PROFILE SUMMARY

Effective Global Chief Information Officer with an extensive professional, executive and hands-on experience in Information Technology Field in various industries (Healthcare, Industrial Manufacturing) and global markets (US, Asia, Europe). Strong record of success in building robust IT infrastructures, increasing customers' retention, organizations' revenue and profitability. Proven expertise in aligning Information Technology resources and staff with organizational needs and creating strategic symmetry. Comprehensive experience in the acquisition of information systems and software, project management, requirements analysis, design, systems-level integration, expectation management, and quality assurance engineering. Proven capability to bring organizations from technology non-existence state to the state where information technology brings consistent value to the organization. Effective and respected team player and leader. Strong educational background including BS in Computer Information Systems, MS in Telecommunications, and an Executive MBA from top 22nd University globally (2010 ranking by FT).

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Global Chief Information Officer 10/2007 - Present

Scope/Summary
Executive Leadership and Strategy for Information Technology domain of the company. Leading all aspects of Global Information Technology Infrastructure aligning it to business needs and capitalizing on value-driven implementations, while providing robust support for existing infrastructure.Hired, mentored and managed geographically dispersed staff of different cultures and coordinate global team collaboration. Created a high-performing team through reorganization and upgrade of its development competencies. Responsible for all aspects of Information Technology domain, including IT Strategy, staff hiring and development, systems development, IT operations, security, telecommunications, software development, budgeting and cost control, project management, IT Procurement, Service Desk Support.

Implementations

• Effectively led the successful implementation of the company-wide ERP System, with further implementation of CRM and BI sub-systems.
• Replaced all outdated/"ancient" technologies in two-years time frame, including all major IT hardware, software, and application platforms to better position the revenue-generating functions in the organization to achieve long-term growth goals. Fully scoped and designed a new data center. Led the design and implementation of the Disaster Recovery Infrastructure. Led the selection, procurement and implementation of the Directory Services based on Microsoft Active Directory. Designed new global email architecture based on Microsoft Exchange technology. Led the implementation of the new and cost-effective VoIP system. Led the implementation of the networking infrastructure, including the re-wiring of the several locations and installation of wireless infrastructure. Led organization's-wide initiatives and implementation on security architecture of the organization's information technology infrastructure. Implemented global monitoring facility.
• Led Project Management Initiatives and monitor all projects milestones and deliverables. Designed and Implemented corporate-wide Project Management system.
• Led an extensive sales force automation system's research and implementation, having full integration between organization's built Product's Electronic Catalog and ERP.
• Introduced IT Governance. Designed and implemented Information Technology Policies and Procedures, Security Policies.
• Led organization's-wide initiatives and implementation on security architecture of the organization's information technology infrastructure. Led the design, implementation and audit of the Security Infrastructure.
• Introduced Virtualization techniques, which resulted in immediate cost savings on hardware acquisitions.
• Scoped, designed and implemented centralized document storage
• Automated previously-done manually processes (mostly approval) by designing web-based mechanisms and flows.

Achievements

• Designed a unique IT structure that supported revenue growth from $100MM to $160MM while keeping IT Total Cost Ratio at below 1.2%.
• Led the selection, negotiations and procurement of the global ERP System. Cut down working capital, costs of raw materials and direct labor leading to a projected 70% conservative ROI over 3 years period. Obtained 50% reduction in financial close time while reducing inventory and increasing on-time deliveries.
• Consolidated geographically dispersed data centers - resulted 60% cost reduction on maintenance.
• Led the selection, procurement and implementation of the Voice-over-IP system based on open-source architecture: Asterisk, that in turn will project the 128% conservative ROI.
• Leveraged Open Source Technologies resulting in overall saving in capital expenditure and further reductions in operations' costs.
• Increased IT Responsiveness level by 58% by designing and implementing organization's first-everOpen Source Service Desk and Inventory System, effectively employing ITIL best practices.
• Led the implementation and coordination of the outsourced development of organizations Products' Selection catalog; drove the initiative to significantly reduce IT Development costs, resulting in the negotiation of an offshore contract that shifted development to an offshore facility. This resulted in 70% cost savings on development labor expense.
• Improved IT Relationship between other business units and developed customer focused methodology. Organized first-ever organizations quarterly IT global conference, further promoting collaboration and reduced duplicated efforts and initiatives that were not strategically aligned of provided business value.
• Led negotiations and purchase of new technology platforms, development of new staff competencies. Raised organizations IT awareness by introducing Information Technology training sessions.
• Engaged utilization of automated processes, reducing utilization of paper to a bare minimum, as well as reducing costs associated by 77%.
• Streamlined training process through an implementation of the web-based training system, which resulted in consistent and organized delivery of the material.
• Streamlined the approval process of the legal contracts by fully implementing web-based contracts system.
• Architected the design and integration of the virtualization solutions, that projected 178% conservative ROI over 3 years providing better recovery processes, decreased facility costs.

Confidential, New York, NY
Sr. Solutions Architect/Technology Lead 07/2005 - 02/2008

Scope/Summary
Responsible for all aspects of open source infrastructure and customer delivery for over 100 research laboratories. Translating unique business aspects and requirements of each laboratory, effectively providing the best and most appropriate open source solution and further designing project scenarios, ROI. Served as a main advisory point for all Rockefeller Research Laboratories. Managed ongoing customer relationships and broadening of open source solutions farm at the institution.

Implementations
Designed, implementation and support of the complex and unique IT systems/architectures for numerous scientific laboratories, including but not limited: High Performance Computing Clustering (torque), Monitoring (cacti, nagios). Designed and implemented institutions first High Performance Computing Web Facility for registration and further monitoring of the clustering jobs. Designed and developed procedures to migrate existing systems to a more efficient and cost-effective platforms.

Achievements
Led the design and implementation of High Performance Computing Clustering architecture for scientists to accelerate the rate of research, effectively reducing time required to process complex scientific problems. Created a campaign for scientists to introduce and understand the open source Linux architecture and operability. Led the open source initiatives providing lectures, case studies and advisory, effectively increasing the awareness.

Confidential, New York, NY
Chief Technology Officer 06/2002 - 07/2005

Scope/Summary
Responsible for all aspects of Information Technology domain, including IT Strategy, staff hiring and development, systems development, IT operations, security, telecommunications, software development, budgeting and cost control, project management, IT Procurement, Service Desk Support. Developed tactical and strategic plans, long-range operating plans, and departmental policies, as well as annual accomplishments report for CEO. Plan, prepare and administer the departmental budgets for all IT operations. Planned, prepared and administered the departmental budgets for all IT operations. Ensured confidentiality and reliability of corporate data, proprietary information, and intellectual property. Led the security audit process

Implementations
Full scope, design and implémentation of the data center, Networking and Physical Security. Design, implementation of internally developed Utilization Review Management System to assist third-party insurers in identifying high-quality and cost-effective heath care options. Fully Managed telecommunications and data systems. Designed business continuity plan and disaster recovery plan to ensure minimal productivity loss as well as data loss. Designed technology strategies, organizational security policies and procedures for the robust architecture compliant to the HIPAA rules through evaluating and identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements. Developed Information Technology Policies and Procedures.

Achievements
Brought organizations IT infrastructure from "ground zero" to the modern state, introducing capabilities and business value of technologyto the organization. Led and supervised organizations physical relocation from IT standpoint of view. Managed all phases of the relocation process, including design of the whole process, data center and telecommunications room design, business continuity design and the implementation phase. Led the initiatives to address HIPAA regulations. Implemented performance measures and metrics, established enterprise reference data standards. Delivered 99.9% uptime for all systems. Led and designed migration process from paper-based patient files to digital entities, resulting operational costs reduction

Confidential,New York, NY
Sr. Systems/Networking Engineer (Team Lead) 06/2001 - 06/2002

Confidential, New York, NY
Sr. Systems/Networking Engineer 10/1999 - 01/2002

EDUCATION

MBA - Executive
MS in Telecommunications
BS in Computer Information Systems
3 years completed towards BS in Microelectronics
Certifications:
Sun Certified Systems Administrator, Red Hat Certified, Microsoft Certified Professional, HIPAA training

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: HTML, DHTML, ASP, ASP.net, PHP, C++, Shell scripting, JavaScript, Java, JSP, COBOL, etc.
CMS Platforms: Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Dotnetnuke
EMail: Google Apps, MS Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007; Cyrus IMAP, Tumbleweed IME/MMS
VoIP: Asterisk, Avaya, Nortel
Hardware: Client and Server Hardware, RAID, SAN, NAS, VOIP; HP, Dell, Sun Servers/Workstations. Cisco, Watchguard, PIX Firewalls
Open Source Strategy and Implementation: Various Projects: Knowledgetree, GLPI, Moodle, Redmine, etc.
Networking: LAN, WAN, MPLS, TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, NAT, DHCP, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, FTP, IPChains, IPTables, VPN, etc.
Security: IDS, Firewalls, Security Policies, encryption, application security
Monitoring/Management Tools: Solarwinds, HP Openview, SMS, MOM, Nagios, Ganglia, Cacti
Graphics: Photoshop, PageMaker, Quark Express
Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase
CASE tools: Microsoft Visio, ConceptDraw

MISCELLANEOUS

• Fluency in Russian and Ukrainian, ability to read and write in French
• Interests: Soccer, Photography, Martial Arts