Experience

RhythmOne

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Director Information Technology

  • Dec 2003 - Present

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Burst Media

• Vice President, Information Technology

  • Dec 2003 - Present

  • Planned and deployed redundant AWS infrastructure for development, integration, quality assurance and production• Planned and successfully defended technology budgets year over year with senior management• Setup and managed data-centers in Burlington, Andover and Boston Massachusetts, Denver Colorado, San Jose California, Washington DC, North Bergen NJ and Amsterdam Netherlands• Setup new remote offices in London England, Chicago Illinois, San Francisco, Mountain View and Los Angeles California, Detroit Michigan, Latham New York and New York City New York• Managed infrastructure integration for five corporate mergers• Four times supervised and assisted planning the reconstruction and relocation of Burlington headquarters, organized contractors for phone system, electrical/network wiring and office equipment purchasing• Purchasing of all MIS/Tech equipment; extensive experience dealing with vendors both domestic and overseas• Redesigned and implemented new corporate internal and production network infrastructure utilizing current platforms resulting in an increase of network reliability, office productivity and communication throughout the corporation• Implemented new corporate Email system utilizing MS Exchange Server, Office 365 and Google Apps• Provided corporate help desk service and solutions to the corporation of 400+ employees around the world• Developed business continuity planning strategies, processes and documentation• Documented system processes and procedures for yearly audits, instrumental in passing audits 9 years in a row• Provided continuous coverage to the internal office network, production web sites and ad serving network using a multitude of monitoring utilities facilitating close to 100% network reliability• Designed and implemented corporate redundant web production, development and QA farms• Designed and implemented the corporate Citrix solution for easy, quick and reliable public employee access to the network



Cozint Interactive

• Systems Administrator

  • 2000 - Feb 2003

  • Designed and implemented corporate internal and production web network infrastructure.• Performed daily administration and maintenance of internal production web network, and phone system equipment.• Provided continuous coverage to the internal office network and production web site using a multitude of monitoring utilities. Developed disaster recovery strategies for correcting and recovering from unexpected outages utilizing practical and proven backup strategies.• Responded to September 11th crisis when NJ office lost all vital T1 connections to the Internet and network communications to the main office. Negotiated with the T1 providers and reduced outage from three months down to four weeks.• With a limited budget a plan to upgrade the network was developed and implemented.• Production web server outages at hosting facility would occur; servers were built and brought online at local office for fail-over to minimize revenue loss due to hosting facility outage.• While outgrowing office space the decision was made to relocate. Found new office location, designed new office layout, arranged data lines installation, contacted movers, purchased furniture, supervised move, tested new network backbone, and moved datacenter within allotted budget.• Worked with multiple vendors for purchasing of all computer and phone system.



Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency

• Tech

  • 1996 - 2000

  • New user equipment configuration, placement, account management resulting in timely placement of users equipment• Maintenance and basic to advanced break fix responsibility resulting in minimizing user downtime.• While users systems were under repair, implemented policy for placing loaner systems maximizing productivity.• Agency’s computers were on Windows 3.11 platform. Created and implemented plan to upgrade all 350 systems to Windows 95 and Windows NT. Estimated time to complete project was one year, project was completed in less than nine months.• Created and implemented plan for the rapid deployment of 250 new desktop systems to replace current aging systems. Project was completed on time within a two-month period.• Replaced 150 aging 14 inch monitors throughout the agency with new 15, 17 and 19 inch monitors. This deployment was completed exclusively after hours to minimize disruption to daily activity. Project was completed on time within 2 weeks.• Assisted in the migration of the users systems from a Pathworks/NetWare based network to a Windows NT server based network applications• Beta and Pre-deployment testing of all “out of the box” and “shrink-wrapped” hardware and software, as well as taking part in the recommendation and purchasing aspects



Digital Equipment Corporation

• Field Service Delivery Engineer

  • 1995 - 1996

  • Diagnosing and repairing a variety of different brands of personal computers• Staged and placed 600+ PC’s at a major law firm in the Boston area• On multiple occasions, acted as primary support outside designated job functions, including the service center, call screening and internal operations• Responsibilities included a wide district area; including Boston, Cape Cod, North/South Shore, Southern New Hampshire, and all towns within the 495 beltway • Diagnosing and repairing a variety of different brands of personal computers• Staged and placed 600+ PC’s at a major law firm in the Boston area• On multiple occasions, acted as primary support outside designated job functions, including the service center, call screening and internal operations• Responsibilities included a wide district area; including Boston, Cape Cod, North/South Shore, Southern New Hampshire, and all towns within the 495 beltway



Information Resource Products

• Support Technician/Warehouse Manager

  • 1993 - 1995

  • Answered customer questions involving hardware and software problems.• Responsible for over 250 personal computers and laptops located at remote sights across the United States.• Assembly, loading, maintaining, and repair of computers owned by the company both internally and in the field• Reload, repair, shipping and tracking of all laptops sent out for product demonstration.• Stock control, ordering of stock, shipping and receiving of computer systems, and production of software and hardware products