMWare 6.5, upgraded to 6.7 and prepped for 7.0; file and licensing Windows Server 2019 servers at each site. Maintained and updated security apps and Windows Updates on all servers, back to v2012, replaced older OS's.⦁ Served as sole Desktop Support for 250 computers at local site, Windows 10. ⦁ Served as Network Team interface for WAN, LAN, WiFi, VOIP networks, interfacing with Network Team to optimize and ensure uptime.⦁ Partnered with applications development teams in defining and driving business processes and improvement projects to maximize operational performance ⦁ Travelled extensively for project performance and to ensure conformance to management objectives.⦁ Drove hardware systems lifecycle management implementing new Dell converged virtual server sets and SANs, and matrixed 40G Cisco 9500 core switches at each site

Portland, Oregon Area

⦁ Served as next-in-line to IT Director with Infrastructure staff of twenty personnel, including Help Desk, Data Center Operations, Network, and Server Teams. Hired Network Manager to offload detailed focus on network security and standards.⦁ Ensured responsive delivery of data through optimizing network infrastructure to maximize throughput and uptime, including Cisco Wireless and Juniper WAN, improving reliability, flexibility, and responsiveness⦁ Designed datacenter services improvements for siesmic stabilization, HVAC including airflow routing changes, and Electrical redundancy through generators and UPSs. ⦁ Supervised outsourced projects, maximizing operational productivity, while implementing strict risk management protocols to ensure systems security in response to potential threats, while maintaining strict budgetary control.⦁ Resigned due to family health issues in Oregon, returning to Connecticut in hands-on leadership role.

Groton, Ct,

⦁ Managed all aspects of IT operations and managed staff of ten employees⦁ Oversaw software and hardware systems development, business continuity, and regulatory compliance⦁ Maximized uptime and improved performance in ERP System through improvements in operations, maintenance, and hardware systems for efficiency gains in production⦁ Led ERP System replacement projects at four plants and moved to a more operationally efficient, currently supported .Net-based ERP system, initiated archival of old ERP system for dismantling⦁ Implemented five VMWare Virtual Server farms in five separate sites across four plants⦁ Installed and maintained redundant data center power feed, battery backup, and HVAC systems to eliminate ERP outages due to failures⦁ Collaborated with leaders from all disciplines to review new technologies for business opportunities, applicability, reliability, robustness, resiliency, and longevity ⦁ Developed personnel and coordinated across the U.S. through effective communication, direction, and inspiration, resulting in optimized IT ability to address customer issues⦁ Provided business continuity planning; improved data storage, backup, and recoverability solutions and processes⦁ Defined and drove business processes and improvement projects to maximize operational performance⦁ Created IT SOX controls and prepared for audits, audited and refined financial controls, and maintained effective regulatory compliance⦁ Recovered NetApp appliance during hostile acquisition of a competing organization⦁ Promoted to Division level role

Groton, Ct

⦁ Improved product and raw materials stream through Kaizen events to optimize process flow.⦁ Coordinated with departmental leaders to optimize approval processes and part flow planning in order to achieve optimal shipments volume⦁ Met or exceeded budgetary, product flow rates, and regulatory control targets⦁ Coordinated with customers to ensure schedule of part flow and delivery, along with quality and shipment requirements met customer specifications⦁ Promoted to IT Manager

Portland, Oregon Area

Lead teams in international Active Directory network and multi-plant fiber optic network implementations, as well as software management, process control, and security system implementations along with organizational changes required to support those implementations. Strongly assisted with Clustered Exchange, VMware, and SharePoint Server Farms, as well as SAN, WAN and wireless network configurations and implementations, creating stable, responsive infrastructure for productivity-enhancing application delivery.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Provide maintenance and systems support for small companies around Portland.• Provide maintenance and support for networked PCs at PCC Structurals, Inc.

Potland, Oregon / Lebanon, Oregon

• Assumed constant leadership responsibilities.

Savannah, Ga; Hanau, Germany

• Assumed constant leadership responsibilities.