Toby Rider

Past

• Senior Systems Engineer at Triad Financial
• Programmer Analyst III at UCLA Physics Department
• Lead Systems Administrator at Frontera Corporation

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Education

• The University of Dallas
• Texas Tech University
• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Toby Rider’s Summary

A business technology professional with 11 years of experience planning, coordinating, deploying and managing IT infrastructure and applications deployment projects. Considerable experience providing support to clients through all phases of the IT lifecycle. Current MBA candidate at The University of Dallas. Strengths include:

+ Excellent communications skills. I present real meaning, clearly, succinctly, and with honest emotion to any audience
+ Experience leading and coordinating teams in the planning and execution of projects, in order to achieve business objectives on-time, within budget and with a Texas-sized smile
+ A passion for applying technology to the mission of achieving quantifiable business results, measurable in increased revenue
* Ability to inspire confidence, trust and cohesion within teams of working professionals
+ Proven ability to identify, define and implement process improvement strategies, in order to eliminate activities that add cost but do not add value
+ Demonstrated success establishing and managing strategic client & vendor relationships
+ Expertise with numerous operating systems, applications and hardware platforms
+ Proven track record of successfully supporting mission-critical IT infrastructures 24/7 in a variety of industries, often under hostile or adverse operational conditions, while dealing with significant ambiguity and constantly changing priorities.
+ IT experience in variety of industries, with a preference for smaller, aggressive companies.

Toby Rider’s Specialties:

+ Project Management
+ SDLC, Agile/Scrum Management
+ IT Auditing & Compliance
+ Technical Writing
+ ITIL & Infrastructure Best Practices
+ Operational Analysis & Improvement
+ Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning
+ Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, Windows)
+ Web Services
+ Storage & Backups
+ Databases (Oracle, MS SQL, DB2)
+ SAS, Statistical and Decision Analysis
+ Common sense / big picture view
+ Mandarin Chinese

Toby Rider’s Education

• The University of Dallas

  MBA , Entrepreneurship, IT Management , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

• Texas Tech University

  BS , Technical Communications , 1992 — 1996

  - Horseman's Association, Most Valuable Member 1995.
  - Volunteer DJ at KOHM 89.1 (South Plains Public Radio), Lubbock.

  Activities and Societies:

  - Horseman's Association
  - Texas Tech Alumni Association, Fort Worth Chapter

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Architecture 1990 — 1992