Rick Reese

About Rick Reese

Senior IT Manager with over thirty years of progressive experience in technical / infrastructure management (Open Systems, Storage, Network, Operations NOC management, ITIL, Mainframe)• Consistently recognized by Executive Management, colleagues and staff as a highly-valued contributor to business goal attainment, project success, team performance and individual personnel development• Highly effective at defining project scope and requirements, instituting operational processes, gaining buy-in and commitment, and driving results across dynamic environments and diverse teams• Leads with initiative and intention to create mutually beneficial outcomes• Ability to focus on achieving business results while creating productive and empowering working relationships • A collaborative and participative leader, who inspires and mentors others to exceptional performance• Approaches work with integrity, solid business judgment and commitment to contributionSpecialties: Implementing \"Storage as Service\" model, Operations Management, ITIL - Incident and Problem Management.

Experience

1. Director Infrastructure Services

   NANA

   Jul 2013 — Present

   As the Director of Infrastructure I am accountable for the strategic, tactical, and operational management of all Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and operations for NANA. The focus of my role is to insure the timely, cost effective and coordinated execution of the IT infrastructure and operations to support a large enterprise environment with many subsidiaries. I am responsible for leading the technology professionals that provides data center/NOC operations, network engineering, storage engineering and server engineering for the enterprise.

Education

• Weber State University

  Bachelor's degree, History

• Weber State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), History

  1978 — 1982

Skills

• Operational Excellence
• Leadership
• Capacity Planning
• IT Solutions
• Networking
• System Administration
• IT Strategy
• Business Process
• Servers
• Itil
• Information Technology
• Enterprise Software
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Vendor Management
• Business Continuity
• Unix
• Data Center
• Operations Management
• Management
• Resource Management
• Saas
• Disaster Recovery
• IT Service Management
• Mainframe
• Service Delivery
• High Availability
• IT Management
• Incident Management
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Project Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Infrastructure
• Business Intelligence
• Business Process Improvement
• Storage Solutions
• Cloud Computing
• Vmware
• Strategy