DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Professional Summary Results-driven IT director 30 years experience diverse industries, including Port Higher Education. Expertise includes team leadership, technical architecture, training development, disaster recovery planning, information protection analysis. Dynamic, resourceful, extremely driven individual deep passion creating delivering programs solutions empower team, company, customer meet exceed desired expectations. Core Qualifications IT management Results-oriented Operations management Budget administration Change management Problem resolution Team leadership Decisive leader Cost reduction Experience Director, Information Technology August 2008 Current Company Name － City State Manages information technology computer center Board Commissioners Port New Orleans (Board). Develops, initiates, implements monitors procedures necessary determine need improvement system operational activities. Makes recommendations acquisition, lease rental equipment computer services, development implementation new data processing programs expansion existing equipment programs. Provide information recommendations Port's management relevant establishment priorities prospective system applications. Develops and/or revises data practices concerning plan procedures consistent agency goals objectives information communications fields. Formulates requests bid requests proposals major minor I.T. professional services hardware contracts. Directly involved vendor selection final contract negotiations approvals. Supervises information technology telecommunication staff provides guidance direction daily activities. Develops supervises work system project consultants. Provides consulting services Port departments divisions concerning information systems, new programs data processing. Develops form management procedures reviews justifies current practices. Evaluates existing manual automated information-related activities including physical work environment, administrative procedures work flows. Represents Board Commissioners national international committees conferences necessary. Prepares hardware, software personnel budgets I.T. department. Staying abreast new technologies, cost/benefit analysis technologies incorporation technologies budgeting process. Participates formulating Board's current future I.T. short long term strategic planning including PC networking, Email, IBM ISeries Support, INTERNET, Imaging, Computer Aided Software Engineering, Communication Protocols, EDI, GIS etc. Reviews makes recommendations management use control mainframe data processing systems internal operations, servicing maritime community movement cargo Port. Assures software utilizing mainframe remote computer local area, wide area network equipment protected secure viruses, outside intrusion cyber-attack. Supervise development long range plans use data processing equipment Board, related private sector firms government agencies. Assure confidentiality priority data supervise distribution data appropriate public private sector recipients. Coordinates flow information among in-house departments, private sector maritime interests, U.S. Customs agencies. Oversees large repertoire sophisticated application software. Interface representatives local, national international maritime, government agencies, offices firms concerning technical requirements operation benefits system. Reviews, coordinates makes recommendations Board management maritime interests data transmission requirements. Monitors preparation reports submitted Board management, private sector governmental agencies data processing technology issues. Keeps abreast changes maritime industry affects movement bulk, general containerized cargo flow electronic communications. In charge telephone services required Board. This includes main administrative phone switch sub-switches cell broadband services. Define scope work specifications Hardware software needs Homeland Security Grant Investment Justifications 2008 present. FAS system repair updates, Building Access Command Control, Security Camera Projects (Portwide Cruise Terminals), Wireless Backbone Infrastructure Portwide, MSCO provisioning, Mobile Command Center Repair Upgrade, Underwater inspection vehicle equipment, Technology Installation Harbor Police Patrol Boat, Integration Command Bridge Incident Control servers, GIS server implementation. Associate Vice-President Information Technology Telecommunication April 1980 October 2004 Company Name － City State Oversight responsibility staff 22 people, including 19 professionals. Created managed Office Information Technology. Developed implemented Strategic Plan Office Information Technology. Awarded directed $1.2 million grant install telecommunications fiber optic infrastructure university. Integrated Management Information System department Telecommunication department one cohesive department. Provided data communication services entire university community; implemented university-wide operation telephone, PBX, voice data wireless communications. Developed administrative system users become proficient areas. Ensured data integrity responsibility, standardizing ways means data collection, thereby maintaining integrity inputs outcomes. Created filtering process recognize viruses infect systems thus established reliable network free viruses spam. Implemented effective customer service, customized suit individual needs, ensuring users standardized smooth communication one another. Created inclusive, customer-friendly, telecommunications climate, ensuring students respected equally faculty. Implemented comprehensive university system, increasing number telecommunication units 324 2,000. Increased number computer labs two nine, ensuring dramatic increase resources students without increasing staff. Education Ph.D Coastal Oceanography 1996 State University New York － City State USA Coastal Oceanography M.S Computer Science Marine Sciences Research Center School Marine Atmospheric Sciences Computer Science B.S Mathematics University Evansville － City State Mathematics Xavier University － City State Professional Affiliations *Member AAPA Information Technology Committee *Represented University President Southern Educational Foundation *Member Instructional Technology Assistance Project (ITAP) team *Participated Educational Leadership Council *Served Academic Computing Committee. Accomplishments MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) LDCCA Certified Installer Fiber Optic Category 5/5E Certified Construction Quality Management Contractors U.S. Army Core Engineers Wireless Network Auditing Training System Forensics, Investigation Response Training Hacker Techniques, Exploits Incident Handling Training Accreditation Skills academic, administrative, agency, Basic, benefits, broadband, budgeting, budgets, Cobol, Hardware, computer applications, conferences, consulting, contract negotiations, contracts, customer service, data analysis, data collection, Data Processing, Database Management, DBase IV, direction, EDI, Email, features, Fortran, GIS, government, grants, IBM, IBM compatible, Imaging, Information Systems, Information Technology, inspection, interpretation, laser, Macintosh, mainframe, MapInfo, Mathematics, Access, MS Excel, Office, Management Information System, Monitors, natural, Naval, network, Novell Netware, Oil, Operating Systems, Pascal, PBX, PC networking, personnel, Camera, Police, Programming, proposals, Protocols, radio, real-time, reception, relational database, Research, RPG III, servers, Shell, Software Engineering, Strategic, strategic planning, SUN SPARC, switches, switch, telecommunications, Telecommunication, telephone, phone, transmission, UNIX C, UNIX, Upgrade, Vax, VMS, voice data, wide area network, written Additional Information COMMUNITY SERVICE Board North Region Leadership Institute (NORLI) Volunteer activities New Orleans Enhancement Center: taught senior citizens use computer Board Advocates Science Math Education, Inc. HONORS/AWARDS/CERTIFICATIONS Certified Port Executive Turner Fellowship, State University New York Stony Brook United Negro College Fund Fellowship National Consortium Educational Access Fellowship William Mary Simon Fellowship