J effrey Faison
**** ******* **** *., ***. **C
Guttenberg, N.J. 07093
954-***-**** ********@******.***
DIRECTOR IT /SENIOR MANAGER
QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
Highly accomplished, technically sophisticated, and results-driven professional, with distinguished career and proven
expertise in all aspects of project life cycle development; line management; system migration/integration; software
operations; and personnel supervision. Skilled at formulating and implementing systematic processes and practices to
advance corporate functioning, achieve interventions, and adapt to new technologies and markets. Expert in identifying
and resolving barriers to drive business priorities down to IT operations, resulting in the attainment of organizational
objectives as well as improvement of productivity, client service, and overall performance. Ability to interface with both
business and technical professionals, always with an eye on the bottom line and a focus on maximum ROI on IT
investments.
• Equipped with extensive background in contract administration, financial planning and development, as well
as customer service and partnership.
• Adept at supervising, guiding, and motivating individuals and groups toward completion of tasks and
fulfillment of goals.
• Visionary leader with well-defined leadership and management skills, combined with powerful
communication, organization, problem resolution, and analytical aptitude.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Project Management Budget Optimization and Cost Control
Software Development and Installation Operations and Maintenance
New Business Development Leadership and Training
Process and Productivity Improvement Collaboration and Communication
System Engineering Supervision/Management of support staff
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 3., 4.x
Workstation/Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, MAC OS X, MS-DOS, OS400, Zendesk, OTRS, Great Plains,
Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, and Visio
and IBM Lotus Notes
EXPERIENCE
JPF CONSULTING, HALLANDALE BEACH, FL.
Systems Consultant 2002 to Present
Provide independent systems consulting serving small to mid-sized clients in the United States and the Caribbean.
Thoroughly analyze requisition openings and determine the best candidates qualified for new positions available,
interview candidates, as well as review and approve rates. Ensure that applicants possess required skills and
capabilities through detailed arrangement and update of applicant skill templates. Demonstrate program management
and program documentation support expertise in designing a high visible program providing encryption in the cloud.
Manage an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract consisting of various functional areas, such as software
development, software deployments, testing, system and database administration, training, configuration
management, help desk, data migration, and transitioning systems.
Resolve Windows and Novell network problems in LAN/WAN and Wireless environments
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Network installation, administration and maintenance
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Novell Network to Windows migration
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Active Directory installation and configuration
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Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 primary and backup Domain Controllers
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VPN configuration
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Web and Cloud migrations
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WORLD NETMEDIA, MIAMI BEACH, FL
Director Of Information Technology 2007 to 2010
Progressively maximized leadership and technical acumen in supervising more than 22 members, including projects with
a total of more than $300M in sales. Accurately handled and oversaw project completion of Operations and Management
contract for the Image and video Workflow Processing. Rendered outstanding project management contract through
hands-on management of the entire phase of project development; exemplified distinctive supervision and technical
proficiency in handling more than 14 team members and 6 subcontractors. Inform the Chief Operating Officer regarding
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J effrey Faison
7000 Kennedy Blvd E., Apt. 50C
Guttenberg, N.J. 07093
954-***-**** ********@******.***
contract status, staffing issues and mitigations through frequent communication and cooperation. Formulated and
updated project schedules; assigned tasks to staff members and subcontractors; informed customer and senior management
regarding project status; and performed system engineering tasks. Led and coordinated new project management, system
engineering, software development, system integration, and documentation; ran and monitored system performance.
Planning, coordination, and supervision of all department activities
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Manage the company's software application library
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Develop, implement, and maintain procedures for backups, upgrades, and support issues
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Oversee management of all corporate applications
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CITIGROUP, MIAMI, FL
Information Technology Manager 1998 to 2002
Provided keen oversight in administering, monitoring, implementation and planning of daily operation support staff.
Applied strategic approaches in coordinating the problem management tools and processes for root cause analysis,
business impact assessment and problem resolution, including trend analysis and knowledge sharing tools, allowing
IT administrators to proactively identify problem areas and reduce repeat incidents. Facilitated request management
and processing through flexible modeling of service hierarchies & classification, with auto escalation processes.
Management of IT service incidents to minimize the impact of IT incidents and provide customers detailed
information on incident resolution. Management of status, conditions and logical relations between changes, work
orders, tickets, services, configuration items and knowledge base articles. Managed the tracking and monitoring of
current and historic changes and work orders. Interfaced with IT personnel worldwide, to deliver end-user support for
corporate desktops, servers and networks.
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• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Service Asset & Configuration Management
• Change Management
• Request Fulfiment
• Knowledge Management
• Ensure best practices across the company's diverse hardware and OS platforms
EARLIER EXPERIENCE
OAO TECHNOLOGY, GREENBELT, MD
Network Manager
COMMODORE CRUISE LINES, HOLLYWOOD, FL
Network Administrator
ROYAL PRUDENTIAL, NEW YORK, NY
System Engineer
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
New
York
University,
New
York,
NY
Computer
Science
1986-
1987
Southampton
College,
South
Hampton,
NY
Political
Science
1977-
1980
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