BRIAN TUNGET 561-***-****

**** *********** **** *****, **** Worth, FL 33467 acfj81@r.postjobfree.com

FOCUS

Lead ? Strategize ? Execute ? Innovate ?Empower

PROFILE

Commenced serving state and local government in 2001. Since 2007, successfully lead an IT public service-

orientated organization serving in the executive role as the CTO. Head a multifunctional unit that includes

Court Information Services, Network Administration Services, and System Support Services. Direct the

effective delivery of technical operations and support for systems, networks, databases, and applications.

Support 400 employees including 100 judges and court administration. Support 34,000 attorneys statewide.

Faced with financial restrictions, effectively slashed the budget 64% in 2 years.

Before working for state and local government, provided all CIO functions and administered all systems for a

premier IBM business partner. Support for all departments, users, sales, building systems, IT support for

other companies on the FAU campus, and support for external customers. Reversed all IT support functions

to become cash positive.

EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE

Currently lead and direct the design, development, deployment and maintenance of information technology

applications and infrastructure to support critical organizational functions. Drive my department to deliver

information technology solutions that align with our vision, strategic direction, mission and values. Focused,

results-oriented, strategically-minded dynamic leader who uses drive, diplomacy, persistence,

professionalism and creativity to ensure results. Strategic vision drives the operational performance with a

high degree of accountability. Design and implement contemporary processes that enhance organizational

effectiveness. Build and direct high performing teams, while committing to high ethical standards.

additionally provided electronic warrants between

Leverage common goals between IT and other judges and police departments.

internal and external organizations. Forge new

solutions, policies, standards, and laws among a Prepare, review and manage IT business plans,

broad base of groups and organizations. Monitor budgets and forecasts. Strategically govern the

ongoing legislation in order to detect areas that resources that make up the organization. Manage

will impact my organization. Quickly interact with assets, leases, and contracts regarding

legislators to inform them of potential issues and equipment, maintenance, services, and

guide them in amending the proposed law. Guide outsourcing. Evaluate funding sources and

many county and city police stations regarding present new project funding requests before

proper IETF standards related to implementing commissioners. Generate long term strategic

valid SPF records. Collaborate with our county plans that account for the interaction of all

Clerks IT department to organize the real-time employees, systems, and budgeting. Produce

sharing of data and to create new processes that contingency plans for each employee, system

increase efficiencies. point, and reduction of each budget category.

Administer department with integrity and a

Flexible to adapt with rapidly changing short term progressive written strategic plan.

technical challenges that often result from new

legislation. Keep our organization up to date with Regulate resource requirements to ensure an

state standards and comply with new policies. In appropriate balance between tactical and strategic

serving the public interest and finding budget demands. Guide the development of enterprise

efficiencies, legislation provided the requirements technology standards, governance processes and

and deadlines to create technology that provides performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value

online scheduling, electronic forms, orders and for critical business decisions. Identify and

dockets. In an effort to eliminate costs associated implement best practices for optimizing

with paper processes, I achieved this and infrastructure and operations costs, improving

system performance, and ensuring that service- infrastructure planning, engineering and

level requirements are met. Plan short-and long- deployment, including IT business continuation

term development of technology architecture, strategies.

In 7 years as CTO, only 2 employees have been turned over due to lack of retention. This was challenging

due to salary increases being unavailable for 6 of those years. Lead a diverse group of employees to carry

out my strategic vision in order to meet all organization goals. Develop my staff in order to provide my

department with the skills needed to achieve the long term organizational strategies. Encourage teamwork

and competition between team members. Construct departmental design that helps each functional work

section provide foundational support to the other departmental functional areas.

Define standards, policies, procedures, measures, and organizational enhancements to meet goals for our

technology group. Enact key performance indicators. Mentor staff members in order to assist them in

cultivating their skills. Establish compensation, training, and short and long term career goals. Select and

manage staff as well as outsourced vendors who will implement and develop our applications or other

developmental work.

Command the software development process, of technology, while keeping users satisfied and

setting short-term objectives and assessing meeting budget objectives. Now leveraging the

progress as defined by the selected software platform to achieve even more benefits and

development methodology. Authorize coding savings.

conventions, documentation standards, Improve the network infrastructure making it faster

specification conformance, and testing regimen. and including redundancies. Relocate the main

Revise current best practices for our web datacenter 30 miles away from the courthouse at

framework. Improve or develop new architecture a category 5 coded secure site. Add bandwidth,

for applications if needed. Conduct code reviews supplementary internet options, and update our

and specification conformance testing. Direct the data cables, switches, and electrical grid. Replace

quality assurance process, including integration expensive systems with faster, redundant

and system testing. Select, deploy, and monitor systems. Evaluate a new Digital Court Reporting

performance profiling tools and procedures. system finding it does not meet acceptable quality

Review and approve proposed development standards or provide substantial savings. Migrate

releases and manage the release process. web and application servers to a new platform.

Orchestrated a new email fax system that

Lead rapid development from design to integrates with new all-in-one copiers. Upgrade

completion under aggressive timelines. Achieve our video operations hardware and network.

business goals by identifying and prioritizing Protect against and respond to security threats.

development initiatives and setting timetables for Interact with the Florida Fusion Center and the

the evaluation, development, and deployment of Florida Department of Law Enforcement to identify

all applications and services. Identify the new and viable threats. Confirm all systems are

opportunities and risks for delivering web and up to date and protected against spam, malware,

mobile based information. Evaluate new and viruses.

technologies and make recommendations and

decisions on inclusion into the development Exceed goals and expectations required of my

methodologies and product architecture. Organize technology group. When there are issues,

implementation plans to be followed by whether tactical or strategic, I make appropriate

development staff. Research and evaluate third decisions by analyzing the problem and applying

party software for usage in our development logic and technical knowledge. Implement

lifecycle to aid efficiency and quality. framework to enhance programmer coding efforts,

in order to meet set goals. This framework was

Apply creativity, analysis, and innovation to set the not compatible with our application server. Met

strategy to achieve organizational goals that must with both vendors and support representing the

be met. When recently required to cut my budget framework and the application server so that they

40%, made the decision to make a fundamental could work together to provide a solution. Both

change. It was the perfect opportunity to provide vendors gave assurance that there was no way

our users a better email experience while adding possible for the products to work together.

value to the organization. The strategy met much Analyzed both products myself to see what the

opposition by other state and county IT incompatibilities were. Once issues were

departments. Able to show that the new system established, changed file structure of application

created more value, security, reliability, and ease server. In essence, creating the very first J2EE

of use for our users, with significant cost savings. compatible WebSphere server, before IBM was

Headed the first county to implement the solution able to bring one to market.

in the state. Help county to be on the cutting edge

Require department focus be on providing the ensure the highest level quality of service is being

best possible customer service. Our main achieved.

customers are Judges and they demand a fast

response with a positive outcome. Monitor system

levels and make sure we are staffed at

established standards. Surveys are available to

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

State of Florida (Broward County Courthouse) Fort Lauderdale, Florida

CTO February 2007 - Present

Lead the operations of Judicial Information Systems ensuring the availability of court related systems.

Coordinate and manage a multi-million dollar budget. Reduce budget while maintaining future growth

projections.

Hire, lead, mentor, evaluate, discipline, terminate, and monitor employees. Drive customer focused IT

culture.

Impose responsibility and accountability for work being performed while supporting needs of IT Staff.

Make decisions that increase work flow and solve critical issues while maintaining focus on future IT

structure.

Monitor changes in legislation that impact the courts. Work with legislators to add amendments to proposed

bills.

Enforce all state and county procedures and policies. Ensure state technology standards are met or

exceeded.

Develop standards, processes and performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value for critical technical

decisions

Plan technology architecture, infrastructure, engineering and deployment, including continuation strategies

Direct projects and coordinate plans between programming and networking departments.

Build future hardware infrastructure based on software requirements, growing capacity, and system integrity.

Design software architecture direction based on customer requirements and vendor capabilities.

Prioritize projects and establish timelines and workflow, prerequisites, strategies, and resources.

Coordinate shared data resources between Clerks, Broward county, Court Administration and Judges.

Provide hands on knowledge and experience to assist with any job functions as needed.

Maintain the balance between strategic and tactical demands. Monitor and evaluate latest IT trends.

Meet with staff and managers to ensure that projects stay on schedule and that deadlines are met.

Improve systems to ensure high availability and high performance.

Provide effective delivery of IT operations and support, network, system and database administration.

Maintain and improve team morale, reduce turnover, and protect our department's reputation.

Broward County Courthouse Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Systems Manager November 2001 - February 2007

Managed Systems department, employees, and processes. Assisted programmers and contractors.

Upgraded and installed software, including OS/400, WebSphere, Domino and Licensed Programs.

Deployed applications within WebSphere. Installed Struts, CrystalClearEJB, and Aldon for change control.

Created WebSphere application servers, enterprise applications and datasources.

Maintained and compared PTF levels. AS400 and WebSphere Performance tuning.

Loaded and applied Cumulative, Hiper, Database, Performance, Hardware, and WebSphere PTF's.

Migrated systems to new i5/550 server. Hardware upgrade planning. LPAR implementation. HMC.

Created queries using Query/400 and SQL. CL programming to automate AS400 procedures.

Assembled applications using WebSphere AAT, WSAD. Used Qshell to create WebSphere instances.

Created development and production environments and guidelines for WebSphere.

System cleanup to maintain Dasd levels including journal receivers maintenance.

Moved programs and objects into production. Implemented change control software. Updated Websites.

Assisted Tech Support with printer, connectivity, user profile and all AS400 problem resolution.

Set up jobs and IPL to run in AS400 job scheduler. Simplified batch processing.

Changed TCP/IP settings. Added directory entries. Changed html and xml tables.

BRMS configuration and integration with TS3100 tape library between 4 LPAR's.

Created backup and recovery strategy. Reviewed disaster recovery with SunGuard, IronMountain, and

1Vault.

Created Domino cluster servers for email high availability and performance load balancing.

AS400 720 - 820 systems upgrade planning including Lotus Fax, LPAR, and WebSphere partition.

Upgraded DNS Bind 4 to Bind 8, Upgraded WebSphere from 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.1 to 6.0. Later to 7, 8, and 8.5.

Reviewed software solutions for change management, and web reporting for use with WebSphere.

Upgraded AS400 hardware, including ethernet conversions, internal xSeries servers, dasd and memory.

Installed Paperless fax system to work with email. Installed instant messaging system on Domino.

Installed Blackberry Enterprise Server for Domino for remote email and chat capability.

Configured DataPropagator and remote journaling for data warehouse.

Reduced spam using Domino, Borderware, and IBM services. Produced email and fax usage reports.

Worked with IBM to renew contracts and prepare the budget. Worked with IBM to improve software and

create

PTF?s. Worked with IBM to create new features for future releases.

Worked with 3rd party vendors to create software to work with WebSphere on the AS400.

Data Resource Group - Premier IBM Business Partner Boca Raton, Florida

Systems Administrator / Information Systems Manager May 2000 - February 2002

Reported to CEO. Performed all CIO functions.

Maintained an IT budget that produced positive cash flow. External services and offerings covered internal

costs.

Responsible for all systems in the company and all systems for several other companies located in our

building.

AS400 software and hardware support, including upgrades and migrations. WebSphere administration for

company ebusiness website. WebSphere installation and support for customers. Set up remote writers.

Troubleshoot printer problems with IP and twinax address conflicts. CL programming for startup program.

Applied system keys and PTF's. Implemented backup procedure, performed full system reloads.

Added and deleted users. Worked with test systems to find new solutions for customers.

Network administration using NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Use of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, and

IIS. User administration, shared folders and devices, mapped drives. Installation of racks. Rewiring of hubs

and patch panel. PC software and hardware upgrades, troubleshooting. Software installation and support.

Tested returned hardware. Created new hardware offerings. Set up SAN switches.

Telecommunications. Moved and set up new users with extensions and voice mail. Found unlabeled ports on

patch panel using a tone generator. Troubleshoot phone problems. Moved fax machines. Created phone

usage reports. Integration of Voice mail and email systems. Evaluated new solutions for customer offerings.

Database administration. Merged and converted databases. Maintenance. Added fields. Created templates.

Security administration. Issued security access cards to new users. Set time schedules for door locks.

Set pin numbers. Changed alarm codes and passwords.

Systems support for customer sites. AS400 client access installations, AS400 http server configurations,

phone systems support, network support, PC hardware installations and company systems hosting.

Companies include MERCEDES, CATERPILLAR, SOUTHERN WINE AND SPIRITS, JOHNSON AND

JOHNSON, TBC CORP, OFFICE DEPOT, APPLIED CARD SYSTEMS, BLUEGREEN CORP, MIRA LEE,

IKON, ARVIDA, FAU FOOTBALL OFFICE, MYAREACODE.COM, TVI NEWS, HEAD PROPERTIES,

TERABIT INTERNATIONAL, HASTINGS TILE, and CHRIS EVERT CHARITIES.

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