Taron L. Hart, MBA, PMP

Houston, TX 281-***-**** aczckn@r.postjobfree.com

Senior I.T. Manager

Project Management

Team Leadership

Staff Training/Development

Strategic Planning

Client Relations

Change/Risk Management

Process Improvements

Contract Negotiations

Could Computing and SaaS

DR Planning

Experienced professional with proven success in global technology environments.

Strong ability to build and lead teams that meet and beat established goals and expectations.

Demonstrated skills in developing and implementing processes and procedures that increase business efficiencies.

Extensive knowledge in organizational design and restructuring. Adept at analyzing and securing data.

Strong ERP background, primarily in JDE Enterprise One and SAP Magic.

Expertise in overseeing projects from concept to completion to ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-quality delivery. Well-versed in disaster recovery and business continuity.

Major Projects using PMI Processes

Data Center Migration and New Building Infrastructure

Worked with System Engineering, IBM Admins and Telecom to move and migrate system to new Data Center

Worked with Electrical Engineers to layout power needs for new Data Center, Data Center Experts to ensure security, A/C and other environmental were done properly.

Scheduled all work and kept Sr. Exec Management informed of the progress and any potential risk.

ERP Infrastructure Implement for JD Edwards One World

Worked with internal and external groups to ensure the proper systems were in place for a smooth migration to a new ERP platform.

Scheduled all work and budget, while keeping Sr. Exec Management informed of the progress and any potential risk.

Telecomm Circuit Migration

Scheduled all work with the telecomm vendors (AT&T and CenturyLink) and in-house staff to switch the circuits. Additionally budgeted and kept IT Sr. Management informed of the progress and any potential risk.

P2V (Physical to Virtual) Implementation of the server farm

Scheduled the work with System Engineering to virtualize ~90% (150 servers) of all servers to VMWare.

Scheduled all work and budget, while keeping IT Sr. Management informed of the progress and any potential risk.

Exchange migration

Scheduled all work (including server implementation) and coordinated with the end user community the timing of migrations. This was for a 2000 to 2003 migration, a 2003 to 2007 and a 2007 to 2010.

Career Progression

Etown Media, Inc Baytown, TX Nov 2016 -

Director of Customer Services

Worked with various customers to ensure their business goals were being met by their business systems. Engaged with Manage Service Providers to have minimum disruption to the clients.

Worked with CPA firm to complete the migration to Azure Cloud.

Worked with a client to evaluate franchise proposals.

TETRA TECHNOLOGIES The Woodlands, TX 2003-Nov 2016

Manager, Global IT Infrastructure (Apr. 2013-Nov 2016)

Oversee company’s global infrastructure, help desk, business applications (i.e. ERP, Microsoft Enterprise Agreement), human resources, and supply chain functions. Supervise three IT managers plus system engineering group, telecomm, and help desk supervisors who ensure daily company infrastructure operational tasks. Develop and direct $9M annual IT Infrastructure budget. Establish strategic plan to use technologies to improve business processes, determine project goals, and supervise employee workloads. Devise and promote multiple IT infrastructure strategies to senior management. Serve as IT lead in corporate due diligence of acquisitions and divestitures. Integrated IT Infrastructure of companies that were purchases between $20M and $824M. Used VMWare for easier server provisioning, backups and disaster recovery and MS Azure Hybrid Cloud strategy.

Instituted ticket monitoring process with new software to improve help desk response time and allow technicians quicker access to remote systems. Increased end users’ satisfaction from 72% to 90%.

Design, implemented and support for Azure Cloud for approximately 20 Test Bed Windows server and Office 365 pilot.

Successfully converted telephone systems to Cisco allowing central control, decreasing long distance charges, simplifying system maintenance and standardizing company soft phones reducing costs by changing from traditional to SIP circuits.

Led IT integration of newly-secured Compressor Systems, Inc. into TETRA environment.

Secured change management, KPI metrics and SLAs resulting in 99.95% uptime on numerous infrastructure assignments including WAN/LAN, server farms, phone systems, e-commerce and ERP system.

Negotiated deals to lower annual spend by more than $350K annually.

Manager, IT Infrastructure (Nov. 2006- Apr. 2013)

Directed daily schedules, workloads, training, and coaching of 16 IT professionals. Decided all aspects of $7M annual department budget. Approved invoice payments and prioritized projects. Implemented a strategy to use project management methodology within the Infrastructure team to integrate companies in an effective manner. Selected as member of IT project management organization.

Instrumental in acquiring three new companies into network within eight months.

Managed construction, implementation, and launch of a $1.5M data center.

Merged four diverse groups into one team through mentoring, coaching and developing leaders.

Senior Systems Engineer (Mar. 2003- Nov. 2006)

Managed 17 local and 20 remote servers using Windows 2000. Maintained security patches for all Windows based systems. Designed documents on installing servers and best practices. Led exchange migration project. Set best practices to manage Microsoft Exchange server. Used cost justification model to execute purchasing decisions.

ABITIBI CONSOLIDATED/CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL AND DONOHUE INDUSTRY Houston, TX 1996-2003

Principle Information Systems Engineer/Network Systems Manager

Interviewed, hired, and supervised up to seven contract employees helping with LAN. Completed annual performance reviews and helped staff improve performance. Created and managed three-person help desk for up to 800 users. Served as lead LAN administrator and security support of important systems and office networks. Administered Windows 2000/NT servers, Lotus Notes, and various Microsoft Back Office products. Built and aided nine remote nationwide facilities.

SAP Magic implementation of the sales and manufacturing modules. Ensured hardware and infrastructure support to meet the needs of the system. Worked to ensure development and training systems were operational during the duration of the project.

Developed and implemented Windows 2000 rollout for 300 desktop clients

Technology Proficiencies

Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2003-2012, Linux

Cloud Services:

Software:

Azure, AWS, Sales Force, Infor Work Brain

VMware, Citrix, MS SQL 2003-08, MS Exchange, LANDesk, MS IIS, C, FORTRAN, LANDesk

Hardware:

Dell, HP and CISCO Network Switches, CISCO Routers, Trustwave Firewall and Intel servers

Education and Certifications

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY- Master of Business Administration

LAMAR UNIVERSITY, Beaumont, TX - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Certifications

PMP – Project Management Institute, #2013877

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