James Dean

Professional Expertise

Experienced in implementing and supporting high availability reliable network infrastructures and managing the network, server, desktop, and help desk teams. Areas of proficiency include systems builds, upgrades, monitoring, and security, project management, change management, vendor management, disaster recovery planning and testing, training and regulatory compliance.

What I Do Implement reliable network infrastructures through managing the teams and following best practices for building and supporting networks.

How I Work I make the Network part of IT better. My focus is to perform to excellence, leading by example as I mentor and train my teams in supporting the network infrastructure and the users of the network to make IT better.

Success Stories

Saved $1.5 million by implementing NetApp\SAN vs. servers with direct storage. Built and supported network infrastructure to support 1000+ users. Managed enterprise and global network, server, desktop and help desk teams. Led or monitored infrastructure projects to assure on time, on budget completion. Implemented monitoring for all network hardware and processes for 24 hr uptime. Created and tested successful disaster recovery plan 12 times in 6 years for IT. Deployed change management for all network infrastructures. Resolved severity1 issues: reported to senior exec’s cause, solution, and prevention. Researched and approved network infrastructure hardware. Explored and implemented VMWare with SAN/NAS for server consolidation. Monitored relationships for all network infrastructure vendors and 3rd party suppliers. Created procedures to verify all systems and data were SOX compliant. Named 2006 IS Employee of the Year

Services Provided

Infrastructure Team Management Project Management Systems builds and upgrades Systems security Change Management

Vendor Management Systems monitoring Regulatory compliance Training

Benefits to You

Extensive experience Proven leadership Measured performance

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership Understand business needs Perform to Excellence

Target Companies

Small to medium companies

Financial Legal

Manufacturing Education

Engineering Insurance

Medical Nonprofit

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