Lannes Lambert

**** ******* ****** **. #***, Lakeland Florida 33803

Phone: 440-***-**** Email: acxw62@r.postjobfree.com

IT Director/IT Manager/IT Architect/IT Project Manager

IT Infrastructure Management Enterprise Architecture & Strategy Project Management IT Team Mentoring and Management

Senior IT Management Professional & visionary with 33 years of work experience and documented record of strong and decisive leadership in Project Management, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Operations Management & Deployment, Business Process Improvements and Techno-Commercial Operations. Proven ability in translating business needs into strategic IT solutions. Track record of success in proactively developing and executing operational strategies to ensure enterprise’s security solutions through management of the organization’s IT professionals. Proficient in establishing an enterprise security stance through policy, architecture and training processes. A resourceful, result-oriented professional possessing a unique blend of expertise in maintaining project tasks and schedules whilst managing IT architecture, identifying potential problems and recommending alternative solutions; Strong team player with expertise in recruitment and selection of quality IT personnel and mentoring teams towards peak performance.

Experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies using MS Visio and MS Project to develop timelines, work break down structures (WBS), risk plans and communication plans. Extensive experience in using MS SharePoint to integrate all aspects of Project Management.

Areas of Expertise

Vendor Relationship Management

Budgeting and Cost Control

IT Team Mentoring

Multitasking in Fast-paced Environments

Detail driven and Strong Analytical Abilities

Articulate Oral and Written Communication

Quick Problem Resolution and Decision Making

Client Relationship Management

Exceptional Presentation and Negotiation

Team Building and Management

IT Infrastructure Management

IT Assets Management

Global IT Delivery and Project Management

Enterprise Systems Planning and Integration

Business Process Re-engineering

IT Projects Management

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

Change Management

Vendor Development and Management

Operations Management

Professional Experience

Colorado Boxed Beef

Apr 2015–Current

The organization deals in protein goods and has an employee strength of 600 employees 17 locations around USA

IT Manager

IT Manager responsible for Infrastructure, ERP and endpoint systems in the corporate Datacenter with a staff of 6 fulltime employees.

Hired to replace previous IT Manager during a Datacenter move and WAN provider switch. Required cleaning up communications contract and rebuilding SAN and Switching Infrastructure.

During tenure Managed the design, configuration and installation of a new Corporate HQ that also included a new large warehouse permitting the merger of several of the locations.

Also during this time, Managed the installation and configuration of a new Datacenter Core Nexus Switch, New SAN from Pure Storage and another from HPW 3PAR.

Worked on Acquisitions of new companies as they were acquired doing IT due Diligence and integration planning.

Was responsible for rebuilding the internal staff to support the systems in place as well as the systems being planned.

Managed the upgrade of the Cisco VOIP system for the entire company at the 17 locations, Including new call routing and groups.

Managed the transition to an enterprise Agreement with Microsoft and migration of select systems to Office 365 to include new SharePoint and Skype for Business.

Eaton, Beachwood Ohio (Randstad)

Aug 2013–Feb 2014

The organization deals in electronic goods and has an employee strength of 150000 employees

Security Operations Manager

Management professional, entrusted with the task of managing the build out and organization of the Global SOC. Responsible for project management in a contracting role. Designing SharePoint project page as well as operations page for the SOC. Worked directly with Eaton Network Security personnel as well as IT Operations management in a Matrix Organization. Used Microsoft Office, SharePoint, MS Project and Visio daily to produce Project definitions, communications and Schedule. Developed RACI Charts for SOC development, MS Project Schedules and Project documentation and communication all tied together through MS SharePoint. SOC built upon Qradar SIEM using SharePoint workflow and documentation capabilities to log, document and status threat response.

H.C. Starck, Euclid Ohio

Feb 2010–Aug 2013

The organization deals in refractory metals such as Titanium, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Niobium, Platinum and has an employee strength of 3000 employees

Global IT Infrastructure Manager

Technically savvy professional, entrusted with the overall responsibility of infrastructure and the IT staff management in Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, UK, Germany and China; Managing a team of 10 reports globally with budget & planning responsibility for the US, China, Japan, Germany and UK. Reporting directly to business leaders (CEO, CFO, COO & VPs) for business needs assessment and procurement of resources. Charged with responsibility of capital & expense budgeting of more than $4M per year for the entire infrastructure group; Served as both the architectural and technological review board manager for the establishment of design standards & procedures for infrastructure and review of planned future technology movement. Handling recruitment of quality personnel to serve technology needs.

Major Contributions

Successfully managed infrastructure responsibility entailing Firewalls, Routing, Switching, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Windows Servers, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Windows XP and Windows 7, McAfee Antivirus and Sophos Proxy.

Played a key role in completing projects pertaining to US Defense Network, Workforce Mobility Project, Global Video Conferencing (Polycom HDX), Global Wireless (Aruba), Microsoft Exchange Implementation, Global Microsoft Lync Implementation, Global Microsoft SharePoint Implementation, Global Tablet Rollout iPad and Windows, Mobile Device Management (Mobile Iron) for Smart Phones and DR Project within scheduled timeframes and stipulated budgets.

Lead US Global Datacenter Design and Migration Designed and led project to create the primary US Datacenter and migrate core services to the location. Primary DNS, VPN, Exchange, SharePoint and US Defense Data

Lead SharePoint Global Implementation from collection of business requirements through design, implementation and Operations. Received Global Accolades for SharePoint project design, implementation and governance.

Recipient of bonus as acknowledgement for end results and approval for requisitioned budget by the Board.

Appreciated by both the board and investors.

Professional Experience

ITT Cleveland Motion Controls, Ohio

Apr 2004- Feb 2010

ITT Corporation is a global manufacturer diversified in many different segments.

IT Manager

Entrusted with managing all IT Infrastructure for the Controls division, encompassing plants throughout the US, China, Germany, UK. Managed staff of Six System Administrators globally, whilst holding IT budget responsibility. Responsible for all Project definitions and Management. Worked with internal staff as well as outside contractors and colocation staff on various projects

Major Contributions

Successfully designed and established division’s network security using Checkpoint Firewalls centrally managed in Cleveland after moving it from a co-location facility.

With expertise managed all of the WAN/LAN routing and switching.

Achieved success in the implementation of WAN acceleration using Riverbed technology.

Played a vital role in the migration of the division from a Windows NT network to a Windows 2000 network with active directory.

Efficiently upgraded the companies email infrastructure to an in house Exchange 2003 based email system with remote spam filtering and anti-virus detection.

Designed and built the divisions central Data Center

Commended by the CIO for accomplishments and selected as member of Global IT Council.

Selected to participate in many projects of global significance with 600 global IT employees and the council numbered 20.

On boarding of several acquisitions with one in UK and one in South Carolina.

Professional Experience

Ohio Online, Cleveland, Ohio

Dec2002-March 2004

Director of Operations

Spearheaded the Hosting Center, Infrastructure and IT operations. Managed all facets of all IT functions and Technical personnel. Acted as a point of contact for customer assistance and project work orders. Steered a team of talented technical staff consisting of Graphic Artists, Programmers, Network Technicians, System Administrators, Network Security and Database Administrators.

Major Contributions

Upgraded and managed the global infrastructure and services of many customers.

Successfully handled technologies such as Lotus Notes – MS Office XP/2003, Windows 2003 Server, Cisco Layer 3 switches and routers, Checkpoint Firewalls, MS SQL, MS RRAS/PPTP/L2TP VPN, IIS/FTP/DNS/DHCP, Windows 98/XP Pro Linux/Solaris, Trend Micro Central Anti-Virus Server, Dell, HP, SUN and IBM Hardware and Helpdesk.

Directed Datacenter Operations in two company data centers hosting many clients.

Project Accomplishments

US Defense Network: Managed a team to design and build a separate US Defense Network that protected the data as required by law as defense related data were sitting on a global MPLS network that was connected to many foreign countries. The MPLS was not fire-walled at the local sites

Workforce Mobility: Project entailed concept to connect endpoints to the network wirelessly both in offices and at home and deliver real content. This introduced the ability to work from home seamlessly and walk through the facilities and always be connected to the data securely.

Global Video Conferencing (Polycom HDX): Brought about a reduction to less than half in travel budget and phone conferencing costs, using already existing infrastructure that was rebuilt. This project also immeasurably enhanced communications between locations since they could all now be face to face.

Global Wireless (Aruba) facilitated the ability to use wireless to access the network in the facilities as well as homes. This was one of the infrastructure stages to support Workforce Mobility.

Microsoft Exchange Implementation: This project was brought on by the need to have defense email segregated from the German controlled email system in use and the desire to move from Lotus Notes to Exchange. This system delivered all email to locations in the US and utilized a completely separate domain from the German base of the company.

Global Microsoft Lync Implementation: This project permitted desk to desk video and all of the document sharing and white boarding that the WebEx pay system did to further reduce communication costs on a monthly basis.

Global Microsoft SharePoint Implementation: This project was brought about through careful analysis of many different pain points within the company and with the requirement from business leaders to try and find tools that addressed multiple short comings and not separate tools for each problem.

Global Tablet Rollout iPad and Windows with Smartphones: This project was a piece of the overall concept of Workforce Mobility. Contributed to enhancing customer satisfaction and gaining access to data in places and in ways that not many could do at the time.

Mobile Device Management (Mobile Iron) for Smart Phones: Established a platform other than BES to manage the raft of new mobile devices that were hitting the market. Determined that mobile iron was an easy to use option that would allow a little flexibility and still provided the security the company required.

DR Project: Enabled replication in real time to successfully implement disaster recovery for the organization.

North American Data Center: As a global company HC Starck was very German centric and only wanted data stored in Germany. This scenario is inconsistent with proper design and resulted in much latency and failures. The US organization saw the need to fund and develop a North American Data Center that could be used to geographically distribute applications and safely store data. There was $350,000 budgeted to develop a global datacenter in Ohio. The build out included New Power Generation, Gas Fire Protection, In Row Cooling and Power Protection/Filtering. This center would be at a minimum used to geographically disperse the application and data used by the Fabricated Products Division. This center would also be an integral part of the Disaster Recovery Process.

Prior Experience

AIT USA, Cleveland, Ohio 2000-2002

System Administrator

Classic Auto Group, Mentor, Ohio 1998-2000

IT Director

Midwest Web LLC, Painesville, Ohio 1993-1998

Vice President

Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Perry, Ohio 1980-1993

Systems Analyst/Database Admin/LAN Technician

Technical Skills

Hardware

HP, Dell, Acer, Apple & Microsoft Tablets, Laptops, Desktops and Server Platforms; SAN – EMC, Hitachi, HP, Dell, NetApp; NAS – HP, IOMega, Synology, WD; Tape Backup Systems (HP, Overland etc.); SmartPhones – Apple, Windows, Android; Routing & Switching – Cisco, HP; Security – CheckPoint, Cisco, Juniper; Wireless – Cisco, Aruba

Software

Operating Systems – Server thru 2012, Desktop thru Win8, Linux; Mobile Device Management – Mobile Iron, Exchange, BES; Tape Backup – Backup Exec, Arcserve; Image Software – Acronis, Ghost, Altiris, LANDesk, MSSC

Microsoft Office Suite (all); Visio, MS Project, SharePoint 2010, IIS, DHCP, DNS; MS Exchange thru 2010; MS Lync 2010; Adobe PDF, CS; Anti-Virus – Trend, McAfee, Avast; CAD – AutoCAD

Certifications

Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator; Checkpoint Certified Security Expert; MCSE 2000, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Inactive); MCP, Microsoft Certified Professional

Education

Lakeland Community College 1980-1984

Professional Affiliations

Microsoft ITAC (IT Advisory Council), MS TechNet

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