Eric B.

Experience

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  SimStar

  Mar 1999 - Oct 2005

  Director, Information Systems

  • Strategic and operational responsibility for all IT and DC functions across the company. Managed two company & data center moves.• Built a technology infrastructure that enabled company growth from 2.5M to 18M in 5 years.

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  Thomson Financial

  Oct 2005 - Oct 2008

  • Conceptualized, implemented and managed a department responsible for improving the end to end infrastructure delivery times. In the first year IT implementation times were reduced by 50% with a scope of ~200 servers/devices per month.• Operational responsibility included Unix, Windows, Storage, and load balance devices (F5).• Managed the closure of a 2000 device data center and migration to a new facility. • Operational responsibility for the day to day operations of Thomson Financial's Infrastructure Operations, including Unix, Windows, Storage, and Architecture.

  • Director, Project Engineering

    Jan 2006 - Oct 2008

  • Assistant Director System Support and Engineering

    Oct 2005 - Dec 2005
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  Thomson Reuters

  Oct 2008 - Oct 2012

  • Utilized extensive management and technical skills to drive core information technology functions for approximately 55,000 global employees, leading a 250-person team of direct and matrixed reports operating from a $30 million annual budget. • Successfully rebuilt the organization to align with business strategic direction, creating an organization that scaled on-demand with growth while reducing annual IT operating costs by 30% and driving 50% increase in system stability.• Effectively led a cross organization technology transformation strategy involving 1,500 staff and $500 million budget.• Re-tooled IT Infrastructure time to market strategy, increasing infrastructure to drive $10 million annually in cost avoidance.• Effectively built a global server delivery practice enabling infrastructure deployments measured in hours instead of week or months.• Built strategic partnerships with HP, Cisco and NetApp, created dedicated teams and matched business need to technology solution, delivering infrastructure projects six times faster over two years.• Drove a two megawatt power reduction and consolidation program, reducing the global IT power load by 12.5% year over year to mitigate the need to build a $40 million datacenter.• Successfully decreased reliance on third-party vendors for support and application integration, implementing a self-support program that realized savings of $1.6 million and generated an income of $12,000 in its first year.• Transformed a spreadsheet based project delivery workflow to an online tool with integrated backend automation, resulting in 95% decrease in rework because of intake inaccuracies while reducing the average time to implement new solution infrastructure from more than 180 days to 2 weeks, including rack, stack, operating system, database, middleware and web services. Show less • Manage the groups responsible for the installation, configuration and deployment all Server, Application, Database, OS and LAN hardware and software in support of business environments.• Develop and manage imaging, scripting and automation solutions to insure effective implementation process and documentation. • Coordinate and manage datacenter and campus fiber and copper cabling plant and associated tasks, projects and resources • Ensure the demand and supply of server build resources are matched through forecasting, workload balancing and project management. • Develop working relationships with senior systems management in other businesses. Develop shared standards for all Platforms. • Coordinate and collaborate with development and architecture teams to establish appropriate hardware, OS and application standards and images • Identify and implement tools, processes, and technologies to support the speed and consistency of all server build activity Show less

  • Senior Director, Technology Provisioning

    Dec 2009 - Oct 2012

  • Director, Implementation Engineering

    Oct 2008 - Dec 2009
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  Vervint

  Aug 2012 - Sept 2016

  Sr. Strategy Consultant and Account Executive

  • Acquired and built sales pipelines for two new product lines previously unsupported. Each achieved over 1M in revenue in the first 18 months.• Obtain a 9.79/10 customer satisfaction rating across all initiatives driven through network, database, storage and servers teams.• Effectively direct and lead solution-oriented practice within Healthcare, gaming, IT and information management verticals to increase corporate revenues.• Spearhead efforts to design a customer tracking solution integrated into gaming floor WIFI networking to increase operational efficiency.• Present IT gaming strategies at Global Gaming Expo and National Indian Gaming Association.• Skillfully build a turnkey private cloud solution competitively priced to Elastic Compute Cloud and Rackspace model.• Forge executive level relationship with HP, hosting C level customers at an Executive Briefing with Meg Whitman and her executive team.• Work with business teams to understand and translate business requirements into functional requirements.• Lead the efforts to define, analyze and implement technical and functional improvements.• Manage the process of establishing the scope of projects, business and technology analysis, development and testing requirements throughout system development lifecycle.• Produce business-focused architecture and solution design with technologies, including virtualization/cloud computing, web servers, web infrastructure and applications, storage, content management, networking and security.• Monitor and drive accountability for all IT projects and services, including delivery, performance and functionality.Voice of the customer:- "Trusted business partner with proven experience"- "Accountable from design to delivery"- "I am speechless. From what was a disaster to what has become a miracle, I am grateful and indebted to such dedication, service, and excellence!" Show less

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  IT Audit Labs

  Sept 2016 - now

  Independent CISO & CIO

  Information Security Leader across multiple disciplines- vCISO / vCIO - Serve as a part time information security leader and information technology executive for a variety of customers across multiple verticalsPrimary duties include managing risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability by designing and applying technical, physical, and administrative controls-Enhanced current security practice by 10x by developing end to end solutions, leveraging a network of partners, critical thinkers, and strategic allies.-Regular presenter and author on Information Security Show less

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  Ramsey County

  Oct 2019 - Jan 2024

  Chief Information Security Officer