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Memphis, Tn, Us

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Memphis, Tn

Greater Memphis Area

Application Development, Infrastructure, and IT Support. Directing operations for Manufacturing in Tennessee, New York, New Hampshire and Virginia. Managing staff of 8 employees and a $1.8M P/L budget. - Managed 47 Application development projects using Windows SQL and C#- Contract negotiations and Lean Projects with cost savings of $110K per year. - Projects: O365 Migration from Google, EMC Unity Storage, Zscaler Internet Access, Palo Alto (F/W), British Telecom Voice Migration, and Windows 10 Upgrades.

Greater Memphis Area

Project Manager leading the design and implementation of Warehouse Management Open Systems version 2014 (WMOS) to support an international retail company with locations in the U.S., Australia, Europe, and Canada. Responsible for architecture design, infrastructure, budget, forecasting, process analysis, systems integration, security, project planning and execution. Directing resources, participating in site preparation, coordinating tasks for internal and external resources, executing testing and training efforts, and managing the progress of the project cycle. Project includes: ideation, functional designs, workflow analysis, test scripts, test plans, change management, project management, technology solutions (LDAP, SAML 2.0, AIX, RHEL, Oracle, JBOSS), systems documentation, requirements analysis, labor management, system administration, operations management, productivity improvement, and performance management.

Senior IT Project Manager with expertise in distribution, manufacturing, financial and entertainment industries. Open to new opportunities

Highly motivated technology professional with 20+ years of experience managing complex, high visibility, strategic and enterprise-wide IT programs and IT infrastructure services.Simply put, my role as an international Project Manager was to get things done. This requires organizing and delegating tasks to cross-functional international teams using both internal and outsourced resources. These were large-scale projects included all aspects of infrastructure from the cabling, fiber, VoIP, servers, PBX, network, circuits and the critical applications and production systems. Managed the planning and execution of joint venture projects with Technicolor, Microsoft, Rockstar Animation, Paramount Studios, Pinewood Studios, Warner Brothers and DreamWorks.Managed the redesign, planning and execution to consolidate five Data Centers in the United States, Canada, and England.

Greater Memphis Area

Senior Site Manager for 3.6M sq ft. of manufacturing facility; managed a staff of up to 20 employees across five buildings; 24x7 production and infrastructure support for 750+ user environment; responsible for all aspects of IT support: data center, heating, cooling, electrical, cabling, circuits, and routers; monthly production up-time reporting to Disney and Microsoft senior management; exceeded 99% production up-time goal for Universal, Disney, Sony and Microsoft; creating and promoting Capital Expenditure Approvals. Justified and managed $800K in maintenance contracts for Liebert UPS, Lowry Printers, Network Equipment, Symbol 9090 and PSC Falcon 345 scanners; performed Capacity Planning: servers, DB space, SANS, networks, A/C, power and production systems; managed disaster recovery preparation, change management, and computing standards. Directed all aspects of IT Infrastructure including projects and budgets;. Data Center build-out, vendor management, maintenance contracts, heating, cooling, Generator, Liebert 40kva UPS, Liebert 5 Ton A/C units, raised floor, cable management, Nortel PBX phone system, Nortel/Cisco switches, rack design, server cabinets, phone, data, routers, and network plans. Communicating expected results to a 20 plus member team, and directing the day-to-day activities of project team members against the overall project timeline and deliverables. Managed staff of architects and engineers, plus extended staff and matrix client personnel.

Greater Detroit Area

Manager of eight Systems Administrators in four duplication and distribution centers for the State of Michigan. Managed P/L for a $2M budget. Responsible for 24x7 IT support of Michigan users network infrastructure and production systems distributing over 250 million units per year. Major Projects: Millennium Park Building - Project Manager responsible for the design and implementation of a new 250 user, 750,000 sq ft. packaging and distribution center in Livonia, Michigan. The $250K project included Data Center build out, phone and data cabling, network design, server installation, HVAC, UPS, and paging system. Advisor to the technology committee for strategic planning. Educated and advised executive management in technology development. Participated in setting business direction and in establishing policies. Warner Distribution Project - Team member for the design and implementation of a new state-of-the-art distribution system. Designed to pick, label and distribute 250K units per day. ISO 9002 Re-certification Project - Project Manager responsible for compliance of all systems and all Information Technology sections of ISO 9002 re-certification.

Msa, Management

Bba, Information Technology

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