VP infrastructure, IT

VIJAY S. REDDY

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Professional Experience

Dial Global (Formally Westwood One Radio Networks) – New York, NY December 2010 – Present

Publicly traded Radio Content and Services Company

Vice President, Broadcast/ IT Infrastructure

Manage 12 Broadcast IT resources located at the three network operations centers in New York (CBS Broadcast center), Washington, DC and Culver City, CA. Manage all Broadcast IT operations including critical Dial Global IDC Satellite uplinks, ENCO/Probel/Harris automation systems, Jutel Radioman content management system for CBS Radio News Bureaus in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and London. Manage/provision broadcast center telecom circuits. Management of 20 TB IBM content storage network for Dial Global content products.

Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure

Manage 22 resources across the service desk, networking, telecom, systems, security, regional support, and outsourced data centers. Full accountability of $12.5 million IT Infrastructure budget. Responsibilities including LAN and WAN management and monitoring of 160 instance VMware ESX environment, 225 Win2008 servers, Amazon AWS Cloud services deployment and management, management and support of 19 node national MPLS network with 2500 users, including 3500 telecom circuits supporting video/satellite , ISDN, and broadband and VOIP services. Manage all hub market radio facilities including audio codec and SAT uplinks at NY and LA broadcast centers and manage all perimeter security, web services and audio feeds for nationally syndicated talk shows. Provisioning of telecom for special events for CBS, FOX, NBC and specialty sports and entertainment broadcasts, management of 2 internal and 1 outsourced Data Centers. Management of Sarbanes Oxley compliance and FCC compliance guidelines for national radio network. Preparation and management of $15 million IT budget.

Key results

Successful separation and consolidation of telecom and technology assets sold to industry competitor, reducing operating costs 4 months sooner than expected.

Overhaul of company email, software distribution and anti-virus systems to Exchange 2010 Enterprise, SCCM 2007 and Forefront implementation resulting in a reduction of 2 FTE due to improved systems management

IntegraMed America – Purchase, NY April 2003 – December 2010

Publicly traded $1 billion specialty healthcare services company

Vice President, IT, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Company Officer

Manage the operations and strategic planning, systems development, and support of 38 US offices with 26 local and remote staff resources. Responsibilities including LAN and WAN implementations, systems management, business continuity and disaster recovery, physical/virtual data center design and build out, outsourced consultancy management and new business implementations. Oversee clinical and technical Service Desk/Help Desk providing technical and data support for 1400 employees across 68 locations. Management and implementation of enterprise-wide security programs for HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley compliance. Established Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse department and processes. Implemented ITIL and ITSM management best practices.

Key results

Managed annual operating expenses down from $3.8 million dollars to 2.9 million, with a 20% reduction in overall capital expenditures through a comprehensive hardware lifecycle management program.

Virtualization of production data center servers using private cloud technologies realizing annualized savings of $90k for support and maintenance costs.

Implementation of companywide SOX compliance management and tracking system; 3 successful consecutive years of SOX audits.

IntegraMed America – Purchase, NY April 2003 – May 2006

Manager, Technical Operations; Promoted to Director, Technical Operations in March 2005

Manage IT operations, including but not limited to systems development, LAN and WAN implementations, systems management, business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, IT compliance, data center and remote Disaster Recovery facilities.

Key results

Design and implementation of company-side Disaster Recovery facility and process, improved service uptime to 99.95%.

Piloted successful set-up of Citrix RSA/SecureID resulting in operational efficiencies for physicians and vendors

Lifetime Entertainment Services – New York, NY February 2001 – April 2003

Publicly traded woman’s television and Entertainment Company

Director, Infrastructure Technology

Directed integration, implementation and support of all information systems. Managed 12 level 2 and 3 administrators and engineers with a $15 million budget.

Key results

Consolidated video data repositories onto clustered NetApp F820 SAN Filers which improved file access times by over 500%

Designed and managed enterprise DR and Business Continuity programs which were tested and successful during the events of September 11th, 2001.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, NY June 1999 - January 2001

Publicly traded media and Entertainment Company

Director, Network Operations & Telecommunications

Managed staff of 7 L2 & L3 administrators and engineers at three locations in a growing fast paced enterprise and e-commerce environment

Key results

Designed and managed the construction of a $1.2M, 3500 sq. ft. Internet Operations Data Center consolidating three data centers resulting in operational savings of over $1 million annually.

Expansion of web server farm for the company IPO to support an estimated 2.5 millions page hits daily, pre-IPO.

Migration and deployment of Lotus Domino 5.0 system for mail and workflow applications for Human Resources and Finance which dramatically improved business processes

Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY September 1997 – June 1999

Schlumberger Limited, New York, NY December 1993 – September 1997

Viacom International, New York, NY April 1990 – January 1993

Woolworth Corporation, New York, NY February 1989 – March 1990

Dynamic Office Systems, New York, NY and Houston, TX September 1987 – January 1989

Education & Credentials

Queens Borough Community College – 1988 - AAS Architectural Engineering

Member: Society for Information Management (SIM)

Member: Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

ITIL V3 Foundation in IT Service Management

Member: IT Infrastructure Management (ITIM) Association

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