Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline

Ted Owino

Olathe,KS

Summary

Skilled leader and project manager with 10 years of experience in managing and orchestrating successful technology deliverables. A team leader who models industry best practices, utilizing extensive practical knowledge and strong academic foundation.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Associate Director, IT. End User Support

IQVIA
Overland Park, KS
05.2022 - Current
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Provide leadership to improve IT support operations and the overall end-user service experience.
  • Fostering a continuous improvement culture to sustain profitability by Identifying and implementing potential process improvements
  • Collaborating with financial stakeholders to establish clear budget parameters and regulatory compliance.
  • Serve as primary contact for stakeholders, team members, and upper management
  • Identify and address potential difficulties, prioritize tasks, and hold to timeline while keeping entire operation under budget
  • Drive Mergers & Acquisition integration effort, collaborating with different IT teams to ensure project and business timelines are met
  • Consulting with the business to understand business requirements during change
  • Assess the changing needs of the business by supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
  • Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
  • Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others.
  • Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.

IT Manager

IQVIA
Overland Park, KS
03.2020 - Current
  • Lead a team of 8 IT support engineers supporting over 5000 users both homebased and office based on LAN and VPN networks
  • Tasked with cross training of staff and conduct regular team meetings (at least monthly) and one-on- ones (at least monthly) with line staff
  • Drive consistent core IT service and high-quality customer experience by achieving a 95% SLA
  • Continuously Identify opportunities for improvement or enhancement to day to day operations and implement changes as approved
  • Manage the deployment of fit-for-purpose Persona based technology and support model that improves
  • Improves and Digitalize Employee Experience (EX)
  • Help drive the focus on automation and drive utilization of self service adoption for end user support requirements
  • Execute IT cost saving plans by meeting financial targets
  • Manage integration efforts on Mergers and Acquisitions.

IT Engineer II

QuintilesIMS
Overland Park, KS
09.2013 - Current
  • Experienced with MS Windows 7 and 10, MS Office suite
  • Incident and problem management for over 5000 users both homebased and office based on LAN and
  • VPN networks
  • Configures and documents software, hardware and infrastructure solutions to meet business needs
  • Troubleshoot hardware and software configuration problems
  • Perform the installation, testing, maintenance, and upgrading of equipment and software supporting the business
  • I work with other IT teams to deploy, manage or troubleshoot servers, routers, firewalls, switches, third party software
  • Manage the deployment of laptops and computer peripherals to remote and office based users across
  • North America
  • Test various hardware and software products to meet project requirements as defined by the scope and stays within departmental guidelines for application configuration/development
  • Design, documents, builds and modifies the complex critical applications to best meet the needs of the organization
  • Part of the disaster recovery team to for both site and IT system

Service Desk Technician

QuintilesIMS
Overland Park, KS
09.2013 - 12.2014
  • Using Service-Now and a multitude of other programs, I aid internal and external clients of Quintiles in staying active and productive in their work environment by troubleshooting and fixing IT related issues while adhering to SLA guidelines
  • Manage ticket escalations and software install requests
  • Answer inbound service calls and troubleshoot software and hardware issues remotely.

Technical Support Technician

eBryIT Inc
Overland Park, KS
05.2011 - 08.2013
  • Contracted to Dell through eBryIT to deploy new computers and Dell servers to Blue Valley school district
  • Image and install software on new computers
  • Configure server roles and install packages and patches.

Education

Data Analytics - Data Science, Applied Science

University of Kansas
01.2018 - 08.2018

Associate of Science - Systems Administration

ITT Technical Institute
01.2011 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Science - Business Information Technology

Jomo Kenyatta University
09.2006 - 12.2010

Skills

  • Citrix, Windows 7, Windows 10, Cisco, Avaya, Active Directory, DHCP, Routing, Switching, Linux
  • Service-now, (4 years)
  • Service Desk
  • MAC
  • Active Directory
  • Desktop Support
  • Vmware
  • System Administrator
  • DNS
  • SCCM
  • Linux
  • Computer Networking
  • Help Desk
  • LAN
  • Software Troubleshooting
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Network Support
  • VPN
  • Microsoft Windows Server

Certification

ITIL v3 Present A+ Certified Present Lean Six Sigma Certification October 2019 to Present

Timeline

Associate Director, IT. End User Support - IQVIA
05.2022 - Current
IT Manager - IQVIA
03.2020 - Current
University of Kansas - Data Analytics, Data Science, Applied Science
01.2018 - 08.2018
IT Engineer II - QuintilesIMS
09.2013 - Current
Service Desk Technician - QuintilesIMS
09.2013 - 12.2014
Technical Support Technician - eBryIT Inc
05.2011 - 08.2013
ITT Technical Institute - Associate of Science, Systems Administration
01.2011 - 12.2013
Jomo Kenyatta University - Bachelor of Science, Business Information Technology
09.2006 - 12.2010
Ted Owino