Thomas Pagano Email & Phone Number

Estero, Fl, Us

Fort Myers, Florida, United States

Naples, Florida Area

Fort Myers, Florida Area

• Teaching undergraduate students in a specific field of expertise• Developing and managing the class syllabus and ensuring that the syllabus meets department and college requirements• Planning and creating lectures, in-class discussions, and assignments• Grading assigned papers, quizzes, and exams• Assessing grades for students based on participation, performance in class, assignments, and examinations• Collaborating with colleagues on course curriculum• Advising students on how to be successful and achieve goals

Bonita Springs, Florida

• Recruit IT Professionals at all levels for the Field Support Center• Liaison to College Career Development Departments to aid in recruiting

Fort Myers, Florida Area

• Collaborate with Hodges University Provost and team to analyze and restructure the state certifications requirements to accommodate the needs of employers.• Analyze data from the the state of Florida requirements to determine the deficiencies in training and certification.• Create a comprehensive survey to engage employers in vocational skills needed by employers to hire qualified employees. • Interview select employers in strategic areas to detail the requirements and skill sets needed for current and future employee, • Enable the University to target key areas of education that will benefit employers and students to fill the deficient skill sets.

Park Ridge, Nj/Estero, Fl

• Technical business liaison for all corporate business units on all aspects of project development. Provide strategic direction on current and future application development.• Developed strategies with senior IT Management for all technology for Sales, Advertising, Marketing and Finance departments worldwide.• Oversaw data architecture for all database schemas in the corporate data warehouse. • Continuously interact with numerous software/hardware vendors to negotiate contracts, purchases and maintain annual support. • Established data governance efforts to support and enhance the data quality of the Data Warehouse environments. Governing body comprised of key business stakeholders up to the SVP level. • Managed On/Off Shore resources developing numerous applications.• Managed annual technology budgets to support the global business units in Data Warehouse, Sales Force Automation, CRM and staffing to support existing and future platforms. • Worked closely with Compliance and Controls organization to establish an effective change control environments for all development platforms. • Headed up the migration to new database management platforms. Negotiating pricing, terms and consulting services necessary for implementation while navigating budget challenges. • In charge of the corporate sales force automation application used by 750 Commercial and Travel Industry Sales users worldwide using Oracle’s Siebel Sales.

Estero, Fl

• Manage IT Contract managers to fully execute corporate agreements to protect the corporation.• Manage and implement the procurement strategy, sourcing and contracting of high value procurement categories for specific business areas • Responsible for high volume of sourcing initiatives in a cross-functional team environment that includes sourcing strategy, supplier selection, market intelligence and contract execution• Lead the negotiation of pricing and contract terms on behalf of The Hertz Corporation by interacting with senior level executives and legal representatives from the supplier• Direct middle and senior level managers towards the supplier solution which best meets the firm's needs while reducing/eliminating expense and risk• Following contract execution, remain involved in the event that additional contracting needs arise or terms of the contract are not being met by the supplier• Complete RFXs for enterprise support and commercial goods and services for Information Systems, Human Resources, Financial Services, Operations, Marketing, Compliance and Legal Negotiate and write company contracts, including Master Services and Consulting Agreements

•Managed and developed corporate wide projects in all aspects of application development. •Managed all technical areas of the corporation’s worldwide website and extranets. •Managed and developed the components of the technical infrastructure and graphical user interface of the companies Data Warehouse project utilizing Cognos' products accessing an Oracle 8.05 database.•Integral part in development of the database architecture for the Data Warehouse. •Managed a team of networking technicians supporting 300 users in the Sales, Mktg and Advertising departments on a Windows network utilizing Lotus Notes and MSt Office for groupware functions.•Managed developers utilizing Microsoft's Visual Basic for applications in various departments. •Responsible for the corporation’s EIS delivering information containing pricing, financial, market share and transaction data. •Developed and supported the company’s first U.S. Cost Allocation model for pricing purposes.

•Developed field applications using Visual Basic to communicate with computer reservation systems containing travel information for competitors. •Developed and supported the companies Cost Allocation model utilizing System W, a mainframe multidimensional database product. Constructed the model by acquiring data from the financial and transactional sources to allocate/assign expenses to specific customer segments.

Visual Basic Programmer developing corporate applications

Supported applications for the business units working in the Corporate IT department.

Bs, Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Men's Basketball TeamWorked at General Foods Corporation during internship.

Occupational Therapy

Activities and Societies: Men's Basketall TeamStudies related to Occupational and Physical Therapy.

College Prep

General high school education. Member of various clubs and activities. Varsity basketball and track athlete.