JAMES STEVEN RAY

**** ******** ****** ***** ****, TX 77450

281-***-****/281-***-****

z9aq1e@r.postjobfree.com

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE

PROFILE

Summary: Energetic proven IT leader with over 20 years experience in the

energy and manufacturing industries. Well versed in strategy, planning,

standardization, consolidation, governance and implementation of cost

effective information technologies in support of business objectives and

goals. Extensive experience in identifying business requirements with best

practice processes and developing and/or implementing underlying enabling

technologies as solutions. Extensive hands on networking infrastructure

and Server 2000 - 2008R2 experience.

CORE COMPETENCIES

IT Process Improvement . Project Management . ERP Systems . Governance

Compliance

Systems Implementation and Infrastructure . Staff Development . P&L

Management

Enterprise Architecture . Cost Reduction and Control . Operations

Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medidata Solutions Houston, Tx

2012 December -Present

Manager IT System Engineering/Database Administration

Medidata Solutions is a leading global provider of SAAS based clinical

development solutions that enhance the efficiency of customer's clinical

trials. As a IT manager, responsible for managing a group of production

Database Administration resources, monitoring, troubleshooting and

repairing systems supporting in the Hosting Group.

Management of team of Database Administrators to maintain over 2000

production SQL 2008R2 instances

Responsible for production release schedule for SQL Database releases and

process related work orders associated with those releases

Developing and monitoring SQL metrics to measure performance and

availability

Maintaining Internal databases and SQL database servers to support

engineering and implementation teams in the development, quality assurance

and staging environments

Development of Process and Best Practices documentation

Key contributor to rollout of ZenDesk Helpdesk Tracking system

Insperity (Formerly Administaff) Kingwood, TX

2011- December 2012

Manager/ Supervisor IT for Performance Management and Organizational

Planning Division

Insperity, a trusted advisor to America's best businesses for more than 25

years, provides an array of human resource and business solutions designed

to help improve business performance. Insperity Business Performance

Advisors offer the most comprehensive Workforce OptimizationTMsolution in

the marketplace that delivers administrative relief, big company benefits,

reduced liabilities and a systematic way to improve productivity.

Additional offerings include MidMarket Solutions, Performance Management,

Expense Management, Time and Attendance, Organizational Planning,

Recruiting Services, Employment Screening, Retirement Services, Insurance

Services and Technology Services.

Management of team including Senior Build Engineers, Senior Microsoft

Engineers and SQL Data base Engineers responsible for the support, build,

release and deployment of SAAS products

Managed implementation and provisioning of new state of the art Cloud

Infrastructure running VMware on HP Blade/EMC SAN running Microsoft 2008 R2

environments . Achieved 100K cost savings by reducing the number of

physical servers by one third.

Implemented Maturity Model methodology to support automated builds and

deployments of SAAS products with Team Foundation Server 2010

Oversight of Development and Deployment for SharePoint 2007 Site to support

documentation and support requirements for division

Implemented proactive Monitoring of all environments with Nagios Server and

Solar Winds Monitoring tools

Development and implementation of Business Continuity plans to support

multiple SAAS products

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Sercel Inc. (CGG Veritas) Houston, TX

1988 - January 2011

Manager, IT for North America 1995 - January 2011

For a $550,000,000 global leader in the seismic acquisition industry that

designs, manufactures, and supports integrated equipment for hydrocarbon

exploration in land, transition zone, ocean-bottom cable, marine, and down-

hole environments, directed six applications and infrastructure personnel

supporting multiple business segments in two countries, leveraging a

$3,500,000 operating budget.

Managed the migration of a single domain to a corporate-multisite 2003 AD

domain structure in 2008 and Exchange 5.5 to 2003 for 400+ users with no

down-time. Performed all migration, group policy, user account

configuration and desktop migration for the 2003 environment. Also

executed same migration for the current 2008R2 Server and Window 7

environment. Developed plans for the Exchange 2010 migration. Deployed

the following: Globalization of Active Directory (AD) Structure, Exchange

consolidations, and Firewall security centralization. Managed LAN/WAN

infrastructure and Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 R2 server environment for

six locations.

Supervised the Help Desk Support Team utilizing the Altiris Help Desk,

Notification, and Deployment system supporting 450+ users. Provided

application services to a global group of 3000+ users and led a team

managing a 75+ Server 2008 R2 server farm.

Managed and directed the Software Development and Reporting Team coding in

SQL 2008R2 Reporting Services, C#, Visual Basic, .NET, and AJAX. Hands on

experience as SQL DBA in SQL 2000 -2008.

Developed numerous strategic and disaster recovery plans, including

implementing Business Continuity Management (BCM) utilizing VMware Cloud

Infrastructure technology to ensure 100% uptime, encompassing all IT

operations: data replication, virtualization, offsite storage, and power

systems.

Planned and implemented the decommission of Tulsa, OK and Ponca City, OK

offices. Oversaw the data center re-design, installation, and move. Led

the implementation of multiple infrastructure upgrades including MPLS /

EVPN systems, core Nortel 8600 Routing, and 5520 POE switch hardware

Developed and implemented disk-to-disk-to-tape backup infrastructure

strategy for all servers and created a model for all backup processes,

reducing backup windows from 48 hours to eight hours. Implemented a new

Nortel BCM Phone and Voice Mail System for all Houston sites (300 phone

systems), incurring no down-time for the end users.

Achieved corporate governance initiatives by implementing IT SOX404

controls resulting in 4 successful annual audits. Achieved ISO9001

Compliance requirements for all IT systems in 2007. Implemented a Web-

based documentation system to support compliance by staff members.

Negotiated and procured vendor contracts for data, voice, cell phones,

hardware, software, and support.

. Led the initiative to improve labor collection and inventory controls

by automating shop floor activities, utilizing time / attendance

software and bar coding, resulted in an inventory reduction of

$10,000,000.

. Reduced telecommunications annual spending by $400,000 by migrating

from Frame Relay to VPN technologies over Internet, and adopting

broadband in smaller locations.

. Managed and maintained a lean environment by utilizing independent

contractors, reducing annual spending on Full-Time Employees (FTE) by

$300,000.

. Implemented ITIL and ITIM best practices

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Sercel Inc. continued

Key contributor for the implementation of a single global Fourth Shift ERP

instance, employing a $2,000,000 capital budget. Consolidated multiple

planning systems from acquired companies into Sercel's ERP instance.

Designed / implemented the HR ADP Payroll and Empower Attendance Interface

system, transitioning from a paper card system for 1000+ employees to

electronic timekeeping, reducing processing of time cards from one day to

two hours.

Utilized SharePoint MOSS 2007 as the standard platform facilitating the

sharing and collaboration of proposals, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and

document control. Supervised the implementation of intranet sites

(SharePoint) and software application development. Championed the business

case study and strategy for global document management.

Implemented the Enterprise Asset Management and Computerized Maintenance

Management System (CMMS) for manufacturing equipment, centralizing

preventative maintenance.

Technical Training Manager (Tulsa, OK) 1988 - 1995

Directed the global training for a seismic data collection system and

OPSEIS (Sercel's trademarked, proprietary system) Geophysical Systems.

Developed the curriculum, supported on-site implementation, and conducted

training.

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) . Server 2003/ Exchange 2003

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)

Certification Training completed

EDUCATION

Associate of Science, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Texas State

Technical College Waco, TX

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Infrastructure - Systems - Applications Environments

Note: 15 years hands on experience exists with the technologies listed

below

. Active Directory Management Systems - Javelina ADTool Kit

. Application Virtualization and Delivery - Citrix XenApp 5.0, Tricerat

. Attendance Systems- Empower, Unitime, ADP

. Process Automation - Automate (Network Automation)

. Backup Systems - Cybernetics, Storage Server 2003, Backup Exec Server

2010

. BES - Blackberry Enterprise support for 75 Black Berry Smart Phones

. CMDB - ChangeGear

. CMMS - BigFoot (Bigfootcmms)

. Database - SQL Server 2000-2008R2, Access

. Document Management - Sharepoint 2003-MOSS 2007

. Email - Microsoft Exchange 5.5 through 2003

. Email Archival Systems - Mimosa

. ERP- Fourth Shift 7.4, Oracle

. Engineering - AutoCad, Inventor, Pro-E, Solid Works, PDMS

. FAS - Fixed Asset Management - (Sage)

. File /System Replication - Double-Take, DFS

. Help-Desk - Altiris Deployment Server 6.9, Notification Server 7.0,

Help-Desk 7.X, Bindview

. Networking - Nortel, 3-Com, HP, Dell

. Network Monitoring - Solarwinds, GFI Event View

. Office Automation - Microsoft Office 97 through 2010

. OS Software - MS Windows NT/2000/2003,2008R2 Server, Desktops include

Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Windows7

o Active Directory Management - User and hardware

o Group Policy Management

. OS Imaging - Ghost, Altiris 7.0, Acronis

. Payroll -ADP

. Scheduling - Microsoft Project thru 2010

. SQL Management Tools - Idera, Redgate

. Security - McAfee, Norton, Fortigate, Checkpoint Firewall

. Perimeter Security Systems - AVERMedia Camera Security, WinPAK

(Honeywell)

. Power Systems - APC Symmetra, Baldor Generator Systems

. SOX Compliancy Software - Ecora

. Unix/Linux, VMWare 4.1, VCenter, MAC O/S X

. Virtualization - VMServer 3.0 thru 4.1, vCenter, vMotion

. WLAN - Nortel 2300 WLAN Base/Nortel 2330 Wireless Access Point

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