P.O. Box 5072 Deerfield Beach, Fl 33442

Phone: 954-698-6851

Cell: 772-349-6284

Fax: 954-481-3777

Laurence@sherzer.net

A technical leadership position or high level execution role offering the ability to fully utilize my blend of technical and management expertise.

A 40M-dollar company providing web hosting and collocation services worldwide. Affinity is the result of the merger of CyberGate/Valueweb (a subsidiary of E.spire) and Affinity Internet in January of 2002. CyberGate was the largest regional ISP in Florida and sold the dialup business to Eartlink in October of 2000. Affinity was a consolidation of low end hosting companies. I joined the CyberGate team first as a contract Systems Engineer (Signature Consultants) and was subsequently offered a permanent position. Shortly thereafter promoted to Manager of Quality Assurance and later to the Director of Engineering. Managed System Administration, Development, System Engineering, Network Engineering and Quality Control. The E.spire division CyberGate/Valueweb remained profitable throughout the dot com debacle due to a combination of discreet marketing, skillful engineering and operations management.

• Instituted quality control, change management procedures and development processes.
• Managed project to foster acceptance of Quality and Best Practice concepts.
• Successfully launched "Lunch and Learn" program.
• Created curriculum for technical training and administration of classes.
• Created operations manual and best practice procedures.
• Managed project to create a world class training facility for System Administration, Technical Support, System Engineers and Network Engineers skill enhancement.
• Reduction of defect escapes in new product rollout to negligible levels.
• Shortened new product delivery times by 50 percent.

• Designed new architecture for CyberGate’s operations creating a stable manageable system.
• Analysis and recommendation for new server architecture.
• Deployed central backup systems for 3TB data.
• Migration of server farm from BSD to Linux.
• Relocation of data center from Deerfield Beach to Ft Lauderdale with no customer impact.

IT services provided to four hospitals: Broward General Medical Center, North Broward Medical Center, Imperial Point Medical Center and Coral Springs Medical Center. NBHD Information Technologies represents a large and diverse computing environment catering to the specialized needs of the medical profession. Chosen to join the project team at the beginning of execution phase. My reputation and ability to read and understand technical documentation for systems proved pivotal in our team delivering results early. Our hospital counterparts were delighted in receiving a substantial monetary incentive for these results.

Senior QA Engineer and Team Leader (Consulting Contract)

• Demonstrated effective team management with IBM Global services in the conception, development and execution North Broward’s year 2000 effort.
• Resolved date defect and inaccurate payment calculation within retirement benefits program.
• Deployed replacement applications and new hardware systems as part of the Y2K project.
• Identified life critical application defects and resolved patient mortality risk.
• Developed custom applications designed to track and analyze test results and manage application issues.
• Led the QA initiative in 12 major hospital departments

Design and manufacturer of material handling equipment and control interfaces. Responsible for network, development and engineering.

• Successfully formulated data systems to incorporate service reports with direct QC testing procedures, which alleviated field service problems resulting in increased orders.
• Head of Quality Control responsible for just in time product delivery.
• Architecture and implementation of database inventory management system streamlining operations and increasing efficiency.
• Successfully formulated data systems to incorporate service reports with direct QC testing procedures.

• Developed cost reduction evaluation system and implementation strategy, which reduced production cost by 50 percent.
• Responsible for servers and desktops on local LAN.

Additional Experience

Perkin Elmer- Concurrent Computers Oceanport, NJ.

The company designed and manufactured real-time computing systems for science and government applications. Worked in Research and development on new technologies. I was responsible for Unix programming and hardware prototype development.

Equitable Securities of New York N.Y., N.Y.

Responsible for financial systems, programmed trading, back office systems, client data base, and options analysis programs.

Marsh Block & Co. N.Y., N.Y.

Storytime Studios Coral Springs FL.- Animation Studio - Implementation of 200 server render farm.

• Expertise in implementing, operating and managing highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Unix Systems: Sun Solaris, IBM AIX R/S 6000, Digital Unix, True 64, HP-UX, Linux.
• Microsoft Windows NT, Win2000, XP, IIS, Sharepoint Clustering, Novell, Mac.
• Networking: Cisco, Foundry, Bay Networks, 3COM, Nortel, LVS. Firewall-1, PIX, IP Chains.
• Storage: EMC, Network Appliance, IBM Shark, Tivoli TSM, Veritas, SyncSort.
• Project Planning, Software Subcontractor Management, Requirements Management, Quality Audits, and Defect Prevention. Hardware and Software design and deployment.
• C, C++ programming, HTML, UNIX shell, Perl, Java, Java Script, CGI, PHP
• Database: DB2, Btrieve, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Pervasive, Sybase.
• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Exchange, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Groupwise

• Hiring strategies.
• Personnel management
• Full Life cycle project management, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, vendor sourcing, negotiations and relationship management.
• Policy and process development.
• Disaster recovery and business continuation planning.
• Employee mentoring and career guidance.