DAVE W. ALTON

H: 805-***-**** ac0eyx@r.postjobfree.com C: 805-***-****

SUMMARY

Accomplished IT executive with a track record of designing advanced technology solutions to meet business needs. An action-oriented visionary leader able to think both strategically and tactically. Built succession plans for all key personnel. Successfully built new IT systems and infrastructure leveraging existing technologies while supporting legacy systems.

Saved $1M at by instituting IT standards and optimizing staff

Reduced annual administrative expense by $7.5M by implementing a claims imaging system

Led systems upgrade of vital new disaster recovery center on schedule

Designed new infrastructure to support web enablement effort of e-commerce

Led and built a consortium of performance art organizations to re-think how to sell tickets on facebook

Managed an $11M budget annually for general ledger accounts and all capital project funding PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Owner / Chief Technology Officer 2015-Present

DAVirtual CIO – Simi Valley, CA

Opened and run a IT consulting firm focusing on helping organizations think strategically about information technology.

Worked with organizations to develop comprehensive requests for proposals for large enterprise systems.

Identified technology gaps at several organizations to help them raise funds for long-term IT projects.

Develop strategic plans for multiple organizations for their IT departments.

Mentoring several IT staff at multiple organizations to grow and achieve strategic goals. Chief Information Officer 2008 - 2015

Center Theatre Group – Los Angeles, CA

Hired to bring leadership and vision to the top technology role. In six months was able to assume responsibility for all web development and infrastructure. Quickly developed relationships both internally and externally and built a plan to manage significant changes to infrastructure and web development. With a small operational budget we were able to transform a purely reactionary department into a business unit leader with vision and ideas to grow the company.

Revamped web project that had been languishing for more than two years by bringing agile project management methodology to bear and quickly finished the project to the satisfaction of management.

Converted data center to a greener footprint while allowing for more expansion. Reduced overall cooling costs by 40% and power consumption by 25% in the first year all while reducing the total number of physical machines from 22 to 6.

Implemented and tested a replica disaster recovery center using virtualization technologies, reducing recovery point objective to less than 10 minutes and recovery time objective to under 10 hours.

Brought company up to current PCI standards and implemented various security enhancements to be compliant and reduce our risk.

Designed and implemented a web function which brings in roughly $15,000 per year in donations.

Reorganized staff roles to better suit organization requirements which resulted in saving $25,000 per year in ineffective outsourced web projects.

Vision, Strategy & Execution Budget Planning & Management

Strategic Business Planning Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

IT Risk Management Team Building & Leadership

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Installed security and outsourced monitoring completely reducing our risk of breach to acceptable levels.

Collaborated with leading group or arts organizations to build a new way to buy theatre tickets on-line and share on social networks.

Directly responsible for helping to raise over $100,000 dollars yearly.

Oversaw technology function during annual silent auction event raising over $700,000 in one evening. Assistant Vice President of Infrastructure Services 2002 - 2007 Republic Indemnity - Encino, CA

Recruited as Director, and quickly promoted to AVP. Defined and implemented a technology roadmap and best practices for this $365M workers’ compensation insurance company. Led technology support team of 21 and managed $11M annual budget.

Delivered $1M in cost savings over 5 years by optimizing the IT Department and built alliances with business partners to promote consistent cost savings.

Accomplished $70K yearly cost savings by cutting desktop maintenance in branches by 70%. Implemented a Citrix desktop environment that sped the delivery of applications resulting in a reduction in force for the claims clerical area, saving an additional $100K annually.

Established SOX change management for infrastructure.

Performed a successful internal and external SOX audit the first year and every year after the SOX guidelines went into effect.

Implemented the company’s first security policy, reducing business risk.

Reorganized groups and IT staff into single effective team with common objectives.

Instituted new performance standard and training programs for the entire company, enhancing overall technical competency while increasing customer satisfaction within the entire company.

Promoted to AVP by demonstrating my abilities to deliver projects with high return on investment

Instituted and completed a Technology Refresh program for existing hardware and software within two years with zero business interruption.

Designed and installed disaster recovery center reducing recovery time from three days to 12 hours.

Designed and deployed new AIX infrastructure in two months to support new IBM Content Manager solution. Migrated data from existing system to new system with no downtime.

Planned and migrated 450-node Novell and Windows NT infrastructure to Windows 2000 Active Directory, enhancing overall stability of environment by reducing support calls by 50%.

Saved $300K by reducing leasing costs for business computing platform. Manager, Information Technology Operations 1998 - 2002 Meridian Health Care Management - Woodland Hills, CA Established and managed the on-going optimization of 12 member IT services team, including: data center operations, desktop computing, network infrastructure, security, asset management, telephony and technical support. Planned, tracked and monitored all aspects of multiple, simultaneous projects, managed risk assessment, issue resolution and change management initiatives.

Reduced Claims Administration expenses by $7.5M, by instituting an EDI and scanning system.

Designed and implemented a highly available multi-platform infrastructure environment.

Defined strategy and collaborated with development team to create new applications, successfully transitioning company to an Application Service Provider (ASP).

Instituted standards and best practices for technology deployment, optimization and support.

Successfully transitioned company from AS/400 mail system to MS Exchange, and rolled out MS Windows server and desktop environment.

Network Administrator 1995 - 1998

Underwriters / Swiss RE - Woodland Hills, CA

Solely accountable for designing, implementing, optimizing and administering LAN/WAN infrastructure to enhance delivery of services to 350 users.

Researched, evaluated and deployed new technologies to support business growth. Analyzed and resolved all hardware, software and networking issues.

Established relationships with vendors, including contract negotiations and pricing. EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

Education:

Platforms:

Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, University of Phoenix - Woodland Hills, CA

All MS Windows Operating Systems, AIX, Linux, OS/400 Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile Project Management Software: MS SQL, MS SMS, MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Access, Citrix, Adobe, Sequel 400, Quadrant FastFax, Lucent BCMSVU, IBM Domino, Checkpoint Firewall-1, Microsoft Active Directory 2000, Boomi, IBM Content Manager, IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM Portal, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Storage Manager, Exigen Content Management / Workflow Systems VMWare, Tessitura Software, Nutanix

Hardware: AS/400, PC Desktops, BCC Tape Library, IBM Netfinity Servers, Extreme Networks Switches, Cisco Routers, Xylan Switches, Lucent G3R phone switch, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries, Network Appliance Storage Systems, IBM Tape Library Systems, Dell Servers, HP Switches, SonicWall Security Products, SonicWall Wireless Solutions, Xirrus Wireless Solutions, Nutanix

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