Theodore C. Kauss

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Batavia, IL ****0

630-***-**** abm38d@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Highly motivated professional and successful Project Management

Professional with a diverse technical background with emphasis on

Enterprise Infrastructure. Experienced in enterprise class design of

highly secure and available networks and implementations. Resourceful,

goal-oriented producer. Excels in challenging, fast-paced environment.

Ambitious, dedicated individual known for professionalism who demonstrates

strong ethics, excellent written and communication skills along with

exceptional customer relation and knowledge transfer skills. Maintain both

technical and profession certifications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EMC, INC., Nationwide 06/2006 -09/2009

Senior Project Manager

Managed Telco, Media and Entertainment vertical managing custom projects.

. Directed delivery of approximately $2 million of services every year.

. Managed 12-16 active projects at any given time.

. Delivered BC/DR projects utilizing RecoverPoint (Exchange/AD, Geo-

clustering), Replication Manager (Exchange/AD, Oracle), Timefinder,

MirrorView, Homebase, Quickstart and SRDF.

. Led implementations of CLARiiON (CX3 & CX4), Symmetrix (DMX through new

VMax).

. Implementing Archiving technologies.

. Securing Data and System Security.

. Managed Implementations on Windows 2000, 2003 (AD), Solaris, HP-UX, AIX,

Linux and VMWare

. Led Performance Tuning of environments and equipment.

. Consulted on Jetstress application with Exchange 2007.

. Coordinated work packages with off-shore implementation teams.

INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, Chicago, IL 02/2006 - 06/2006

Consultant

Worked on a DR Gap assessment for a Major Health Insurance provider.

Primary role is Subject Matter Expert for DR Planning.

. Documented Current State environment for Business Critical Applications.

. Developed DR design options based on RTO/RPO and current DR design.

. Facilitated DR planning exercises with System Architects and Department

leaders.

COMPUTER MERCHANT, LTD., Chicago, IL 06/2005 - 12/2005

Sub Contractor

Worked for the Technical Migration Transition Team. Managed 5 migration

projects from the customer managed infrastructure to CSC managed

infrastructure.

. Led WAN Project To Migrate 217 Customer locations from their Legacy (ATM)

WAN to a CSC Manageable MPLS network. Enabling separation of "Out of

Scope" business units from the network

. Directed LAN Refresh Project to enable the locations to be remotely

manageable and meeting the Architectural Standards. To standardize the

hardware for support.

. Managed Migration of Network Monitoring to the CSC Central Monitoring

Center. Providing 24x7x365 support and Proactive detection and

resolution to the network infrastructure

. Coordinated Centralization of invoicing and monitoring for cost savings

for all Voice circuits. Outsource the support and maintenance of all

locations PBXs

. Facilitated the rollout of a new RAS client to all users company wide.

BERBEE, INC., Deerfield, IL 11/2004 - 06/2005

Consultant

Project Leader for a $3 million build out of newly acquired distribution

facilities.

. Developed Master Design with Subject Matter Experts.

. Generated Bill of materials, and negotiated pricing from vendors.

. Developed master Architecture as well as detailed WBS for each individual

site.

. Budgeted and scheduled resources both internal and external.

. Built strong level of trust within the team.

. CIO and COO level of exposure.

. Compressed the implementations of 4 facilities from one per month to four

in four weeks with two weeks warning to meet Business/customer needs.

. Significantly under budget and ahead of schedule.

CTS, INC., Chicago IL and Madison, WI 08/2001 - 06/2004

Project Manager for EMC

. Manage between 16 and 22 projects at any given time.

. Directed a 3 site Remote Data Center Replication Implementation Project

in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles.

. Supervised over 30 CLARiiON, 20 Symmetrix Storage Area Networks (SAN) and

10 Network Attached Storage Device Implementations.

. Facilitated the Storage Migration of a large Data Center Migration

Including Celerra, Multiple Symmetrix and Connectrix.

. Consulted several Data Migration projects on Multiple OS Platforms of

Mission critical applications.

. Managed Implementations on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Novell, Mainframe,

Tru64 and Windows NT 4.0, 2000 & 2003

EXODUS COMMUNICATIONS, Oak Brook, IL 01/2000 - 05/2001

System Engineer

. Acted as resident expert on all of Exodus' service offerings and

capabilities including vendor and Exodus partner products and services

for the sales force and potential customers.

. Designed and reviewed customer topologies and equipment to ensure they

were compliant with Exodus standards and met customers' expectations.

. Designed highly available and secure networks for potential and existing

customers

Project Manager

. Managed rollout of new Nokia/Checkpoint Firewalls for Data Center to

customers.

. Managed highly secure bank to bank Virtual Data Center initiative

. Managed large highly aggressive "dot com" initiative in a mixed

Solaris/2000 environment with an EMC Symmetrix and third party tape

library.

Technical Account Manager

. Managed and maintained high traffic E-commerce Virtual Data Center.

. Managed and maintained Virtual Data Center used as an incubator for new

web initiatives for a large consulting firm.

. Acted as single point of contact for a large multi-national bank for all

issues pertaining to their Virtual Data Center, which did highly secure

large dollar bank-to-bank transactions

RENAISSANCE WORLDWIDE, Chicago, IL 05/1998 - 01/2000

Project Manager / Network Engineer

. As a consultant Managed, maintained and decommissioned MSMail network for

large insurance company

. Project Manager for an aggressive rollout of Outlook to 3,000 OS/2 users

at 50 sites nationwide as a Consultant

. Worked with Senior Consultants and Customer Executives to build a

consensus on a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) architecture/topology.

FEL-PRO, INC., Skokie, IL 05/1988 - 01/1997

Analytical Chemist

. Reversed Formulations of competitors products, Analytical testing of Dyno

testing samples, QA/QC testing of outgoing products and incoming raw

materials.

. Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Novell LAN rollouts

. Employee/Management Forum representative for Technology departments.

EDUCATION

M.S., Project Management, Keller Graduate School of Management, Oak Brook,

IL

B.S., Chemistry, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

CERTIFICATIONS

PMP (Project Management Professional)

EMC Proven Professional

ITIL Foundations

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