PROFILE
Innovative, customer centric and results driven Information Technology executive with extensive experience working with and managing information systems applications and technology. Strong business and corporate focus, enterprise mindset, resulting in a total solution versus a technical solution. Proven ability to define the strategic direction for technological innovation to ensure that the overall organization needs are met.

Prudently Manage up to a $20M Annual Budget. Responsible for IT budget for personnel, salary actions, software, hardware, and services. Key player in the strategic planning for the overall technology budget planning process.
Successfully Develop Talent. Managed division of up to 200 IT professionals. Hired, created development and training plans, delivered performance reviews and coached direct reports and employees.

Aggressively Drive Organizational Efficiency. Implemented project management programs and practices along with Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies, realigned divisions to be responsive to business needs and implemented 24 hour help desk. Established an ongoing hardware maintenance program, improved resource utilization, provided greater capacity/ redundancy and improved disaster recovery. Member of leadership team that implemented ISO 9001.

Proactively Cut Costs while Improving End User Experience. Introduced desktop virtualization to cut hardware/IT support costs and decrease demand on IT staff. Introduced and managed implementations of VMware desktop virtualization, Wyse Streaming Methodology for multimedia and SharePoint for collaboration. Used unified communications to improve mobile employee productivity. Established a lifecycle replacement program.

Effectively Improve Data Center Infrastructure. Introduced server virtualization, storage consolidation and upgraded hardware to centralize resources and decrease cost/power usage. Implemented an enterprise wide wireless network to better serve both employees and visitors to a public training facility. Used private cloud to provide distance learning and student collaboration for school districts statewide.

Efficiently Develop and Manage Vendor Relations. Established vendor relations to stay in tune with current technology. Directed decisions/purchases and vendor negotiations for hardware /software/services.
Specific experience includes:
• New Business Initiatives
• Management of IT Department
• Organization Building and Rebuilding
• Multiple Industry Experience
• IT & Business Process Engineering
• Project & Portfolio Management
• Cost Control • Technology Mergers and Migrations
• Strategic Information Systems Planning
• Business Systems Conversions/Consolidations
• Strategic Business Planning
• Management of Operational Budget & Expenditures
• Management of Enterprise Accounts and vendor relationships

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director of Relationship Management (11/10 to Present)
SOAL Technologies, LLC. – an IBM Business Partner providing IT staffing and consulting services.

Director of Information Services (8/06 to 8/10)
Education Service Center Region XIII – one of 20 regional education service agencies within Texas which assist school districts in improving student performance and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of school operations.

Director of Information Resources /Information Resources Manager (8/04 to 7/06)
Assistant Director of Information Resources (12/02 to 8/04)
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality – a state environmental agency of approximately 3,000 employees, 16 regional offices, and a $463.9 million annual appropriation budget for the 2005 fiscal year. Responsible for the day to day operations management and strategic direction of the Information Resources Division consisting of 173 technology professionals and $20M budget.

Senior Project Manager (2000 to 2002)
Brady Systems Integration – a division of the Brady Corporation, providing Fortune 1000 companies worldwide with wireless automated data collection (ADC) solutions and services.

MIS Director (1/2000 to 7/2000)
Ashley Skin Nutrition – a telemarketing and on-line retailer of cosmetic products.

Director of Operations (1997 to 1999)
Project Manager Legacy Systems Migration (1995 to 1999)
CICS Systems Supervisor (1989 to 1995)
Sheshunoff Information Services – serves the information needs of financial institution professionals leading the market for its step-by-step, plain-English guidance for regulatory compliance and financial institution operations and management.

EDUCATION
Southern Methodist University, Bachelor of Business Administration
Concentration of courses in Management Science

Training:
• Executive Leadership for Information Technology Excellence (ELITE) provided by The LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Department of Information Resources. The goal of course is to develop the executive competencies needed for leadership roles in information technology.
• Sharepoint Developer and Designer

Technical Summary:
Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP and UNIX
Network: Cisco router, switches and wireless technology
Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, CICS, JavaScript
RDBMS: MYSQL, ORACLE, DB2, MS SQL Server
Packages: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access), MS Project, Visio, Sharepoint
Internet Tools: VB Script, XML, HTML
Other: VMWare, Wyse Streaming Methodology

Other :

Committee Chair – IEEE Computer Society Austin Chapter