Senior Director, Information Technology
Resume:
Kevin F. Derby
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www.linkedin.com/in/kderby
IT Executive
Track record of developing technology roadmaps, reducing expenses, and improving IT efficiencies
Lead strategic technology planning and management to effectively support growth
Professional Summary
Accomplished IT Executive with extensive professional experience in information technology, infrastructure and application architecture, business development and solutions delivery for global multi-client and multi-vendor operating environments. Proven leader with extensive experience in highly complex and demanding environments including of Data Center Management, 24/7 Operations, Cloud technology, Help Desk, Business Continuity, and other technology practices supporting IT Management. Additional areas of expertise include Negotiation, Contract and Project Management.
Lead strategic technology planning and management to effectively support rapid growth. Directed the ongoing transformation of global engineering and operations into a more efficient delivery system. Mentored and managed high-performance team of IT professionals.
Background Experience
Virtualization
Client Executive
Enterprise Operations
Data Center Operations
Team Leadership & Motivation
Global Delivery Services
Resource Management
Cloud Technology
Global Team Management
DC Build-out & Office Relocation
P&L Management
Technical Project Management
Vendor Management
Cross-Functional Delivery
Performance/SLA Management
Architecture & Engineering
Professional Experience
Bullhorn, Boston, MA 2015 – Present
Senior Director, Information Technology
Serving as IT Delivery Executive and partnering with the Sr. VP of Global Infrastructure and the CTO to transform the existing organization to better suit a global engineering & operations model; recruit and maintain top talent and provide high quality service & support to all users worldwide to fulfill those goals.
Led the IT group through the company’s most significant growth phase, quadrupled the employee base; including the successful acquisition, onboarding, and integration of 7 geographically dispersed companies within the job search technology sector. These companies were sized between 12 and 160 employees, with locations in India, England, Australia, and the US
Scope and maintain global operations with a 2.4MM budget and do so within a 5% delta for existing costs and services. Implement a per-user cost model, allowing for a clear employee-to-spend quarterly growth estimate
Monthly or quarterly business & technology needs reviews with senior management including existing or upcoming product or service introductions and/or evangelization
Responsible for the planning, organization, and execution of several complex office relocations (Sydney, Hyderabad, London, and Brighton), as well as a full relocation of the Boston headquarters in 2016, that resulted in only a single weekend of downtime
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Senior Director, Information Technology, Continued.
Negotiated several multi-million-dollar Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, including consolidation of licenses & billing for all acquired companies.
Oversee global architecture & engineering leadership of a global team of 14 individuals, including several managers and team leads who install, support, and maintain a heterogeneous environment of cloud-based and on-premise solutions & services. These include, but are not limited to: Office 365, Google G-Suite, Slack, SharePoint & Nintex, Interact Intranet, Hyper-V & VMWare virtualization, vRanger backup & recovery, Cisco networking & wireless, PFsense firewall, Evolve & CloudCall telephony, and Zoom online conferencing services
Design strategies for integrating disparate corporate/enterprise technologies, such as purchasing/ ordering technologies, HR onboarding with on premise and cloud-based systems, and various information systems’ cross-functionality and interaction
Nuance Communications, Burlington, MA 2013 – 2015
Senior Manager, Corporate IT Infrastructure & Operations
Provided leadership and architecture & engineering guidance to an expanding global team of 4 managers, and their 12 individual contributors, who designed, installed, and managed a 3,000+ servers & device environment.
Recruited and staffed a dedicated Operations Management team, including a 3-person first-level response team in Pune, India
Revamped the existing change & incident management framework, to more effectively handle technology implementations and updates, as well as priority issue ownership, handling and resolution
Successfully developed and implemented a central, global asset management tool to identify, capture, and report on servers & devices, warranties, and lifecycle management
Refined existing metrics & KPI packages, for more effective planning, budgeting, and upstream reporting to senior staff and management
Led the first stages of planning a shift from disparate server rooms & scattered technology pockets to a regional data center model, focused on continental hosting centers and least-hop service delivery
Liberty Mutual, Boston, MA 2008 – 2013
Manager, Asset Management Infrastructure & Client Services
Managed a team tasked with the architecture, implementation, and ongoing operation of all servers, storage, and end-user services used to support the operation. Worked with Senior Management to develop and execute short- and long-term technology vision and execution strategies, related budgeting, and vendor/VAR relationships.
Supported a multi-location server & storage environment that houses all asset management and data processing & reporting systems
Oversight of a multi-person Client Services team that focuses on Lenovo workstation & laptop hardware management, along with desktop applications deployment & inventory management
Managed the design, implementation, and semi-annual testing of a disaster recovery plan that allows the Investments group to continue processing data & supporting its end users within hours of activating the remote site
Successfully managed a 13-month-long effort for the initial specifications, design, construction & implementation of all infrastructure to a brand new, multi-million-dollar on-site data center. The project was completed ahead of schedule, under budget, and with nearly zero downtime to production operations
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA 2007 - 2008
Regional Manager, Microsoft Practice New England
Macromedia, San Francisco, CA 1998 - 2007
Senior Manager, Messaging & Web Services
Education
Bachelor of Applied Science, Electronics Engineering Technology, ITT, San Diego, California
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