Information Technology Director with proven record of success.

FARKHAD KASUMOV

Phone: 832-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Summary:

Information Technology Director with over 20+ years of solid, hands on IT and IS

experience. Enthusiastic, innovative and forward thinker with extensive expertise in IT

Transformation services. Outstanding performer in complex and strategic IT Implementations,

Business Development, Infrastructure and Operations Management, Program and Project

Management. Always partnering and working together with the business executives, constantly

contributing to the bottom line.

Highly proficient in business strategy, process design and improvement, budget

management, Architecture and Implementation of large and complex initiatives, Data Center build

outs, IT Management and Operations, Outsourcing, Insourcing, Consolidations, as well as mergers

and acquisitions.

Skilled in team building, leadership, communications and relationship management, with

exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities. Assertive learner and mentor

with a proactive approach toward enabling business strategies with appropriate technology

solutions.

Experience:

F 1 Consulting Group, LLC, Spring, TX

Jan’10 – present

Practice Director, Server and Storage

Lead IT Transformation efforts for company’s clients.

Extensive International experience, including Data Center build outs, high profile mergers

and vendor management.

Successfully established strategic partnerships that lead to increase in sales revenue by

eighty (80) percent.

Reduced labor costs while improving efficiency, quality and performance of IT

organization by closely aligning with Business goals, and illuminating redundancies.

Effective vendor management and contract negotiations led to sizable reduction in CAPEX

and OPEX for company’s clients both in the U.S.A. and abroad.

Reduced hardware expense by sixty (60) percent by in sourcing Data Centers,

standardizing on hardware, managing storage, virtualization, improving Business

Continuity and Disaster Recovery, while simplifying Network Management.

Sizable hardware reduction achieved by virtualizing physical servers, standardizing

configurations, consolidating applications and retiring outdated systems.

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Phone: 832-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Completely redesigned Desktop support function by defining strategy, implementing

centralized in sourced Service Desk solution, motivating staff and leveraging new

technologies.

Achieved one hundred (100) percent visibility into assets and inventory by implementing

processes and technologies, which improved asset tracking and purchase request processes.

Accudata Systems, Inc, Houston, TX

Jul ’05 – Jan’10

Senior Consultant, Enterprise Platforms

Lead multiple Active Directory and Exchange migrations, forest and organization

consolidations for various Financial and Oil and Gas companies with over 6000 users.

Planned and lead Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity efforts for Financial sector, as

well as Oil and Gas companies

Prepared functional specifications and site proprietary design documentation.

Supported pre sales efforts, to as well as conducted client demonstrations and presentations

Actively delivered and closed new business opportunities

Actively participated in the RFP process, as well as review and preparation of Statements of

Work

Provided training, mentoring and guidance to Enterprise Platforms consultants.

KSF Consulting, LLC, Newton, MA

May’07 – May’08

EMC Global Services, Microsoft Practice, Nashua, NH

Senior Microsoft Solutions Architect

As a Senior Solutions Architect being active hands on member of implementation team,

managed team of four (4) Senior Level Consultants spanning across three large scale

projects, including one international project;

Under budget and ahead of schedule designed and implemented cross platform migration

for large office supplies retail chain. Created a scalable and robust solution to

accommodate 18,500 retail devices and 40,000+ users.

Designed and implemented Novell eDirectory 6.5 to Active Directory migration for a

global transportation company, with a customer base of over 13,000 users and

approximately 8 TB of data.

TriZetto Group, Inc, Boston, MA

Senior Consultant II

As a CareAdvanced deployment engineer, being active hands on member of

implementation team, provided high level planning, deployment and support of enterprise

level solutions aimed at achieving highest security, performance and availability

Performed VMWare ESX 2.5 to VMare VI3 migration

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Phone: 832-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Prepared functional specifications and site proprietary design documentation

Way Systems, Inc, Woburn, MA

Sr. Network/Systems Engineer

As a Senior Network/Systems Engineer was responsible for ensuring that customer facing

environment is in compliance with PCI DSS

Prepared functional specifications and site proprietary design and configuration

documentation

Optimized site architecture to ensure redundancy and business continuity

Cadbury Schweppes, Plano, TX

Jan ’04 – Jun ‘05

Senior Business Systems Engineer (Consultant)

Playing role of a technical lead and being active hands on member of implementation team,

re structured and incorporated multi level IT architecture into Global Active Directory

Enterprise, including cross platform integration and upgrades of existing systems; data and

application migrations and consolidations with minimal impact to business for over 7000

users in 13 countries.

Fulfilled tasks on planning, implementation and post implementation problem resolutions.

Coordinated and guided IT resources for post migration efforts to ensure 100%

compatibility and seamless integration between Cadbury Adams’s and Pfizer’s business

systems.

Under my lead five Cadbury Adams’ manufacturing sites were migrated, including the

largest manufacturing facility in South America, in Puebla, Mexico.

Setup of Production and QA Siebel eConsumerSector application (TRACC) environments,

including installation, configuration and fine tuning, as well as administering during QA

phase.

Prepared functional specifications and site proprietary design documentation.

High Level pre and post site, and migration documentation, application inter dependencies

and site specifics.

Job history prior to 2003 is available upon request.

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Technician Programmer

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