benny meador

**** **** ******* **** . *********, TN 37083 . 615-***-**** .

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EXPERIENCED IT LEADER

IT Visionary, Solution Provider & Business Leader

Accomplished senior IT management executive offering 20 years of verifiable

success in designing and deploying high-performance, cost-efficient, and

fully scalable technology solutions to meet diverse and complex business

challenges. Experienced in enterprise environments with global network

requirements. Expert in aligning technology to support and advance overall

business strategies and objectives. Results and ROI-focused; documented

track record of leading teams of all sizes. Qualifications include:

Data Center Operations & Management Disaster Recovery/BCP

IT Infrastructure Design/Planning Data Warehousing & Data Exchange

Extensive Cisco Architectural Skills IT Security & Compliance

Capital Budgeting & Financing HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, PCI experienced

Enterprise Vision & Strategy Enterprise Systems Planning

Corporate Growth/Strategic Direction Proven Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Staten Island Physican Practice ( Staten Island, NY

IT DIRECTOR 2008

- Present

Directed, planned and organized IT services for healthcare organization

comprised of multiple critical care facilities, corporate offices, and

approximately 400 employees. Areas of responsibility include: IT service

desk, infrastructure availability, monitoring, security, desktops, and end

user training. In addition to having the primary responsibility for

enterprise support and administration my team was responsible for the

ongoing maintenance of infrastructure components (LAN, WAN, servers,

firewalls, etc). Responsible for staff supervision & development.

Collaborated with department heads to plan and coordinate the effective

use of IT resources for the enterprise.

Major Initiatives & Achievement Highlights

. Oversaw two year enterprise-wide overhaul of technical infrastructure

including design of new corporate data center (facilities, HVAC,

UPS/electrical, racking, etc), redesign of corporate network (LAN,

WAN, Internet, phone systems, etc) and server infrastructure (Active

Directory, SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc). Utilized primarily

Cisco and HP solutions.

. Responsible for design and migration to new virtual server

infrastructure; Used to support primary business applications related

to EMR (Electronic Medical Records), PACS (digital imaging) and BPM

(Business Practice Management) for patient information.

. Implementation of new fault-tolerant storage solution to handle growth

of medical records and imaging requirements.

. Design and deployment of enterprise Citrix platform; Replaced

Microsoft Terminal Server environment with new managed Citrix platform

using commodity server hardware. Solution consisted of HP server

farm providing high availability of business applications for all 400

users.

. Developed and implemented disaster recovery strategy that provided

availability of critical business applications at alternate business

site.

. Responsible for developing desktop computing strategy which included

deployment of laptops, desktops, thin clients, and remote access

services.

. Implementaiton of policies and procedures to help streamline day-to-

day operations of production systems.

Guidant Partners ( Nashville, TN

DIRECTOR MANAGED SERVICES DIVISION

2006 - 2008

Executive management team member, reporting directly to the president of

this technology consulting firm specializing in advanced IT support

services and solutions. Primary responsibility included performing

infrastructure assessments for large clients including review of all

components of a client's computing environment (facilities, networks,

servers, etc). Deliverables included formal written assessment findings

with recommendations for remediation and improvement. Secondary

responsibilities included development of Managed Services offering to

client base. This included project management services, design and

architecture services, development of policies and procedures supporting

service delivery, and revenue generation. Guidant is a 23 year old company

with multi-million dollar annual revenue stream.

Major Highlights

. Assessment, design, and migration of corporate data center for large

healthcare organization in NY; including negotiation of contracts for

space in Manhattan data center, facilities layout, UPS/electrical

design, racking, and complete network redesign. Client migrated Citrix

server farm to new data center to provide access to business

applications.

. Technology assessment for large telecommunications carrier in Guam;

deliverables included enterprise network assessment (including

hardened data center and multiple facilities review), server review

(including blade server design and utilization), SAN review, and high-

level best practices review.

. Implented new internal (Guidant Partners) data center facility for

company growth; which encompassed co-location facility, network

implementation and server migration effort.

Dollar General Corporation ( Nashville, TN 1990 - 2006

SENIOR MANAGER, VOICE AND DATA NETWORKS

16 year career with Fortune 200 retail chain starting in Applications

Development, then to Networking area. This led to increasing

responsibilities inluding Network Administrator, Network Manager, and Voice

and Data Manager.

Management Initiatives & Achievement Highlights

Responsible for global communication infrastructure supporting:

. $9 billion annual sales

. 8,000+ store locations (satellite and broadband connectivity)

. 60,000+ employees

. 300,000 sq ft corporate office complex designed to support 1,000

employees

. 9 regional distribution centers (+1 million square ft each)

. Overseas sourcing offices and facilities

Responsible for management of 14 data center locations

. 1 corporate office location, 9 DC, 2 disaster recovery sites, 2

overseas facilities

. Design, planning, construction and activation of all facilities

over 10 year period

Budgetary:

. Oversaw 15 million dollar annual capital expenditure budget

(infrastructure improvements, store growth, distribution center

startups, etc)

. Managed annual 6 million dollar annual expense budget

(telecommunications, services, support contracts, etc)

Telecommunications:

. Responsible for corporate phone systems, voicemail services

(over 1 million voicemail minutes/month)

. Responsible for provisioning corporate cell phones (400 devices)

. Deployment of Blackberry devices for 500 District Managers

. Provisioning, installation, and support of local phone services

for 8,000 stores including invoice payment and reconciliation

Planning/Strategic:

. Responsible for coordinating Disaster Recovery and Business

Continuity activities with other department heads

Network Services:

. Overall architecture, design, implementation and maintenance of

all LAN, WAN, Internet, remote access, VPN, and wireless

networks

Satellite Services:

. Responsible for building and activation of two satellite earth

stations to provide satellite (VSAT) connectivity to 8,000 store

locations

. Responsible for deployment, installation, and maintenance of

satellite hardware to all store locations.

. Implementation project took 14 months to install 8,000 locations

with a peak install rate of 85 stores a day

Staffing:

. Responsible for engineering, telecommunications, installation,

monitoring, and administrative teams along with hundreds of

third party subcontractors

Compliance/Auditing:

. Responsible for adherence to Sarbanes-Oxley reporting standards

. Responsible for coordinating annual IT audit activities with

internal auditors and penetration testing by external auditing

groups. This included providing management responses and

remediation efforts to audit findings.

Career Technology Summary

Partial List

Server All modesl of HP/Compaq server technology (including blade

Hardware: solutions)

IBM ISeries servers, SCSI, SATA, IDE, HBA controllers, iSCSI

interfaces

HP EVA Storage Solutions, Dell Equalogics SAN, Brocade Silkworm

switches

IBM AS/400 eSeries (multiprocessor systems and DASD farms

included)

HP Superdome (HP-UX) 9000 Parallel Processing Servers (64 way

processor boxes)

Sun server product line (rack mounted, standalone) SPARC,

UltraSPARC

Virtualization: VMWare & Microsoft Hyper-V design and deployment

Operating Windows 2003/2008, Win 7/Vista/XP, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, IBM AIX,

Systems: Linux (multiple), HP OpenVMS, IBM OS/400, Novell Netware

Networks: Cisco: 6513, 6509 chassis, 7200 series routers, multiple workgroup

switches, PIX and ASA firewalls, load balancers, VPN

concentrators, wireless access points (including LWAP solutions).

Network protocol analyzers/tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, SolarWinds,

Fluke, etc).

Monitoring solutions (HP Openview, Nagios, Orion, ManageEngine,

Tivoli, multiple open source solutions, IDS/IPS (multiple vendors

and open source solutions)

PBX systems: Nortel Option 81/21/11, Altigen, Avaya, Mitel, and

multiple enterprise grade voicemail systems

Backup generators: Kohler/Caterpillar (diesel and natural gas)

UPS systems: APC, MGE, Liebert (single phase, three phase)

Certified CAT5 cabling & fiber optic designer/installer

Software: Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, Terminal Server,

Sharepoint, WSUS

BackupExec, eFolder, Compaq Insight Manager, J2EE framework,

Crystal Reports,

LDAP, Active Directory, .NET, ASP, JSP, SMS, PKI

Perl programming (extensive), BASH shell, multiple other scripting

languages

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