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C: 678-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/drewragan

SENIOR STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY LEADER

Strategic technology executive offering accelerated record of viable solutions impacting organizational capability and performance; noted for harnessing leading technologies to accomplish core business goals. Application development and infrastructure leader who motivates teams to top achievement.

• Decreased phone system costs by over $100,000 a year by Implementing a new phone system with benefits that have increased productivity while lowering the need of IT support. This includes vendor contract negotiations which resulted in the initial cost of the new phone system to be covered with no out of pocket expenses.

• Increased productivity, performance and revenue by successfully managing multiple IT Projects.

• Saved Bradley-Morris over $50,000 a year in travel costs by implementing enhanced communications between our nationwide offices using Video Conferencing.

• Achieved real-time feedback to marketing and end users of client actions by working with Marketing to integrate our CRM and other systems with our Marketing systems.

• Reduced the IT Expenses & gained quicker recovery as part of the DRP by converting our virtualization from VMWare to Hyper-V.

• Reduced recovery time from 4 days to 2 hours by designing, implementing and maintaining a Disaster Recovery Plan that will potentially save the company from catastrophic downtime.

• Initiated a Task management system that resulted in better communication and increased productivity from the team. This kept all stakehoders in the loop on project status.

• Increase revenue at Bradley-Morris by over $250,000 a year by using qualitative and quantitative techniques to discover numerous ways to improve current systems.

• Increased productivity by 25% by mentoring and coaching employees.

• Saved Bradley-Morris over $5M a year in revenue by enhancing infrastructure performance and increasing uptime to nearly 99.9%.

• Saved Purchasing Alliance Solutions over $600,000 in consulting fees by quickly gained expertise in the company's CRM.

• Increased sales and reduced costs by cutting manual quoting process time by 80% through design and implementation of a new automated quoting system.

• Recovered over $2.5M in unaccounted commissions due by spearheaded the design and build of a commissions accounting system with enhanced reporting.

• Fulfillment of Core Business goals, working in concert with the C-Suite to identify systems availability, security, and communication priorities within the IT budget, using ROI analysis for new solutions.

• Top industry reputation for technology utilization with real-time data analysis

• Drastically improved the IT departments response time and reputation by utilizing the best in class leadership skills. DREW W. RAGAN

IT Governance Emerging Technologies IT Leadership ROI-Focused Projects Sharpening Efficiency & Bolstering Growth as Executive Driver for Core Technology Upgrades Leveraging Emerging Technologies Maximizing Vendor Relations & Contract Negotiations System Integrations / ETL Spearheading Business Process Reengineering Creating Highly Available, High ROI Systems Facilitate Decisions via Business Intelligence SDLC, Waterfall and Agile Disaster Recovery Planning Team Building / Leadership Information Technology Strategy IT LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS IN ACTION

VP of Information Technology 06/2014 to 03/2017

Bradley-Morris Kennesaw, GA

Transformed the IT department within the first few months. Developed an IT strategy designed to increase sales and business process efficiency, and lower costs and company risk. Built and managed a highly effective team of employees, vendors, and service providers. Reporting to the CEO, responsible for all information technology budgeting, vendor negotiations, and business intelligence. Responsible for the IT Budget, task management and delegation, and IT staff mentoring and reviews. VP of Information and Security Technology 02/2009 to 05/2014 Purchasing Alliance Solutions Marietta, GA

Lead all IT operations, including purchasing, budget and structure. Conduct performance reviews and record results. Prepare and deliver reports and presentations on IT issues for CEO and VP of Sales on Demand. Train employees on system use, workflow procedures, and technology policies. Manage employees in connection with IT functions. Manage outside vendors and consultants as needed. Served as the HIPAA compliance officer. Worked with marketing and the VP of Product Development to align new products concepts with corporate technology and corporate strategic goals. Director of Information Technology 02/2006 to 02/2009 Purchasing Alliance Solutions Marietta, GA

Managed all information security to follow HIPAA Compliance guidelines. Advise the CEO and other executives on advanced technology solutions. Began serving on the Executive Management Team. Met with client executives to determine client needs, project requirements, and feasibility; translate the needs into technical requirements. Established high functioning lean IT department to quickly respond to internal and external IT support requests. Bolstered system performance through design and development of new Electronic Data Processing system by leveraging expertise with Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. Oversaw all areas of Infrastructure.

Information Technology Manager 02/2003 to 02/2006

Purchasing Alliance Solutions Marietta, GA

Continued to improve and expand the Commissions Tracking Application. Gained expertise in the companies CRM and digitally integrated the Commissions Tracking System with the CRM. Increased system uptime from 80% to over 99% by implementing new Hyper-V virtual servers/DFS with no downtime. Developed and deployed corporate software and apps to employee's mobile devices for streamline corporate use and uniformity.

Application Developer 08/2002 to 02/2003

Purchasing Alliance Solutions Marietta, GA

Spearheaded major, year-long initiative to plan, design, build, and implement an ETL commission database system utilizing SQL databases and ASP.Net, including data analysis reporting that recovered more than $2.5M in "lost" commissions. Provided some end- user desktop support.

Master of Business Administration/Information Systems - Park University Bachelor of Science in Management – Park University United States Coast Guard, Electronics Technician - 1997 – 2001

• Good Conduct Award

• Meritorious Team Commendation: March 1999

• Letter of Appreciation: January 2000

• Meritorious Team Commendation: August 2001

• Meritorious Team Commendation: October 2001

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