John Lovrinic

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Chicago, IL *0601, United States

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SUMMARY

Business and technology professional, expert in driving strategic directions,

negotiations, and projects through the complexities of differing agendas, personalities,

and cultures. A tenacious problem-solver and motivational lead from the front manager

accustomed to adapting to cultural and business protocols. Career successes have

been underscored by an inherent capacity to quickly identify solutions, plot a course of

action and deliver results within agreed upon operating parameters. Acknowledged by

management, staff, clients, and providers as a rational voice that creates synergetic,

pragmatic, cost effective solutions.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• New World Van Lines: Re-engineered IT infrastructure, practices and processes to

permit them to meet government IT and security compliance and acquire

government contracts to grow their international business from less than 10% of

revenues to 50%.

• Museum of Science and Industry: Designed and guided implementation of new IT

infrastructure and systems, permitting them to increase integration across all

operations, reducing operational downtime by 99%, allowing them to partner with

other organizations (St Joseph’s hospital) and implement new exhibits to

dramatically increase revenue streams and revitalize the museum via technologically

based exhibits.

• Rand-McNally: Recovered a failing $20M project e-commerce project. Integrated

systems, across all platforms, resolving network and operational issues in a 6 month

period (2000).

• FTD: Provided consulting to FTD to permit them to save millions on call center

consolidation (1994) a story which made the front page of WSJ.

• J. Glaser & Co.: Took floundering startup to being the leader in their tech sector. Led

business through 4 generations of technological evolution. Designed and

implemented products that were the core business of the company for a decade.

Designed the plan that led to company’s employee buyout and eventual acquisition

by another consulting firm.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

• Enterprise Architecture

• Project Management

• Compliance

• Data and Network Security

• Systems Integration

• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

• VOIP

• WAN/LAN Design

• E-Commerce

• Web Applications

• Business Analysis

• Routers/Firewalls

• SAN Management

• EDI

• Unix (IBM AIX, HP/UX, DG/UX)

• RedHat Linux (Fedora)

• Microsoft Server Platforms (NT,2003, 2007,2012)

• Microsoft Client Platforms (98, XP, 7,8)

• Sharepoint (2007, 2010, 2012)

• Exchange (2007, 2012)

• Microsoft SQL (7, 2005, 2007, 2012)

• BizTalk (2007, 2010, 2013)

• C#

• VB

• Java

• C

• Pick (D3)

• Universe DB

EXPERIENCE

LOV IT, Chicago, IL

Owner, 2009 - 2013

For UIS Company (VC Startup)

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Interim CIO for the company.

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Address compliance and data security (FINRA, HIPAA, EU, SOX).

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Worked with operating team to establish business workflow

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automation.

Select platform, design datacenter requirements, WAN, VOIP phone

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system.

Identify vendors and providers for partnership.

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For New World Van Lines – Business Continuity Plan Design and

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Implementation, Enterprise/Infrastructure guidance (2009-2013)

Improved uptime from 90 to 99+%.

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Reduced maximum server downtime due to loss of corporate

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datacenter to 2 hour.

Reduced maximum virtual server downtime to 1 minute.

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Implemented at cost under $150,000 initial cost plus $3000 MRC

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with no additional staff requirements.

Reduced virtual server response time by 95%.

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Increased virtual server hosting capacity by 900%.

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For Museum of Science and Industry

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Provided guidance on IT Architecture and Infrastructure

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New World Van Lines, Chicago, IL

IT Director, 2005 - 2009

Redesigned Corporate IT Infrastructure

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Designed new Infrastructure in 30 days

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Implemented new core infrastructure in 6 months.

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Reduced outages by 95%

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Reduced server maintenance cost by $75,000/year.

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Reduced core applications response time by 90%.

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Company received letter of commendation from Dept. of Homeland Security

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for security practices.

Application/Service Improvements

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Document Management

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Implemented Sharepoint across the corporation

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Implemented paperless record keeping.

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Reduced paper storage requirements by 50%

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Implemented custom web applications

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Implemented VOIP with Data/Voice convergence

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Reduced network/phone incidents by 99%.

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Reduced Communications MRC by 25% for same services.

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Implemented work from anywhere solution (automated call

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forwarding/following, VPN, remote desktop access).

Drove vendor selection, contract negotiation process.

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Implemented new ERP solution

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Reduced development time by 90%.

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Reduced development cost by 95%

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Alacrity Computer Consulting Services, LLC, Whiting, IN

Owner, 2001 - 2005

Provide design, support, training, troubleshooting and consulting services.

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Infrastructure and Application design and implementation

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Vendor selection, negotiation, management

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Led infrastructure replacement project at the Museum of Science and Industry

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J. Glaser &., Co., Chicago, IL

Manager of Technical Support, 1978 - 2001

Mentored, groomed staff and client technical personnel.

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Served as a client consultant.

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Provided client and in-house RFP review and assisted with vendor

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negotiations.

Served as point man on technical sales efforts.

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Designed and led in-house technical training program.

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Evaluated new technology.

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Led technology projects.

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EDUCATION

• University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• B.A., Mathematics (concentration in Computer/Informational Sciences), 1978

CERTIFICATIONS

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer - Microsoft.

• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Microsoft.

• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator - Microsoft.

• IBM Certified Specialist AIX - IBM.

• Sun Java Certified Programmer - Sun.

• Cisco Certified Network Associate - Cisco.

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