Director of Information Technology
Resume:
Christopher Grau
Columbia Station, OH 44028
440-***-**** • ******@*******.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Over 30 years’ experience in organization and department management
Strong proficiency in public and private sectors
Integrator of technology with business operations
Established and proven skills in contract negotiation and technology systems
Team leader and motivator
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director of Technology Mar 2023-Nov 2024
Columbia Falls School District, Columbia Falls, MT (Full-Time: 40+ hours)
Responsible for all technology for the Pre-K through 12 School; 2800 Users.
Developed Campus Technology Policy for staff, and students.
Implemented campus Single-Mode Fiber replacement and CAT6 re-cabling project.
Sophos Firewall, Ruckus Switches, Sophos Intercept X and Email Filtering.
Google Administrator
Expanded Hyper-V infrastructure reducing physical servers from 19 to 5.
Designed and implemented network at a remote elementary school to for use by High School classes following a major flooding event at the primary High School
Director of Technology Mar 2018-Feb 2023
City of Rocky River, OH (Full-Time: 40+ hours weekly)
Responsible for all technology for the city including public safety forces.
Redesigned the city network utilizing Meraki firewall, switches, and over 120 cameras.
Designed and constructed Police Department Data Center.
Planned and implemented network Single-Mode Fiber replacement.
Project lead for campus Cisco UC VOIP System design and implementation.
Expanded VMWare infrastructure reducing physical servers from 17 to 4.
Responsible annual department budget of $450,000 to $12.6M.
Director of Technology Aug 2015-Mar 2018
Gilmour Academy, Gates Mills, OH (Full-Time: 40+ hours weekly)
Responsible for all technology for the Pre-K through 12 School; 1100 Users.
Developed Campus Technology Policy for staff, and students.
Designed and constructed campus Green Data Center; Upgraded Campus Switches.
Planned and implemented campus Single-Mode Fiber replacement and CAT6 re-cabling.
Project lead for campus Cisco UC VOIP System design and implementation.
Expanded VMWare infrastructure reducing physical servers from 9 to 3.
Designed and implemented campus video surveillance system.
Implemented MS Azure Cloud Active Directory and Google Migration for all users.
Executed annual department budget of $250,000
Information Technology Manager Dec 2007-Aug 2015
City of Westlake, Westlake, OH (Full-Time: 40+ hours weekly)
Leader of the City Technology Team and Safety Forces.
Integrated all City departments into a single domain environment.
Directed network upgrade with Cisco POE switches and security with VLAN’s
Designed and implemented virtualization in the data center reducing physical
servers from 26 to 7 (VMWare ESXi 5.5)
Authored the City technology policy and five year plan
Updated city safety forces mobile technology platforms
Driver of the Westshore Council of Government’s centralized Fire and EMS dispatch
center CAD system modernization
Standardized Hardware and Software Standards; Hardware and Software Modernization
Created and executed department budget structure with an annual budget of $800,000
Network Administrator Mar 2007-Dec 2007
Weltman-Weinberg-Reiss (LPA), Brooklyn Heights, OH (Full-Time: 40 hours weekly)
Managed datacenter with 86 Dell servers, supporting 9 locations in 2 states
Project lead for electronic mail archiving and engineer team for virtualization project.
Information Technology Manager Feb 2005-Mar 2007
Zaremba Management, Fairview Park, OH (Full-Time: 40+ hours weekly)
Responsible for all technology and phone system for the organization supporting 120 users
Infrastructure of 52 desktop/laptop workstations and 7 Servers across 3 states
Upgraded Windows network from Server 2000 to 2003 with no downtime or loss of data
Facilitated change in telephone and internet vendors realizing a 2 year cost savings of $52,000
Communications/Systems/Network Administrator Sep 1982-Oct 2004
U.S. Coast Guard (Retired), various locations (Full-Time: 40+ hours weekly)
Key Accomplishments
Established centralized helpdesk for the Great Lakes region supporting over 2,200 users
Systems Administrator & Communications Manager for the largest Coast Guard Cutter in Alaska
Regional Systems Administrator and Supervisor for Northeast/Central Florida and SE Georgia
Engineering, designed and constructed data center for Group/Base Mayport Florida
Migrated over 28 locations from Unisys CTOS operating system to Windows NT with no loss
of data or downtime
Lead away team for shipboard systems repair and regional hurricane response
Lead CAT5 and Fiber Optic installer
Held Top Secret and Secret Security Clearance’s between 1984 and 2004
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science: Interdisciplinary Studies: Cognate Information Systems Management:
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, 2016
SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
US Coast Guard Achievement Medal; US Coast Guard Letter of Commendation (3)
US Coast Guard Good Conduct Awards (5 awards)
US Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation; National Defense (2001, 1991)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
-InfraGard (www.infragard.org) – Member 2011-2023
-Disabled American Veterans (DAV) – Cmdr. Chapter #104, Senior Vice Cmdr.
Dept. of Montana
-Ohio County/City Information Technology Association: 2008-2015; 2018-2023
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