Kurt Mechaley

Current

• Director of IT Operations at Smart and Final

Past

• IT Sr. Consultant at St. John's Health Center
• Director - Global Network Services at Avery Dennison
• Senior IT Consultant - Director, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) at United HealthCare

• Manager - WAN Engineering at Computer Sciences Corporation
• Senior Network Consultant at IBM Global Services / GE Capital (TMS), Inc.,

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Education

• Fairfield University

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Connections

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Industry

Retail

Kurt Mechaley’s Summary

Senior management professional in the Information Technology field. A dynamic accomplished manager with a broad technical background and extensive years of experience in Information Technology. Skilled in applying technology to maximize network infrastructure and in applying management practices to improve staff performance. Effective communicator at all levels.

Kurt Mechaley’s Specialties:

Project Management - Contract Negotiations - Operational Optimization - Budget /Cost Management - Process Improvement - Change Control - System Implementation - Architecture Design - Training/ Team Building

Kurt Mechaley’s Experience

• Director of IT Operations

  Smart and Final

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Retail industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• IT Sr. Consultant

  St. John's Health Center

  (Packaging and Containers industry)

  April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

• Director - Global Network Services

  Avery Dennison

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AVY; Consumer Goods industry)

  January 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 2 months)

• Senior IT Consultant - Director, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

  United HealthCare

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PHS; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  July 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  Provided management and oversight of all third party telecommunications vendors, primarily the voice and data services as part of the outsourcing agreement with IBM.

• Manager - WAN Engineering

  Computer Sciences Corporation

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

  June 1998 — June 2003 (5 years 1 month)

  Directed the engineering, maintenance, operations and management for the Raytheon, Inc. Enterprise Network. This network utilized the latest in ATM, Frame Relay, SONET and encryption technology.

• Senior Network Consultant

  IBM Global Services / GE Capital (TMS), Inc.,

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  March 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 4 months)

  Provided consulting support and leadership for the 28 G.E. Capital businesses in all of their voice and data network infrastructure and systems requirements.

Kurt Mechaley’s Education

• Fairfield University

Additional Information

Kurt Mechaley’s Groups:

Lee Hecht Harrison

•    ITSMF interest (1300+)
•    CIOin

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