(310) 200-6545

Walnut, CA
acatalogo@gmail.com

Allan Catalogo
Information Technology Professional

Experienced IT Manager with over 15 years of repeated success in leading support,

enhancement, and deployment of business-critical solutions. An enthusiastic professional with a
systems engineering background that enjoys architecting and designing solutions. Innovative
strategist with a track record of success identifying opportunities to control costs and streamline
operation processes. Expert in deploying and implementing best practice based structure.
Provide mentorship and instill a can-do mentality to immediate staff. Very hands-on and has
extraordinary abilities to communicate effectively across various organization levels and teams
including business, IT and executive management.

Expertise

Technology Acquisition &

Design
Project Management
Network Security
Staff Management
Problem Identification &
Analysis
Budgeting

Infrastructure Support &

Operations
Systems Administration
Backup & Recovery
Systems Audits
Team Leadership &
Collaboration
Negotiations

Network Design &

Deployment
LAN/WAN/MPLS/WLAN
SLA/Policy Development
Application Integration
Broad Microsoft Product
Experience
Vendor Management

Selected Projects and Accomplishments

HighJump (WMS) Deployed wireless infrastructure of multiple warehouses in excess of 750k
square feet.
ADP (Time & Attendance) Provide self-service portal for employees to manage time. Biometric
clock implementation.
Travel and Expense (Concur) Automated process for employees to submit expense reports
while saving and average of $23 per travel transaction.
SAP (FI & MM) ERP implementation
Helpdesk Ticketing (Remedy, TrackIT) Implement ticketing system with SLA and reporting
functionality.
SharePoint and Lync Deployments Deploy collaboration tools. Used SharePoint as the
framework for organizations intranet.
Data Center Consolidation and Migration Reduced data center footprint and moved to an offsite Zone 4 colocation facility.
Active Directory and Exchange Upgrades Upgrade Exchange systems and Active Directory.
500 User Headquarter Moves Coordinated move of headquarters to a new facility.
Remote Office Deployment Establish organization presence in new locations.
ECM- Deploy Electronic Content Management system to reduce the need for physical paperwork.

Professional Memberships

PMI
Project Management Institute
VMUG
Virtual Machine User Group
CompTIA

CCA
Cloud Computing Association
OCSUG
Orange County SharePoint User Group

Experience
2011- Present

HIVE DSGN
IT Consultant

Architect and design backend infrastructure.

Steam-line system provisioning process.
Maintain and address all IT needs with a high level of user satisfaction.

2010 March 2015

Manager, IT Operations
Stabilized environment decreasing unplanned outages and implementing change management
and standardization.
Moved data center from onsite to a local Zone 4 colocation facility.
Upgraded infrastructure technology utilizing Cisco route/switch, Cisco compute, and Dell storage.
Implemented MPLS solution for US/Mexico locations.
Enhanced collaboration and communications with implementation of Lync as an IM solution.
Managed vendor relationships and negotiate contracts for services and acquisitions of
technologies.
Analyzed and architected network design for a new $300M manufacturing facility.
Deploy wireless to cover (2) 750K+ square foot distribution facility for Warehouse Management
System (WMS) leveraging HighJump.
Communicate and educate various levels of management throughout the company on enterprise
IT solutions.
Plan and coordinate the simultaneous move of corporate headquarters and West Coast
distribution center.
Architected backup solution with up-to-date technology to decrease backup windows and
increase efficiency on network resources while lowering organizational risks, meeting recovery
point objectives, and recovery time objectives.
Designed and implemented companywide intranet utilizing SharePoint technologies.
Responsible for all IT JSOX compliance activities.
Implemented upgrades of all software and applications to supported revisions in order to maintain
supportability with vendors and increase value of assets already owned by providing enhanced
features.
Designed, developed, and implemented the ITS governance processes and system to support
work load, priorities, tracking, problem management, applications change, budget management,
vendor management, and asset management.

2008 2010

Yokohama Tire Corporation

Activision Blizzard
Senior Manager, Information Systems

Dictated and supported all global initiatives for corporate headquarters and 8 studios.
Provided technology/management direction in the areas of Windows/Exchange/Virtualization
architecture, capacity planning, security, system management, and disaster recovery.
Maintained disaster recovery plans for all Activision assets and intellectual property utilizing
replication and deduplication (over 800TB of data).
Consolidated 5 data centers to 2 over a 9 month project while minimizing the outage periods
experienced to users.
Introduced an enterprise virtualization strategy to address floor space, power, and cooling
consumption costs. This helped lower the operational expense for the Facilities department.
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Created a service desk with a 3 party to supplement services around the onsite Helpdesk team.
Implemented an IT support structure which facilitated a quarterly application enhancement
schedule.
Deployed SharePoint and Office Communications Server to increase user collaboration.

2006 2008

Vivendi Games
Systems Manager

Immediately managed a team of 3 onsite engineers and 2 remote engineers.

Led remote IT groups within the organization (France, Shanghai, Chile, Canada, United Kingdom,
Washington, and California) to achieve global IT governance objectives.
Offered a 24/7/365 IT support model by implementing an on-call schedule.
Implemented VMWare virtualization for production and test environments to increase ROI on
hardware assets.
Designed and implemented backup environment to handle backup of both physical and virtual
environments.
Created departmental workflows to help streamline processes.
Deployed (HP) blade server architecture to optimize data center resources instead of expanding
real estate. The effective saving for the organization was over $250k.

2001 2006

Vivendi Universal Games

Senior SystemsEngineer

Administered and designed Windows server systems with various functions such as Multi-domain
Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, WINS, DHCP, FTP, IIS, DFS, MSSQL, MIIS, ADAM, and
SharePoint.
Managed SAN (EMC) and NAS data storage systems, VPN Concentrator, IronPort, Brocade
switches, Remedy, RightFax, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Goodlink Server, Citrix Farm, NetIQ,
Sigaba Secure Email Gateway, and NDS.
Maintained tape backups of all systems utilizing a Symantec solution.
Led and guided my peers in technology and policy.
Consolidated two Exchange organizations into one.

2000 2001

Knowledge Adventure
Systems Engineer

Maintained backup infrastructure utilizing CA ArcServ and AIT tape technology.

Implemented and migrated to Active Directory 2000.
Upgraded Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.
Introduced Blackberry technology.
Administered Novell files services and NDS.

Education
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Electrical Engineering
DeVry Technical Institute
Electrical Engineering Technology