Management Engineer

JEFFREY T. RABITH, MBA

**** *** ******, ***. **** • Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 • 310-***-**** • ****.******@*****.***

Business & Technology Executive

Innovative and accomplished hands-on business and technology executive with special expertise in global e-

commerce, information security, application development, network design, infrastructure, and help desk operations.

Specialized in designing and building a cost-effective, high performing organization delivering robust operating

infrastructure and high impacting business capabilities. Efficient and effective at managing global IT operations for

geographically and culturally diverse organizations with budget responsibility, technology management and

improvement in excess of $10 million annually.

Key Strengths

Strategic Planning Organizational Planning IT Governance

Global IT Delivery & Operations Employee Development Offshore Development & Support

Capital / Expense Planning Motivation & Team Building Global Data Communications

Disaster Recovery Planning Technical Support Information Security Planning

Enterprise Architecture Planning Data Center Operations Process Improvement

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Directed global information technology operations, encompassing 6 countries.

Saved millions of dollars for International Rectifier through technology improvements.

Planned and lead enterprise-level technology implementations and upgrades.

Established global corporate standards, policies, procedures, and architectures.

Dramatically improved information security and system/network availability.

EDUCATION

Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management, Malibu, CA

Masters in Business Administration w/ focus in Business Strategy

Graduated Summa Cum Laude – 12/2007

California State University, Chico, CA

BS in Business Administration, w/emphasis in Management Information Systems

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified in Kepner-Tregoe Project Management

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional (in progress)

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate (expired)

CCDA - Cisco Certified Design Associate (expired)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant 2009 – Present

Assisting small/medium businesses (SMB) with strategic initiatives pertaining to IT strategy, ecommerce, operational

efficiencies, supply chain restructuring, process improvement/automation, operations streamlining, and

product/service development.

International Rectifier, El Segundo, CA 2000 - 2008

Director of IT - Enterprise Architecture & Information Security (3/2008 – 11/2008)

Oversaw global network, information security, application infrastructure, data center operations, and more for $1.2B

global power semiconductor company with 37 locations in 11 countries. Supervised up to 15 direct and 25 indirect

reports in a matrix organization and administered $10.2M budget.

Produced $650,000 in annual savings by leading infrastructure and security reengineering programs that

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consolidated and virtualized datacenter systems, implemented worldwide WAN acceleration technology, and

deployed vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, event monitoring, and desktop lockdown capabilities.

Achieved ROI in only six months.

Designed and implemented a disaster recovery solution, which provided immediate network infrastructure fail-

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over for the ERP system and peripheral applications to allow the company to continue factory operations and

recognize shipments and revenue in the event corporate headquarters was destroyed.

Architected and deployed a data loss prevention solution to protect key intellectual property assets while at rest

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and in motion. A key requirement of the solution was to ensure we maintained control and visibility of the assets

usage while the assets were stored on computers owned and managed by our contract manufacturer’s.

Senior Manager - Global Server & Application Infrastructure Group (2003-2008)

Created global technology standards, corporate IT policies and procedures, global change control for critical

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systems and infrastructure, project management framework, asset management processes, and corporate

system architecture standards, which streamlined operations and met exceeded SOX compliance requirements.

Improved financial systems reliability 25%, increased security, and reduced total cost of ownership 40% by re-

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engineering several processes flows, consolidating applications, replacing outdated hardware, upgrading seven

software systems, and centralizing user account management, data storage, and event monitoring. All

upgrades were completed within 12 months with zero disruption to users.

Saved $150,000 in development costs and $400,000 in hosting charges by bringing development of a highly

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secure web-based legal document management system in house. Spearheaded utilization of rapid application

design and development methodologies such as SCRUM and ITIL.

Lead the implementation and configuration of an automated time and attendance software for all North America

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employees. Result: Eliminated manual payroll process and increase productivity of payroll department by 35%.

Also increase availability of payroll and vacation statistics to management.

Slashed IT costs $450,000 per year by implementing enterprise PC standards and negotiating favorable contracts

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Improved access related SOX compliance by over 90% with productivity based savings in excess of $350,000

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annually by directing further custom development of a systems access management application to request,

approve, execute, and audit system access and permissions.

ADDITIONAL RELATED POSITIONS

Manager - IT, Financial Systems & E-commerce Business Systems (2001-2003)

Application Developer / Infrastructure Systems Engineer (2000-2001)

Professional Services & Systems Engineer at Resumix, LLC (1998 – 1999)

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