Management Project

William L. Mellott, Jr. ? 203-***-**** ? acc4t5@r.postjobfree.com ?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/wmellott

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Senior Information Technology Solutions and Business Partner - Providing

solutions, strategy, vision, results full cycle, correctly defined, kept on

track and budget in infrastructure and application verticals. Building

strong relationships and partnering at all levels of the organization and

outside vendors - trusted team member, by keeping one foot in management

and the other in technology. Managing and delivering programs, projects and

initiatives from innovative and new to integration with legacy, resulting

in delivering best of class solutions and services, that are cost/budget

responsible (Buy vs Build, RIO, TCO), scalable, and measurable.

IT Strategy / Resource mgmt Local / Offshore - Risk Management /

Architecture Global Mitigation

Implementation Infrastructure / Application Cost / Benefit / Budget

/Delivery Development

Customer Management DR / BCP / Project planning Change / Service

management Management

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt ? PMP - In Process ? Fundamentals of Project

Management ? ITIL V3

. Infrastructure and application design to delivery, local to

international, in 24/7 HA operational environments.

. Consulting to in house corporate IT approach, methods, effective and

efficient solutions, addressing immediate and long term needs and goals.

. Transformation and change agent full project life cycle, process and

people to hands on technology.

. Using experience and engineering techniques and methods to make the

complex simpler - reliable - usable.

PROFESSIONAL Experience

NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC, Westport, CT 2012 - Present

Boutique IT professional services and consulting firm

Principal Technologist - Consultant - partner

Provided full services and cycle IT advisory, planning, implementation -

security, applications, infrastructure, operations, migrations and initial

designs for services delivered (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) from partners, DR and

BCP.

CLUB QUARTERS, New York, NY 2009 - 2012

Hospitality owner/operator of 15 properties in the US and UK; B2B and

global client market focused corporations

IT Director, Development and Implementation -

Hired to drive, update corporate technology services, solutions, quality

and deliverables to next level. Transformed old and past technology

operations into current technologies, efficiency and effectiveness, working

at all levels of organization.

. Integrated with partner supplied application services for processing

customer information, Hybrid internal systems to secure private Cloud

partner (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) providing Oracle based backend for processing.

. Initiated / Led Enterprise VPN/FW/WAN technology global change out;

Reduced costs from $6,000 to $500 per month, achieved first half ROI in

two months and second half in 14 months

. Managed web platform to hosted Rackspace VPC environment, redesign to

open source HTML, PHP for portable environment from WinTel other such as

Unix.

. Developed, designed and deployed Rackspace Cloud-based storage services

(SaaS, IaaS) with real-time sync and security for standards and

requirements essential for international collaboration projects

. Budgeting, vendor/partner research, relationship development, vetting,

and managed services, application and hardware contracts and agreements

(SLA).

. Conceived and drove enterprise Wi-Fi for 15 properties at $75k ~ 45k per

location; addressing client complaints and improved retention and public

reviews. presented case to CEO, Board and VP Finance

NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC, Westport, CT 2007 - 2009

Boutique IT professional services and consulting firm

Principal Technologist - Consultant - partner

Provided full services and cycle IT advisory, infrastructure, operations,

alignment, strategy, vision, business development, impact, risk, DR and

BCP, including planning and execution. Client engagements included:

William L. Mellott, Jr. ? 203-***-**** ? acc4t5@r.postjobfree.com ?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/wmellott

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. UBS Ag - IBD, Stamford, CT - Established business division compliance

with corporate zero % storage growth mandate and realized $150,000+ cost

saving. Collaborated with CIO and business managers; reviewed storage

solutions, managed enterprise applications, costs and requirements

. Boutique Capital Management Firm, Stamford, CT - Led project to expand

business into CT; established technology requirements, evaluated/selected

contractors, negotiated terms, associated budgeting /costs /billing and

implementation. Cloud based storage services, email, and backup for

WinTel platform.

. Mid-Tier Manufacturer, Clifton, NJ and Glastonbury, CT - As Interim IT

Director, worked with CFO and Operations VP to create IT converged

strategy, re-architected infrastructure and performed audits to establish

enterprise compliance. Reduced costs while increasing systems performance

SND Electronics, Greenwich, CT 1999 - 2007

Worldwide commodity electronics components broker/supplier/distributor to

electronics and computer industry

Director of Information Technology - CTO

Reporting to CEO, led corporate IT for global parent with 25 locations and

10+ subdivisions. Provided leadership for technology strategic planning,

budgeting, operations, infrastructure, implementation, application

development, IT project management and data center operations functions.

. Quarterly and yearly security audit with outside audit firm (BDO).

Security policies set for public compliant company and ready for German

AG rating for parent company.

. Increased business competitiveness by directing change out of IBM RS6000

Unix based enterprise ERP trading/distribution/CRM system rolled out

within one month

. Consolidated data center to HQ utilizing SaaS/Web/cloud methods via

Citrix and Microsoft terminal server

. ISO 9000 team for recertification and continued compliance developed

tracking system with controller.

. Improved staff efficiency and training time, capital and operating

expense by centralizing management of IT systems and development; ensured

24/7 availability

. Reduced enterprise annual IT licensing costs by 87% for enterprise

employing Microsoft technology

. Redesigned VPN/Data/Telecom reduced annual costs by 60% using Cisco VPN

WAN technologies

. Negotiated technology SLA agreements and contacts for web, telecomm,

data, software, and third party services

. Modernized legacy Unix applications using secure client / web portal

application SSL/ HTTPS / 128 bit

Network Solutions, LLC, Westport, CT 1995 - 1999

Boutique IT professional services and consulting firm

Principal Technologist - Consultant - partner

Performed complete full service and cycle IT advisory services,

infrastructure, operations, alignment, strategy, vision, business

development, impact, risk, DR and BCP from roll out planning through

execution.

. Delivered complete project management services, coordination, including

in-house resources, contractors, third parties, system design, and

implementation

. Created application solutions, including communications with financial

institutions for real-time loan approvals, credit checking, and other

business processes

. Led full project life cycle implementation of networking systems at

client sites, including requirements gathering, needs analysis, solution

configuration, equipment sourcing, installation, and support

Education

BS, Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

MS, Computer Information Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA - In

Process

CERTIFICATIONS

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

CISSP - Certificate, ITIL V3, MS - MSCE, SQL DBA, Check Point CCSA/CCSE,

Novell - CNA/CNE

SNEC-PMI - Fundamentals of Project Management - certificate

PMP - In Process

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