Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder
Experienced IT Strategist, CTO, Director, Manager, Consultant
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Overview
- Current
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- Chief IT Strategist | Consultant | Director | CIO | Founder at RECURSOINC, LLC
- Past
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- Manager of Information Services, IT Manager, IS Manager at Ohio Water Development Authority
- Senior Consultant at 3X Corporation
- Senior Information Analyst at Penn Traffic/Big Bear Stores Company
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Adobe System
- ISACA
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Macromedia
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Macromedia
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Center for Advanced Professional Development
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Devry Insitute of Technology, Columbus, Ohio
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IBM
- Recommendations
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5 people have recommended Patrick
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Summary
Highly accomplished Information Technology professional with a history of success in managing IT services to elevate operational performance across diverse public and private organizations. Strategic partner and trusted advisor combining solid management and business acumen with advanced technical knowledge. Demonstrated experience in driving business process improvement, disaster recovery and business continuity and infrastructure management. Dynamic leader; skilled at leading high-performance teams in design and execution of large-scale projects in alignment with business strategies. Influential communicator with proven ability to cultivate relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, colleagues and employees.
Specialties
• Business Process Improvement
• Best Practices
• Capacity Planning
• Budget Preparation & Management
• Web Services
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Business Continuity
• IT Operations
• Virtualization Technology
• Infrastructure Management
• Security/Network Monitoring
• IT Risk Assessment
• System Analysis
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Languages
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English
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
Chinese
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Experience
Chief IT Strategist | Consultant | Director | CIO | Founder
RECURSOINC, LLC
Information Technology and Services industry
2010 – Present (2 years)
Provide comprehensive professional services to small- and medium-sized businesses as founder of IT consulting practice. Leverage broad-based expertise in strategically aligning business processes with technology to drive clients' performance. Elevate presence and visibility within the marketplace by leveraging social media with personal contact to cultivate new business opportunities. Maximize search ranking through advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
• IT Consulting
• Business/Technology Alignment
• Technology Deployment
• Project Management
• IT Operations
• Data center Management
• Best Practices
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning
• System Analysis
Manager of Information Services, IT Manager, IS Manager
Ohio Water Development Authority
Accounting industry
1997 – 2010 (13 years)
• Oversee day-to-day operation of the data center
• Manage and maintain relationship with vendors, and service providers.
• Strategic and tactical planning
• Project management
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Budget management
• Security policy and governance
• Technology deployment
• System Analysis
Senior Consultant
3X Corporation
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry
1995 – 1997 (2 years)
• Provided consulting services to existing and prospective clients in the banking, retailing and government sectors.
• Consulting projects: document business processes, and system analysis.
• LAN/WAN design, planning and installation.
• System Engineering
• System Analysis
Senior Information Analyst
Penn Traffic/Big Bear Stores Company
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ptfc; Retail industry
1989 – 1995 (6 years)
• Local Area Network (LAN) technology evaluation and deployment.
• Managed, monitored day-to-day operation of the LAN
• Deployed Lotus Notes to streamline business and IT workflow processes.
• System Analysis
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Skills & Expertise
- Business Process Improvement
- Cloud Computing
- Network Security
- Web Design
- Microsoft Office
- Mac OS X
- IT Governance
- Data Privacy
- IT Operations
- Lightroom
- Incident Response
- Best Practices
- Network Design
- Wireless Networking
- IP Networking
- Cisco Catalyst Switches
- Cisco IOS
- ASP
- VMware ESX
- VMware Server
- Windows
- Windows Server
- Certified Novell Engineer
- Risk Assessment
- Social Networking
- MS Project
- Active Directory
- Apple iOS
- RIM BES
- Project Management
- Vendor Management
- Budgeting
- SEO
- Consulting
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Certifications
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Novell Certified Network Engineer
- Novell
- January 1997 to January 2002
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Education
Stanford University
Introduction to Artificial Intelligent Certificate
2011 – 2011
Adobe System
Adobe Flash CS3 - Introduction to Flash CS3 Professional
2007 – 2007
ISACA
Network Security Conference
2006 – 2006
Macromedia
Flash 8 Action Script
2006 – 2006
Macromedia
Dreamweaver MX2004 Dynamic Application Development
2004 – 2004
Center for Advanced Professional Development
Internetworking with Netware
Devry Insitute of Technology, Columbus, Ohio
BS, Computer Information System
On Dean and President's list
IBM
Business Fundamentals Overview and Installation Planning
Patrick Chong - Chief IT Strategist, Founder's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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Guitar, latest gadgets, cars, photography, Leadership Development, electronics, computer technology
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- consulting offers
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