Executive Director, Sony Pictures Entertainment
January 3rd, 2008
Date: August 2003 – Present
Summary:Â Specialize in providing IT-to-IT support services with 24x7x365 engineering and hosting of middleware and database platforms. The engineering and support team is responsible for the hosting of over 600 Java application servers, 1,200 databases, and various other middleware and data management platforms including: WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, Teradata, and CA SiteMinder.
Focus on contributions with well trained personnel, operational excellence, and prudent fiscal management. Managed a software maintenance budget of $3.0M in 2007 and a departmental budget $8.0M in 2008. Implemented application hosting metrics to forecast service demands and to measure staff productivity.
Accomplishment Highlights:
- Achieved $570K in maintenance reduction and 6.2% overall savings in the overhead budget in 2008.
- Instituted a tracking system that has logged over 4,900 application deployments since 2006.
- Implemented and introduced JBoss and Oracle 11g on Linux for enterprise application hosting in 2008.
- Managed $2.2M Business Objects upgrade which converted 1,400 reports from v.5/6 to XIR2.
- Built a customer-centric support team that achieved top recognition within the IT organization in 2007.
- Designed and conducted an internal customer satisfaction survey to assess service quality in 2007.
- Led a 12-month effort to stabilize the support operations of the EAI/middleware team in 2007.
- Achieved $300K in annual savings by consolidating and streamlining WebLogic support in 2006.
- Increased 200% in hosting capacity and reduced complexity by consolidating physical WebLogic servers and standardizing applications on one WebLogic version in 2005.
- Promoted to director from technical architect in 2003 and promoted to executive director in 2007.
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