83 Plymouth Ct, Aurora, IL 60504
ebnewman@gmail.com (H) 630 566 9073 (M) 630 677 2106
v Proven and Experienced Executive, Architect and Mentor with Program Management, Financial Management, ITIL, Infrastructure Architecture and Systems Engineering skills specializing in real-time, high performance, high availability infrastructure and data centers
Accenture, Chicago, IL
Practice Lead, June 2004 to Present
v Responsible for Project and Financial Management of client engagements
v Projects managed include
o Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure Deployment for a Fortune 500 financial services firm
o Infrastructure Assessment and Redesign for a Fortune 10 financial services firm
o Data Center Consolidation and Outsourcing for Fortune 10 automotive firm
o Business Impact Analysis and technology roadmap for a Fortune 500 retailer
o IT assessment and three year strategy development for a top five international airport
o Enterprise storage assessment, tiering and roadmap development for a national telecommunications firm
o IT process transformation to develop and deploy ITIL processes across an IT organization with 800+ staff
v Develop ILM “Go-to-Market” strategy and vision
Greenwich Technology Partners, Chicago, IL
Senior Partner, April 2002 to June 2004
v P&L responsibility for the Midwest Division, responsible for budget, hiring, presales and opportunity analysis
v Managed presales and delivery organization responsible for tripling revenue in FY2003
v Develop Divisional Strategy for growth, delivery and hiring
v Develop and implement standards and processes for the National Application and Systems Management Practice
v Responsible for mentoring and career development for practice consultants and engineers
v Projects managed include
o Financial Analysis of global technology spending at two Fortune 50 customers as a baseline for new negotiations on international telecommunications and managed services contracts
o Lead technology architect for build-out of 160,000 sq. ft. Level 5 data center for a Fortune 50 financial services firm
o Architect and implement the data center migration solution for a Fortune 50 company to support a “mirrored” data center design with dual data center operations 750 miles apart
Transora, Chicago, IL
Vice President of Infrastructure, eMarketplace Architect, 2000 - 2002
v Responsible for all Corporate Technology, including Architecture, Security, E-Commerce Infrastructure, Enterprise Application Integration, Global Operations Center, Data Warehouse and Corporate IT
v Build and operate four Data Centers in the United States and a fifth in Denmark with High Availability built in for both back office and customer facing applications
v Design, evaluate and implement a new facilities infrastructure to support Voice, HVAC, Power, Grounding and Shielding for new corporate offices
v Member of M&A analysis team
v Accountable for the development and management of departmental budget in excess of $35M
v Responsible for Corporate Data and Network Security in addition to the development and implementation of global Risk Management strategy and all Service Level Agreements with Transora’s partners and vendors
v Lead several multi-million dollar projects utilizing full time employees and more than 40 consultants including the design and build out of the eMarketplace data center and Transora’s new offices
v Technical lead for all contract and vendor negotiations as well as partnership development
v Develop and implement the deployment of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library framework encompassing change, configuration, problem and service level management
DigitalWork.com, Inc., Chicago, IL
Director of Technology Operations, 2000
v Manage the day to day functions of all Corporate IT and E-Commerce Functions including Telecommunications, Systems Management and the Operations Center
v Build out a new Data Center and migrate all existing applications
v Responsible for departmental budget planning and management
v Business Owner and Project Lead for several cross functional projects resulting in improvement of web site availability to 99.7% for the months of August and September up from 99% for June and July
v Responsible for technical review of all partnership contracts and business initiatives
MyPoints.com, Inc, Schaumburg, IL
Vice President of Operations, 1999 - 2000
v Oversee day to day operations of Corporate IT, Networking and Telecommunications, Systems Management and Network Operations Center
v Member of the Executive Leadership team, developed five year technology strategy
v Build and operate two remote Data Centers with online fail over capability to support all customer facing web operations
v Responsible for Departmental budget, $6M for FY1999 and $15M for FY2000. Accountable for personnel allocation, hardware and software procurement and departmental project scoping
v Member of the M&A team for the analysis of three acquisition targets
v Design and implement a multi-tiered, highly-available web and email marketing delivery system supporting three million web hits per day and the sending of five million dynamically generated emails
v Manage three directors and four departments with more than 30 highly motivated, very skilled engineers
Osage Systems Group, Wood Dale, IL
Practice Manager, 1998 - 1999
v P&L responsibility for Osage Support Center, a subsidiary of Osage Systems Group and member of Corporate Strategy Team
v Oversee day to day operations of a 7x24 hour Support Center with a staff of highly trained Sun certified systems engineers providing first and second level hardware and software support utilizing Remedy ARS
v Build and operate a central Data Center to support corporate and customer Network Operations, Call Center Operations and Web Hosting
v Design, planning and implementation of a Network Operations Center to provide systems and network monitoring and administration of customers remote networks
v Provide new technology training for customers and engineers including the development of a continuing education program for all system engineers
v Manage and develop Vendor relations and agreements with leading Internet Technology companies including Sun, Veritas, Checkpoint, Netscape and Cisco.
Sprint Paranet, Inc., Chicago, IL
Senior Technical Analyst and Project Manager, 1997 - 1998
Alliance Systems, Inc., Itasca, IL
Internet/Intranet Services Developer, 1996 - 1997
Chicago Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL
IT Analyst, 1995
Tempest Technology Inc., Palos Heights, IL
Systems Programmer/Information Systems Consultant, 1993 - 1995
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston, IL
Master of Engineering Management, Emphasis in Technology and Project Management
ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science