Allan Catalogo is an experienced IT Manager with over 15 years of repeated success in leading support, enhancement, and ...
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Allan Catalogo Information Technology Professional
Experienced IT Manager with over 15 years of repeated success in leading support, enhancement, and deployment of business-critical solutions. An enthusiastic professional with a systems engineering background that enjoys architecting and designing solutions. Innovative strategist with a track record of success identifying opportunities to control costs and streamline operation processes. Expert in deploying and implementing best practice based structure. Provide mentorship and instill a “can-do” mentality to immediate staff. Very hands-on and has extraordinary abilities to communicate effectively across various organization levels and teams including business, IT and executive management.
Expertise
Technology Acquisition & Design Project Management Network Security Staff Management Problem Identification & Analysis Budgeting
Infrastructure Support & Operations Systems Administration Backup & Recovery Systems Audits Team Leadership & Collaboration Negotiations
Network Design & Deployment LAN/WAN/MPLS/WLAN SLA/Policy Development Application Integration Broad Microsoft Product Experience Vendor Management
Selected Projects and Accomplishments HighJump (WMS) – Deployed wireless infrastructure of multiple warehouses in excess of 750k square feet. ADP (Time & Attendance) – Provide self-service portal for employees to manage time. Biometric clock implementation. Travel and Expense (Concur) – Automated process for employees to submit expense reports while saving and average of $23 per travel transaction. SAP (FI & MM) – ERP implementation Helpdesk Ticketing (Remedy, TrackIT) – Implement ticketing system with SLA and reporting functionality. SharePoint and Lync Deployments – Deploy collaboration tools. Used SharePoint as the framework for organization’s intranet. Data Center Consolidation and Migration – Reduced data center footprint and moved to an offsite Zone 4 colocation facility. Active Directory and Exchange Upgrades – Upgrade Exchange systems and Active Directory. 500 User Headquarter Moves – Coordinated move of headquarters to a new facility. Remote Office Deployment – Establish organization presence in new locations. ECM- Deploy Electronic Content Management system to reduce the need for physical paperwork.
Professional Memberships
PMI Project Management Institute VMUG Virtual Machine User Group CompTIA
CCA Cloud Computing Association OCSUG Orange County SharePoint User Group
Experience 2011- Present
HIVE DSGN IT Consultant
Architect and design backend infrastructure. Steam-line system provisioning process. Maintain and address all IT needs with a high level of user satisfaction.
2010 – March 2015
Manager, IT Operations Stabilized environment decreasing unplanned outages and implementing change management and standardization. Moved data center from onsite to a local Zone 4 colocation facility. Upgraded infrastructure technology utilizing Cisco route/switch, Cisco compute, and Dell storage. Implemented MPLS solution for US/Mexico locations. Enhanced collaboration and communications with implementation of Lync as an IM solution. Managed vendor relationships and negotiate contracts for services and acquisitions of technologies. Analyzed and architected network design for a new $300M manufacturing facility. Deploy wireless to cover (2) 750K+ square foot distribution facility for Warehouse Management System (WMS) leveraging HighJump. Communicate and educate various levels of management throughout the company on enterprise IT solutions. Plan and coordinate the simultaneous move of corporate headquarters and West Coast distribution center. Architected backup solution with up-to-date technology to decrease backup windows and increase efficiency on network resources while lowering organizational risks, meeting recovery point objectives, and recovery time objectives. Designed and implemented companywide intranet utilizing SharePoint technologies. Responsible for all IT JSOX compliance activities. Implemented upgrades of all software and applications to supported revisions in order to maintain supportability with vendors and increase value of assets already owned by providing enhanced features. Designed, developed, and implemented the ITS governance processes and system to support work load, priorities, tracking, problem management, applications change, budget management, vendor management, and asset management.
2008 – 2010
Yokohama Tire Corporation
Activision Blizzard Senior Manager, Information Systems
Dictated and supported all global initiatives for corporate headquarters and 8 studios. Provided technology/management direction in the areas of Windows/Exchange/Virtualization architecture, capacity planning, security, system management, and disaster recovery. Maintained disaster recovery plans for all Activision assets and intellectual property utilizing replication and deduplication (over 800TB of data). Consolidated 5 data centers to 2 over a 9 month project while minimizing the outage periods experienced to users. Introduced an enterprise virtualization strategy to address floor space, power, and cooling consumption costs. This helped lower the operational expense for the Facilities department. rd Created a service desk with a 3 party to supplement services around the onsite Helpdesk team. Implemented an IT support structure which facilitated a quarterly application enhancement schedule. Deployed SharePoint and Office Communications Server to increase user collaboration.
2006 – 2008
Vivendi Games Systems Manager
Immediately managed a team of 3 onsite engineers and 2 remote engineers. Led remote IT groups within the organization (France, Shanghai, Chile, Canada, United Kingdom, Washington, and California) to achieve global IT governance objectives. Offered a 24/7/365 IT support model by implementing an on-call schedule. Implemented VMWare virtualization for production and test environments to increase ROI on hardware assets. Designed and implemented backup environment to handle backup of both physical and virtual environments. Created departmental workflows to help streamline processes. Deployed (HP) blade server architecture to optimize data center resources instead of expanding real estate. The effective saving for the organization was over $250k.
2001 – 2006
Vivendi Universal Games Senior SystemsEngineer
Administered and designed Windows server systems with various functions such as Multi-domain Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, WINS, DHCP, FTP, IIS, DFS, MSSQL, MIIS, ADAM, and SharePoint. Managed SAN (EMC) and NAS data storage systems, VPN Concentrator, IronPort, Brocade switches, Remedy, RightFax, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Goodlink Server, Citrix Farm, NetIQ, Sigaba Secure Email Gateway, and NDS. Maintained tape backups of all systems utilizing a Symantec solution. Led and guided my peers in technology and policy. Consolidated two Exchange organizations into one.
2000 – 2001
Knowledge Adventure Systems Engineer
Maintained backup infrastructure utilizing CA ArcServ and AIT tape technology. Implemented and migrated to Active Directory 2000. Upgraded Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000. Introduced Blackberry technology. Administered Novell files services and NDS.
Education University of Nevada, Las Vegas Electrical Engineering DeVry Technical Institute Electrical Engineering Technology
