SERDAR SEYHUN

***** ****** **. ******* *****, CA 92691

abk1h2@r.postjobfree.com

949-***-****

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/PROJECT OFFICE

Interests: Project Management

Self motivated professional with over 24 years of knowledge and experience

with technology and the project management of related infrastructure

services. Natural leader, confident with conveying ideas and solutions.

Trained to manage business requirements by enabling IT solutions for

variety of technology based initiatives. Utilizing a formal project

management discipline by PMI guidelines and ITIL based frame work; I am

able to bring customer centric, cost-justified methods, with proven

processes to Organizations and Stake Holders. I am on track to obtain my

PMP certification, while utilizing the Process Groups and the Knowledge

Areas dictated by the PMI Organization.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Bel Esprit Builders, Inc. 2010

Present

Bel Esprit Builders, Inc. provides comprehensive services to both general

construction industry and to the legal community.

Project Manager

. Managed a team of independent Consultants, in the area of IT Security,

SQL development, C++ Programmers, and .Net Framework resources. After

Building such team; created a Case Management System to fulfill the

requirements for the Construction Litigation Community to prepare for

Court Cases that are in dispute in California, Arizona and Nevada.

(Process Groups: Initiating-Planning, Executing, Monitoring &

Controlling, Closing)

. Managed and virtualized the local and physical network resources to the

cloud, utilizing VMWare products. Migrated from the current SAN

architecture and SQL application to reduce total cost of ownership and

highest application and data availability for the user community.

(Process Group: Initiating Planning, Executing, Monitoring &

Controlling, Closing)

. Consolidated several could based initiatives to an enterprise could for

a single point of accountability and lower cost of ownership(Process

Groups: Initiating-Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling,

Closing)

. Managed to open and close as well as relocate remote offices in

different States by enabling Infrastructure to meet the business

requirements. Starting with power and data requirements to turnkey

offices with fully functional server rooms that are secure and redundant

by design. (Process Group: Initiating Planning, Executing, Monitoring &

Controlling, Closing)

Synoptek

2008 2010

Synoptek provides remotely managed outsourced IT services for small to

medium businesses.

Virtual Chief Technology Officer

. Built and directed a NOC to monitor and manage approximately 60 small to

medium businesses in Southern California. Performed as an external

advocate to most of these 60 businesses as a virtual CTO, lowering their

total cost of ownership to decease and manage their IT budgets. Monthly

meetings with the Client's Stake Holders and gathering their Service

Level Objectives allowed us modify and adjust our NOC to achieve Service

Level Agreements within the Contract's threshold. (Process Groups:

Initiating-Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing)

. Manage to relocated NOC to Boise from Santa Ana for lower cost of

operations to increase profitability. During this relocation phase;

partnered with HP for Servers and Storage, Cisco for Converged Networks

and VMware for virtualization to streamline for seamless integration to

minimize impact on approximately 60 clients and the agreed Service

Levels. (Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling, Closing)

Matt Voss Associates, Inc.

2005 2008

Matt Voss Associates, Inc. provides IT solutions to small and medium

businesses, primarily in Southern California.

Project and Delivery Manager

. Managed several vendors and internal technical resources to implement and

automate water consumption measures and billing process for the city in

Northern California. Scope included a schedule and perform to replace all

water meters for the commercial and residential consumers. Backbone

Infrastructure was designed to handle the data transfers from each water

meter wirelessly 4 times a day and data was transferred to a SQL based

billing system. Project initiation and startup efforts took 6 months to

finalize. It was executed, monitored and closed in 3 months for rapid

deployment. Vendors worked directly with the district for procurement of

the products and wireless services. (Process Groups: Initiating-Planning,

Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing)

. Initiated and started a project for a nationwide shipping broker to

create a web based application to provide quotes and low cost options for

such freights to their clients. Back end consisted of HP servers, with SQL

database and PHP scripting language, worked with over external shipping

companies and their IT organizations to orchestrate the efforts.

Internally managed SQL developers and PHP programmers. (Process Groups:

Initiating-Planning, Executing)

. Manage to integrate Electronic Medical Records for health care providers

within the Hoag Medical System. Streamlined processes to eliminate manual

paper based medical records to electronically managed environment within

the HIPPA regulations, which included patient information, medical

records, insurance claims and prescription modules. Utilized an industry

proven; leased per licensed application that was designed with thin client

technology and hosted environment. (Process Groups: Initiating-Planning,

Executing)

IBM Global Services

2000 2005

Founded in 1889 and Incorporated in 1911, IBM is headquartered in Armonk,

New York

Principal

. As the Competency Principal, I was responsible for a portfolio of

IT Infrastructure projects throughout Western United States. I

carried underwriting responsibilities for $60M portfolio annually

through 24 Project Managers.

. Initiated and performed PM duties to design, deploy and manage kiosks

nationally to measure fitness information for school children from

Kindergarten through 12th Grade. Managed Proof of Concept and Design phase

as well as Underwriters Laboratories Standard (UL) Certification process

with IBM's internal design department from Chicago. Based on the final and

approved kiosk, after the Initiation and Planning process, I turned it

over to a Local Project Manager from Utah for the deliverables per the

contract. Approximately 1400 Kiosks were deployed in State of Utah

initially. (Process Groups: Initiating-Planning, Executing, Monitoring &

Controlling, Closing)

. Implemented a VoIP system for an International shipping company

headquartered locally in Irvine with their NOC in Colorado. Utilized Cisco

and Microsoft technologies. Project was considered to be a rapid

deployment approach with sensitive timelines to the International major

stock holders. It was staffed with a Project Manager as well as a Deputy

Project Manager to achieve Schedule, Cost, Quality and Communications

areas of the project. (Process Groups: Initiating-Planning, Executing,

Monitoring & Controlling, Closing)

. Performed quarterly Project Management Reviews (PMR) to balance the

portfolio with senior management and finance team. I had carried over a

dozen active projects at any given time during my employment with IBM

(Process Groups:, Monitoring & Controlling

Pointivity Inc.

1999 2000

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Pointivity is

meeting the technology needs of small and mid size businesses.

Vice President of Consulting Services

. Designed and managed an ASP program to deliver applications to SMB space.

Utilizing Cisco, Microsoft and Citrix Technologies partnering with a Tier

1 Data Center in Colorado. Directed a technical team that consisted of 13

engineers. While the efforts at the Data Center was underway; Created a

help desk environment in conjunction with Network operating center to

handle 24/7 hosting operations. Implemented a formal Change Control

Process for the production environment that mapped directly to ITIL

process

Getronics/Wang Global, Fountain Valley, CA

1997 1999

Getronics is an international ICT services and solutions company with

direct operations in more than 25 countries and some 25,000 employees.

Project Manager

. Managed Y2K readiness and integration for a major hotel chain in East

Coast (US), Canada and Europe. Managed a multinational multilingual

team consisted of 36 Wang employees as well some hybrid subcontractors

to fill in the gaps per the schedule. Required patches and upgrades

for the Infrastructure were performed. Subsequent to Y2K initiative,

deployed food and beverage application after it was piloted in

Toronto, Canada for 6 months. Entire project's duration was 18 months.

. Managed a deployment of 45,000 desktops which included international

images and software license management challenges. This was for a

large Petroleum company in Dallas TX, Dell was the standard hardware

vendor. We utilized Dell's Configuration Center in Austin TX.

Deployment included 13 Countries in both South and North America.

Online Connecting Point, Irvine, CA

1991 1997

Online Connecting Point is a Southern California based VAR with a focus on

systems management, storage, network services and security, and enterprise-

class server and related technologies.

Systems Engineer

After obtaining my Technical Certifications, I performed for major accounts

at their premises as a Systems Engineer with the following qualifications

. CNA

. MCSE

. CCNA

Network Technician

. Trouble shooting network problems and outages

. Analyzing root cause and reporting to the management

. Dedicated on-site engineer for several large size customers in Southern

California

Configuration Supervisor

. Supervising 2 configuration technicians

. Planning and configuring LAN environments for various customers

. Automating hard disk drive replications with specific images

. Customer meetings and requirement gatherings for a specific configuration

profile

Configurations Technician

. Hardware configuration for desktops, laptops, servers and printers

. Documentation of the process for customer profiles

. Server configurations with RAID, Back up and storage extensions

Robinson's May

1989 1991

Robinsons-May is a chain of department stores operating in Southern

California, Arizona and Nevada.

Operational Data Processing

. Electronic implementation of the general store merchandise inventory

system

. Generated batch reports for inventory

. System back up for the AS 400 in the store[pic]

Contact this candidate