Management Project

THOMAS W. STANLEY **** Avalon Ct, Cumming, GA, ***41

770-***-**** acec19@r.postjobfree.com

VICE PRESIDENT OF IT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

IT Operations & Infrastructure Design / Full Lifecycle Project Management / Strategic Planning & Execution

Highly motivated, results-driven leader with more than 20 years of IT experience planning, developing, and

implementing cutting edge solutions and systems to achieve corporate objectives and goals. Extensive background

in data warehousing, needs assessment, process improvement, cost reduction, purchasing, inventory

management, and vendor relations. Hands-on expertise within Oracle and systems performance tuning increasing

productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Adept at c ost accounting, production scheduling, crisis/risk

management, staff development, and recruiting. Effective communicator with strong team building skills and ability

to coordinate cross-functional teams to meet critical deadlines.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Leadership & Motivation Startup, Turnaround, & Restructuring Situations W eb Design & Consulting

IT Strategy & Security Network, Database, & Systems Administration IT Risk Management

Deployment & Migrations Budgeting, Expense Control, & Cost Analysis Regulatory Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2013 – April 2014

Sterling InfoSystems, Marietta, GA

Leading global provider of background screening. Based in New York, NY.

VICE PRESIDENT, IT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Manage datacenter technology operation and infrastructure for mission critical busi ness systems. Responsible for

Database Services, Network Services, Platform Services, Service Operations Center (SOC), Technical Support,

and Help Desk. Tasked with developing change control process.

2006 – 2013

LEXISNEXIS, RISK SOLUTIONS (FORMERLY CHOICEPOINT), Alpharetta, GA

Leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in legal, risk

management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets serving 100 countries with

more than 18K employees worldwide. Acquired Choicepoint in 2010.

VICE PRESIDENT, INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS

Manage datacenter technology operation and infrastructure for mission critical business systems. Direct 200+ t eam

members encompassing Database Services, Network Services, Platform Services, Computer Operations Center

(COC), Technical Support, Help Desk and Facilities supporting three data centers with $25M operating budget and

$19M in expenses. Communicate extensively with customers, business unit leader s, and technology colleagues.

Recruited by Choicepoint as Senior Director of Unix Systems and rapidly promoted to AVP Database Services,

Senior Director of Data Center Operations, and finally VP of Infrastructure Operations.

Built shared services model establishing change management, SLA management, and alerting.

Consolidated purchasing and contracts to improve pricing and reduce support costs.

Saved more than $8M by reducing overall support costs and transitioning to “replace from inventory” model while

reducing total outage time.

Led architecture transition post acquisition – High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) requiring division

reorganization into functional team while supporting legacy products. Consolidated 50K sq. ft. of data center

down to 10K sq. ft. and expanded back additional 10K sq. ft.

Transitioned to commodity, high performance servers and rebuilt Ethernet network within data center to core -

edge cell isolating storage network traffic. Moved servers to Linux to provide consistency and established server

pools in inventory to consolidate purchases and reduce costs.

Insourced mainframe support from IBM Global Services to Reed Elsevier Technology Services (RETS) saving

millions of dollars in support costs. Then replaced with open source systems.

Consolidated 28 SAN islands in 1 SAN and added 2 petabytes of storage.

Relocated Disaster Recovery (DR) from SunGard to private company data centers reducing RTO from 26 hours

to 3 hours.

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Designed and assisted within implementation of software solut ion that automated quarterly auditing of employee

access of corporate resources for compliance.

Developed and implemented inventory system of data center assets (CMDB).

2005 – 2006

BELL SOUTH, Atlanta, GA

Largest communications company in the Southeast United States providing wireless service, high speed internet access,

local/long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services.

TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT (TIA)

Provided internal infrastructure compliance and standardization con sulting. Managed cost accounting and

programs to assure compliance with corporate standards and management/reporting for global company.

Led project to replace existing call rating system (SingleView) – critical element within larger “Big Picture” project

of BellSouth. Designed business information reporting architecture for Informatica.

2002 – 2005

LOGICALSHIFT, Atlanta, GA

Small consulting company providing expert IT consulting in infrastructure and ERP deployment.

CONSULTANT

Assisted multiple clients managing database administration, project management, and team building.

SITA (2002 – 2004): Directed migration of 34 databases to Oracle 9i from Oracle 8 deploying Oracle 9iAS

application server improving response times for routing engine.

Merial: Key player within Global IT planning consolidating JP Edwards, Oracle Financials, and other ERP data

into global information data warehouse.

Johnson Controls: Implemented enterprise role based application security spanning Matrix One and other

applications. Managed nine month analysis, design, and development project.

M1Global: Built call center ASP and provided infrastructure. Wrote PI/SQL modules and integrated Vocalocity

and Speechworks. Trained and managed IT staff.

2000 – 2002

MEDCENTERDIRECT, Atlanta, GA

Healthcare cost management service provided across Internet serving more than 1,700 sites across the states. Awarded

2000 Smithsonian/ComputerWorld Technology Honors Program and 2001 eAward for Best Private-Large Company.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Led design team and hired 40+ IT professionals. Designed processes for deploying catalog data and completed

ERP deployment in first six months of tenure. Managed vendor relationships, construction, deployment, and

operations of data center by Apache/iPlanet, BEA Weblogic, and Oracle. Increased customer satisfaction from

unacceptable to 95% rating by increasing system performance and efficiency. Collaborated with DBA and Systems

Administration teams to optimize and maintain 24x7 data center. Implemented Veritas Cluster on HP XP 512.

Prior tenures included:

VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY, TACTICS, INC., Atlanta, GA

CONSULTANT ORACLE DBA, M AXIM/LOCKHEED, Atlanta, GA

ORACLE DBA, SOLVAY PHARMACEUTICAL, Atlanta, GA

PROJECT M ANAGER, COMBUSTION ENGINEERING PROCESS AUTOMATION BUSINESS, Atlanta, GA

SENIOR PROJECT M ANAGER, MEASUREX, Cincinnati, OH

SERGEANT, U.S. AIR FORCE, Honorable Discharge

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE, OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY, Kankakee, IL

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Member, TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA (TAG)

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