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Kevin Wolfe

Benicia,CA

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Information Technology

Seiler LLP
Redwood City
01.2014 - Current
  • Oversee $4.7 million annual IT budget (a 390% increase over 10-year period)
  • Successfully moved all employees to remote working at the start of the pandemic during firm's busiest tax season
  • Launched new infrastructure during firm expansion from four office locations in California to 330 remote workers located in 30+ states.

IT Systems Manager

Systems Integration Solution
Walnut Creek
01.2004 - 01.2014
  • Managed, mentored, and trained three-person IT team responsible for supporting 60+ users working remotely across six states
  • Reduced company downtime by implementing new servers, upgraded software and patch management system which improved uptime to 99%
  • Decreased company's support contracts by 50% via server environment consolidation from single-process to virtual network.

IT Systems Manager

Seiler LLP
Redwood City
01.2002 - 01.2014
  • Reduced company downtime by implementing new servers, upgraded software and patch management system
  • Moving remote users from VPN to Citrix
  • Uptime improved from 95% to 99%
  • Consolidated server environment from single server single process to Virtual network effectively removing 2/3 of the servers, while moving to a Virtual Network
  • This effectively cut the companies support contracts in half because of the reduction in hardware
  • Move network backbone and firewall to CISCO managed switches and Cisco PIX firewall
  • Moved from old Nortel BCM to new ShorTel VoiP system with very little down time and impact to the organization
  • Created Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan with replication NAS server in the Arizona office for data
  • Implemented McAfee SaaS for spam filtering and disaster recovery of the mail system
  • Moved SQL DB’s the Azurri
  • Moved main CRM system (SmartSearch) offsite for maximum uptime
  • Moved the company from unstable VPN for remote users and designed and installed a Citrix environment which increased productivity in remote offices and significantly lowered the company’s cost to support those offices
  • Twice, directed and coordinated company relocation of IT infrastructure to a new location with minimal down time and impact to the company
  • By coordinating with vendors, the company was down for less than 24 hours with each move.

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Summary

Insightful Information Technology Manager with over 30 years of IT leadership experience including oversight of infrastructure, application support and security services. Dedicated to customer satisfaction with focused delivery of technical solutions. Proven leader in directing operations, maintenance and support of complex systems. Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.

Additional Information

I streamlined support for the end-users. I have successfully managed a budgets amounting up to 4.7 million over the past 20 years. As my current company grew, my team grew from two people to ten people, all of who were promoted during their tenure. I firmly believe in fostering positive and successful relationships within my department and across all other departments.

Timeline

Director, Information Technology

Seiler LLP
01.2014 - Current

IT Systems Manager

Systems Integration Solution
01.2004 - 01.2014

IT Systems Manager

Seiler LLP
01.2002 - 01.2014
Kevin Wolfe