Gabriel V. Arcoleo Cell: 831-***-****

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Vice President / Director of IT / CIO

Pharmaceutical / Agriculture / Technology / Manufacturing

Professional Profile

Highly recognized technology expert with demonstrated success in delivering innovative solutions to drive

productivity and deliver unprecedented savings. Revitalize operations and create dynamic teams through

relationship building and leadership expertise involving hundreds of employees both on site and virtually in

global locations.

2007 CIO Decisions Magazine IT Leadership award

Named one of the top 25 innovators of 2007 by CIO Decisions Magazine

Core Competencies

Process Improvement Department Reorganization System Utilization

New Business Development Supply Chain Management Recruitment and Training

Project Management Team Leadership

Business Management

Performance Enhancement IT Solutions

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Turning around under-performing departments experiencing operational inefficiencies.

• Responsive to organizational objectives and setting priorities to achieve targeted goals.

• Virtually managing IT staff located in 23 facilities worldwide.

• Eliminating technology risks by monitoring systems and observing staff behavior.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

California Pacific Specialty Foods, Salinas, CA. 2009 to 2011

CIO

Cal Pac’s two production facilities in California are currently consuming sixty three percent of the nations

strawberry crop.

• Designed and implemented comprehensive receiving system encompassing four growing regions and

over three hundred growers.

• Implemented traceability initiative for customers such as McDonalds, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, etc.

• Redesigned CRM, ERP solutions in Sage Mas 200 for better forecasting of products, shipments and

Business intelligence as well as implementation of a production dashboard.

TANIMURA AND ANTLE, Salinas, CA 2001 to 2009

Salad Time farms, Earthbound Farms, Ready Pac

Agriculture Company and one of the world’s largest lettuce growers with eight locations worldwide and revenues

of up to $1B annually.

Director of IT

Direct activities include supporting up to 1200 employees and maintain performance of more than 40 servers.

• Restructured department operating with no vision or structure by implementing procedures to enable

information sharing among staff that ensured optimum performance of all activities.

• Eliminated high-volume system viruses occurring in forklifts from misuse and Malware that crippled

company. Purged operating systems on all forklifts that saved company hundreds-of-thousands- of

dollars in anti-virus expense, and significantly increased production levels.

• Seamlessly transitioned forklifts to Linux based systems achieving near zero downtime as a result of

eliminating system viruses. Collaborated with team to build Linux Kernal that boots a 5250 emulator and

a 350 aronet wireless card that delivered a >$200K savings within first year.

• Condensed IT departments spread and cost by centralizing help desk call center at corporate

headquarters and grouping engineering and development together.

Web Unwired, San Jose, CA. 2000 to 2001

Director of IT

Managed subdivision of Cisco called Web Unwired, which built the On Star system for General Motors.

CENTAUR PHARMACEUTICALS (ASTRA ZENECA), Sunnyvale, CA. 1996 to 2000

Subsidiary of Astra Zeneca and its North American production facility for generic drugs.

IT MANAGER \ DIRECTOR OF IT

Directed IT staff consisting of five locations and covering 23 facilities worldwide.

• Pivotal in acquiring major project with Nextera (Nextel’s ISP Company) by favorably positioning

negations for award of contract. Increased IT up-time by 30% through effective planning and improved

applications.

• Partnered with world leaders, including EMC and IBM on special projects, and collaborated with Intel to

resolve technology product issues that led to improvements and became part of a White Paper for Intel.

• Participated as member of technical review committee of CFR 21 part 11(FDA Compliance of Electronic

Records, Electronic Signatures and cGMP and Meta Data Resources ) with world renowned scientist Ian

Allen, the first person to identify the cause of Parkinson’s disease, Dr. John Carney, Head of DARPA

from 1997-2001, and Dr. Paul Wood, CEO of Cenatur Pharmaceuticals.

• Reviewed Sarbanes-Oxley requirements pertinent to the pharmaceutical industry the EPA and the FDA.

• Consistently achieved or exceeded all IT quotas \ projects each year-over-year.

Joselyns Bike Shop, Monterey, CA. 1990 to 1995

Owner

Owned and operated mid size bicycle retail store with four employee’s.

• Managed professional mountain bike team for Campagnolo, Nishiki, Travel Lodge, and Nissan.

• Created, built, and launched the “Sea Otter Classic”, the second largest cycling event in the

world.~1990. Monterey, CA.

EDUCATION

Monterey Peninsula College

AA

Network Engineering Management (NEM)

CLC, AA cum laude

California Polytechnic University

Child Family Development

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certified Government ethical Hacker

MCSE-NT, CNA, CCNA, Net+

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