Experience

Consilio Services LLC

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director of Information Technology (Infrastructure)

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Highly motivated IT professional with experience guiding a diverse team in strategic planning, design, implementation, and ongoing management of enterprise IT operations. Results-focused, driven leader who identifies organizational needs and executes solutions that solve problems, cut costs, and create new efficiencies throughout the operation. Highly motivated IT professional with experience guiding a diverse team in strategic planning, design, implementation, and ongoing management of enterprise IT operations. Results-focused, driven leader who identifies organizational needs and executes solutions that solve problems, cut costs, and create new efficiencies throughout the operation.



EQD

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Information Technology

  • Aug 2002 - Sep 2016

  • Directly responsible for the management and transformation of the Information Technology including strategic and operational planning across the firm. • Establish IT goals, objectives, operating procedures and managed a team of employees. • Coordinate the deployment at remote, co-located disaster recovery sites using a combination of hardware-based solutions, native tools and utilities with recovery options tailored to customer needs and SLA requirements. • Implement and provide ongoing support of Relativity, iConect and Ringtail. Lead the Network Operations and Information Services Group which are charged with servicing and supporting all enterprise service offerings (ERP-Infor SyteLine, Salesforce Integration Applications, Active Directory, Exchange), production operations and hosted service offerings. • Facilitated the migration of a physical server based solution to a virtual server (VM) centric solution allowing applications and performance gains in excess of 10x without an additional expense. VM allowed adding Cloud Based providers to the mix when increased production horse-power was needed without added costs. • Lead support group that coordinates maintenance of all local and remote user desktops, tablets, personal and corporate phones (mobile email, contacts and remote wipe), ancillary network devices, and up to 350 contract attorney desktops (onsite and virtual). • Considerable hands-on expertise in Cisco Series Security Appliances, Barracuda SPAM Firewalls, Load Balancers, Link Balancers and Web Filters, Cisco WDS, Ubiquiti UniFi, Solar Winds, Nagios Network Monitoring and AlienVault-OSSIM/OSSEC Intrusion Detection Systems. • Cultivate strategic relationships with Hardware Manufacturers, VARs, Service Vendors and Network Service Providers; creating multiple opportunities for substantial and continuing cost savings. • Coordinate multiple Service Provider License Agreements with Software Vendors to control and reduce on-going licensing costs. Show less



Air Liquide America

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Operations Center Manager

  • Sep 2000 - Sep 2002

  • Managed the Network Operations Support Group for the America’s Division. Planned and supervised the deployment of two Citrix MetaFrame XP server farms (40+ servers in each farm), servicing remote locations inventory and procurement systems. Led team through the conversion of an NT dominated, mixed mode environment to a Windows 2000 Native Mode Environment. • Directed the migration of mixed WinFrame and MetaFrame 1.8 Citrix Servers from older HP lpr Series Servers to IBM Netfinity/eSeries xServers running MetaFrameXP, hosting an Oracle Client for Windows (to provide access to the UNIX environment (Oracle database). • Consolidated 24 relatively small servers into three large Exchange servers using clustered nodes (active/passive) and shared disk arrays to provide both high availability and excellent performance. • Converted from a mix of ARCServer and BackUp Exec to a Tivoli Network Solution (ADSM). By switching to Tivoli’s ADSM as the backup method, the successful backup percentage was increased to near 100%. • Utilized the balance of the Tivoli Network Management Tools to monitor and evaluate the network on a real time basis. Accomplishments: • Spearheaded an initiative to increase customer satisfaction by using proactive problem resolution instead of a typical break-fix support. Established the company's first DMZ for an eCommerce Initiative, using Sun Microsystems 450 Ultra Servers. • Directed the conversion of Exchange 5.5 Servers (Windows NT 4.0) to Exchange 2000 Servers. Show less