David Lapham

About David Lapham

With 23+ years of experience, I lead IT strategy, cybersecurity, and operational excellence as IT Manager at Service Electric Company. My role involves managing mission-critical IT performance for a $700M energy services organization, overseeing budgets, ensuring compliance with SOX, HIPAA, and NERC CIP regulations, and safeguarding sensitive data through robust security protocols and IT controls. At Quanta Services, I collaborate with regional IT leaders to align technology initiatives with business goals, optimize workflows, and support critical infrastructure projects in the energy sector. My expertise in leadership development, stakeholder management, and budget oversight enables me to drive operational efficiency and deliver value to organizations while advancing secure, innovative solutions.

Experience

1. Regional IT Leader

   Quanta Services, Inc.

   Nov 2018 — Present · US

   Report directly to the Regional President, coordinating IT strategy and operations across the Southeast Region for a Fortune 500 energy services leader. • Drive transformative process improvements, optimizing IT workflows and operational efficiency to consistently exceed performance goals and budgetary targets. • Collaborate with IT leaders and their teams for Quanta companies in the Southeast region to deliver innovative technology solutions supporting critical infrastructure projects in the energy sector. • Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to align IT initiatives with business objectives, enhancing operational scalability and supporting regional growth. • Achieve measurable outcomes, including unified efforts on solutioning process improvement specifically around fleet and warehouse tools and consumables, ERP applications, and business intelligence and analytics, by leveraging tools and applications already proven within Quanta, and unifying on these proven solutions, rather than everyone reinventing the wheel.

Education

• Home School

  General Education

  1984 — 2005

• Eastern Oklahoma County Technical Center

  AC / DC / Digital theory

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• IT Operations
• Firewalls
• Dns
• Visio
• Software Installation
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Information Technology
• Network Design
• Virtualization
• Routers
• Sharepoint
• Operating Systems
• Jd Edwards
• Windows 7
• Vmware
• System Deployment
• Servers
• System Administration
• Help Desk Support
• Security
• IT Management
• Data Center
• Dhcp
• Laptops
• Vmware Vsphere
• Citrix
• Infrastructure
• Microsoft Technologies
• Vsphere
• Microsoft Exchange
• Vpn
• Disaster Recovery
• Cisco Call Manager
• Troubleshooting
• Norton Ghost
• Network Security
• Networking
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Switches