Hi, I’m
PHILIP TRUE SAVINO
Technology Leader
Littleton,CO
Summary
Dynamic technology leader with a proven track record, driving strategic IT initiatives and enhancing cybersecurity. Expert in resource allocation and team development, I leverage innovative solutions to optimize infrastructure and improve service delivery, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
Overview
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Arapahoe County Government
Director & CIO
12.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for overseeing the entire IT ecosystem within the county to optimize performance, improve services, and enhance cybersecurity.
- Focus on a strong blend of leadership, technical expertise, and strategic vision to align IT initiatives with the county's overall objectives.
- Develop and implement the county's IT strategic plan aligned with the overall organizational goals.
- Identify technology trends, advancements, and opportunities that can benefit county operations.
- Create and oversee the IT budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to various projects, initiatives, and maintenance activities.
- Monitor expenses and identify cost-saving measures while maximizing the value delivered by IT services.
- Lead and manage the IT department, including hiring, training, and performance evaluation of staff members.
- Foster a positive and collaborative work culture, encouraging innovation and professional growth among team members.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of IT projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the established quality standards.
- Monitor project progress and address any issues or risks that may arise.
- Establish and enforce IT security policies, procedures, and best practices to safeguard county data, infrastructure, and systems from cybersecurity threats.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
- Manage the county's IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, data centers, and cloud services.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of IT systems to support county operations.
- Collaborate with external vendors and service providers to acquire necessary hardware, software, and services.
- Negotiate contracts, review service level agreements, and ensure vendors deliver on their commitments.
- Develop and enforce IT governance policies to streamline decision-making processes and align IT initiatives with the county's strategic objectives.
- Drive digital transformation initiatives across county departments, leveraging emerging technologies to improve service delivery, operational efficiency, and citizen engagement.
- Oversee data governance, data quality, and data privacy initiatives, ensuring the county's data assets are well-managed, secure, and accessible to authorized personnel.
- Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure minimal disruption to essential county services in case of emergencies or IT failures.
- Collaborate with county officials, department heads, and other stakeholders to understand their IT needs and provide appropriate technology solutions that enhance their productivity and effectiveness.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of IT services and demonstrate the value of IT investments to county leadership.
- Promote IT literacy and cybersecurity awareness among county employees and citizens through training programs and educational initiatives.
- Facilitate the adoption of new technologies and processes by managing change effectively and ensuring user acceptance and satisfaction.
City of Pittsburgh
Assistant Director, IT Operations
06.2020 - 12.2021
Job overview
- Responsible for supporting the strategy and operations of infrastructure, service desk, and devices teams.
- Leads major transformation initiatives to establish a reliable and secure environment that supports the changing needs of the City of Pittsburgh and leveraging cutting-edge technologies and monetization of legacy systems.
- Focuses on network reliability of the city's facilities and to develop a citywide optic fiber infrastructure to support the operation of the city and smart city programs.
- Leader of cloud strategy and IT service management framework.
- Manage and support 20+ staff members and 3 direct managerial reports.
- Overall department size of 80 employees.
- Manage an operational budget of 16 million and a capital budget 8 million.
- Navigate the tradeoffs of developing plans and strategies to improve current reliability of system infrastructure.
- Support the city’s IT operational needs while ensuring continuous improvement of these services and the fulfillment of their assigned projects.
- Create a value driven strategy and develop team collaboration and transparency to improve processes and successful outcomes.
- Continuously work with technology vendors to maintain customer relationship in the best interest of City.
Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh
Chief Technology Officer
10.2014 - 06.2020
Job overview
- Responsible for establishing the Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh technical vision and leading all aspects of its technology operations.
- Directs the organization's strategic direction, development and future growth through innovation and performance.
- Provides technology leadership to other stakeholders in a fashion that supports the organization’s culture, mission and values.
- Work with all departments to identify processes that may be automated and done more efficiently to maximize worker productivity.
- Development of technology staff and organizational culture towards best practices, performance objectives and teamwork.
- Maintain all technology infrastructure to ensure smooth technology operations throughout the organization.
- Effectively work with other departments to create strategic planning with the use of emerging technologies.
- Effectively manage IT department operations, staff scheduling and technical services to all departments to ensure proper distribution of technology resources.
- Continuously work with technology vendors to maintain all contracts in the best interest of organization.
- Safeguard all technical business solutions within each department ensuring they are maintained, secure, compliant and backed up.
Matthews International
System Engineer
08.2013 - 10.2014
Job overview
- Work intimately with infrastructure teams for development and installation of new networking and computing infrastructures.
- Selecting the best possible solutions using knowledge of a wide range of available technologies.
- Monitoring systems in the existing networks to ensure there are no productivity setbacks.
- Implementing best practices for system and data security.
- Administration and technical oversight of over more than one thousand servers in a 4-billion-dollar global operation.
- Provide daily operations support and maintenance for server, storage, telecommunication, and networks.
- Proactively monitor servers, storage, telecommunications, and networks to provide stable and dependable network services across multiple platforms.
- Maintain Security solutions, including firewall, anti-virus, and intrusion detection systems.
- Perform infrastructure audits.
- Respond to emergency network outages in accordance with business continuity and disaster plans.
- Support development and coordinate implementation of technology projects and new installations.
Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh
Network Administrator
12.2009 - 08.2013
Job overview
- Administrate and maintain network infrastructure within the organization and its eleven remote locations.
- Fully supporting, configuring, maintaining and upgrading all connecting external technologies.
- Collaborating with server teams to identify and solve any problems that arise with computer networks and systems.
- Continuous improvement of network continuity and sustainability.
- Manage and provide technical oversight of multi-space meter pay by plate deployment across the City of Pittsburgh.
- Manage technical operations and deployment of parking enforcement mobile handheld deployments for the City of Pittsburgh off-street parking.
- Upgrade virtualize server environment across all hosts.
- Install and upgrade SAN and migrate existing VMFS to new SAN.
- Organize deployment and play a key technical role in evaluation of time and attendance system and implementation.
- Install, configure, and administer Exchange Server migration.
- Install and deploy NAS using backup server software.
ACBF-Juvenile Court Project
IT Manager
02.2005 - 12.2009
Job overview
- Work closely with the director of the law firm to plan and implement computing systems for staff and attorneys.
- Create annual technology budget and review long term capital expenditure.
- Prepare contracts and purchases with multiple vendors.
- Design and deploy on-prem infrastructure to sustain computing needs.
- Prepare budgets and allocate technical resources.
- Maintain inventory and ordering hardware and software.
- Administer and deploy Active Directory.
- Design and build the new website www.acbfparentadvocates.org.
- Install and configure backup software for purposes of disaster recovery and domain backups.
- Deploy and administer enterprise anti-virus software across network.
- Deploy security updates, service packs, and hot fixes.
- Implement network file shares and network printer shares.
Education
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA
Certified Chief Information Officer from Executive Certification
03-2024
AXELOS
ITIL v4 Foundation
03-2020
Point Park UniversityPittsburgh, PA
Master of Business Administration from Information Systems Management
08-2019
Robert Morris UniversityPittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science from Information Systems Management
12-2004
University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA
CAPP from Management
Skills
- Executive leadership
- Technology innovation
- Strategic planning
- Team development
- Solutions engineering
- Resource allocation and budgeting
- Infrastructure management
- Enterprise systems design
- Mobile application design
- IoT architecture
- Cloud architecture
- Government technology
Awards And Publications
- Technology Innovation Leadership Award, 03/01/19, AT&T Government Technology Special Districts
- CIO of the Year 2018 Finalist, 04/01/18, Pittsburgh Technology Council
- Pittsburgh Leads in Parking Payment Technology, 02/01/23, CIO Application, https://government.cioapplications.com/cxoinsights/the-product-verse-project-approach-to-government-technology-services-nid-9584.html
- Pittsburgh Leads in Parking Payment Technology, 09/01/13, StateTech Magazine, https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2013/09/pittsburgh-leads-parking-payment-technology
Timeline
Director & CIO
Arapahoe County Government
12.2021 - Current
Assistant Director, IT Operations
City of Pittsburgh
06.2020 - 12.2021
Chief Technology Officer
Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh
10.2014 - 06.2020
System Engineer
Matthews International
08.2013 - 10.2014
Network Administrator
Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh
12.2009 - 08.2013
IT Manager
ACBF-Juvenile Court Project
02.2005 - 12.2009
Carnegie Mellon University
Certified Chief Information Officer from Executive Certification
AXELOS
ITIL v4 Foundation
Point Park University
Master of Business Administration from Information Systems Management
Robert Morris University
Bachelor of Science from Information Systems Management
University of Virginia
CAPP from Management
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