Category: INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY

         VP OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY       Executive Profile    A results oriented technology leader with over 18 years of IT experience, 8 years of supervisory experience.  Passionate about collaborating with key stakeholders to develop information technology vision and strategy by effectively building organization, processes, infrastructure and services in support of short and long-term business needs. Understands the business value of available tools and applications as to provide optimal strategic benefit at the appropriate cost.      Skill Highlights          IT Governance  Team Leadership  Systems Integration      Contract Negotiations  Disaster Recovery Plans  IT Operations            Core Accomplishments      Implemented a new phone system that will immediately
save the company over $100,000 a year with benefits that have increased
productivity while lowering the need of IT support.  This includes vendor contract negotiation, which resulted in the cost of the new phone system to be covered with no out
of pocket expenses.  Managed multiple IT Projects that resulted in increased productivity, performance and revenue.  Enhanced communications between our nationwide offices using Video Conferencing, saving over $50,000 a year in travel costs.  Worked with Marketing to integrate our CRM and other systems with our Marketing systems, which resulted in real-time feedback to marketing and end users of client actions.  Converted VMWare to Hyper-V which resulted in lower costs & quicker recovery as part of the DRP.  Designed, Implemented and maintained a Disaster Recovery Plan that reduced recovery time from 4 days to 2 hours, potentially saving the company from catastrophic downtime.  Initiated a Task management system that resulted in better communication and increased productivity from the team.  This kept all stakehoders in the loop on project status.  Using qualitative and quantitative techniques, discovered numerous ways to improve current systems, saving Bradley-Morris over $250,000 a year.  Mentored and coached employees resulting in a 25% increase in productivity.  History of increasing infrastructure performance and increasing uptime to nearly 100%, saving the company over $5M a year in revenue.  Quickly gained expertise in the company's CRM that resulted in saving the company over $600,000 in consulting fees.  Increased sales and reduced costs by cutting manual quoting process time by 80% through design and implementation of a new automated quoting system.  Spearheaded the design and build of a commissions system that resulted in recovering over $2.5M in unaccounted commissions due.        Professional Experience      VP of Information Technology   07/2014   to   03/2017     Company Name   City  ,   State     Hired to transform the IT department, which was successful within the first few months.  Developed an IT strategy designed to
increase sales and business process efficiency, and lower costs and company
risk. Built and managed a highly effective team of employees, vendors, and
service providers. Reporting
to the CEO, responsible for all information technology budgeting, vendor
negotiations, and business intelligence.  Responsible for the IT Budget, task
management and delegation, and IT staff mentoring and reviews.        VP of Information and Security Technology   02/2009   to   05/2014     Company Name   City  ,   State     Lead all IT operations, including purchasing,
budget and structure.  Conduct performance reviews and record results.
Prepare and deliver reports and presentations on IT issues for CEO and VP of
Sales on Demand. Train employees on system use, workflow procedures, and
technology policies. Manage employees in connection with IT functions. Manage outside vendors and consultants as needed. Served
as the HIPAA compliance officer.  Worked with marketing and the VP of Product Development to align new products concepts
with corporate technology and corporate strategic goals.        Director of Information Technology   02/2006   to   02/2009     Company Name   City  ,   State      Managed all information security to follow HIPAA Compliance guidelines.  Advise the CEO and other executives on advanced technology solutions.  Began serving on the Executive Management Team. Met with client executives to determine client needs, project requirements, and feasibility; translate the needs into technical requirements.  Established high functioning lean IT department to quickly respond to internal and external IT support requests.  Bolstered system performance through design and development of new Electronic Data Processing system by leveraging expertise with Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. Oversaw all areas of Infrastructure.         Information Technology Manager   02/2003   to   02/2006     Company Name   City  ,   State      Continued to improve and expand the Commissions Tracking Application.  Gained expertise in the companies CRM and digitally integrated the Commissions Tracking System with the CRM.  Increased system uptime from 80% to over 99% by implementing new Hyper-V virtual servers/DFS with no downtime.  Developed and deployed corporate software and apps to employee's mobile devices for streamline corporate use and uniformity.         Application Developer   08/2002   to   02/2003     Company Name   City  ,   State      Spearheaded major, year-long initiative to plan, design, build, and implement an ETL commission database system utilizing SQL databases and ASP.Net, including data analysis reporting that recovered more than $2.5M in "lost" commissions.  Provided some end-user desktop support.         Education        Information Systems   2014       Park University    GPA: 3.5        Bachelor of Science  :   Management   2007       Park University     Magna Cum Ladue  GPA 3.82         Skills    ASP.Net 4.5, ASP.Net, VB.NET, Active Directory, Backup, Budget, Contract negotiation, CRM, Data Analysis, Data Processing, Databases, Disaster Recovery, ETL, EDI, ITIL, Training, Executive Management, Senior Management, GoldMine, Information Security, HealthCare IT, IT support, Leadership, Marketing, Network analysis, Performance reviews, VoIP, Presentations, Process Enhancement, Product Development, Servers, SQL, SQL Server, Strategy, Desktop support, Visual Studio, Workflow      Military Experience      Electronics Technician   07/1997   to   07/2001     Company Name   City  ,   State     Deployed and maintained CAT5 and fiber optic
cable. Directed and trained subordinate Technicians.  Configured
5 stations with CAT5 and fiber optic cable.  Conducted
quarterly and annual formal performance reviews for all subordinates.  Installed
Windows NT system on more than 400 computers. Earned
good conduct and sharpshooter awards.