THOMAS BAUSENWEIN CISSP, PMP, ITIL

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IT LEADER PROGRAM MANAGER SECURITY ADVISOR

CORE COMPETENCIES

Strategic Infrastructure Planning Project Management Regulatory Compliance Vendor Relationship Management Network Architecture and Engineering Contract Negotiation

Customer Requirements Identification IT Service Desk Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visual Edge IT 2022 – Present

Business Technology Advisor

New Business Development

Contract Negotiation

Relationship Management and Client Retention.

Client Infrastructure and Security Assessment.

Cybersecurity Advisory.

Project Management

Performed Quarterly Business Reviews to ensure customer satisfaction

Performed annual road mapping of infrastructure

Reviewed vulnerability and PenTests

Created POAM for client security roadmaps

Point of Escalation for all support issues

Educator, Motivator of IT offering and Security of copier reps to produce leads

JANUS Associates

Senior vCISO Specialist 2021-2022

New Business Development

Product research selection for vCISO Service offering

Create Test plans for assessments

Performed Client Audit and Assessment – NIST, CIS, MARS-E

Project Management

Create and Maintain client budget

Edge Technology Group, New York, NY 2017- 2021

VCTO

Strategic Infrastructure and Security advisor to the C-Suite for 20 Hedge fund clients

Project/Program Manager

Maintained disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Review and maintained policy and procedure manuals.

Participated in tabletop incident response exercises

Completed investor DDQs

Created and maintained infrastructure road map for clients

Created and maintained annual budget

Conducted Quarterly Client Review to ensure Client Satisfaction

Client success advocate and point of escalation for Projects, Support, Network and security.

Tech 54, Ridgefield, CT 2014– 2017

Independent Consultant- Network, files server, backup, spam filter and firewall configuration and administration. Business development and account Management.

Desktop, Server, Network and firewall refreshes

Network administration.

Security awareness training.

Reduced risk and support costs by migrating client email to Office 365

Researched and implemented DNS Filtering

Managed Services (Monitoring, Patching, Spam filtering and Virus Scan)

Boosted data security by implementing online backup

Empire State Realty Trust, New York, NY 1996 - 2014

(Real Estate Broker Dealer, Construction, Legal)

IT Director / Strategic Program Manager 2006-2014

Led and mentored a IT service operations and infrastructure team of 6 IT professionals that supported 400 users. Performed needs analysis, researched alternative solutions that best aligned technology to meet the strategic needs of the business. Managed projects, created and managed the annual budget

Saved the company over a $1,000,000 in datacenter construction cost by migrating applications to the cloud

Saved $500,000 by negotiating a multi-year contract for the Yardi Voyager Contract.

Reduced filing space by 50%, increased access by 60% and secured original documents by implementing an imaging solution

Implemented SharePoint for better departmental collaboration.

Established technology strategy for the new open office floor plan that maximized collaboration and increased information flow

Maintained service levels, bolstered morale and saved $100,000 of consulting costs by implementing additional compensation for exempt support staff during the IPO transition

Ensured expeditious remediation of audit gaps by establishing accountability for identified issues and proactively communicate status updates to upper management

Increased security, decreased bandwidth utilization and provided business continuity/disaster recovery by implementing a cloud email bridgehead solution.

Managed FINRA audits and created remediations plans for the broker/dealer operations (which raised capital for building purchases and Mezzanine loans).

Network Operations Manager 1999 - 2006

Network design and administration, staff supervision and review. Network, Email and Firewall administration, Chaired the quarterly Information Technology committee

Negotiated a 30% discount on hosted phone service and corporate profit sharing on all tenant installations

Reduce spam by 95% by implementing a spam filter solution

Reduced storage by 40% by granting end-user read only access to their email archive and enforce storage limits

Enabled Enterprise mobility by upgrading to Microsoft Exchange and implementing mobility solution

Bolstered security, increased desktop performance and reduced cost by migrating to a more memory efficient virus scan software

Eliminated maintenance downtime by identify and implementing an email business continuity solution

Satisfied regulatory retention requirements by implementing an email archive solution

Enabled centralization of accounting by implementing Citrix and Yardi Enterprise.

Network Administrator 1996 - 1999

Infrastructure Design and Engineer. Network, Server, Email, Backup and firewall administration.

Enterprise infrastructure Architect that upgraded and replaced all servers

Implemented networked internet access

Enabled intercompany email communication by upgrading to Microsoft Exchange

Increased accountability and reduced response time by implementing Issue Tracking system

EDUCATION

Baruch College, CUNY New York, NY

BBA Marketing

President of the Marketing Society

APPLICATIONS SUPPORTED

Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012,2016,2019 Windows 7 Windows 10, Windows 10. Exchange 2010, 2013 Blackberry Enterprise Server 11.0, Mimecast, Sendio, EMC SourceOne, Interwoven, Accuroute, Sharepoint, Checkpoint, McAfee, Norton, WebSense, Eset, Office 2013, Yardi Enterprise, Yardi Voyager, Connectwise, Trackit, Citrix, Timberline, Expedition Goldmine, Lexus Nexus Bridger Tracker, Rackspace and Load Spring, BackupExec, OpenDNS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certified System Security Professional (CISSP)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Information Infrastructure information library (ITIL)

Cisco Umbrella Sales

Dale Carnegie Leadership Certificate

INDUSTRIES SUPPORTED:

Broker Dealer (Malkin Securities - IT Director), Hedge fund private equity, Family office Asset Management (HSBC - IT Manager), Real Estate, Construction, Legal, Health care.

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