Versatile IT Executive Resume

Title
Versatile IT Executive

Primary Skills
Clear Communication Style, Project Mgmt, SDLC, DR, BCP and more...

Location
US-PA-Coopersburg

Posted
Apr-23-09


Professional Profile:


As a senior manager, managed the entire data center and support services for Crayola, ushering in Green solutions to reduce expenses by more than 20%. As a project manager in Human Resources, successfully managed over 30 separate projects within 3 years, on-time or better, and all within budget up to $1M each. Through these projects and others, have successfully motivated and managed many different cross-functional teams, globally, consisting of up to 50 professionals, and a full-time staff of up to 25 highly technical individuals.

In entrepreneurial roles, first helped to design, create, and support the technological infrastructure to drive the business strategy for accessEdocs.com, and gain VC funding. Now as an independent, utilizing full range of business contacts, IT and MBA skills to gain customers and partners. A mentor and motivator who embraces green technologies, collaboration, and innovative technological advances. An architect and implementor who knows how to define the opportunity and articulate the ROI.


Core Competencies:


> Networking Technologies > IT Infrastructure > ASP Business Solutions > ITIL Certified
> Disaster Recovery & BCP > SAN Database Architecture > Data Resiliency
> SDLC > HRIS / Payroll Integration > Training / Coaching > SOX, HIPAA & PCI Compliancy
> Business Impact Analysis > Service Desk Management > Supervisory Leadership



Professional Experience:


WIT Services LLC - Coopersburg, PA
Founder / CEO
2008-Present
> Recently founded Wetterau IT Services to pursue various independent, or contract opportunities in the market.
> Established partnership with Knitlogix.com for application development and hosting activities.

Crayola LLC - Easton, PA
Manager, Information Systems
2007-2008
The colorful, creative, innovate and privately held CPG firm of Hallmark with revenues of $550M
> Audited and led efforts to redesign point-of-sale systems to comply with new PCI regulations prior to their release.
> Assisted in the RFP process, evaluating hosted datacenter options from select vendors for the construction and support of a complete SAP system, compared to an in-house system and the ROI of each.
> Managed contracts to minimize costs and sunset the mainframe and all associated software in a timely fashion as the company moves to SAP.
> Restructured the Help Desk to a more ITIL centric Service Desk model, collaborating with Application Development to usher in true Change Control and SDLC methodologies.
> Brought in several green initiatives to the data center including: the use of Virtualization to eliminate 3 full racks of equipment, and began replacing existing racks with more energy efficient racks and PDU's strategically placed in the datacenter for optimal power and cooling efficiency.

Teleflex Inc. - Limerick, PA
Manager of Databases and Disaster Recovery Planning
2000-2007
Global diversified manufacturer and engineering company with revenues exceeding $2.5B
>Established the first formalized DR (disaster recovery) plan for the corporate data center, covering over 100 application servers, and a VPN infrastructure that connects over 100 manufacturing sites globally.
>Established a common DR implementation framework, with templates, and provided training, for over 50 data centers globally to follow in order for them to be rolled into a global BC (business continuity) plan.
>Established the business case, and implemented the first HA (highly available) system utilizing internal resources.
>Strategic planning recommendations submitted for a database architecture that could support the SLA's established with the business during DR and BC planning.
>Successfully managed the first DR test of the corporate data center, and changed plans and systems accordingly.
>Challenges include the strategic planning efforts that would support the consolidation of 50+ datacenters to 4-6 within the next two years, and application consolidation of 23 current ERP systems, down to 5 or less.

Teleflex Inc. - Limerick, PA
HRIS Project Manager
2003-2005
Sermatech International, a Teleflex Company - Limerick, PA
2000-2003
An Aerospace manufacturer and division of Teleflex with revenues of $500M
>Beginning my management career with Sermatech, the successful completion of consolidating 12 different, non-integrated HRIS and Payroll systems to 1 central system, led to a promotion for the entire team to the parent company, Teleflex.
>Established a common conversion framework utilizing proven processes and procedures, which could be completed internally for any acquisition, and their integration into the system, in less than 60 days.
>Successfully managed over 35 conversion projects of all North American business units, with separate tax identities and systems, and an additional 22 application development initiatives to the central system.
>Managed an internal Corporate HRIS conversion/support team of 5, and cross-functional project teams of 10-30.
>Submitted justification for, and operated an annual budget for these projects, ranging from $500K to $1 million.
>Upon completion of the integration of all North American business units, spearheaded the automated interfacing of all Benefits vendors and enabling for the first time, automated online open enrollment.
>Annual ROI for the 4-year plan was estimated to be $500k, with the project completed, and hard savings achieved 1 year ahead of plan.
>Soft savings continue to easily outweigh that number annually with the addition of Benefits interfacing.
>In 2004, restructured operations to support SOX initiates well ahead of schedule.
>This led to supporting Internal Audit with their preliminary SOX audits of other sites globally, and recommendations for change at each site that I also helped to implement.


Entrepreneurial Ventures:


Knitlogix - USA, UAE, India
Board of Directors
2008-Present
Global Storage Integrators of Innovative, Green Technologies -- savvy US business engineers; pioneers in India.
>Supplying a passion to learn new ways to manage and disseminate data, combined with the expertise in Enterprise Data Centers and global DR, BCP challenges.
>Providing a Global Marketing Strategy to properly address the market, with guidance on growing the business in a strategic manner, that is capable of providing world-class service.


AccessEdocs LLC - Allentown, PA
Vice President of Information Systems/Equity Partner
2000-2002
Internet Start-up Company involved in electronic documents and e-processes
>As a senior partner of the company, helped to design, create, and support the technological infrastructure to drive this internet start-up company.
>Helped obtain funding by assisting in the creation of the business and marketing plans which were presented to several venture capital firms.



Earlier Positions:


Senior Technical Support Analyst
Lehigh Cement

Network Administrator
Koh-I-Noor & Montblanc

Technology Specialist
& Programmer Analyst
The Knoll Group



Formal Education:


University of Phoenix
MBA in Technology Management

Penn State University
B.S. in Management Information Systems

Certifications
See above


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