Jim Parkes

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ABOUT JIM PARKES

Hands on executive with thirty years of progressive IT growth from small privately run to large multi-national enterprises. Twenty years of senior management experience with excellent business acumen. Extensive knowledge of large scale strategic IT environments for multi-company enterprises. Many successful and diverse tactical executions.Strategic Skills• Part of multiple senior management teams providing IT vision and strategic business acumen. • Strategic execution of IT departments including; internal and external contract negotiations, DRP development and implementation, internal & external staff management, software maintenance contracts and full data center operational reliability.• Extensive supply chain experience with emphasize on manufacturing and distribution verticals.• Strong understanding of the business needs and how technology can enable those needs.• Direction of an entire company’s workforce not only from a tactical \'how do I run this\' perspective, but also from a strategic \'how should we run this\' perspective.Tactical Skills• Led the extensive customization of all operational verticals with particular emphasis in manufacturing and distribution within the JDE Enterprise One and Oracle EBS ERP packages. This included the operational alignment of user requirements to business needs with user and IT driven steering committees. • Expert Knowledge in project management principles and methodologies.Technical Skills• Diverse knowledge of large-scale enterprise IT systems, infrastructure, technology concepts, principles, standards;(iSeries/AS400, specialty hosting services architecture, virtualization technologies, hardware/software alternatives, tools).• Knowledge of network environments within a variety of topology & protocols:(network devices, capacity, security, contingency planning, network services). • Excellent Telco experience and stratagems:(PBX, VoIP, Cell, Call Center).