David Pitts                                                                                         david@dpitts.com

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QUALIFICATIONS

Over 25 years technical experience, including 9 years of management, 6 years second level management and 2 years business ownership.  Experienced dealing with large distributed environments, resource and project management, staffing and sourcing alternatives, and crisis response and recovery in such areas as internet, manufacturing, healthcare, higher education, high tech, and wireless communications. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb. '03 - Present                                        Director of Operations                                            Lexington, KY           

                                                                        IMG Worldwide

·         Ensures continuous delivery and operations of high traffic highly visible college sports athletics web sites including www.ukathletics.com, www.secsports.com, www.texassports.com, www.utsports.com, www.utladyvols.com, www.ncaafootball.com, www.mgoblue.com, www.arizonaathletics.com, www.texasfootball.com, and www.ihigh.com.

·         Manages staff of four direct reports and a group of 16.

·         Manages multimillion-dollar budget with emphasis on reducing costs while improving and expanding services.  

·         Manages network where transmissions regularly exceed 400 Mbps with peaks above 1.8 Gbps in a mixed environment.

·         Verse in Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems, and Cisco routing and load balancing running applications such as Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, IIS, Apache, Active Directory, Exchange, Telephone systems, Vignette, and custom content management systems.

 

Sample vendor negotiation: Negotiated CDN bandwidth costs decreasing them by 82% over four years.

Sample vendor negotiation: Negotiated Collocation facility costs increasing bandwidths by 833% with a 16% increase in costs.

Sample Budget Experience: Replaced over $500,000 of recurring cost solutions with ones requiring less than $40,000 in one-time costs over an 18-month period

 

Sep. '02 – Feb. '03                                           Systems Analyst                                                 Lexington, KY           

                                    Bluegrass Regional Mental Health/Mental Retardation Board

·         Designed and managed network consisting of 3Com Switches, Cisco routers, and Cisco PIX

·         Installed and upgraded Windows and Linux servers and applications.

·         Converted then expanded a statistical analysis program from Perl to Visual Basic.

               

Oct. '01 – Nov. '01                                        Programmer/Analyst                                               Nashville, TN           

      TEK Systems                                   Client:  Vanderbilt University

·         Designed, developed and implemented an LDAP implementation for Vanderbilt University.

 

Dec. '99 – Aug. '01                                         President and CEO                                               Lexington, KY

                                                            Pitts Technical Resources, Inc.

·         Founded, developed and managed a technical consulting firm developing complex client-server, web based, and applications solutions for small to medium sized businesses.

·         Managed the workload and priorities of the programming staff, worked with marketing and sales on developing scope-of-work for projects, and designed and oversaw the implementation of corporate software.

·         Coordinated strategy, comprehensive business plan, policies, and budget with the Board of Directors.

 

March – Sep. '99                                 SP Implementation Team Lead                                  Sacramento, CA           

ICC Corporation                                     Client: Sutter Health

·         Lead a team of 9 supporting the 7th largest health organization in the U.S.

Project Samples:

·         Migrated 32 SP Nodes and 8 SP Frames to Y2K certified level of AIX, including PSSP, HACMP, ADSM, and other ancillary software with 100% success rate on-budget and ahead of schedule.

·         Installed, moved, and deleted multiple SP Nodes from highly dynamic and complex Clustered systems (IBM RS/6000 SP frames utilizing AIX, PSSP and HACMP).

·         Managed a rotating team of nine system administrators in providing updates and patches to systems in a true 7x24 hospital environment.

·         Coordinated technical issues management such as datacenter footprint management, outage coordination, service contracts, and data warehouse access.

 

1996 – 1999                                                    Senior Consultant                                 Everett & Bellevue, WA           

            Best Consulting                         Client: The Boeing Company

·         Performed diagnostics, performance monitoring and tuning, file system manipulation, cluster manipulation, loading of e-fixes and ptf's, documentation, problem determination and resolution, and other duties as needed to successfully manage in excess of a terabyte of data spanning two multi-framed SP's in a collaborative and collegial environment ensuring availability of data to over 12,000 engineers. Storage management issues were addressed including backup and recovery as well as disaster recovery with VERITAS and ADSM.

·         Designed, managed and maintained a 14,000+ page dynamic web site internal to the client's network that identified dynamic, time sensitive, and accurate tracking of 3000 Unix workstations. Participated in AIX Change Board

·         Developed and Instructed corporate training courses on Perl, Web, and Unix.

·         Performed technical interviews in Unix, Web Mastering, and Programming.

 

1992 – 1996                                                          Consultant                                                     Lexington, KY           

                                                 Clients included IBM, Ashland Oil, and ISSC

·         Managed customer center and performed systems administration at IBM's regional marketing center setting up training classes, seminars and conferences.

·         Performed backup and recovery operations with ADSM supporting very large clients.

     

1987 – 1992                                              Computer Lab Technician                                            Wilmore, KY           

                                                                         Asbury College

·         Assisted staff, faculty, and students in the use of IBM, Amiga, and AT&T equipment on a 3B2 Based Client/Server StarLan Network.

·         Troubleshoot hardware and software issues using Unix (AT&T), DOS, Windows 3.0, Word Perfect, SPSS, Maple, and DB2.

     

1985 – 1987                                                           Manager                                                       Lexington, KY           

                                                                        Grand Junction

·         Managed staff of 60+ in day-to-day operations of a fast-food restaurant.

               

1982 – 1987                                               Programming Consultant                                      Nicholasville, KY           

                               Clients included Fox Automotive, Jessamine County Public Schools

·         Programmed and designed custom databases and front-end systems for clients. 

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