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James Kaidy

IT Specialist
Sunnyvale,CA
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
John F. Kennedy
James Kaidy

Summary

Technology Specialist with excellent skills in managing conflict and prioritizing tasks. Adept at building and strengthening relationships and developing solutions. My goal is to set self sustaining and evolving capabilities to industries and consumers alike.

Overview

7
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Dark Unicorn Group

Senior Partner
01.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • (company's 2nd-in-charge & corporate officer) overseeing & engaged in the
  • Technology Solutions line of business, comprised of several levels of Technology professionals engaged in Technology Consulting, Professional Services, & Advisory duties as part-time employment (moonlighting) outside of their regular employment (day jobs)
  • Functional owner for all corporate Infrastructure (functional CIO domain), architect & owner for all
  • Digital Transformations initiative company-wide, & people management throughout
  • Provided expert consulting & advisory to internal stakeholders & the firm's clients.

Dark Unicorn Group

Senior Associate
01.2022 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • In an elite Technical Consulting & Professional Services firm founded by an
  • Information & Cybersecurity Engineering Professor @ UC Berkeley, responsible for providing a vast range of technological & cybersecurity services to the firm's clients
  • Drove progress on internal development effort, owned infrastructure deployment projects, & advised the firm's Executive Partner / Managing Partner (CEO-equivalent) on Technology & Operational matters during a period of significant growth
  • Recruited based on significant IT Managed Services & Technology Consulting experience by the firm's founder, a former colleague from virtual CIO & virtual CISO experience at Hyperlink, Inc.

Pliancy
Palo Alto, CA

Technology Consultant
01.2022 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Delivering tailored experience for Venture Capital through innovating solutions.
  • Created and lead projects for more custom and tailored solutions.
  • Provided numerous White-Glove services for Executives in high stress and high sensitivity scenarios
  • Continued to own the deployment & lifecycle management of Remote Monitoring, Diagnostic, & other internal IT
    agents to improve operational metrics including: Mean Time Between Outages (MTBO), Mean Time To
    Detect (MTTD), & Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) w/ minimal additional costs, dramatically improving
    efficiency, costs to clients, & company revenue.
  • Continued to provide training on diverse topics, including to expert level technical stakeholders.
  • Continued assessments & authored process / system documentation
  • Liaised w/ Executive Partners, Board members, & Operation Officers, engaging in comprehensive
    account management work during new client onboarding, system transitions, & more

Hyperlink, Inc

IT Support Professional & Technology Consultant Confidential
01.2017 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • Provided IT Services & full-scope Technology Consulting (virtual Chief Information Officer / vCIO) for small-medium businesses (Medical Practices, Pharma & Biotech companies, & Silicon Valley startups), becoming the Directly Responsible Individual in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) for business / enterprise clients & systems-related duties (overseeing 20-50% of the business after ~1 yr of employment)
  • Liaised w/ C-Suite stakeholders, business owners, & Board members, engaging in comprehensive account management work during new client onboarding, system transitions, & more
  • Provided training on diverse topics, including to expert level technical stakeholders
  • Conducted assessments & authored process / system documentation
  • Principal resource / Subject Matter Expert (SME) for boutique Hardware Engineering efforts

Qventus, Inc

Senior IT Systems Engineer, Chief Information Officer
01.2018 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • Provided Managed IT Services & full-scope Technology Consulting (virtual Chief Information Officer / vCIO) services under contract with Hyperlink, Inc
  • Developed foundational solutions to managing On-Prem and remote solutions for optimizing Client experience in productivity
  • Directed technology development & deployment for new primary office location

KiwiCo, Inc

Senior IT Systems Engineer | virtual Chief Information Officer
01.2018 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • (vCIO) / CIO-as-a-
  • Service, Provided Managed IT Services & full-scope Technology Consulting (virtual Chief Information Officer / vCIO) services under contract with Hyperlink, Inc
  • Directed technology development & deployment for new additional secondary office location
  • Directed technology development & deployment for restructuring primary office location, (vCIO) / CIO-as-a-
  • Service
  • Enable Imaging, Provided Managed IT Services & full-scope Technology Consulting (virtual Chief Information Officer / vCIO) services under contract with Hyperlink, Inc.

Oramic, LLC

Senior IT Systems Engineer, Chief Information Officer
01.2018 - 01.2022

Job overview


  • Service, Provided Managed IT Services & full-scope Technology Consulting (virtual Chief Information Officer / vCIO) services under contract with Hyperlink, Inc.

IntraVu, Inc

Senior IT Systems Engineer
01.2018 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) / CIO-as-a-
  • Service,
  • Provided Managed IT Services & full-scope Technology Consulting (virtual Chief Information Officer / vCIO) services under contract with Hyperlink, Inc.

Eve Biomedical, Inc

IT Systems Engineer
01.2018 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • Functional virtual CIO (CIO-as-a-Service), functional virtual CIO (CIO-as-a-Service)

Howard Community College

IT Professional Services, Video Editor
01.2016 - 01.2017

Job overview

Provided Managed IT Services & project-based, to consumer & business customers

  • Expert diagnostician for software issues on macOS, Windows, & iOS as well as for hardware issues across numerous manufacturers & platforms
  • Deployed software across consumer & enterprise IT endpoints
  • Conducted Digital Forensics & provided IT Security services.

Education

Wilde Lake High School
Columbia, MD

High School Diploma
08.2014 - 06.2016

Skills

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Timeline

Senior Partner

Dark Unicorn Group
01.2023 - Current

Senior Associate

Dark Unicorn Group
01.2022 - 01.2023

Technology Consultant

Pliancy
01.2022 - 01.2023

Senior IT Systems Engineer, Chief Information Officer

Qventus, Inc
01.2018 - 01.2022

Senior IT Systems Engineer | virtual Chief Information Officer

KiwiCo, Inc
01.2018 - 01.2022

Senior IT Systems Engineer, Chief Information Officer

Oramic, LLC
01.2018 - 01.2022

Senior IT Systems Engineer

IntraVu, Inc
01.2018 - 01.2022

IT Systems Engineer

Eve Biomedical, Inc
01.2018 - 01.2022

IT Support Professional & Technology Consultant Confidential

Hyperlink, Inc
01.2017 - 01.2022

IT Professional Services, Video Editor

Howard Community College
01.2016 - 01.2017

Wilde Lake High School

High School Diploma
08.2014 - 06.2016
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