EVAN  CUTLER

2018 Elliot Street   ~  Alexandria, Louisiana  71301

601-447-0621arcee123@gmail.com

 

Technology Management  ~  Strategic Planning  ~  Enterprise-Level Technology Solutions

 

Accomplished Technology Professional, offering a unique blend of technology management within the government, intelligence and corporate sector. Extensive background in driving the development of technology driven software solutions as well as IT infrastructure to support the mission of highly secure environments. Successfully managed high-value projects with budgets up to $52 million. Demonstrates a consistent understanding of business strategy, with the ability to translate it into defined technology plans, "stay the course" to implement it, while anticipating and identifying where change is needed. Self-starter with proven work organizing skills. Holds high personal standards and consistently leads teams to achieve objectives. Additional capabilities in:

 

¨Business Transformation¨Project Management¨Business Continuity             

¨IT Governance¨Vendor Relations¨RFP/Proposal Analysis

¨Gov/Technology Policy¨Big Data¨Team Management

 

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

 

CITY OF ALEXANDRIA, Alexandria, Louisiana2014 – Present

Chief Information Officer (2014-Present)

 

·               Spearhead a range of programs and projects designed to enhance the city’s technology capabilities, improve client satisfaction, and grow revenue. Serve as Chief Advisor to the Mayor of the city of Alexandria on all technology related initiatives.

·               Lead the evolution of technology vision, providing technical expertise in architectural direction, design & development efforts including but not limited to user experience.

·               Develop and implement city­wide policies and standards aimed at maximizing effectiveness and minimizing costs related to the acquisition, implementation and operation of IT systems.

·               Identify opportunities for automation and manage complex projects to ensure success of technology initiatives. Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization

·               Establish and supervise processes, monitor project plans, set up short-term objectives, and assess progress as defined by project milestones.

·               Evaluate vendor capabilities, manage vendor relationships, and administer contracts for outsourced work. Authored an initial policy for city-wide technology procurement.

·               Oversee the setup and maintenance of IT infrastructure and networks, with emphasis on high levels of system availability and robust, secure networks. Responsible for 1000 desktops and 100 mobile devices.

·               Formulate and implement business continuity plans to ensure speedy restoration of systems in the event of unforeseen circumstances.

·               Grow and nurture a team of 8 direct reports. Influence, support, and establish team concepts and practices toward continuous improvement.   Manages personnel hires and recommendations for ITSM staffing.

 

Achievements

·               Provided clear strategies for city-wide consolidations and efficiency management which immediately reduced operational budget with over $520,000 USD savings per year.

·               Increased the dispatch-to-fire house integration by deploying unified multi-circuit dispatch and response communications system, using internal city communication pathways, which immediately reduced the fire departments budget by $96,000. 

·               Analyzed the ROI on virtual desktops and promoted the introduction of VDS to achieve substantial cost savings and operational efficiency.

·               Utilized expertise in matching existing source data with information gaps to provide clarity in decision-making processes.

·               Implemented a community open source-based platform and trained the department manager in generation of user-friendly reports that met end-user’s information requirements.

·               Recommended changes in the physical security management techniques that aligned human resource personnel with department access management.

·               Introduced and implemented Viable System Model techniques for configuration management with a shared location for storage of all processes and configuration files.

·               Created self-help documents for the customer service portal and instituted internal training on customer services.

 

DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLC, Hattiesburg, MS2011 – 2014

Consulting Associate – Enterprise-Level Information Management Solutions

 

Engagement: Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Over $35million)

Scope: The project involved automation of Monetary Transactions tracking process and entailed development of an enterprise-level data solution to collect, collate and analyze FinCEN form to provide Business Intelligence solutions. The program comprised of multiple projects that included: Secure File System, Statement of Record and Advanced Analytics Release 3

 

·               Served as the Senior Build & Configuration Manager, responsible for version control and deployment of code from development to testing through acceptance and rollout into production environment.

·               Managed the code repositories for 30 developers, within time constraints, and represented the Project Manager for delivery of the project.

·               Crated the Secure File System database engine and developed ETL program to load the data into the database, with a team of 5.

·               Developed 40 ETL transformations and 20 updates to the Secure File System data model.

·               Developed the Statement of Record database and the transformations necessary to move the data from Secure File System to Statement of Record database.

·               Developed over 40 transformations and 15 stored procedures, containing over 1000 lines of code. Provided almost 15 recommendations for efficiency upgrades to the SOR model.

·               Designed the Advanced Analytics datamart and create the ETL transformations to extract data from the staging table.

·               Developed SAS cubes for the SAS analytical platform and delivered successful analytical products using SAS toolsets.

·               Developed the 105­table AAR3 database and approximately 120 ETL transformations to prepare the database for analytical platform.

 

Engagement: US Food and Drug Administration ($10M )

Project: Master Data Management

Scope: The project involved identification of master data across multiple data warehousing containing commercial drugs/pharmaceutical company data.

 

·               Served as Lead Engineer for the project; Extracted official updates to medicinal packages held at FDA, and ensured the availability of most recent and accurate data across all databases.

·               Built 4 unix batch files containing over 2000 lines of code, 35 Informatica ETL packages, and built the master web API designed to call the FDA business rules engine, to ensure data integrity.

 

Engagement: US Navy ($5M per year of support)

Project: Air Operations Information Management System and Associated Data Entries

Scope: The project involved development of a SharePoint based Information Management System that facilitated logistical decisions at a global level.

 

·               Created SharePoint forms for design as well as extraction, transformation and loading of data into an operational data store. Xx Please confirm if you agree with this depiction.

·               Designed 3 Enterprise Data Warehouses & ADS database and a series of datamart databases along with ETL packages to transform the information into cubes to be used by IBM Cognos.

·               Built nine ETL transformations that recorded the activity of projects, with an add-in/plug-in to provide log entries to the ADS database.

 

US NAVY1991 – 2011

Resource Manager – Information Systems for Intelligence Operations

Master Chief Intelligence Specialist

 

·               Provided time-bound and timely access to information systems containing highly confidential/classified information to qualified personnel based on scrutiny of credentials.

·               Contributed to design and development of Identity Management/Access Management solutions.

·               Assisted in background investigations for clearance and badge access management across organizations.

·               15 Years of intelligence collection, analysis, and product development for critical decision-making stakeholders. 

 

IT SKILLS

 

Languages:SQL, JavaScript/JQuery, HTML, XML, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.NET,

PHP, PERL, ColdFusion, ArcObjects, Visual Studio, R, Python

Databases:SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, MS Access

Data Science/Analytics:Tableau, Crystal Reports Server, Pentaho BI Server, limited R and ggplot

ETL Platforms: IBM Datastage, Pentaho Kettle, Informatica, Talend Open Studio

Operating Systems/ Servers: Windows (Server 2003/2008, XP, Vista, 7), Linux (Ubuntu), WAMP,

Apache Linux, Share Portal Services 2003 and 2007

Email Servers:MS Exchange Server 2005/2010

GIS Applications:ESRI Geographic Information System (GIS) products, QGIS

DoD Networks:JWICS, SIPRNET, NIPRNET, STONEGHOST

Intelligence Applications:i2 Analyst Notebook, PFPS Falconview, X1 Indexing Client

Modeling Tools:MS Visio

Project Management: MS Project

 

EDUCATION

 

CAPELLA UNIVERSITY, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Master of Science in Information Technology, Information Assurance Emphasis

 

HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Honolulu, Hawaii

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

 

US NAVY

Management of Intelligence and Information Management

Human Resources & Training for Mid-Level and Executive Level Management

 

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts

Micro Certification Program: Managing Virtual Cross-Cultural Teams