Alden Gaw

Current

• Contractor at Accenture

Past

• Technology Manager at Dallas Independent School District
• Consultant at Xerox
• Designer/Owner/Operator/Performer at Laser Entertainment (Self-employed)

• Projectionist at AMC Theaters

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Education

• Richland Community College
• Centenary College of Louisiana
• Northwestern State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Alden Gaw’s Summary

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Experience
* 19+ years experience as a senior IT professional
* Directed Networks, Computer Operations, Help Desk and Desktop support for a large urban school district
* Responsible for infrastructure organizations of 60+ individuals

Strategic Initiatives
* Enterprise Infrastructure Upgrades at 180 locations including wireless overlays, 700 server upgrades or new implementations, a 20,000 user, SAN-based, clustered email system upgrade with a budget of approximately $122M.

Budgeting
* Responsible for department budgets of $8M
* Developed numerous project budgets from $5K to more than $136M

Planning
* Planned and oversaw implementation of 4-node SONET Ring WAN backbone w/new fiber conduits to over 150 sites. This resulted in the ability to have a distributed, redundant WAN core w/distributed data centers providing for greater customer service levels and reduced costs for Disaster Preparedness and Recovery.

* Long term, 10 year planning for an affordable, scalable network implementation migrating from a mainframe centric dial-up network to a client/server based, Ethernet topology, TCP/IP network.

Consulting
* Worked with organizations in evaluation & assessment of their network systems for best practice.
* Reviewed departmental requirements, evaluated opportunities for efficiencies and recommended new systems solutions

Implementation
* Implementation and management experience of computer host systems ranges from mainframe upgrades, downsizing, and “right-sizing”, large and small client-server installations & upgrades, RAID 10 Storage Area Networks, enterprise backup management strategies & disaster/business recovery preparedness.
* Enterprise application implementations including document imaging and management, email groupware, a broad range of web-enabled, Oracle database business applications and directory services-based Identity Management integration

Alden Gaw’s Specialties:

Writing bid specifications, technology related scopes of work. evaluation of bid responses, defining and writing technology hardware and software standards, procedures and practices, technology implementation project management, telecommunication services negotiations, software licensing negotiations and compliance, network security, network performance analysis, Identity Management integration, budget management and planning, staff mentoring

Alden Gaw’s Experience

• Contractor

  Accenture

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

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  MS Project Server 2003/2007 installation, testing and support

• Technology Manager

  Dallas Independent School District

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1988 — 2007 (19 years)

• Consultant

  Xerox

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

• Designer/Owner/Operator/Performer

  Laser Entertainment (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  1977 — November 1989 (12 years)

  Ran and operated laser entertainment services for over 10 years including presentations for Fortune 500 companies, leading, popular music industry performers, planetariums, state fairs, cities and city symphonies. Designed and built all electronic control, computer graphics hardware and software in addition to laser projector optics.

• Projectionist

  AMC Theaters

  (Entertainment industry)

  1970 — 1977 (7 years)

  Worked as IATSE-SMPTE motion picture theater projectionist and also served as an audio consultant/ theater sound trouble-shooter for the industry

Alden Gaw’s Education

• Richland Community College

  General 1974 — 1978

  Activities and Societies:

  Astronomy Club

• Centenary College of Louisiana

  Pre-engineering 1967 — 1968

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Sigma

• Northwestern State University

  1966 — 1968

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Sigma

Additional Information

Alden Gaw’s Interests:

New Technology, General Aviation (Pvt Pilot), Radio Controlled Aircraft, Photography (digital and film)

Alden Gaw’s Groups:

•    The Kappa Sigma Fraternity

Alden Gaw’s Honors:

Who is Who in American Junior Colleges

Alden Gaw’s Contact Settings

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