Director
Resume:
Ron Pondiscio
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Superior technical knowledge with extensive experience in technology operations, process and program management
Combines strategic and tactical business skills with an ability to plan, organize and lead large organizations
Has served in the capacity of Enterprise Architect, Managing Principal, IT Director and interim CIO
Extremely creative and entrepreneurial personality, has owned and operated a private consulting firm and has designed cellular communication technology that qualified for a US Patent
Employed by Deloitte, one of the “Big Four” firms in the technology management and business consulting division
Public speaker and guest lecturer for various industry events including; VMworld, itSMF, Interop and NAB
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
As a senior technologist, I’m considered a subject matter expert in technology management, enterprise transformation, infrastructure design, process improvement, datacenter consolidation, solutions architecture and system validation. Many of my engagements have been with Fortune 100 Healthcare / Life Science, Financial Services and Media companies. I have also managed global projects with hundreds of team members. Currently managing the Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) organization for Atos and support the global sales team with new business pursuits. Employment
Atos/Canopy Cloud
Global Director SaaS: Responsible for Software as a Service (SaaS) product development in the Cloud Services Division. Global responsibility for presales in the Media & Entertainment Industry. Lead teams of technologists for international sales pursuits and solution architecture. Develop and deliver consulting workshops for clients and employees. Produce Business Cases for new product development. EMC Consulting
Managing Principal: Management oversight for EMC Consulting Cloud & Virtual Data Center, personnel and business operations in the New York and New Jersey geography. financial review, quality assurance, and resource management responsibilities. Also responsible for leading account teams and providing pre-sales subject matter expertise for data center consolidation, virtualization, cloud advisory. NY/NJ division produces annual revenue of $40 million dollars and $140 million nationally. 270 Sparta Ave.
Sparta, NJ 07873
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Vice President / Director – Information Technology Business Technology Executive * IT Swiss Army Knife * Thought Leader Client Engagements
Employment
Metro Energy Solutions
Interim Vice President - Sustainable IT Division: Responsible for developing solutions, advising clients and managing consulting engagements. Working directly with key business management personnel to assess, design, architect and manage implementation of Sustainable Energy solutions for client data centers. Manage business development efforts while providing expertise and guidance to PAW-Print® auditing teams.
EMC Corp
Global Alliance Management: Responsible for solution development and relationship management exclusively for the Deloitte Consulting alliance team. Working directly with global account executives to develop joint go to market business solutions. Support account teams in design and development of custom technology solutions for global customers. Conduct education and partner enablement sessions for Deloitte practitioners. Program, project management and reporting responsibilities for alliance and joint pursuit teams.
Deloitte Consulting
Senior Management Consultant: Responsible for Consulting Project and Program Delivery. Authored 3 white papers on Cloud Data Center Virtualization, Microsoft OS Roadmap and Autonomic Computing.
EMC - Center of Excellence: East coast Program Manager for Business Development and Alliance Management. Primary regional contact for information dissemination, problem resolution and pursuit team development. Working closely with the business development and sales organizations to create go to market solutions and industry offerings. Created and managed executive level dashboards, supported pursuit teams and managed account team relationships
IPsoft, Inc - Eminence and White Paper Development: Responsible for developing industry awareness by creating intellectual property around IPsoft’s unique autonomic remediation service offering. Worked with all levels of staff including the President and CEO to analyze and define the solution value proposition. Edited and contributed industry research on competitive solution offerings. Managed white paper production, advertising agency relations and client copy approvals
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company - Virtualization Business Case Development: Served as the senior management consultant, managing a team of analyst’s and subject matter experts, tasked with developing a data center virtualization business case and migration strategy. Responsibilities include documentation of current state environments, development of baseline financial data model, analysis of financial data, creation of a virtualization feasibility study, development of a migration roadmap and justification of the business case to the CIO.
Utilities, Inc (an AIG company) - JDE Implementation and Financial Transformation: Served as the chief architect and technical advisor for an enterprise wide infrastructure redesign. Responsibilities include; JDE computing architecture design, network redesign, datacenter hosting outsource negotiations, creating information security standards, people, technology and process recommendations, creating the company's technology roadmap and advising on vendor selection.
Citigroup - Process Improvement: Organized and Program Managed an ITIL based global IT process improvement project. Served as a subject matter expert and adviser for multiple project teams working to implement or improve; change management, problem and incident management, request management, service level management, configuration management and release management. Facilitated and taught process improvement workshops. Regularly met with senior level management and managing directors to provide status, advise in decision-making and direct the global program.
Client Engagements
ATI Consulting
Partner – Technology Systems Integrator: Founded and operated this national technology company specializing in project management and infrastructure services. Responsible for Business Development, Vendor Management, Project Delivery, P&L and Back Office Operations.
Johnson & Johnson - Data Center Consolidation: Hired and managed a mixed team of 28 consultants and full time staff. Created the project methodology and developed the process and scope documentation for the PMO. Responsible for organizing and modeling this national data center consolidation project. Managed the implementation and testing of this company’s first VMware server farm. Consolidated or migrated a total of 419 Windows and 43 UNIX servers from 11 national data centers. Project managed a database migration team that successfully migrated 600+ databases in 7 months. This initiative was responsible for reducing the total cost of server ownership by $2 million annually.
Organon Pharmaceuticals - Windows XP and Server 2000 Deployment: Created the project methodology and deployment process. Project managed the design, testing, pilot, deployment and migration phases of this project. Responsible for implementing change and configuration management processes. Negotiated with the departments to define application acceptance criteria and SLA’s. Developed the re-qualification and system validation procedures. Responsible for international communications with the global project team. Reported status of the project and budget to the CIO. Responsible for reviewing and approving all SOP’s and quality documentation.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals - Validated Software Migration: Developed the migration strategies and authored the projects validation protocol. Developed and executed the risk management analysis. Validated the terminal server environment for all legacy applications. My team was responsible for Windows XP compatibility testing and validation qualification of 100+ applications. I conducted software suppliers and manufactures vender audits and authored the projects IQ\OQ\PQ testing requirements.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (Now Pfizer) - Cisco Switched Network Deployment: developed the network risk analysis and created the overall project plan. Project managed the Cisco network design, deployment and migration. Hired and managed a team of 73 consultants and fulltime staff. Facilitated the construction of 15 new data closets and the deployment of 80 miles of fiber optic cable. Financially managed and was responsible for the $9 million implementation budget. Planned and managed the migration of 138 servers and 6000 devices to the new network. Produced monthly progress reports for senior staff and conducted project reviews and audits for the PMO. Created the project validation documents and submitted it to the FDA auditors.
American Home Products - Year 2000 Remediation: Conducted risk analysis and developed Y2K remediation action plans. Managed the Y2K project for the pharmaceutical research and manufacturing facility. Created year 2000 gap analysis for application testing and remediation efforts. Replaced 43 non Y2K compliant Novell servers with 15 new Compaq / Novell 4x servers. Implemented Novell GroupWise e-mail system and migrated 1700 users from cc:Mail. My team deployed 650 new workstations and migrated all user data. Upgraded Cabletron network firmware on routers, switches and hubs. Implemented Novell ZENworks for software distribution and desktop standardization. Served as the PMO for all Intel based computing systems.
American Home Products - Data Center Construction and Consolidation: Developed the project plan for the data center implementation in the corporate world headquarters. Conducted a technology assessment to determine equipment requirements. Managed the construction and controlled the schedule and was responsible for the budget accounting. Designed and Implemented a cybex switch network for the company. Implemented the first change control process used by the IT department. Worked with department heads to organize the server relocations. Migrated 78 servers from 3 other company locations. Implemented server configuration management and conducted performance tuning on new data center network. Other Significant Project Management and Relationship Clients: SYSTEM EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Methodologies: System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) IT Infrastructure Library v3 (ITIL), Unified Modeling Language (UML) Hardware / Systems: Operating Platforms: Windows Servers, Desktops, VMware, HP-UX. Server Hardware: V-block, HP, Sun, IBM. Switch and Router Hardware: Cisco, KVM, Linksys General Tools Knowledge: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project and Project Office, MS Visio, MS Access, Documentum, Part 11 FDA Validation, knowledge of GxP and HIPPA regulations EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
BS degree in Industrial Technology, Minor in Manufacturing Technology from The College of New Jersey Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Certified Network Engineer (CNE)
Project Management Institute (PMP)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Independent Computer Consultants Association Member Cisco Channel Partner
IT Service Management Forum, itSMF
Network Professional Association member
Citrix Solutions Network member
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, HIMSS
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