Montrose Environmental Group, Irvine CA December 2015 - present
VP Information Technology
Normalize operations from existing systems to utilize various platforms including Microsoft office 365/Azure,
Google Workspace, Oracle Net Suite, Workday, Salesforce, Fortinet solutions. Saved on costs of phone systems by over 87%, Email costs by 50%, and kept IT overhead to minimum in order to achieve the ultimate goal of going public. Now trades on NYSE with over $1B valuation symbol (MEG)
- Represent company for all technical due diligence for potential purchasing, review data room, provide executive summary for the board of directors to present the technology implementation plan and estimated budget hands on implementation of over 90 locations over 7 years.
- Create substantial savings by normalizing operations company wide post acquisition/integration.
- Meet with newly acquired business to review existing processes and document transition plan for all software, and hardware transition and normalization.
- Meet new companies and manage new integrations. Including process mapping existing workflow to one that matches company standards.
- Implement ERP products Net suite, Workday, and Sales Force.
- Create disaster recovery model, document and plan DRE (Disaster recovery exercises) to assure business continuity
- Using project management tools, documents, and updating key milestones in detail.
- Meet newly acquired businesses, introduce support models, help transition existing ERP and accounting systems, and review security awareness.
- Oversee information security division Coordinate and manage path forward to achieve objectives. Set plans to regulate technical services such as DNS, public cloud government tenants (GCC)
- Create quarterly presentation for board to review M&A activity and state of technology including review of milestones of annual and long-term technology plans.
- Manage annual budget for all purchasing, software renewal, and Technology expenses.
- Upgrade, network systems, servers, and client side systems and software
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- Manage teams and migrations from many systems to office 365 and Google Workspace.
- Manage various instances of SharePoint including US government Tenant (GCC)
- Compliance officer for GDPR, CPPA, HIPPA, CMMC, PCI, SOX
- Create and enforce models for NIST 800-171 (ISO 27001) NIST-800-53, ITIL v6.
Capital Group Irvine California Manger Core Infrastructure and Security 9/2011 - 11/2015
Manager L3 teams and migration teams In the newly formed team, was the first employee hired to build a team that grew to well over 60 team members.
This challenge was to create teams to support the core infrastructure, (Windows and Linus OS) with Cisco switching. Build teams to migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange, eventually office 365. Build teams to support VMware, Backup and Disaster recovery.
- Hands on manager for major projects, completed migration of over 15,000 users converting files from
Lotus Notes to Microsoft DFS. At the time this was the largest DFS implementation Microsoft.
- Create team, do hiring and budgeting for Backup team, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365 teams.
- Implement ITIL model for IT teams.
- Convert core servers to Virtual by using “Hyper convergence” Dell/EMC Vlock
- L3 team supporting over 2600 servers.
- Convert to travel software “Concur” from legacy applications.
- Create a plan for logistics in the event of a disaster. (Plan to move operations from the West coast to a safe location in the event of a disaster).
QLAN Corporation, Laguna Hills California Sr. Systems Engineer/Trainer 4/2009 - 9/2011
Technical expert for migrations and manager
Senior position in this managed service provider business. Provide expertise and hands on engineering for a vast number of businesses. This consisted of healthcare companies, pharmaceuticals, and banking. Managed team of
IT solution providers and provided training mentoring and innovation.
- Created plan to automate security patching standard across all the clients and implement.
- Become operational liaison for clients to provide technical solutions for business problems.
Samples of problems to solve include MRP Material Requirements planning, inventory tracking,
purchasing (including lead time for component procurement), formulas and MSDS compliance.
- Advise on software solutions for EDI where needed.
- Advise and help implement software for tracking vehicles in real time.
- Provide hands on expertise for information security and trained clients for security awareness.
- Provided deep training to staff and clients on e-mail phishing campaigns and social engineering.
P2FHoldings, Seal Beach California, New York New York 6/2008 - 04/2009
Senior Systems Engineer/Administrator
P2FHoldings is a clothing designer, manufacturing, and distributor of clothing. P2F Holdings owns business such as “More Ed Hardy”, “Essentials by ABS” and “Carlen Enterprises.” Locations in California and New York. The objective was to find a method to track incoming supplies and orders from overseas. To implement a method to track ships at sea, and ultimately predict when items come to port, to freight, and to warehouses. Ultimately, the team landed on a product called Ocean Insights.
- In the Span of six months, added VPN and separate MPLS between showrooms in New York City, Los
Angeles California and Long Beach California, Migrated Exchange server including over 2000
mailboxes, migrated over 30 servers from windows, including active directory modifications between multiple sites.
- Using Ocean Insights to help logistics team plant for incoming orders.
- Migrate from accounting platform MAS to Great planes.
- Implement Salesforce to optimize sales prospects and recurring orders.
- Help test/troubleshoot software development (Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and SQL server code).
- Setup VPN, Terminal Server, and RAS remote connections.
- VOIP Phone System, Avaya and 3Com VCX , integrated with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange
Home Loan Specialists/Broadview, Laguna Hills, California 10/2003 - 4/2009
Vice President of Information Technology
Home Loan Specialists is a ‘Direct Lender” company. Its main focus is refinance and selling to the Secondary
Markets. The company consisted of over 200 ‘franchise companies”. The focus was integration of the franchise and normalization of business operations. This included moving small businesses from various accounting platforms to a mainframe-based system.
- Directly reporting to company president and board of directors. Plan budget, create 5-year plan for technology growth. Hire support staff and supervise.
- Grow company to larger offices and later help downsize as market suddenly diminished.
- Manage all vendors, contracts, and franchise employee needs.
- Designed and implemented intranet, design and implement rate sheet, distribution lists, and automation of processes.
KME Systems Inc., Lake Forest CA 11/2006 – 06/2008
Senior Systems Engineer/ VOIP and Security Specialist/ Sales Engineer-training
KME Systems is a 3COM Gold Partner and Sonicwall Gold Partner, as well as a Microsoft Solution provider providing consultation to businesses and local City Governments. Design city wide fiber network switching,
VLAN and IP Based Phone systems, and network security, I also serve as a Technical Sales Engineer. In addition, I was responsible for SOX, HIPPA and FDA compliance for our clients, creating processes and audit processes to ensure full compliance.
- Worked as a project lead as the senior technical advisor for City Infrastructure projects.
- Assist client Clinical Trials with FDA compliance, including HIPPA specific security protocols.
- Installation of Microsoft SBS 2003 and 2007 Servers
- Installed/configured/trained Trend Micro/Kaspersky/Symantec/Panda/Mcafee security solutions.
- Setup configure 3COM, HP, Cisco switches
- Project lead in VOIP planning and implementation, with 3Com VOIP/messaging servers.
- Project lead in network deployments, including LAN/WAN/VPN/VLAN configurations.
- Network Migration, migrated to exchange 2003, exchange 2007, and from previous versions of Microsoft windows operating systems.
- Data migration, (user profile and application)
- Setup and maintained Sonicwall security appliances, train clients on administration.
- Installed new, upgraded existing phone systems, trained administrators on 3Com NBX,3COM VCX-
Connect, 3COM VCX, Shoretel IP systems including Shoretel SIP trunking configuration.
- Setup VOIP phone systems, setup PRI T-1’s programmed dial plans for communication system and troubleshoot phone systems and FXO/FXS connections and Ethernet data networks.
BCC Corporation/800-USALEND, Foothill Ranch California 10/2005 – 11/2006
Sr. Systems Engineer
- Infrastructure design and management
- Configure/test Backup Exec, using tape media, and backup to disk.
- Setup ISA server to complement Cisco PIX firewall.
- Implemented Barracuda anti-spam filtering solution.
- Configured users on 3COM phone voice over IP phone system, and support remote offices using our phone system via VPN
