INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL

• Strong focus on designing, building and managing technology solutions.
• Reliable, cost effective, supportive, and innovative IT Manager
• Proven business leader with executive level experience.
• Skilled in communication between executives and technology departments.
• Successful IT Director for two publicly traded companies.
• More than 14 years of information technology business experience

 KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE

 EDUCATION

·         B.S. Business Administration with emphasis in Information Systems, University of Colorado

·         MBA with emphasis in Information Systems, University of California Irvine, June 2007

 EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND / TRANSFERABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

6/2005 – 9/2006 – Fidelity National Title Group, Inc. (FNF)

VP, Director of Information Technology

FNF provides title and escrow services to the real estate market in North America via the subsidiaries of Chicago Title, Fidelity Title, Ticor Title and Alamo Title.

• Manager of 30 systems administrators (direct and indirect reports) in California and Colorado for over 250 branches.
• Three million dollar annual budget.
• IT Decision Maker and Governance for infrastructure projects, application development (Web), systems maintenance, and security.
• Specific accomplishments include managing the deployment of applications and upgrading the technology infrastructure.
  • Upgraded over 2000 workstations to Windows XP, Office 2003 on a Windows 2003 AD.
  • Upgraded the WAN architecture to a more manageable FRAME and MPLS medium.
  • Implemented co-locations for network and server farm consolidation.
  • Implemented WSUS, EPO, SMS and MOM agents across the enterprise.
  • Standardized and implemented backup procedures across the organization.
  • Standardized security and implemented audits of all network attached devices.
  • Deployed new applications designed to replace legacy industry specific software.
  • Upgraded VAX environment to lower cost CHARON VAX environment.
  • Enhanced existing web based software to replace legacy industry specific software.
  • Conducted IT Forensics for Legal/HR and Insurance commission audits.
• Served on the enterprise IT Director Committee for planning and implementation of multiple corporate initiatives. (Including but not limited to)
  • Public Speaker on the HP RISS E-mail Archive Project for legal and regulatory compliance.
  • Designed help desk procedure and NOC public notifications.
  • Enterprise wide cleanup of Telco and other 3^rd party billing issues. 

9/2001 – 6/2005 – Ticor Title Company of California (formally ANFI Inc.)

VP, Director of Information Technology

Ticor Title provides title, escrow and real estate related services through its branch offices and six subsidiaries.

• Manager of 10 systems administrators (direct and indirect reports) in California, Nevada, and Arizona for over 100 branches.
• $1.5 Million annual budget.
• IT Decision Maker and Governance for all IT projects including infrastructure, application development (Web), systems maintenance, and security.
• Specific accomplishments include upgrading the company to a standard easily maintained IT infrastructure to facilitate the fast growing real estate market.
  • Restructured enterprise WAN and Back Office Applications.
  • Designed, created and implemented two Co-location data centers to facilitate new WAN architecture and deployment of new title and escrow applications (Impact).
  • Complete IT installation from scratch (entered real-estate market in Las Vegas)
    • LAN / WAN / Internet
    • Telecommunications / PBX
    • Back Office
    • Workstation
    • Application Deployment
    • 6 branches in production within 3 months of inception
      • Profitable in less than one year
  • Designed and implemented corporate web site
  • Upgraded antiquated title and escrow system (Novell) to new windows based system.
  • Conducted IT Forensics for legal and HR.
  • Managed Sarbanes Oxley remediation and audits.
  • Designed and implemented continuity plan.
  • Conducted IT audits and helped negotiate corporate acquisitions.

   

Director of Information Systems, Emerald Mortgage Assistance Company        

o        Systems support and administration for over 70 users at four mortgage industry companies

o        Network support at two mortgage industry companies

DiDirector of Information Systems, Request Television, Pay-Per-View      

o        Director of IS staff, administration, projects, and budgets

o        Systems support for over 75 users

Systems Analyst / Programmer, Coastal States Management (ANR Freight)

o        Systems Analyst / Programmer

Novell Network Engineer / Securities Analyst, Nordby International Inc.

o        Systems Analyst / Programmer

Technology Environment: Microsoft, Novell, Linux, Dell, HP, Quantum, Cisco,  Charon VAX, Cisco IDS, Cisco PIX, Cisco Load Balancer, PBX (NEC, Toshiba, Inter-Tel, et al.), VPN, MPLS, Frame, DSL, ISDN, T1, T3, PRI, SuperTrunk, IP, VIOP, QOS, Netflow Analyzers,Veritas, WSUS, MOM, SMS, MacAfee EPO, MS-2000, MS-XP, MS-2003, MS-Exchange, MS-Office Suite, MS-Sharepoint/Project/Visio MS-SQL (clustered), MS- ASP, MS Visual Studio, MS-IIS, MS-Terminal Server, Thin Clients, MAS200, Crystal Reports, MS Access, VB .NET., SDLC