Tom Lessing Jr. Email & Phone Number

Greenville, South Carolina Area

At Monster Tree we offer a full service, holistic approach that comes with straightforward and affordable prices. But that’s not why clients are passionate about choosing us, and it’s certainly not all that’s allowed us to become the nation’s first tree care franchise. What drives us to provide quality care at competitive prices, to provide our customers with truly honest tree care, is our vision.Our company loves trees. They provide shade, shelter, beauty, and clean air to the environment. When your home has healthy trees, you and your neighbors benefit. That’s why we believe in what we do: we make the world a better place one yard at a time.Our vision is to partner with homeowners across the country to make their trees healthy, strong, and vital. That’s why we provide honest, upfront prices for services that other companies charge a premium for.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Christian Craftsmen is a family-owned home improvement and services business proud to offer our clients over 60 years of experience, as well as a quality guarantee on all Christian Craftsmen projects. We promise to always honor our word, deliver top-notch craftsmanship, and strive to exceed your expectations.

Lake Forest, Il

Member of Top 200 Grainger Leaders, I&O Leadership Team and Extended Enterprise Systems Leadership Team, reporting to the VP of Infrastructure & Operations.Accountable for Enterprise Security including: Architecture, Risk and Compliance, Engineering, Administration, Operations Center (SOC), Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, ITGC & IT Risk Management, and Records & Information Management.Developed a simple, concise, focused and compelling program to assess, and strengthen international IT Security posture, policies and standards, ITGC and Compliance. Quarterly progress reports presented to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.

Lake Forest, Il

Member of Top 200 Grainger Leaders, Enterprise Systems Leadership Team, reporting to the VP/CTOLed ~150 FTEs including staff, onshore/ nearshore/ offshore. Accountable for: Information Security, Networking, Mobility, Messaging, SharePoint/ Intranet, PCs, MFDs, and Voice & Video Conferencing solutions that support ~24K Team Members and >45K devices. Strategic Leadership: Partnered with Sr. Executive Steering Committee in developing, leading and delivering several multi-year programs: ­LEAN CULTURE – Institutionalized LEAN CI to improve project delivery, cost, quality, and customer satisfaction --- while accelerating global growth initiatives. GROW FOR FREE – IT initiative that incrementally funded investments in flexible resource capacity and emerging technologies. Self funded by cost savings associated with outsourcing T1- T2 roles. ­ GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS – Improved global Team Member engagement and effectiveness by increasing accessibility to company strategy & metrics; critical product, pricing and customer information; knowledge experts; BDPs; policies & procedures­ Company results (over 8-year tenure) - Grainger achieved record breaking revenue growth ($5.5B to $9.4B), cash flow from operations ($436M to $986M), and stock price appreciation ($62 to $254)

Lake Forest, Il

Reporting to the VP of Technical ServicesAccountable for leading the domestic Information Security function including: SAP Security, Operational Security and Identity & Access ManagementInitiated and led the business plan and cross functional program to achieve PCI compliance. Delivered program 8 months ahead of plan and ~$1M under budget.

Naperville, Il

Engineering firm focused on providing services in the area of Structured Cable Design, CAD, Enterprise Communications Outsourcing and Networking and Telecommunications Consulting.OfficeMax Inc. – Lead the design and consulting efforts to renovate the Itasca Illinois Data Center. As part of an effort to centralize data center operations and improve system performance. Lucent Technologies, Inc. – Lead the design and consulting efforts for the European Data Center renovation in Nuremberg Germany. As part of a global IT audit, performed by Accenture, TDSi was asked to assist Lucent in the standardization and centralization of their Global IT operations, resulting in the design of a state of the art Tier II facility.

Naperville, Il

Responsible for Information Security, Voice & Data Networking, Mobility and Telecommunications Billing.• Key Contributor Award by Enterprise Services EVP and CIO for top performer bonus in 2003, 2004, 2005.• One of two global IT professionals (of 260) chosen by CIO to attend Omicron IT Executive Development Program.• Executive Award presented by CIO for leading the integration of Vinici Systems and Advanced Fiber Corporation.• Leadership Award presented by Director of Global Ops for leading the IP and Domain Migration. • Winning Spirit Award presented by Director of Global Ops for MPLS and Internet Consolidation and Upgrade.

Bolingbrook, Il

Responsible for the Voice, Data and Infrastructure teams.• Strategically led the convergence of the Voice, Data and Infrastructure technologies and teams based on advancements in VoIP • Key Contributor Award by CIO in 2000, 2001, 2002

Lisle Illinois

Responsible for the successful design and build of the voice and data infrastructure for the new $130M Global Headquarters, including but not limited to: 8,400 ft2 data center design (320 racks), Global Network Operations Center, Voice & Data for 880K ft2 of office and copper and fiber optic solutions for engineering labs.

Lisle Illinois

Responsible for designing, documenting and institutionalizing global standards for all corporate telecommunications facility buildouts. Worked with internal and external resources to ensure specifications and quality standards were met or exceeded.

Naperville, Il

Responsible for infrastructure design, material ordering and scheduling, project management, installation supervision, quality control, and customer service for all 9 of Tellabs locations in Illinois.

Naperville, Il

Design, install, support and maintenance of voice and data network services for ~8K AT&T Bell Laboratories employee’s in Naperville and Lisle, IL.