Statement of Purpose
I possess a solid background in nonprofit, for-profit companies and turnaround of information technology departments, and am seeking a position with a growth-oriented, forward thinking, progressive organization, which will utilize my abilities and knowledge to the fullest extent.
Summary of Qualifications
Twenty years of professional IT experience
A true IT visionary and student of the technology industry. Have repeatedly and consistently led the project competition in the adoption of new technology and application of new techniques while minimizing risk. Widely recognized by employees, peers, management, and consultants as an expert authority on technology matters.
A strategic business partner, who, working with business unit heads, can help create an IT business strategy and discover how to best leverage technology. Have made board-level presentations.
Active Member of the Information Technology Group
Employment History
Connection Property Management,Inc Lanham, MD
Director Information Technology, 3/2005 – Present
Managed all IT Departments operations, application and network security/monitoring; which included software/hardware, deployment, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of systems, network devices, application and databases
Managed IT Departments Help Desk, environment ensuring network and systems uptime and maintaining response time to a minimum
Develop and maintain the IT Departments operating budget, approve IT purchasing, expense, acquisition, development, and implementation, configuration, testing and managing consultants and vendor.
Managed department personnel performance evaluations, and mentoring, development of company wide training
Managed written policies and procedures, disaster recovery plan, disaster recover plan and security systems planning
Managed and developed National Conferences network setup, configuration of commuters, printers, routers, hubs, remote access, audio/video and support.
Establish and maintain IT/companies vendor’s contact management database system, software licenses management database, services and maintenance contracts
National Urban League, New York, NY
Director Information Technology Services, 3/1999 – 2/2005
Direct staff management of systems administrator, network administrator, desktop support technicians, application support, application development team including a corporate project manager, business analysts, system analysts, programmer analysts, and programmers
Project managing staff, relationships with end users to senior management, managing expectations of the end user community, timelines, budgets and training
Leadership of all enterprise development, testing, implementation, and support initiatives for ERP implementations and upgrades
Evaluation, recommendation, selection, and implementation of technology solutions, vendors, business partners, solution providers and ensuring that all technical infrastructures conform to corporate demands and standards
Managed IT operating budgets
Provided leadership in defining and implementing information technology plans and strategies; establish policies, standards and controls for IT operations and oversee the maintenance of networks and systems.
Bankers Trust, New York, NY
Management Information Systems, 11/1997 – 3/1999
Acted as primary interface between IS and customers, review operational concerns to determine cause and recommend or take action to solve.
Designed, planned, installed and maintained Infrastructure hardware, software, and operating systems including servers, hubs, switches, wiring, printers, workstations, RFs and terminals, etc.
Assisted in requirement definition, analysis and design of new and enhanced computer systems.
Determined hardware and software requirements; assisted with evaluation, selection, approval, ordering, planning and installation.
Coordinated system security and prevent unauthorized software access to Company computing resources.
Maintained and administered the LAN systems and participated as part of the Project Management Team Leader Group.
QUALIFICATIONS / EDUCATION
Polytechnic University – MS Information Technology Management - Present
Lacrosse University - Bachelor of Science 2001; Summa cum Laude; GPA: 4.0.
PSI Institute& Technology - Certification Electronics/Computer Science; 1989;
CERTIFICATIONS: MCSE, MCP, PMP, A+, HP, Ricoh, Cannon, CPM, ARM, RE