Ted Sothard

Current

• Team Lead - Hosted FYI at LexisNexis
• Founding Member at The Ridgewood Group

Past

• Team Lead / Sr. Systems Engineer at Reed Elsevier Technology Services
• Network Technician at City of Springfield, Ohio
• Operating Partner at Becraft and Sons General Contracting

• Utility Engineering Associate at City of Springfield

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Education

• Urbana University
• Urbana University
• I.T.T. Technical Institute

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Ted Sothard’s Summary

Customer focused leader with proven people and project management expertise. Experienced in successfully managing multiple high profile, highly complex projects with competing resources and conflicting priorities. Subject matter expertise in highly available, high performance environments, data center migration, and business continuity. Interests include building relationships, organizational leadership, and organizational development. New facility startup and build out. Results driven and self motovated.

Ted Sothard’s Specialties:

Business Continuity Planning
Disaster preparedness
Program management
Project management
ITIL certified, ITSM
Highly available, high performance datacenter architecture
Data Center migration
Organizational development
Business development
Property management & Commercial finance,
Commercial, industrial, institutional construction and maintenance

Ted Sothard’s Experience

• Team Lead - Hosted FYI

  LexisNexis

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RUK; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  Team Lead responsible for supporting a cross functional group of engineers and project managers.

• Founding Member

  The Ridgewood Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

  Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Property acquisition, rehabilitation, development, and management.
  
  Safe, clean, and affordable single and multifamily housing.
  
  Sale - Lease - Lease Purchase - Land Contract - Wholesaling - Package Buying and Sales.

• Team Lead / Sr. Systems Engineer

  Reed Elsevier Technology Services

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; REL; Publishing industry)

  2004 — August 2008 (4 years)

  Lead a team of highly qualified cross-platform engineers ensuring the smooth day to day operation of the Reed Elsevier (LexisNexis), Springfield, Ohio Data Center.
  
  Core team member in the build out of multiple raised floor facilities, including teir III data center space.
  System Engineering Lead (SEL) for multiple high visibility production oriented data center migrations.

• Network Technician

  City of Springfield, Ohio

  (Government Administration industry)

  1999 — 2004 (5 years)

  Responsible for all public safety infrastructure development and support, including Fire, Police, and 911 Central Dispatching systems. Additionally covered areas of Public Works and City Hall.
  
  Lead Linux administrator. Backup Windows administration.

• Operating Partner

  Becraft and Sons General Contracting

  (Construction industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  Grew sales from 300K to 6M annually.
  Responsible all aspects of Sales and program, and project management.
  Responsible for creating a successful new building division
  Supervised utility and building divisions
  Commercial, Industrial, Institutional, Heavy Highway construction
  Municipal and site utilities specialist.

• Utility Engineering Associate

  City of Springfield

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years)

  Responsible for the automation and build out of Water and Waste Water plants ($12m).
  
  Additionally responsible for leading field engineering and emergency engineering repair efforts.

Ted Sothard’s Education

• Urbana University

  MBA , Leadership , 2004 — 2006

• Urbana University

  BA , Organizational Leadership - Business , 2000 — 2004

• I.T.T. Technical Institute

  A.A.S , ME/EE , 1991 — 1994

Additional Information

Ted Sothard’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Ted Sothard’s Interests:

New Technologies, Collaboration, Innovation, and Community.

Ted Sothard’s Honors:

Great Performers 2004-2007

Ted Sothard’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• business deals
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