Vice President IT and Infrastructure Services - Disaster Recovery

RONALD G. BERGQUIST 930 Shady Meadow Court Copper Canyon, Texas 75077 Cell: 972-689-7785 | Home: 940-241-1430 Texstr@verizon.net EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Information Technology Executive with extensive hands-on experience in high tech manufacturing, financial and distribution high availability environments. Joined the US largest Financial Services Company in secured and non secured lending as Vice President of Infrastructure services, responsible for complete renewal and rearchitecture of core IT systems. Innovative manager with proven skills in supporting business growth and solving technical problems while leading, motivating and mentoring IT and business owner teams in both public and private companies. Successful negotiator and strategic planner adept in directing technology and professional services based businesses. Particular expertise in integrating operations, manufacturing, retail and financial systems including disaster recovery site building and management. Led an Infrastructure/ IT team of over 80 people servicing 1000 plus locations nationwide. International experience in both Mexico and Europe. Heavy manufacturing experience implementing over 30 sites nationwide, specializing in process flow improvements. Key contributor possessing the drive to influence the growth and direction of the company’s strategic initiatives. Extensive vendor management relations experience resulting in reduced overhead and maintenance costs. Highly focused system uptime achievements. Senior Executive with proven skills in solving business problems. Strong background in operations, supply chain, ERP systems, process reengineering improvements, and delivery of cost effective Information Services (IS) solutions. • Point-of-sale uptime • PCI Compliance • Sarbanes - Oxley Compliance • SAS Compliance • Budgeting and P&L responsibilities for $10 million IT budget • Hyperion Essbase and XTD Budget and Planning implementations • Enterprise Data Warehouse Experience - ETL • Nominated for the IBM “BEACON” award for Disaster Recovery • Disaster Recovery Data Center build out and management expertise • Data Center relocation and consolidation experience, foreign and domestic • Server and San consolidation VM and LPAR experience • Major Vendor Negotiations • Automated fail over systems Disaster Recovery - snap mirror technology • HACMP failover technology • Security management • 24X7 Data Center and “Help Desk” Management • Lawson ERP Systems • JD Edwards World and One World and One World Xe experience • JD Edwards ERP systems/process implementation leader • EDI Communications Network • Telco Experience, ISP management, NOC, Multi-site management, U.S.A., United Kingdom and Japan • Lan/Wan Network management and redundant data center systems • UNIX, IBM RIS 6000, Clustered Environments, SAN storage, AS400, Microsoft Platform and Network co-existence management • Oracle databases, AIX systems, SOA architecture, VCS systems, Snap Mirror replication, over 200 servers in environments • “Lights Out” System Management • SOA architecture experience, Symantec VCS, NetApp, HACMP, Clustered environment building and leadership experience.

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Lewisville, TX