Developing people and business processes are what really drive me and allow me to feel successful. People I have worked for and worked with usually say the same thing about me. I’m driven, I require little to no supervision, I am able to motivate teams of people from C level to subordinates with a style that is friendly, positive, and motivating to them.
Versatile Manager with over 15 years of successful experience in reducing overhead costs and maximizing efficiencies. Crisp focus in ability to organize people and tasks. Excellent problem solving skills including setting up and running effective policies and procedures.
Oil and Gas Industry IT Systems and Support, Health Care System implementations, Health Care IT consulting, IT Operational assessments/Consulting, Help Desk/Service Desk Operations/Consulting, Technical Support and Processing engineering
• Assessments and Planning, IT Assessments, Virtualization, Storage and Network Architecture, Security Assessments and Data Compliance, and Modular IT Services for Oil and Gas Industry, Healthcare, Insurance, Mortgage, Small to Medium size businesses. • Prepares Solution Design and support for several small businesses as a service offering. • Prepares Solution Design for all technology and infrastructure offerings to the Small to Medium business market and the Life Sciences market including IT Consulting and Managed services • Delivery of Contracted Technology Services. • Sales, generating new clients and leads for Lone Star PC Repair & Website Design. • Generates proposals for clients, and leads RFP responses for technical consulting opportunities. • Ensures practice standards are met. • Collaborates with senior customer decision makers to define and implement clinical/business and IT Strategies. • Provide consulting, design and development of web presence applications for local businesses. Responsible for all aspects of local businesses IT consulting, planning and infrastructure management. • Developed dynamic web presence web sites for Lone Star PC Repair (http://www.lonestarpcrepair.com ) • Developed over 30 sites using latest PHP/MySql technology. Developed dynamic menus, CRM tools to manage sales orders, inventory management, online maintenance record for customers and marketing. Includes RSS Feeds and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to drive traffic and increase prominence in search engines. • Designed and created site artwork. Graphics created using both Adobe products, i.e., Photoshop CS4, Fireworks and Joomla/Wordpress technologies. • Provide IT infrastructure direction for local business. • Responsible for building $120K per year in Revenues and has P&L responsibilities over the service offerings and customers.
• Responsible for 1.1 million dollar annual department budget including parts procurement, outside vendor services, and staff. • Redesigned workflow to ITIL based standards, including help desk management. • Improved internal employment survey scores by 25% to establish the highest scores in the department. • Reduced service requests from 2 week average to same day service within 1 year, and continued to provide 4 hours average resolution to service requests. This team work allowed us to exceed department SLAs consistently for over 18 months. • Established Nurse Leadership communications with Information Systems by deploying transparent web based ticket tracking and problem resolution. • Created workflow documents focusing on efficiencies and effective movement of responsibilities from one functional area to another. • Conduct needs analysis based on Information Systems best practices and steered IS department to meet those standards. • Assessed employee and client training needs. Work with current staff to regularly develop training guides. • Consult with Director of Methodist in relation to allowing the department to meet its goals and objectives through a refocus on efficiencies and adopting Best Practice standards. • Analyze and evaluate ticket tracking data, call record data, and product replacement data to align with workflow goals. • Managed 11 person team of help desk and field techs over 3 major campuses and 4 minor campus locations throughout South Dallas • Responsible for a user group of 5000 + doctors, nurses, and care givers, 250 + servers, and 2500 network enabled devices both wired and wireless, laptop and desktops. • Developed the Operations staff of 11 members with a focus on enhancing skill sets in networking, trouble shooting, control panel, and intermediate desktop support skill sets to better handle a new role of supporting the user community.
• Managed several projects transitioning IT helpdesk from clients locations to FCG location and data center in Nashville TN. • Responsible for projects ranging from $16 million to $280 million dollar level scopes with tight deadlines. Designed, developed, and controlled projects of large magnitude. • Conducted business analysis engagements at client sites. Recommended and implemented improvements in incident management, change management and problem management under the ITIL guidelines. • Map existing customer processes to IT Best Practices. Articulate and document the strategy, roles and tools needed to move customers forward. Help our customers properly manage, staff and deploy IT Service Management projects. Documented a systematic process to set up a client on the incident and change management system - Remedy.
• Promoted to Operations to define, staff across multiple states, and manage a new department within EarthLink called Sustaining Engineering. This department developed by me was from the ground up and built from scratch including hiring the right people. • Delivered $20.1 million /month reduction in support costs by building system wide tools used by external customers, customer service, and support personnel. • Directed the implementation and creation of two ticket tracking systems within Operations. These systems captured issues, followed escalation paths, and reported resolutions by individual team players. • Major stake holder in $30 million project with wireless two way paging devices. • Managed $650,000 budget annually included training, and performance bonus incentives, and staffing needs. • Responsible for 1.8% reduction in customer churn over the year 2002. • 11% reduction in top 3 inbound call categories achieved by permanently eliminating root cause issues within the company.
• Promoted to Manager from Supervisor in 1997. • Managed a high paced 200 seat call center responsible for call volume of 160,000 calls per month. • Implemented formal job descriptions for entry level reps, and senior reps within department. Established career path policy for reps within call center for rollout department wide. • Increased the overall efficiency of the group from 80% to 98% in 1999 and received citation for achievement. • Implemented knowledge trees / flow charts to assist newer staff members in the learning curve, rolled out flow charts department wide.
organizational development, staff development, strategic planning, usability research, project management, web development, graphic design, efficiency planning