Mike Brearley

IT DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT / DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT / PROJECT MANAGEMENT / DISASTER RECOVERY

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Lawrenceville, GA 30044

Data Center Management / Contingency Planning & Business Continuity /Disaster Recovery planning /Integration & Implementation / Vendor Management / Outsourcing Management / Project Management / IT Department Management / Infrastructure / Professional Services / Managed Services / IT Service Management / Business Analysis-Technical requirements gathering / Telecommunications / LAN/WAN / 10 years of Department (CapEx and Opex) budget experience managing budgets over $5m / 15 years IT Project Management experience / 30+ years IT experience

An Information Technology professional, offering 25+ years’ experience in IT Department Management, IT project management, IT Infrastructure Systems, Department Administration, Vendor Relationship Management, Data Center operations, and Call Center management.

Although I do have some knowledge with CMS, HTML, Content Development, UAT, and QA, I am mainly an IT Infrastructure Project Manager/Logistics Project Manager.

Specific project management expertise in Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery planning, IT Infrastructure, and Data Center operations, and Logistics Planning.

Key skill areas:

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, and Emergency Response programs.

IT Department Management

IT Infrastructure Management

BS - Computer Science, Salford University, Manchester, UK

CBCP - Certified Business Continuity Professional, DRII License# 44372, Jan 2016

US Work Status: Green Card

Career History

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Infinite Computing Systems (Client: City of Hope, Duarte, CA)

04/2022 – 4/2023

Project Manager with responsibility for miscellaneous IT infrastructure projects, mainly involving data center migrations or consolidations. Last ICS project: PM for a technical team of 7 SMEs for the Expansion of VDI User Base and Optimization in an Imprivata / VMWare environment supporting Citrix endpoints for the healthcare EPIC application.

Consultant IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Knightsbridge Enterprises LLC

10/2020 – 03/2022

Knightsbridge Enterprises is an Atlanta, Georgia, based contract consulting services company, specializing in information technology, IT infrastructure, data center consolidation & relocation, and business continuity & disaster recovery planning.

Recent Contract assignments included:

2022 Credit Union Data Migration – Project Manager – Accenture

1/2022 – 4/2022 Client: FiServ, Alpharetta, GA

Joined an IT project team working on the contract Accenture has with their client Fiserv for the migration and consolidation of Credit Union core application systems over to Portico (a Fiserv core CU application system)

2021 Customer Service Improvements - Project Manager – Capgemini

10/2021 – 11/2021 Client: Hexion, Toronto, Canada

Joined an IT project team working on the contract Capgemini has with their client Hexion (chemical manufacturer) for the implementation of IT service improvements.

2021 Data Center Migration – Project Manager – Cognizant

7/1/2021 –8/31/2021 Client: FiServ, Alpharetta, GA

Joined an IT project team working on the contract Cognizant has with their client Fiserv for the migration and consolidation of the First Data application systems into Fiserv (because of the acquisition of First Data by Fiserv)

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

American Cyber Systems (Client: Axis Capital, Alpharetta, GA)

05/2019 – 09/2020

ACS is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been a trusted partner to mid-market and enterprise clients.

Contract position to manage IT infrastructure projects in the New York, NY, and Alpharetta, Georgia office locations for Axis Capital (a global insurance firm).

Developed and implemented new IT infrastructure in consolidation of NY facility from three floors down to two floors.

Managed Vendors in the integration of new Audio-Visual systems in the NY office teleconference rooms.

Relocated IT infrastructure at the Alpharetta location to a newly constructed building and upgraded desktop systems from Win7 toWin10.

Spearheaded selection and implementation of a new building Badge Access Security system and a Room Booking system including concierge function for equipment provisioning and catering services.

VP - IT Disaster Recovery

Synchrony Financial (Alpharetta, GA)

05/2014 –03/2019

Synchrony is one of the largest issuers of store credit cards in the United States.

Served as Senior member of the IT management team responsible for the Synchrony Financial Disaster Recovery Program.

Defined a new IT application Disaster Recovery plan format.

Led the contract staff augmentation team in transitioning the GE Capital Retail Division IT application DR plans to the spin-off company Synchrony Financial.

Reformatted and transitioned more than 240 IT application DR plans into ServiceNow Knowledge Articles within a12-month period.

Conducted third-party Supplier DR Assessments.

Conducted Disaster Recovery assessments for the Data Center, spanning Application Recovery Plans, Training Program, and Governance including policy, process & procedures, and OCC Compliance.

Worked on the IT team for the project to define and configure systems in the proposed co-lo data center to be designated as the alternate Disaster Recovery data center.

Senior IT Consultant

Accretive Solutions (Client: Pulte Group, Inc, Atlanta, GA)

12/2013 – 05/2014

Pulte Group, Inc. is a home construction company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the 3rd largest home construction company in the US.

On contract from Accretive Solutions, a staffing services firm, serving as IT Project Manager for Pulte Group's corporate office relocation project.

Led all IT relocation and integration activities in relocation of the corporate office from Detroit, MI to Atlanta, GA.

Implemented the Audio-Visual and VOIP phone systems, multi-function copier machines, Security system, and MDF/IDF equipment rooms.

Senior IT Facilities Manager - North America

Suntrust Bank (now Truist-Merger with BB&T), (Atlanta, GA)

08/2012 –10/2013

SunTrust Bank is the largest subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, Inc., an American bank holding company established in 1891 in Atlanta, GA.

Served as Project Manager to develop MOP and SOP documents for the bank’s two data centers and “brick and mortar” facilities. Responsible for the Facilities Maintenance of all North America locations.

Senior IT Consultant

Knightsbridge Enterprises LLC, (All Accounts in Atlanta, GA)

03/2009 –07/2012

Knightsbridge Enterprises is an Atlanta, Georgia, based contract consulting services company, specializing in information technology, IT infrastructure, data center consolidation & relocation, and business continuity & disaster recovery planning.

Contract assignments included:

IT Infrastructure Project Manager at Reed Business Information, a provider of data and analytics, managing infrastructure integration projects following the acquisition of AccuityBankers.

Data Center Site Preparation Manager for QBE First, a large company providing insurance agent and broker services, managing all data center migration activities for the physical build-out of a 2,000 sq ft co-lo data center hosted by QTS Metro.

Senior Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery consultant at SITA Aero, a multinational Information Technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry.

Conducted technical facility and systems audit & evaluation of “Next Generation Data Center” (NGDC) project.

Served as Team Leader to develop naming standards for NGDC servers and network devices (in a LAN/WAN/VLAN network environment)

Analyzed and evaluated the Disaster Recovery program.

Developed application migration process and procedures documentation for Migration Project Managers.

SITA – Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques. SITA is a multinational information technology company specializing in providing Information Technology (IT) and telecommunications services to the aviation community.

IT Services Manager – North America

AGCO Corporation (Duluth, GA)

01/2007 –11/2008

AGCO is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of smart solutions for sustainable agriculture.

Director-level manager responsible for all IT infrastructure and data center operations for 12 North America locations including the Corporate Office, eight Parts Distribution Centers, and three Manufacturing Plants.

Served as operations liaison with IT outsourcer for Data Center operations, LAN/WAN management, telecommunications (AT&A, MCI), IT procurement, and IT infrastructure.

Evaluated effectiveness of the HP/EDS IT outsourced services and developed solutions to improve services.

Developed significant improvements in Data Center infrastructure and implemented a three-year project plan to upgrade and replace ~300 WinTel servers across five data center locations, switching from Dell to IBM servers.

Earlier Career:

1.Information Technology Consultant - Harbor Resources, 07/2003 – 01/2007. Provided IT infrastructure consulting services, specializing in business continuity & disaster recovery planning. Projects included:

Cingular Wireless

Senior Project Manager for the “Phase 1” planning and implementation of a $60M full-deployment Emergency Response Program.

Lead Project Manager within the “Customer Care & Billing” department’s IT PMO group.

InComm (aka US South Communications)

Acting Director of Merchant Services for a 24x7 Tier-1 call center with 100+ agents.

Interim Director of Engineering

2.Director of Information Technology – ADP

3.Director of Technical Services - S1 Corporation

4.Information Systems Manager - Rugby Building Products Inc

5.Software Development Manager - Data General Corporation

6.In my early career after graduating college, I worked primarily on IBM 370 mainframes. I programmed in COBOL, Assembly language, Fortran and worked with CICS, and IDMS and ISAM data file systems

Professional Affiliations:

CIS Advisory Board – Former Chair 2016-2017, Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta, Georgia.

Member of the Southeastern Continuity Planners Association (SCPA)

Member of the International Disaster Recovery Institute (DRII)

Member of the Atlanta Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Key Skill Areas

Technology Leadership / Budget Management / Windows migrations /

MS Office Suite (esp. MS Project) / Visio

Consulting / Business Analysis (e.g., Requirements) / Integration / SDLC /

Team Leadership / Facilities Management / Purchasing / Warehousing /

Waterfall Project Management / Technical Writing / Documentation / Logistics Project Planning

The following are examples of the types (by category) of the projects I have successfully led in the role of Project Manager

MIGRATION PROJECTS

GE Capital Retail (Alpharetta, GA)

Disaster Recovery Project Manager for the data center project of the applications migration from GE Capital Retail data center to the GE spin-off Synchrony Financial data center. Developed all application DR plan documentation.

SITA (College Park, GA)

Infrastructure and Data Center Operations consultant on SITA’s (www.sita.aero) data center migration / relocation project

QBE First (Atlanta, GA)

Data Center Site Preparation Manager on QBE First’s (www.qbefirst.com) data center migration project. Responsible for the management of all activities for the physical build-out of a 2,000 sq ft co-lo data center hosted by QTS Metro in Atlanta, GA

DATA CENTER/INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

ADP (Alpharetta, GA)

As IT Infrastructure Project Manager for the build-out of a new application payroll service Data Center facility for ADP in Alpharetta, GA, I selected the subcontractors for the provisioning of the physical requirements of the new data center (e.g., data center build-out, HVAC, electrical, data cabling, equipment cabinet/racks, etc.). In addition, I selected the moving vendor and personally supervised the equipment move from a data center in Michigan down to the new location in Alpharetta, GA, to “seed” systems for the new data center. Systems for (3) production payroll clients (Fortune 100 companies) were moved. Successfully performed this over a weekend with no issues. All detailed tasks were defined in a standard “waterfall’ Project plan using MS Project.

Also, IT Infrastructure Project Manager role for the high-level systems infrastructure architecture design and implementation of ADP’s Enterprise HRMS/Payroll application in an ASP Data Center environment. This is a web-enabled Java software application, which runs in an N-tier infrastructure. The Data Center LAN/WAN/VLAN infrastructure consisted of Cisco networking systems (i.e., routers, switches, PIX firewalls, NetRanger Intrusion Detection System), EMC Symmetrix SAN with a Connectrix fabric switch, IBM xSeries Windows application servers, Sun Solaris (Unix) Oracle database servers (Sunfire E-series), and IIS web servers.

Security First Technologies (S1) (Atlanta, GA)

IT Infrastructure Project Manager: Designed, implemented, and managed, for S1 an $11M Data Center for the development and support of a client-server Internet banking application written in C++ using Informix RDBMS on IBM AIX, HP/UX and Linux Unix servers and utilizing Cisco LAN/WAN networking systems.

Data General (Norcross, GA)

Project Team Leader for the relocation of the Data General’s regional office data center systems to a new office location. This involved 20 Data General Mid-range minicomputers plus 10 high-end UNIX systems each with Clarrion RAID disk storage systems. I defined the data center floor layout in the new facility for the placement of the computer equipment and supervised the relocation activities by movers on the day the relocation took place.

BUSINESS CONTINUITY/DISASTER RECOVERY PROJECTS

ADP (Alpharetta, GA)

Project Manager for the design and implementation of a DR plan and testing procedures for ADP’s ASP / Managed Services payroll Data Center for which I designed both the DR plan and testing plans. The DR plan is comprised of the following documents:

1.Executive Overview (high level pre-sales DR overview for prospective clients)

2.Summary (DR plan introduction overview for internal staff and clients)

3.Emergency Management Team procedures

4.Data Center DR plan

5.Help Desk BC plan.

AT&T Wireless (Formerly Cingular Wireless) (Alpharetta, GA)

Senior Project Manager for the Cingular Wireless “Phase 1” planning and implementation of a $60M full-deployment business continuity / disaster recovery Emergency Response Program. Effectively planned the facilitation and organization of a full wireless equipment deployment “hurricane emergency response” exercise conducted in Tampa, FL

Company Name (can’t name, I signed an NDA)

DR Project Manager for a Harbor Resources client for the development of a technical DR plan for a Georgia-based casual clothing retail company with 8 store locations. The DR plan called for logistical steps to reconstruct a LAN-based POS and office retail management system at a backup location. The POS application was Microsoft Retail Management System (RMS) running under Windows NT/2000 on IBM xSeries servers with MS SQL Server databases. Each POS terminal was configured with a cash drawer, bar code reader/scanner, and a receipt printer. The main office location housed a central database and email server.

Synchrony Financial (formerly GE Capital Retail) (Alpharetta, GA)

Project Manager for the implementation of IT Disaster Recovery plans documentation using ServiceNow software at Synchrony Financial

OFFICE RELOCATION PROJECTS

Pulte Group (Atlanta, GA)

IT Infrastructure Project Manager for the relocation of Pulte Group’s corporate office from Detroit to Buckhead (Atlanta). This involved implementation of the following: Audio-Visual system, VOIP phone system, multi-function copier machines, Security system, and MDF/IDF equipment rooms.

Rugby Building Products (Atlanta, GA)

IT Infrastructure Project Manager for the relocation of the corporate office of Rugby Building Products. I worked with all the service providers to successfully accomplish this move of around 30 office staff plus 4 executive level managers. This involved: cubicle layout plan, ordering furniture, planning parking space designations, transport of office materials and PC computers for the staff, relocating the computer room equipment, installation of HVAC systems, provisioning voice/data circuits and cabling, installation of the PBX phone system and the building security system.

Axis Capital

IT Infrastructure Project Manager for Axis Capital for the following:

a.New York location

IT infrastructure for the Office floor consolidation project (3 floors down to 2 floors)

Vendor management for the implementation of the new Audio-Visual systems in the teleconference rooms

b.Alpharetta location

Office relocation of the IT infrastructure from one building to a newly constructed building in Alpharetta

Desktop systems upgrade from Win7 toWin10.

The selection and implementation of a new building badge Access Security system

Room booking system that includes concierge function for equipment provisioning and catering services.

APPLICATION PROJECTS

Data General (Client: American National Can, Chicago, Il)

Project Manager for a client of Data General’s Professional Services division for the development and implementation of a customized Plant Control System (PCS) for American National Can, an international aluminum drink can manufacturer. Specific PCS subsystems developed: Inventory Control System, Quality Control/Quality Assurance System, and Conveyor Line Control System, which utilized analogue-to-digital real-time process data sampling. Developed detailed programming specifications and led the development team and coordinated systems testing, user acceptance, and implementation.

Rugby Building Products (Atlanta, GA)

Project Manager at Rugby Building Products for the implementation of a Warehouse Management and Inventory Control/Quality-Assurance Control system for a Building Materials Wholesale Distributor comprised of 12 branch warehouse locations. The computer system is a high-end centralized Unix server running the 4GL/RDBMS Progress-based Trend Warehouse Management and Distribution package from R&D Systems. It supports remote users via a TCP/IP network using Micom routers and multiplexors over a frame relay network.

*InComm (Atlanta, GA)

IT PMO Project Manager at InComm for the development and implementation of pre-paid cards system (e.g., wireless, gift cards, Visa). Project tasks include project planning, task assignments and coordination, facilitating status meetings with merchants, vendors, and business partners.

AT&T Wireless (Formerly Cingular Wireless, Alpharetta, GA)

Lead Project Manager within the Cingular Wireless “Customer Care & Billing” department’s IT PMO group. Successfully managed multiple concurrent customer billing projects in accordance with SDLC guidelines and with SOX requirements using both PMI and Six Sigma principles.

*Rugby Building Products

IT Infrastructure Project Manager at Rugby Building Products for the evaluation, vendor selection, and implementation of a PC-based EDI/VAN order processing and invoicing system. Three vendors were considered: Advantis (IBM), Kleinschmidt, and Sterling. The Sterling Gentran system and Sterling VAN was selected and implemented.

*Data General (Client: United Airlines, Chicago, Il)

Systems Designer for a client of Data General’s Professional Services division for the development of a Document Imaging System utilizing a multi-drive Optical Disk Jukebox. The system tracked reservations billing information for a national airline. The systems environment consisted of several networked UNIX LAN-based servers. The software application was developed in C.

*Data General (Client: Texaco, Houston, TX))

Project Manager for the systems implementation team for a GIS systems integration project for a Texas-based company that was involved in an oil exploration project in South America & Central America. The system involved Document Imaging of a variety of physical paper documents that are indexed and tracked in a library database. I designed the Oracle database structure and developed schema definitions. Led the development of UNIX scripts for system implementation, release upgrades, and patch application.

Data General (Client: American National Can, Chicago, Il)

Project Manager for the conversion of a Materials Requisition Planning (MRP) application being converted from IBM CICS/COBOL using IDMS to DG Screen COBOL using DG/DBMS in a client/server environment.

TELECOMM PROJECTS

These projects were specifically involved working with telecomm (i.e., telecomm vendors)

AT&T Wireless (Formerly Cingular Wireless, Alpharetta, GA)

2006: Senior Project Manager for the Cingular Wireless “Phase 1” planning and implementation of a $60M full-deployment business continuity / disaster recovery Emergency Response Program. This was done before the acquisition of Cingular Wireless by AT&T. Effectively planned the facilitation and organization of a full wireless.

Equipment deployment manager for a “hurricane emergency response” exercise conducted in Tampa, FL

2003/2004: Project Manager for the implementation of the software application “Prospect”. This application processed cellular transaction data used for data analyst to monitor communication link performance and capacity and predict future growth and determine upgrade requirements.

In my roles as IT manager, with the following companies, I was responsible for working with the telecom vendors for the oversight of the provisioning and implementation for data and voice circuits and on-premises networking equipment: -

1.AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA

2.ADP, Alpharetta, GA

3.Security First Technologies, Atlanta, GA

4.Rugby Building Products, Atlanta, GA

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