Director, Library Technical Services at RIT
Rochester, New York Area
- Current
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- Director, Library Technical Services at RIT
- Senior Writer at USCHO.com
- Past
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- Manager, Global Network Services at Bausch & Lomb
- Service Delivery Manager at EDS
- Systems Programmer; Capacity Planner at Xerox
- Education
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- RIT
- RIT
- Connections
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- Industry
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Chris Lerch’s Summary
Chris Lerch’s Specialties:
Project and budget management, technical writing, technical operations, strategic planning.
Chris Lerch’s Experience
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Director, Library Technical Services
RIT
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
October 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
Manager of the Technical Services department at the RIT Libraries (library.rit.edu). My group supports all servers, clients and systems used at the Libraries including Unix and Windows servers, 400 PCs, and many commercial and open source systems and applications. I am also the Technical Director of ConnectNY (www.connectny.info), a consortium of private colleges in New York State that share their library catalogs.
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Senior Writer
USCHO.com
(Writing and Editing industry)
1998 — Present (11 years )
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Manager, Global Network Services
Bausch & Lomb
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BOL; Medical Devices industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years )
Managed the global ip network for Bausch & Lomb, which included over 30 factories and sales offices worldwide. Supervised a team of network engineers.
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Service Delivery Manager
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
1994 — 2000 (6 years )
Managed the delivery of telecom services on the Xerox account. Was responsible for delivery of audio and video conferencing, voicemail and ACD services.
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Systems Programmer; Capacity Planner
Xerox
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Computer Hardware industry)
1984 — 1994 (10 years )
Systems programming, tuning modeling and simulation of MVS/XA, VMS. VM and Unix systems. Demand forecasting and systems analysis for multi-million dollar systems.
Chris Lerch’s Education
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RIT
MBA , Business, IT , March 1986 — May 1991
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RIT
BS , Applied Software Science , September 1979 — May 1984
Additional Information
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Chris Lerch’s Interests:
I am on the staff of US College Hockey Online (www.uscho.com) as well as a freelance writer. I broadcast college hockey on radio and TV.
Chris Lerch’s Groups:
Bishop Kearney Alumni Band
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Social Media Club - Rochester, NY -
Innovative Users Group
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