Chief Information Officer

• Jan 2018 - Present

Chair IT Steering committee creating a long-term roadmap for a complete technology transformation migrating from Colo to Microsoft Azure Cloud minimizing TCO and maximizing ROI. Continually ranked highest in all technology audits. Simplified technology portfolio leading to optimal worker performance with minimal learning curve. Decision-maker for optimizing and automating dataflows for Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Accounting.

Director of IT

• Dec 2015 - Jan 2018

Chief Technology Officer

• Mar 2009 - May 2015

Achieved Enterprise vision of creating a shared Technology Frame-work and teams to support multiple businesses’ in allocation charge-back model. Engineered a private Cloud powering the backend technology needs and established the Technology professionals to advise and support all facets of Technology. Worked closely with Owners, Executives and Managers to meet Technology demands. Key role in ERP system analysis and implementations keeping pace with rapid company expansion in the areas of Infrastructure, Network Engineering, Software Development, Risk Management, Production Operations, Telecommunications and Business Intelligence (BI). ▪ Built a Secure virtual environment supporting a dozen businesses directly or within a shared Technology framework model centralizing Technology and dramatically lowering costs ▪ Migrated to public Cloud using Azure and Microsoft Office 365 saving 60% of license costs ▪ Guided ERP systems selections collecting business requirements, creating process flows and mapping key data points driving implementation and BI ▪ Led teams to strategize the logistical process of material handling in startup Recycling business using ITIL methodologies to drive software customization reclaiming 15% lost revenue ▪ Instituted policies compliant with regulatory agencies SEC, SoX, NAID winning audits first time ▪ Developed technology blueprint for startup company utilizing recycled servers, reducing spend ▪ Engineered Private WAN using Cisco saving lowering monthly telco costs by 50% ▪ Vetted all technology contracts and approved all purchases for $2M enterprise-wide budget ▪ Continual review and improvement of existing systems always staying current on technology ▪ Developed SharePoint repository for online document management satisfying Audit Regulators ▪ Began to utilize AWS using Chef to create Cookbooks to manage Ceph / OpenStack environment

Director of Information Technology

• Jan 2003 - Sep 2008

Directed North American IT Department supporting 90 offices and managing 25 technology professionals for a $7B Scrap Metal recycling company. Managed an Initial budget of $10M reducing to $5M over a three-year period. ▪ Bolstered business technology and procedures to greatly influence $1B merger decision ▪ Increased sales volume by 10% by cutting customer processing time by 40% ▪ Coordinated global electronic re-branding initiative satisfying Sarbanes-Oxley requirements ▪ Vetted and negotiated all major technology contracts ▪ Selected Ivara Procurement system formalizing requisitions, 3-way PO matching, approval limits, automatic replenishment of consumables ▪ Defined business continuity strategy with SunGard protecting system up-time minimizing theft ▪ Developed SoX regulation readiness policies winning 90% first audit approval ▪ Consolidated several accounting systems to one general ledger increasing reporting accuracy ▪ Right-sized IT headcount eliminating overlapping skills reducing operational cost by 20% ▪ Maximized corporate tax deductions with Timberline Sage Fixed Asset Management system

Manager of Network Infrastructure & Security

• Jan 2000 - Dec 2002

Directed IT security and network systems for $700M global pharmaceutical consulting firm. Supervised staff of 18. Managed disaster recovery, architecture, infrastructure, and data services. Ensured compliance with best practices. Developed policies and procedures. Earned company’s Innovator Award. - Managed team of 18 professionals from assigning tasks to defining roles and setting performance goals - Devised and implemented a corporate-wide VPN infrastructure, increasing WAN performance by 600% and saving the firm $1.7M per annum for 26 offices globally meeting HIPPA regulations - Analyzed remote access costs and renegotiated vendor contracts, saving the company 80% first year - Managed multiple IT departments to deploy an enterprise-wide personal firewall system, reclaiming 2.2 extra days of revenue per year - Led technology review studies on IT systems to compare operational cost against new technology options