ROBERT REIN Cell 856-***-****
**** ******* *** ** *** 826., Malaga, NJ 08328 **********@*******.***
http://www.robertrein.info/itmanager
IT MANAGER
Highly adept, hands on IT professional with a record of accomplishment in orchestrating and delivering complex
IT projects that increase productivity and reduce costs. Practiced in clarifying business requirements and
specifications. Earned reputation for building high-performance organizations that achieve corporate objectives
through development and leadership of people. Build executive-level consensus for strategies that deliver high
end user satisfaction with bottom-line performance across the enterprise. Achieve goals with confidence,
determination, and a results focus through expertise in:
MPLS Networks VoIP Implementation EPICOR & SAP ERP Implementation
Change Management Strategic & Tactical Planning Budgeting & Cost Containment
Mergers and Acquisitions Risk Analysis / Management Building Positive / Dedicated Teams
Crisis Management Vendor Relations / Negotiations Resource Development / Deployment
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Kinedyne Corporation, Branchburg, NJ 1/2008 – 4/2009
Worldwide manufacture of cargo strapping and restraining devices for the airline, trucking and health care industries.
With the corporate facility in New Jersey, they maintain 2 manufacturing facilities in Alabama and Kansas with 2
manufacturing facilities in China. Sales, shipping and marketing offices are spread out in the United States, Mexico and
South America.
International IT Manager (2008 - 2009)
Leader of six-member international IT operations and development team managing corporate infrastructure,
corporate migration to a new ERP solution, control annual budget for international IT assets and report to
executive committee.
Selected Accomplishments
In only 4 months on the job, we realized over $40,000.00 dollars in annual budget savings by consolidating
corporate file systems into underutilized system servers.
Improved international network performance by 55% by eliminating cross network file sharing and
implementing byte level file replication technologies.
Implemented a corporate wide SHAREPOINT infrastructure at 0 cost and vastly improved corporate
communications and collaboration.
Environment: 1 AS/400 V5R4, 25 Windows Server 2003 R2, Active Directory, Veritas, Sharepoint,
WAN/LAN, Cisco Routers, EPICOR Vantage 4.07A, MAPICS V3, EDI, SQL Server 2005, T-SQL, MS
Exchange 2003
Arc International North America, Millville, NJ 1990 – 2007
U.S. subsidiary of world's #1 crystal and glassware maker with manufacturing and distribution facilities in France,
Britain, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, China, Brazil, Spain, and five corporate facilities in the United States. The most
recognized brand, Mikasa, is an industry leader with distribution to more than 130 retail locations in the U.S., Canada,
and Puerto Rico.
Director of North American IT Operations (1999 – 2007)
Key leader of five-member team managing corporate infrastructure with 5 corporate locations, 130 retail stores,
and 950 users with full accountability for annual IT budget and corporate telephony system.
Selected Accomplishments
$1.525 million annual payroll savings delivered for IT operations by consolidating two very different IT
departments from wholesale manufacturing and retail distribution into one successful and unified department.
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software in technical consultant role to the project.
Implemented and Integrated a new SAP R3 ERP for North America
$250,000 annual savings realized by cutting hardware maintenance contracts 39% and holding vendors
accountable for their service-level agreements.
Revitalized end user morale during major infrastructure change resulting from company acquisition and
merger. Implemented project management ethics, practices and procedures, and historical documentation
that achieved a 96.5% user satisfaction rating.
$500,000 annual savings in data center costs delivered by merging two data centers and implementing
common IP telephony system corporate-wide.
Environment: 5 AS/400 V5R4 servers, 67 Windows 2003 servers, 12 HP-UX 11.x HP9000 servers, Active
Directory, WAN/LAN, MPLS Network, NEC and AVAYA telephony, ORACLE 10.X, SQL Server 2005, C
programming, CA OpenIngres, Unix Shell, EDI, SAP, VOIP, EPICOR retail POS.
Operations Manager – Millville (1995 - 1999)
Managed network with 12 HPUX servers, 25 Windows-based servers, and 250 LAN users.
Selected Accomplishments
$39,000 annual cost savings on third-party management tools produced by utilizing 100% of available
resources to create in-house system-monitoring tools.
Delivered month-end and year-end financials on time by implementing email restoration process during the
New Year’s holiday to reestablish communications capability after email server crashed. Personally led key
project working 36 hours straight to implement transparent workaround solution.
Achieved 99.9% system uptime on many occasions by recommending a capital investment in redundant
hardware to management and implementing industry standard technologies and best business practices after
several costly downtimes.
Programmer (1990 – 1995)
Collaborated with end users in creation, design, and implementation of custom applications to solve complex problems and
provide long-term solutions aligned with business objectives.
Selected Accomplishments
Automated manual container processing system, operating system scripts for VAX/VMS and UNIX, and a
new shipping and receiving system.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
B.S., Information Technology (Summa cum Laude), AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY
A.A., Business Administration (with Honors), AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY
MCP, Microsoft Certified Professional
AS/400, AS/400 Administration, Boston, MA
Business Objects, Business Objects Administration, New York, NY
PBX Training, Lucent PBX/Audix Administration, Philadelphia, PA
Router Configuration, Cisco Router Configuration and Administration, Atlanta, GA
Database Administration, Oracle DB Administration, Minneapolis, MN
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Technology Skills
Programming Languages/Technologies
VB Script, Microsoft Visual Basic
XML
C
SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL
Unix Shell Programming
Databases
MS Sql Server 2000 and 2005
Microsoft Access
Oracle
CA Open Ingres
Operating Systems
Windows 2003/2000/NT/VISTA/XP/98/95
Unix, Linux
OS/400
VAX/VMS
Red-Hat Linux
Application Servers
Microsoft IIS
Microsoft Sharepoint
MS Exchange Server
Apache Tomcat
BEA Weblogic
Veritas Datacenter and Backup Exec
Business Logics
Maximo MRO
VMWARE, ESX
Blackberry Enterprise Server
Application ERP Packages
SAP
MAPICS R3
EPICOR POS
EPICOR VANTAGE/VISTA
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