KENNETH J. BERADUCE
**** ******* ***** ***** ****, OH 43123
330-***-**** ***@********.***
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL
Effectively Integrating Technology with Business
PROFILE
Highly experienced IT Professional with a record of developing and supporting successful IT projects and solutions incorporating a wide range of applications and technologies. Consistently recognized and tasked by management to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Exceptional leadership that aligns the business processes and IT infrastructure to realize cost savings, accelerate performance, and sustain strategic flexibility for the organization.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Management
NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
Sr. Project Manager (MS Project Online) 5/2017 – 8/2017
Responsible for the design, build and migration of the new NCH Data Center,
Relocation of the Employee Health Department into the main hospital facility
NATIONWIDE INSURANCE (TekSystems)
Project Manager (Clarity / Project Workbench) 8/2014 – 5/2017
O365 Skype for Business and Exchange Project Manager – infrastructure build and rollout to 40,000 associates across the enterprise. Infrastructure included 40 Exchange Hybrid virtual machines and 84 Skype for Business virtual machines.
Desktop Service Automation Project Manager – direction and guidance for the rollout of desktop processes, standards and new user self-shop functions across the enterprise .
BANK OF NEW YORK / MELLON
Project Manager (MS Project) 2/2011 – 8/2014
Responsible for managing large Investment Services projects with duration > 6 months and budget of $1M+
Developed and implemented SharePoint site for project documents designed to follow the SDLC model
Facilitate regularly scheduled team meetings, update and manage Issue / Risk log, create and execute project playbook for migration go-live, provide weekly senior management status reporting
PEROT SYSTEMS, INC., PLANO, TX 12/2006 – 10/2009
Data Center Migration Manager (MS Project)
Client – MedStar Health System – Baltimore, MD
Migration planning and management to consolidate the two MedStar corporation data centers into the Perot Plano, TX Technology Center
800+ Intel / Midrange servers
Client – Catholic Healthcare Partners – Cincinnati, OH
Migration planning and management to consolidate the two CHP corporation data centers into the Perot Florence, KY Technology Center
IBM mainframe and 2,200+ Intel / Midrange servers
Technology Management
CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE PARTNERS, CINCINNATI, OH
Special Projects, Office of the CIO - St. Vincent Health System 8/2006 – 11/2006
Providing leadership for the 3 hospital region in Erie, PA
Development of IT Strategic Plan for the health system
Acquisition due diligence and gap analysis
Special Projects, Office of the CIO - Community Mercy 01/2006 – 07/2006
Providing leadership for the 3 hospital region in Springfield, OH,
Staff of 45 plus 15 consultants in the process of implementing the full suite of McKesson Horizon products
Serve as IT representative on the planning and design committees for the new 300 bed facility
Director, Technical Services 02/2003 – 12/2005
Responsible for the creation and implementation of a consolidated regional data center to support 4 Regional Data Centers within the organization. This effort began with the update to an existing facilities infrastructure, including HVAC, power, wiring and UPS. Once completed, the processing capacity of each of the four data centers was moved into the regional facility while minimizing impact to the user communities. This effort resulted in the consolidation of 800+ Intel and Midrange servers, along with an IBM z800 mainframe, into the facility.
Developed Service Level Agreements for the organization, providing a measurement tool for performance and reliability of the facility.
Research of new technologies to facilitate the consolidation process, minimizing foot-print requirements and enhancing availability and reliability of the processing environments.
Development of the internal and regional organizational structures to support the facilities.
Management of staff responsible for support and service to the regional hospital facilities.
Management of Infrastructure and Network security
ACCESSDATA, PITTSBURGH, PA 10/2001 – 02/2002
Consultant, Lenders Service, Inc
Provided interim executive management leadership for one of AccessData’s premier mortgage processing clients with responsibility for the overall IT function within the corporation. This is a VAX/VMS shop with a Windows NT/Sun Solaris network with a Cisco backbone. Primary duties included:
Managed staff of 50 resources with 3 direct reports.
Managed the Automated appraisal system development team.
Lead the effort to upgrade of the VAX/VMS hardware including systems upgrade, COBOL version upgrade, and installing new systems tools, including TCP/IP and NFS Share.
COMDISCO, INC., CHICAGO, IL 06/2000 – 7/2001
Senior Vice President
Provide executive management strategic evaluation and advice for IT infrastructure
Team member of client negotiation team for a $1.5B outsourcing contract for a Fortune 50 customer.
CAP GEMINI AMERICA, CLEVELAND, OH 03/1997 – 05/2000
Chief Information Officer
U.S. infrastructure and application management for 40+ locations and 4,500 consultants
Centralization and consolidation of multiple data centers into a single processing environment
Expansion of U.S. wide Frame Relay NT network from 5 sites to 40+ sites with 100x volume increases over the period
IT/IS representative on Executive Sponsorship committee for the implementation of a company-wide CRM (Siebel Systems) system to support 150 sales personnel and the corporate management team. My team was responsible for the overall implementation effort from specification design through implementation and training.
Development and implementation of a corporate-wide Life Cycle Management program that included 3,000 seats, 2,500 of them being laptops. Program consistently returned savings of 10-15% per year
Rollout of a corporate-wide HR system to support recruiting and the hiring process.
Successfully completed a full Y2K compliance program yielding zero down-time
Implementation of a corporate-wide help desk program that achieved and maintained contracted SLA goals within 6 months of conception
Merge of two major acquisitions (750+ employees and 10 sites) into the infrastructure on time and without user disruption
Director, Applications Management Practice 04/1994 – 02/1997
Responsible for Sales, Marketing, Solution Development, and Delivery of CGA’s Outsourcing services within the Central Division
Developed and successfully implemented client pursuit plans for each business unit in the division. This included preparation and presentation of proposals to client “C” level management.
Exceeded both Sales (190+% on a $3M goal) and Revenue (300+% on a $1M goal) targets over the period
Developed complete training program for Service Managers within the program, which was implemented across the U.S. divisions.
Small / Medium Business Management
DRS LLC., YOUNGSTOWN, OH 11/2009 – 2/2011
Director, Managed Services
Responsible for Product Development, Marketing and Sales of the new DRS Small / Medium Business Cloud offering rolled out in the Ohio / Pennsylvania area.
Development of marketing materials
Sales presentations, solutions development, contract development / closing, post sales account management
K.J. BERADUCE & ASSOC., YOUNGSTOWN, OH 03/2002 – 01/2003
Owner / Principal
Implementation and support services for small business