Statement of Purpose

I possess a solid background in nonprofit, for-profit companies and turnaround of information technology departments, and am seeking a position with a growth-oriented, forward thinking, progressive organization, which will utilize my abilities and knowledge to the fullest extent.

Summary of Qualifications

Twenty years of professional IT experience

A true IT visionary and student of the technology industry. Have repeatedly and consistently led the project competition in the adoption of new technology and application of new techniques while minimizing risk. Widely recognized by employees, peers, management, and consultants as an expert authority on technology matters.

A strategic business partner, who, working with business unit heads, can help create an IT business strategy and discover how to best leverage technology. Have made board-level presentations.

Active Member of the Information Technology Group

Employment History

Connection Property Management,Inc Lanham, MD

Director Information Technology, 3/2005 – Present

Managed all IT Departments operations, application and network security/monitoring; which included software/hardware, deployment, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of systems, network devices, application and databases

Managed IT Departments Help Desk, environment ensuring network and systems uptime and maintaining response time to a minimum

Develop and maintain the IT Departments operating budget, approve IT purchasing, expense, acquisition, development, and implementation, configuration, testing and managing consultants and vendor.

Managed department personnel performance evaluations, and mentoring, development of company wide training

Managed written policies and procedures, disaster recovery plan, disaster recover plan and security systems planning

Managed and developed National Conferences network setup, configuration of commuters, printers, routers, hubs, remote access, audio/video and support.

Establish and maintain IT/companies vendor’s contact management database system, software licenses management database, services and maintenance contracts

National Urban League, New York, NY

Director Information Technology Services, 3/1999 – 2/2005

Direct staff management of systems administrator, network administrator, desktop support technicians, application support, application development team including a corporate project manager, business analysts, system analysts, programmer analysts, and programmers

Project managing staff, relationships with end users to senior management, managing expectations of the end user community, timelines, budgets and training

Leadership of all enterprise development, testing, implementation, and support initiatives for ERP implementations and upgrades

Evaluation, recommendation, selection, and implementation of technology solutions, vendors, business partners, solution providers and ensuring that all technical infrastructures conform to corporate demands and standards

Managed IT operating budgets

Provided leadership in defining and implementing information technology plans and strategies; establish policies, standards and controls for IT operations and oversee the maintenance of networks and systems.

Bankers Trust, New York, NY

Management Information Systems, 11/1997 – 3/1999

Acted as primary interface between IS and customers, review operational concerns to determine cause and recommend or take action to solve.

Designed, planned, installed and maintained Infrastructure hardware, software, and operating systems including servers, hubs, switches, wiring, printers, workstations, RFs and terminals, etc.

Assisted in requirement definition, analysis and design of new and enhanced computer systems.

Determined hardware and software requirements; assisted with evaluation, selection, approval, ordering, planning and installation.

Coordinated system security and prevent unauthorized software access to Company computing resources.

Maintained and administered the LAN systems and participated as part of the Project Management Team Leader Group.

QUALIFICATIONS / EDUCATION

Polytechnic University – MS Information Technology Management - Present

Lacrosse University - Bachelor of Science 2001; Summa cum Laude; GPA: 4.0.

PSI Institute& Technology - Certification Electronics/Computer Science; 1989;

CERTIFICATIONS: MCSE, MCP, PMP, A+, HP, Ricoh, Cannon, CPM, ARM, RE

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