Information Technology Manager

Career Accomplishments

Graduate of the US Army’s Primary Leadership Development Course.

Achieved a 100% success rate in meeting suspense dates as an Action Officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff while working in the National Security Agency.

Designed and implemented the complete infrastructure from ground up of Eclipse Resources. Including telephony, networking and server platforms meeting all sensitive deadlines successfully.

Awarded The Jostens Leader Award in Recognition for results in development and implementation of the online tool for Jostens Printing and Publishing’s School Annual application.

Oversaw enterprise level upgrades to the State College facility of Jostens Printing servers to Microsoft Windows 2008 Server platform, this also included Kodak’s Prinergy (VDP) system which streamlined workflow and best practices, leading to a significant cost savings.

A key member of the Jostens Printing Workflow Management Team participating in redesigning the complete workflow for the entire Jostens printing division, streamlining production and saving countless man hours and costs.

Keynote speaker as subject matter expert for network security for International Quality and Productivity Center conferences.

Information Technology Professional

A proven IT Professional with a history of excelling as a leader in technology and resolving sensitive concerns affecting business operations; patient, methodical and consistently exceeds expectations. A Highly motivated individual who works hard to inspire others; has been in the Information Technology field for over 25 years and has acquired a vast amount of knowledge in that time.

Professional History

Information Technology Manager

Eclipse Resources

April 2013 –March 2016

Manager over the Information Systems Department and Site Administrations at the State College PA and Zanesville Ohio facilities of Eclipse Resources.

Managed and mentored a staff of 14 IT Professionals, including Network and Telephony Engineers as well as Help Desk analyst and Supervisors.

With the Accounting team assisted with establishing Sarbanes- Oxley (SOX) policies and procedure for Eclipse Resources as they became public in 2014 achieved 100% compliance during tenure.

Administered and supported 51 mission critical Window Server 2012 r2 using VSphere production servers and peripheral devices to include a NIMBLE storage array and Dell M1000e Server Chassis with ESXi hosts and full time on call service.

Created Local and Wide Area Network equipment to include Cisco (P.o.E) Catalysts switches. Working with Level 3 as the ISP set up VPN connection with multiple sites for Eclipse Resources, to include main production office in Zanesville Ohio.

Implemented from start to finish a new Cisco UC VoIP system removing legacy phone system to create large scale cost savings.

Faculty/Computer Systems Instructor

York Technical Institute

January 2012 –April 2013

Plan and instruct several subjects of Information Technology using a wide variety of teaching aids and motivational implementation strategies.

Employ differentiated teaching methods, incorporating kinesthetic, audio and visual activities that address all learning styles in order to engage students in active learning.

Assess mastery daily review and/or revise lesson plans and provide individualized instruction to keep all students at expected skill level.

Create class programs, monitor learning process and tailor course materials to the levels and needs of individual students, which will ultimately allow students to become employable and technically proficient.

Create soft skills leading candidates to become highly developed IT Professionals.

Develop educational technology curriculum for delivery in classroom.

Information Systems Manager / Systems Administrator

Jostens Printing and Publishing

January 2003 -February 2012

While in Technical Advisory Council and Workflow Management Team I designed procedures that streamlined the entire production operations, creating a large cost initiative savings.

Managed all Domain Controllers, File and Print Servers along with Active directory and peripheral authentication platforms for two separate on-site domains including storage duplication and enterprise level tape devices.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) onsite Champion, achieving 100% compliance during tenure.

Administer and supported 22 mission essential production servers and peripheral devices to include an Isilon storage array with full time on call service, achieved 0% downtime over 7 years.

Maintain Local and Wide Area Network equipment to include twelve Cisco 3750G Catalysts switches, Verizon DS3 communication platform and Cisco 2800 series router and network security with around the clock support saving critical production assets from any down time.

Corporate Field Support Manager

Fleming Companies/Core-Mark Intl

January 1998 -January 2003

Responsible for managing and supporting technicians for the East coast Divisions of Core-Mark Intl.

Maintain and support 6 facility’s Domain Controllers, File and Print Servers and Windows 2000 Server platform along with Active directory.

Manage communication to all divisions of Fleming Companies, using Frame Relay via T1 through CISCO Routers and HP switches with ISDN backup.

Establish and maintained wireless network system for warehouse inventory tasks, which streamlined the warehouse management system.

Technical Administrator

Delta Health Systems

January 1994 -January 1998

Support and maintain Local and Wide Area Network.

Maintain over forty desktop computers as well as twelve servers to include both Primary and Backup Domain Controllers.

Design and maintain Disaster Recovery Plan.

Order equipment and maintain hardware and software inventory.

Implemented hardware and software products at customer sites for development team.

Watch Officer/Action Officer/Team Leader

National Security Agency (NSA)/ United States Army

June 1985 -June 1994

Supervisory Watch Officer, responsible for supporting a crisis action cell in the Office of Operation for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the National Security Agency.

Achieved a 100 % success rate in meeting suspense dates as Action Officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Working under The Department of Defense, responsible for the operations of a CRAY-Y-MPE8E and its associated peripherals.

Participated in both Operation Just Cause (Panama), and Desert Storm (Gulf War) while serving in the 704th Military Intelligence Battalion.

Team Leader and Paratrooper while in United Nation Peace Keeping Force in Israel and Egypt while serving in the 82nd Airborne Division.

Served as a Team Leader while in the United Nations Multinational Forces in Egypt and Israel.

Education

Duquesne University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs

Certification, Telecommunications

South Hills School of Business

MCITP, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Wave Technologies International

Windows Core Administration, Microsoft Certification

U.S Army Computer Training Center

Computer Operations, Computer Systems Operations

Primary Leadership Development Course

Primary Leadership Development, Leadership/ Management

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