Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Systems Consultant at Complete Systems Design - http://www.csdits.com
- Past
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- Director of Information Technology at Patriot Communications
- V.P. Systems Engineering at Franchise Mortgage Acceptance Company
- Systems Manager at UCLA Business & Finance
- Systems Manager at J. E. Robert Companies
- Education
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- The University of Connecticut
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Jim Millerick’s Summary
Versatile information technology professional with extensive experience leading developers and engineers with design and implementation. Proven experience managing large, multi-disciplined assignments and managing client relationships. I continually demonstrate success in reducing costs and improving productivity through implementation of new system standards, negotiating with vendors and coaching staff members.
Jim Millerick’s Experience
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Systems Consultant
Complete Systems Design - http://www.csdits.com
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)
• Reduce client expenses by negotiating all hardware, software and phone contracts & purchases.
• Develop scope of work, budget and implement systems migration for large & small companies.
• Install Windows 2003 File Servers & Exchange 2003 with Active Directory for clients including anti-virus and spam protection, tape backup, remote access and RPC over HTTPS and Outlook Web Access.
• Manage all IT functions for several companies including DRP, long term planning and budgets.
• Document, implement and review change management for large systems environment.
• Install Firewalls with VPN support and Terminal Services for multiple clients.
• Design and create and set standards for web pages using Flash, JavaScript, and DHTML
• Plan and implement life-cycle strategy to optimize investments.
• Document, lead and assist with multiple migrations at UCLA including file servers, web servers, e-mail and workstations. -
Director of Information Technology
Patriot Communications
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 7 months)
• Hire and manage team of developers and programmers – VB, SQL, ASP, Flash, HTML
• Evaluate, modify, and review contracts and proposals for sales, accounting, and outsourcing and potential mergers.
• Create & test Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Direct development of multiple apps including telephony, teleprompting, and accounting.
• Implement security with Norton AV, CheckPoint firewall, AD security, and asset management.
• Lead IT participation in sales meetings to assist with our products promotion and new accounts.
• Migrate to new infrastructure including: from Novell to Windows with Active Directory, from Token Ring to fast switched Ethernet, from outsourced e-mail to Exchange, from SQL 5.5 to SQL 2000, Roxen to IIS, from dial-up PCAnywhere and no firewall to Terminal Services and Checkpoint.
• Plan & complete company HQ move as well as telephony co-location move and other office moves. -
V.P. Systems Engineering
Franchise Mortgage Acceptance Company
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
February 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 4 months)
• Hire team for newly created company separating from previous parent company, Imperial Credit.
• Implement policies and equipment standards which reduced expenditures by over 30% while improving the quality of the products purchased and reducing support time for the team.
• Lead team through major expansions including 100 additional servers and 1200 additional clients.
• Meet with user committees to discuss new system requirements, survey current system concerns and create resolution strategy-including modifying our Customer Relationship Management program.
• Relocate a number of major offices, managing GC’s, telco, and wiring and data carriers.
• Lead team to completion in the data merger of other companies.
• Evaluate areas for systems improvements by performing support for all client groups. -
Systems Manager
UCLA Business & Finance
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)
• Manage and hire staff; plan their career development and assist regional IT members.
• Replace and reconfigure over 40 NT & Sco Unix servers to meet present needs and provide sufficient growth potential for four years, increasing up time from 93.5% to 99.85 % in a 7 x 24 operation.
• Save each department $500 per new workstation while raising the standard for hardware, reliability, and performance and improve client satisfaction.
• Meet with Directors and Chancellors for budget proposals and time lines for systems upgrades.
• Physically Inventory 1500 workstations, evaluate upgradeability, prepare three-year strategy including budgetary, time lines and technical plans for NT rollout.
• Support MS-SQL and Oracle running on Windows NT and SCO-Unix and guide PB development.
• Install applications run in a distributed-central-server-based Windows environment. -
Systems Manager
J. E. Robert Companies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 1996 (3 years )
• Resolve concerns including troubleshoot NLM conflicts, corrected visual basic code, perform software and hardware support for co-workers.
• Customize software environment for client ease of use and efficiency.
• Optimize network performance through hardware, software and load balancing via an ether switch and NLMs as well as optimizing workstations.
• Install and maintain servers, disk arrays, network equipment, WAN, wiring and workstations.
• Implement new server-based backup system and networked faxing solution.
• Develop and create the departmental budget.
Senior Systems Engineer JER Milford, Connecticut- 220 Clients - promoted and relocated to California May 1994
• Research, evaluate and select new hardware and software for servers, network and workstations including etherswitching and optical storage system.
• Configure, install and maintain servers, disk arrays, network equipment, WAN, wiring and workstations. .
