THOMAS DECLERCK

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QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Highly effective, IT management professional with business leadership skills and supporting technology

expertise. Success as senior manager achieved by building high performance teams focused on delivering

high quality results through process and governance.

Managed start-up operations of ten facilities globally

Participated in due-diligence and integration for two successful acquisitions

Lead IT initiatives for additional five acquisitions

Awarded four patents

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Southco, Inc.

Director of Global IT Operations, Rochester, NY 2002 – 6/2009

Managed global IT operations including operating expenses, capital budget, forecasting and strategic

planning. Managed performance of team of 37 IT associates located throughout US, Europe and Asia

supporting over 3000 end users. Provided overall direction for Application Development, Support

Services and Infrastructure within the IT organization.

Managed capital budget of $1.2M and expense budget of $2.2M

Collaborated with CIO in developing IT strategy, ensuring alignment with business

Involved in planning/implementing start-up of a manufacturing facility in Mexico and India

Assisted in implementation of global roll-out of SAP business system

Designed/Implemented disaster recovery site for the organizations’ key business activities

Delivered 99% uptime for all IT services at 22 global locations

Managed process improvement initiative utilizing LEAN methodology and ITIL. Provided end-user

enhancements, while reducing staff and increasing customer satisfaction

Managed project team for start-up of three factories in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Rockledge, FL.

Successfully managed integration of three acquisitions into business system

Designed/Implemented the current global MPLS network providing voice/data connectivity to 22

facilities with alternative back-up mechanism in place, resulting in $200K/yearly savings

Implemented WAN accelerator strategy, enabling 4X improvement in useable bandwidth

Managed three data centers consisting of 140 servers, 2 SAN’s and over 40 applications

As interim CIO (for 8 month period), managed cost cutting and green initiatives resulting in $384K

cost savings. Bench-marked against similar manufacturing industries. Generated comprehensive

report to support business strategy/performance

o Reduced $2.0M capital budget to $1.2M

o Implemented global video conference solution to reduce travel

o Eliminated 125 printers

o Implemented server virtualization and consolidation

Improved security by rolling out enterprise security system

Worked with legal department to define/ implement global retention policy

Managed roll-out of new internal web portal

Created project management site for officers and managers to identify IT project pipeline

Managed MS global software compliance and enterprise agreement

THOMAS DECLERCK

Cell 585-***-**** Home 585-***-****

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Data and Voice Communications Manager Concordville, PA 1998-2002

Responsible for Global Telecommunications and Data Networks; Managed sixteen Cisco routers

worldwide, connected via Frame Relay and Point to Point T1 lines

Completed RFP for telecommunication/network services. Successfully transitioned to new service

provider, resulting in annual savings of $750K

Designed/Implemented telecommunications and data networks for three remote facilities. Involved

specifying communication lines, telecommunication and network equipment

Managed three global call centers and maintenance service contracts for sixteen PBX’s

Managed roll-out of LAN & WAN upgrade to support CAD system and future ERP system.

Replaced existing Cabletron equipment with Cisco switches and developed redundant core

distribution center

Installed wireless LAN networks at 22 remote facilities

Design/Implemented a Cisco Toll-by-Pass VOIP implementation between four remote facilities

Implemented a WAN/LAN monitoring solution utilizing a Visual Networks product

Senior Development Engineer 1992-1998

Engineered high-speed photographic equipment

Designed high-speed video board for a Liquid Crystal Display printer

Provided system specifications for LCD Printer

Designed timing control EPLD using Altera’s AHDL language

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, MBA In Process

University of Dayton, MS in Electro-Optical Engineering 1992

Thesis: “Optical Density & Dynamic Response of a Thermo-Refractive Switch”

State University of New York Geneseo, BS in Physics 1990

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 1999

ITIL Version 3 Foundations Exam: Certification 2008

Cisco Routers (Advanced) Troubleshooting TCP/IP

Packeteer Technical Training SAP Tech Class

SAP Navigation Class Mastering Network Security

Executive Leadership Boot Camp ITIL v3.0 Foundations Boot Camp

VMware Infrastructure 3

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