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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TRAVELERS INSURANCE, Hartford, CT
2013 Present
Saved $3M by negotiating lower pricing for MPLS from ATT and a deeper hardware discount from Cisco.
Coordinated Exchange and Lync for a multi-year agreement with Microsoft which enabled voice integration.
Increased WAN availability from 98% to 99.9% through dual MPLS upgrades and better.
Led defining a messaging and collaboration technical roadmap leading to investments in upgrades.
100% completion of outstanding security controls to meet inherited compliance audit findings.
Improved network change control from 80% to 90% by standardizing procedures and improved metrics.
Led a $12M enterprise network infrastructure refresh programs including: LAN refresh, WAN MPLS
upgrades, IP Management (DDI) refresh, load balancers, application optimization and secured remote access.
Sponsored redesign of network infrastructure for two global datacenters to spine and leaf architectures
enabling internal cloud to improve provisioning by 30%.
Created a team to lead the redesign of the remote access service to improve capacity by 300% and invoke new
access controls to meet greater security requirements.
2011 2013
JERRY L. GENTRY
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2008 2011
2001 2008
Led an organization transformation by integrating disparate operations and engineering teams into a single, global
team. Responsible for service delivery for data, voice, and video services for the Americas, EMEA, and APAC
regions with direct reports in each region. Administered a $175M budget and led staff of 150+ employees and 200
contract personnel worldwide, including offshore and onshore. Led IT transformation initiative for Service Owner
role.
Service Owner responsible for the end-to-end Architecture, Engineering and Operations of the global network
infrastructure, budget and staff. Ran day-to-day Operations for global network infrastructure.
Create a financial business model to provide the lines of business with impact analysis of changes in their
business plans and supported successful strategic sourcing program.
Saved millions of dollars by streamlining workflow and eliminating duplicate processes and systems.
Responsible for design, implementation and support of a unified, global video service which included
desktop, executive, conference room and immersive (Telepresence) video.
Led an initiative to architect and deliver a Content Delivery Network (CDN with 90 points of presence) to
provide marketing and informational videos on demand to all colleagues.
Increased productivity and availability through multiple programs to refresh infrastructure, including design
of two new global data centers..
Planned and received executive support to migrate to a multi-year refresh plan for key infrastructure, leveling
depreciation expense impact.
Supported ITIL-based change and problem management reducing incidents and improving performance.
Built a cross organizational team to support recurring broadcasts of shareholder and quarterly meetings
Worked with the desktop service owner to create an integrated voice and video configuration deployed
worldwide
IBM, Somers, NY
Head of Information Technology Services, Office of the Corporate CIO
1996 2001
Oversaw internal network strategy to facilitate business transformation and innovation efforts at the corporate
level. Managed a network service delivery team of 35. Led and sponsored corporate initiatives to convert to
Ethernet from token ring, retire SNA, develop an application to real-time monitor critical business, and led several
initiatives providing +$100M in total savings. Crafted the security amendment of the $5B sale of network to ATT
1987 1996
JERRY L. GENTRY
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EDUCATION
MBA in Marketing Research, Arizona State University
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Patent for "Interactive Display System for Sequential Retrieval and Display of a Plurality of Interrelated
Data Sets" (2000)
Editor & Voting Member, TIA 568 "Commercial Building & Wiring Standard" (1990)
MEDIA