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BRYON CHASE

Chief Information Officer

“Championing your company by leveraging the infrastructure, projects and

vendor management of the Information Technology Departments”

Table of Contents

Bryon Chase’s Perspective ……………………………………………….……………………………..………..………… Qualification Alignment ……………………………………………….……………………….……………..………..…… Department Management Skills ……………………………….……………………………..…………………….…… Project – EU MSDS and CofA .…………………………………………………………………….……..……………..…. Project – Price Banding .………………………………….…………………………………………………..……………… Initial Action Plan ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……… Resume ……………………….………………………………………………………………………………………..……………. References …..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……… Other Information Not on Resume ………………………………………………………………………………………

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BRYON CHASE’S PERSPECTIVE ON

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Compliance Management

• Over 20 years of compliance audit management: ISO, PCI, Bank, Accounting Firm, Vendor and Internal

• Managing accounting, ERP, MRP security, resource share security and email security. More than 25 years with Accounting system compliance, SOX, Software, internal and external audits, business continuity, infrastructure management, intrusion detection and prevention, endpoint protection including whitelisting and virus protection management, virtual security, and remote connectivity, along with tracking reporting and metrics.

Project management

• Certified Project Manager

• Past experience leading projects on compliance, regulatory, websites, budgets, email / accounting systems Instillations, migrations, updates, and phone systems

Vendor management

• History of reducing corporate budgets through successful vendor management.

Software audits / Asset Management

• Successfully defended against software audits to include McAfee, Norton, and Microsoft.

• Implemented asset tagging and tracking systems, including location services.

Employee management

• Excellent track record of reducing employee turnover which reduces training cost, severance, and unemployment cost by training and hiring individuals with correctly aligned skills and compatible personalities.

Manager with leadership and communication skills

• Lead teams of up to 30 and supporting over 2,000 users.

• Formal leadership training,

• 23 years of career development and management

The next few pages will expand on my abilities to excel in the position of IT Director with OCI Partners LP.

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BRYON CHASE - QUALIFICATIONS ALIGNMENT Requirements Bryon’s Qualifications

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Managing Team of IT Managers Most department teams have been 2 – 5 individuals, managing individual growth, training, certifications, hiring, and termination of individuals.

Consecutively lead up to 6 project teams with 4 to 15 people per team.

Successfully led corporate initiatives on security, compliance and training

Accounting Migration Experience Intimately familiar with working flow and conversion processes for AP, AR, BB, GL, Costing, Inventory, WIP, Min/Max, Forecasting, BI, OE, Pricing, Quoting.

Have worked with SAP, Sage, Great Plaines, Peach Tree and QuickBooks.

Compliance/ Audit Experience Have successfully defended IT compliance dispositions for ISO, PCI Software Audits (MicroSoft, Symantec, McAfee), Vendor Audits (Estee Lauder, Johnson & Johnson, Mary Kay), SOX compliance Audits. Penetration Testing

Management of day-to-day operations of the IT Department

Led, guided and directed successful, progressive, ingenuitive IT department for over 23 years.

Keeping other departments informed and up to date with IT initiatives, projects and updates with weekly status reporting of plans and projects with critical notification experience.

Monday morning department status meeting has become a standard to assist and support of department employees.

Have personnel meetings to gain understanding of employee abilities, backgrounds, and aptitudes to assist with their needs.

Experience with implementing policies and procedures

Business continuity, disaster recovery, retention, password/security, mobile access, email standards, and server and desktop update policies.

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BRYON CHASE – QUALIFICATIONS ALIGNMENT (CONT) Requirements Bryon’s Qualifications

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Network design, reliability, and security

Built from inception and maintained more than 21 networks for many companies.

MPLS, T1, Cat-5 and 6, Fiber, coax, PRI, Sip Trunk

Scopes for DNS, DHCP, Subnet, VLan, Routers, Switches, Hubs, Wireless Access

Analyzed network traffic for latency resolution, having a 99.9% Server and network uptime.

Implemented lockout procedures to block IP of hack attempts, Non-standard user accounts. Experience with access control to NAS and SAN folder access based on individual or department

Data backup and recovery systems

Implemented successful tape library, many different disk to disk, with offsite replication which have been used several times to recover from possible corporate closure events.

IT Asset management Successful licensing management having defended against three audits.

Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee

Asset tagging, tracking and management for servers, projectors, desktop, laptops, and other mobile devices.

Asset management software implementation

Proper asset disposal procedures.

Managing IT capital project budgets Managed project planning budgeting scope and assets for programming, server, phone system, and website implementations.

Defined 1, 3 and 5 year scopes with expense and cap-x budgetary expectations to include asset update, software, personnel, training, and travel.

Assisted other departments with budgets for implementation of IT projects and integrations.

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Bryon Chase - Department Management Skills

Skill Name Skill

Level

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Years of

Experience

DEPARTMENT / PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Project Management • Operations planning and budgeting • Vendor management • Contract negotiations • Employee HR/ training/ review

Expert Advanced Expert Expert Expert

2019 2019 2018 2018 2019

25 years 23 years 23 years 23 years 23 years

MANAGEMENT SKILL

• Application Development • Database Development • Network Design and Implementation • Business Continuity • Disaster Recovery • Incident Management • Virus Protection Systems • Web Filtering Systems • Email Filtering Services • Application Testing • Infrastructure Management • Cloud Systems • Storage Solutions • Office 365 Management • Policy Implementation • Security Awareness Training and Testing • Penetration Testing • Accounting Audits • Computer System Audit • Software Audits • Automation Systems • Plant Management Systems • Laboratory Management Systems • Manufacturing Control Systems • Access control management • Camera System design and implementation • Site planning and implementation

Intermediate Advanced Expert Advanced Expert Intermediate Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Advanced Advanced Beginner Beginner Beginner Beginner Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate

2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2017 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 2018 2019 2018 2018 2018 2018 2014 2018 2014 2014 2019 2019 2015

8 years 15 years 25 years 10 years 20 years 10 years 35 years 7 years 4 years 5 years

25 years 8 years

20 years 6 years

24 years 4 years 7 years

25 years 15 years 15 years 5 years 6 years 5 years 5 years 7 years

12 years 15 years

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EU MSDS and CofA Project

Problem: • Existing MSDS and CofA’s in word templates needed to automate the process from formula in ERP

system

• Needed to update to be compliant with current regulations

• Required easy to access solution, to reduce demands on customer service and QC

• Required Regulatory Release June 2013

• Needed encryption coding to identify system generated document accuracy

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Price Banding Project

Problem: • Customers’ price increase generalized without regard to volume

• Needed to band pricing based on item, family, and customer volume for set times

• Manual price banding chart creation taking too long

• Wanted completion for each of the top 10 customers top 10 items in 6 months

Results of project: • Visually identifiable customer price outliers to recognize prospective adjustments

• Selectable variable to select volume bases and timeframe

• Automated process reducing chart creation from 3 days to 3 minutes

• Completed top 10 customers top 10 items in first week, trained management on use, and updated corporate pricing teams with scripts for automation of price bands

Mitch Graham - Global Demand Manager for Lubrizol, thanked me for my great work of the price banding program and was excited that I shared my solutions.

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Initial Action Plan for all sites

First 30 days: • Assess any immediate corporate IT needs, outages, recurring problems, and open critical trouble

tickets

• Verify backups, establish routine, or automation

• Meet other department heads to identify their IT concerns

• Meet with IT team members assessing strengths, individual’s needs, or concerns

• Review Compliance Status and Concerns

First 90 days: • Identify IT assets hardware and software, licensing, network map, and site connectivity

• Review authorized vendor list and associate affiliations

• Understand 2019 project plan, evaluate feasibility, deficiencies, budgets, delinquencies, or security concerns

• Review network security accounts

• Check group policy for server, workstations, and users

• Build roadmap for department heads to address IT concerns

• Review IT policies

• Establish operational review patterns (Bi-weekly IT meetings, backup logging, and reporting)

• Learn predefined key metrics / performance indicators

• Review server, web security, email, and internet filtering

• Determine application versions and available update versions, white listing updates, black list, and update issues

• Review accounting software / file share security rights.

First year: • Performance reviews for IT staff

• Enact 2020 projects plans

• GPO policy suggestions tested and implemented

• Policy revision rollout

• Assess IT operational review patterns

• Modify or align key metrics / performance indicators

• Standardize lockdown process for unauthorized access attempts

• Initiate Windows Server Update Service with white listing agent

• Accounting system security audit

• Build 2020-2022 growth strategy plan

• Review compliance charters, timeframes, and requirements

• Define acquisition evaluation methodology

• Review Contracts

Second year: • Establish base five year growth and upgrade strategy plan

• Application review and standardization

• Test failover and redundancy

• Measure computer competencies working with HR for training programs / classes

• Implement Integration Plans between sites

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Bryon D. Chase

12250 Charlotte Dr. Lumberton, Texas 77657

469-363-6392 : bryon_chase@yahoo.com

Information Technology Director/ Manager

Business-minded IT Director with a record of leading corporate wide projects from conception to production, with 360

follow-ups, delivering ahead of schedule and under budget. Built teams with the corporate philosophies in mind.

Implemented projects to enhance all departments by introducing optimized efficient hardware and program

integrations. Experienced with corporate migrations, acquisitions and regulatory compliance.

Department: Budgets: Cap-X and Expense; Vendor Relations: RFP, ROI, bids, contracts & agreements; IT Resource: Certification,

Career Management; Corporate alignment with KPI’s and CEO’s objectives; policy and procedure implementation. Project Management: Design and plan projects based on compliance, KPI’s, corporate objectives using Traditional, Critical Path and

Chain Methods. Acquisition and integration rollout management. Software update and rollout management. Infrastructure Management: Successful Disaster Recovery, OS Migration, Telephony Migrations, EDI, Online Ordering, MRP /

ERP / Accounting System Migrations. Platforms: Windows 3.1 - 10; MS Server NT - 2008; Unix/ Linux; MAC OS; Novell 3.0 - 4.11; OS/2 DBMS: Pervasive SQL; MS SQL; Foxbase, Dbase-4; Oracle; DB2 Software Applications: MS Office 2003-2016; Crystal Reports 4 - 11; Sage PFW; ACT; GoldMine; Groupwise Server Management: Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, SQL, Citrix XEN, Open-E DSS, Citrix Metaframe, VMware ESX Languages: HTML, Java Script, C, C++, VB, VBA, FoxPro, Dbase-4, Clipper, Basic, Pascal, COBAL, JCL, Fortran Hardware: Cisco Firewall, VPN, Switches; Sonicwall Firewall, VPN; Netscreen Firewall, VPN; Dell Switches, Servers; HP Servers,

BDR; SuperMicro Blades, Servers

WORK EXPERIANCE

OCI Beaumont - Ammonia and Methanol Chemical Manufacturing Plant IT Director Oct 2014 to Present Department Management

• Saved 42% on first year budget., 30% on second and 20% on third reducing budget year over year.

• Directed team overseeing two sites supporting 130 to 1200 individuals. Oversaw teams training, certification, performance and career management reviews.

• Managed vendor relations, licensing and contracts; MOLP, phones, access control, software and hardware maintenance, lead teams through implementation to 360 follow-ups

• Innovated and planned department strategies based on corporate goals and needs.

• Department policy and procedure planning an implementation.

• Audit management; software, sox compliance, internal

Infrastructure Management

• Planned and Deployed disaster recovery making use of sister company sites creating synergy between sites while reducing cost by over $80k each year per site.

• Designed and Implemented access control, phone and camera system.

• Implemented license tracking dealing with compliance and accountability audits.

• Sight Network plan design and implementation.

Project Management

SAP ECC Migration Planning, Truck Loading Integration, Facility Implementation, Warehouse Management System

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DCS Security initiatives,

Mission Solar Energy - Solar Panel Manufacturing IT Director June 2014 – Oct 2014 Department Management

• Saved 25% on first year budget.

• Directed team of four overseeing site supporting 800 individuals. Oversaw teams training, certification, performance and career management reviews.

• Managed vendor relations, licensing and contracts; MOLP, phones, access control, software and hardware maintenance.

• Planned department strategies based on corporate goals and needs.

• Department policy and procedure planning an implementation.

Infrastructure Management

• Design to running new plant rollout with Network, Phones, Printers, Access Control, BDR, Email.

• Machine integration

Project Management

• New Plant and Facilities Design & Implementation. Facilities manufacturing integration

Active Organics – Organic material compounding IT Director 1998 to 2014

Department Management

• Reducing first year budget by 28% and second year by 16%.

• Directed up to six teams with three to fifteen individuals per team. Oversaw hiring, training, certification,

performance and career management reviews.

• Managed vendor relations, licensing and contracts; MOLP, phones, electric, security, internet, web presence,

software and hardware maintenance.

• Department policy and procedure planning an implementation. Project Management

• Initiated EU MSDS & Certificate of Analysis System Online managed compliance, database design and

programming, testing integration into MRP and implementation.

• Implemented web presence, multiple versions and websites, using HTML, Flash and many other contact

management systems.

• Planned and initiated multiple customer relationship management solutions.

• Initiated help desk software, procedures, goals and performance indicators.

Infrastructure Management

• Implemented disaster recovery procedures which were used on multiple occasions.

• Designed and led migration from Novell to Microsoft Servers.

• Led security, phone and camera system implementations and upgrades.

• Implemented license tracking dealing with compliance and accountability audits.

• Initiated corporate application training program for employee job enhancement.

• Converted from manual paper inventory to electronic inventory using hand held devices integrated to MRP/ERP

with bar-coding solution, reducing time by five days.

• Planed, tested and converted to Blade environment with and ROI of two years.

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CERTIFICATIONS AND CRICULUM

Microsoft Certified Engineer 2003 Project Management Professional

1992 Texas State Programming Champion

Central Texas College & BYU Idaho Computer Science

REFERENCES

Jason Everett is the Network Engineer at OCI Belmont, known four years, a subordinate employee at

Active Organics, Inc. Email: everett.jason@gmail.com

Phone: 409-527-2081

Quote: “Bryon is an outstanding IT manager. He leads by example, shares his knowledge, inspires confidence,

understands IT and understands people. When the issues seem impossible, Bryon leads the way and takes

time to share his knowledge.”

Ken Pender is Sales Director at Solutions Design IT, known eighteen years, fellow employee at Custom

Information Services. Email: kpender@sdesignit.com Phone:

817-231-8100

Quote: “Bryon … was an integral part of our clients happiness by generating a trust by consistently beating

the demands under budget while improving performance. Bryon was great at crisis management and was

exceptionally detail oriented.”

Sam Bluman as Technology Director at Solutions Design IT, known nineteen years, was a supervising

manager at Custom Information Services. Email:

SBlueman@sdesignit.com Phone: 972-527-0556

Quote: “I have always found Bryon to be extremely knowledgeable, conscientious, creative and resourceful.

He is a person of great drive and enthusiasm. Bryon exhibits his passion in technology as well as a genuine

caring for the people that he works with at all times.”

Linda DeFratus is Vice President at Actifirm, Actiprime and Actitech, known fifteen years, was Vice

President of Active Organics, Inc. Email:

ldefratus@actifirm.com Phone: 214-477-6238

Additional Recommendation:

Donna Toups: “Bryon Chase volunteered his expertise in helping our non-profit organization in identifying

an issue with our network. He was extremely respectful of all personnel involved in finding a solution.

Because of his extensive experience, he understood the problem and was proactive in identifying and

obtaining the needed information for the resolution. I appreciated his thoroughness in following-up with

management”

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Bryon Chase

Bryon is married to Alyona.

I lived in seven states and three countries.

I have been to 35+ states and 15+ Countries.

Basic communication in German, Spanish and Russian.

Community Service

Boy Scouts of America – 11 Year Old Scout Master, Scout Master & Assistant

Work with a group of boys to teach important Scouting principles such as integrity, honesty, teamwork, and community

service while they fulfill requirements to advance in the Boy Scout program.

Eagle Scout, Member of Order of the Arrow, completed Wood Badge week long dedicated training in program, and

communication management. Lodge Vice Chief covering Europe, Russia, and Northern Africa.

Habitat for Humanity – Volunteer

Assisting families in achieving a home of their own by assisting in house construction and lawn work.

Hobbies and Interest

Scuba Diving

I am an avid diver in many countries including Jamaica, Bahamas, Mexico, Belize, Ecuador, and Argentina. I am looking

forward to a dive in the Red Sea someday.

Motorcycles

I enjoy riding in Texas where we have perfect riding conditions approximately nine months of the year.