Managing Director IT

TERRY L. PRUITT

**** ******* ****** • Bronxville, NY 10708

914-***-**** • **********@***.***

SENIOR TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE, MANAGING DIRECTOR

Acknowledged for ground breaking efforts in operational effectiveness and driving large scale cultural change that builds organizational effectiveness and propel revenue growth. Drastically reduced business applications development cost and time to market. Delivering efficient technology environments and change management leadership.

Senior leader with advanced degree in Technology Management, extensive IT experience, and well-established ability to align technology with business strategy. Excel in managed services, leading enterprise wide cost-cutting, migration, virtualization and storage consolidation initiatives by managing operational complexity, building high-performance teams, and forging trust-based relationships with diverse stakeholders. Superior managed services clients and vendor management skills.

IT Strategy • Budgets & Forecasts • Business Process Re-engineering • IT Security

Network Management • Software Development • Quality Assurance • Systems Design & Integration

Enterprise Project Leadership • Cross-Functional Partnerships • IT Operations • Team Leadership Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

EDUCATION

MS, Management of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of New York University NYU-Poly, Brooklyn, NY

BS, Business Management, State University at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY

Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership Development Program

ITIL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NYSE EURONEXT New York, NY • 1991- 2010

Holding company of the New York Stock Exchange.

Managing Director, Shared IT Services, 2001-2010

Direct development, testing, quality assurance (QA), customer service and corporate business units for prestigious financial institution, supporting development groups in the US, UK, India and Ireland. Special emphasis on collaborating with environments management (MVS, Tandem, Linux, UNIX and Windows), change management, release management, disaster recovery, business continuity and other internal teams to ensure appropriate application and end-to-end testing. Responsible for strategy, planning, design, and implementation for all customers technology environment including network hardware and software, servers, storage and WAN/communication links. Create and manage $9M hardware/software budget and $4M manpower budget. 24 total staff..

• Cut business applications time to market by an average 14% and reduced costs 12% by standardizing and consolidating the corporate development, testing and QA environments.

• Saved $3M annually, avoided $4M in future costs, and strengthened customer relationships by virtualizing (VMware), the development environment for all groups while maintaining the highest quality output.

• Generated $3M savings by leading the design, launch and support consolidation of all business groups tape backup infrastructure, including remote locations utilizing centralized infrastructure.

• Drove savings of $3.5M over 3 years through tandem nonstop server reductions. Capitalized on lease expirations and optimized concurrent services to reduce hardware and maintenance expenses.

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Managing Director, Shared IT Services, 2001-2010 cont.

• Saved more than $1.5M by driving out costs from the Development and Testing Server / Storage Infrastructure.

• Provided senior management with relevant, timely and actionable information for decision-making by creating financial forecasts using trend analysis and “what if” modeling.

Sr. Director, Computer Operations, 1991-2001

Managed Information Center complex of 51 employees across mainframe, distributed, and client/server computing, including 24/7 support for Computer Operations. Responsible for strategic, planning, design, and implementation for all operations technology including network hardware and software, servers, storage and WAN/communication links. Deep understanding of quality control and change management procedures with goal of 99.999% uptime.

• Directed and supported the NYSE managed services clients and support staff.

• Led design for the implementation of a dual site multi-platform environment using shared DASD.

• Orchestrated successful migration from legacy hardware / software to the latest technology, reducing the footprint requirement for Data Center space 40% and deferring a major expansion of the Data center.

• Ensured nightly settlement and clearing of all trades executed – avoiding outages impacting the trading floor as well as every brokerage and clearing house throughout the world.

• Responsibility for the execution of disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

• Managed advisor customer support teams in New York and India with a significant impact on the overall organization ensuring the user community receives appropriate service.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT New York, NY • 1983-1991

Technology/Communications Consultant

Secured consulting engagements in diverse manufacturing and financial services segments. Cultivated executive relationships, defined needs, developed solutions, and executed initiatives on time, on budget.

Financial Services

• Designed and presented SNA/SDLC seminars to the technical and operational staff of a well-known financial services firm, emphasizing various SNA/SDLC commands and responses.

• Led 8-person team to manage performance of a network consisting of 41 CPUs and 35 front ends for a leading brokerage firm.

Manufacturing

• Researched and designed the business communication network for the Bell System post-divestiture.

• Led Data Center migration for a major manufacturer.

• Managed networking for company converting from DOS/VSE to MVS.

Communications Seminars -- US and Nassau, The Bahamas

• Presented for clients such as MONEY of NY, European American Bank, MARS Information Systems, and the Information Management Institute of Jacksonville FL.

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