IT Director
Skyfold
Total des années d'expérience :27 years, 5 Mois
•Planning, prioritizing, project management
•Staffing and coaching
•Business analysis, SOA
•Day-to-day operations
• Interactions with suppliers and advertisers;
• Built a website;
• Customized cloud-based CRM solution;
• Staffing and streamlining day-to-day operations;
Managed Networking and Technical Support, and Software Solutions departments.
• Responsible for Enterprise Architecture, technical research and solutions within the scope of business strategic goals;
• Project Management of various simultaneous solutions in infrastructure, software and integrations;
• Budgeting and project costing;
• Interaction with Partners and stakeholder; making sure IT is fully aligned with business objectives;
• Lead development and implementation of a custom CRM solution for the Sales team, resulting in higher productivity and staff optimization;
• Lead development and implementation of a web-based B2B and B2C solution including electronic document interchange, automatic data collection;
• Interaction with various governmental departments, resulting in significant staff reduction and generating annual operational savings of over $300K;
• Standardized and unified development methodology, and custom and third-party libraries;
• Migration to Virtualized environment (VMWare);
• Implemented a high-availability solution that involved multiple SANs, snapshots, and data replication;
• Negotiated and implemented Cloud-based phone system (Cisco HCS);
• Negotiated and implemented Microsoft Office 365, including Exchange servers;
• Further and ongoing streamlining of critical processes;
• Complete reconstruction and redesign of applications systems for Billing and Sales;
• Design and implementation of commissions and bonus incentives system with Gross Payroll as a part of Y2K project (reduced Payroll and Data Entry department by 80% over 2 years) (Delphi, MS SQL, .NET, Web Services);
• Negotiated and implemented invoice/envelope folding and stuffing automated solution resulting in cutting 3 positions;
• Structured data warehousing and document capture and imaging;
• Formally initiated defining Enterprise Architecture;
• System integration and standardization;
• Migration from Banyan VINES to NT;
• Migration from X.25 to Frame-Relay and inter-office VPN, WAN and Extranet and then to MPLS;
• Network protocol standardization on TCP/IP;
• Modify network topology to enable faster and more reliable data communications, added an Internet gateway;
• Implemented Exchange 5.5, first email server at the company;
• Responsible for application and system development and daily IT operations;
• Negotiation with suppliers;
• Staffing and load balancing (up to 10 people);
Supervised technical support specialists and programmers/analysts.
• Research and analysis leading to improvement/replacement of legacy application systems;
• Research, analysis and implementation of various procedures affecting Sales and back-office operations;
• Data-exchange interface Payroll/Commissions Earnings application systems (PDP and PC based) to Comcheq/Ceridian;
• Network upgrades and administration;
• Implemented WAN (X.25);
• Analysis and programming of new requirements to the existing application systems;
o Gross Payroll and Billing (Delphi, MS SQL);
o Sales Force Remuneration packages (commissions and bonuses);
• Maintenance of legacy application systems (PDP11, Fortran, Cobol);
• Optimized application performance in LAN and WAN environments;
• Various data-exchange interfaces between PDP and Clipper;
Lead development of an Integrated Application system for the Chief Transport Section in deployed mission environment. The application took care of:
•Budget control;
•Fuel distribution control;
•Vehicle maintenance and distribution control;
•Spare parts stock management;
•Requisitioning and Purchasing;
•Introduced delivery trucks GPS
•Installation and setup of LAN and WAN environments;
•User training and support;
Lead and actively participated in development of custom solutions for external clients in financial and banking sectors.
Supervised a team of 5-8 programmers
Participated in development the following solutions
•Integrated Application system for Warehousing;
•Stock management;
•Vendor invoicing;
•Accounting (G/L, A/R, A/P);
•Billing and Payroll;
•Inventory subsystem;
•Warehouse management;
•Integrated Application System for Car dealers;
•Stock management;
•Billing;
•Loan and price management;
•Payment Collection Application subsystem for City Hall (and third-party collectors);
•Housing and utilities (rents, electricity, water, hot water, sewage…);
•Special reporting and billing;
•Links and hooks to existing customers’ application systems;
•Accounting (G/L, A/R, A/P);
•Billing and Payroll;
• Developed data exchange interfaces to CAD/CAM COMPUTERVISION CDS 4000;
• Maintained Payroll and Accounting (G/L, A/P, A/R, Billing);
• Developed utilities for HR and Admin Department (Recruiting, Personnel, Benefits);
• Participated in Bids and Tenders;
• Participated in a Project for Internal reorganization and Business Analysis;
• User training and on-site support;
Developed data exchange interfaces to CAD/CAM COMPUTERVISION CDS 4000;
•Maintained Payroll and Accounting (G/L, A/P, A/R, Billing);
•Developed utilities for HR and Admin Department (Recruiting, Personnel, Benefits);
•Participated in Bids and Tenders;
•Participated in a Project for Internal reorganization and Business Analysis;
•User training and on-site support;
A mix of courses in development of application systems and their implementation in a business environments. Learn to use technology to reach the business goals rather than just for the sake of technology itself.