Ferdinand E. Huber

SUMMARY

Information technology executive with extensive experience in design and management of data processing and telecommunications infrastructure.  Particularly adept at translating business requirements into solutions, evaluating and developing technology strategies, and in managing day to day operations.

EXPERIENCE

CONSULTANT 2006-Present

Consulting and project management services in IT, networking and telecommunications infrastructure.

Major Clients:

• Pfizer  - Disaster Recovery architecture design, implementation project management
• Devonshire Investors (Fidelity Capital Investments) – Telecommunications analysis & project management
• Carousel Industries – Telecommunications project management, RFx support, special projects
• CBS – Technical services process and system review
• Velocity - Network infrastructure review

LOEWS CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT 1997-2006

Director of Technology Infrastructure

Loews Cineplex was a movie exhibitor with 150 locations across the US. Before corporate restructuring Loews controlled over 400 theatres with a corporate staff of 500 in the US and Canada with all IT being coordinated out of the NY office. The NY office was shutdown following a merger with AMC of Kansas City in May of 2006.

Reported to CIO, provided leadership and direction for corporate technology strategy and management, including Hardware, Operating Systems, Database, Data Networking and Telecommunications. Areas of management responsibility included system Administration, Database Administration, Network Management & Help Desk functions.

Major Projects included:

• Researched, planned and managed migration of Oracle Database servers from Windows to Linux environment – improving performance and reliability of processing systems.  Performance improvements included reduction of key financial batch process from five hours to less than one hour.  Reliability improved from an average of three to four system (hardware, operating system & database) failures per month to two or three failures a year.
• Designed, implemented and supported corporate wide network of 150+ locations.
• Restructured Corporate Help Desk procedures and policies including the implementation of an automated Incident Tracking System, improving problem tracking and accountability.
• Point person on all audits including annual IS Audits and external CISP (Credit Information Security Program) Audit.
• Developed disaster recovery plan including documentation of business process impact and recovery; managed implementation of internal disaster recovery site. 
• Y2k infrastructure remediation project across entire company (corporate and theatres). Developed process for tracking compliance status of technology components and business partners.
• Served as hands-on project manager in the development and implementation of numerous departmental applications. This included messaging/workflow applications for the Security and Purchasing departments which replaced a manual process of communications via faxes, phone, overnight, etc between multiple parties (theatre, regional management, corporate office and vendors) with an electronic forms/workflow enabled based system.
• Project manager for in-sourcing of corporate telephone system management and support reducing costs and improving timeliness of service
• Designed standards for theatre IVR, telecommunications and cabling systems.

ERNST & YOUNG MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, New York, NY     1990-1997

Manager

Member of technology group concentrating in areas of Infrastructure Design, Systems Operations, Performance Tuning and Capacity Management.  Encompassed all levels of processing including Mainframes, PCs and Client Server computing.

Major Clients:

• American Express Bank  - performance tuning, capacity planning
• Simon & Schuster – operations review, print reduction study, infrastructure planning
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ – performance measurement, operations review
• Long Island Lighting Company  - infrastructure design, database modeling
• Sealand – infrastructure design, database modeling
• AT&T Capital  - infrastructure design, database modeling
• Hanson Industries – Financial application selection, Office LAN strategy, WAN strategy

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 1982–1990

Systems programming on IBM Mainframe operating systems (MVS and VM). Operating system level modifications for MVS, JES2 and Wylbur subsystems. Responsible for chargeback, backup/recovery/archive, eMail communications (RSCS based BitNET), and early implementation of TCP/IP on the Mainframe. Programming experience included BAL (assembly language), PL/1, Cobol, Snobol, and JCL.

Responsible for management of part-time student advisors and coordination of faculty and student consulting

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1982
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematics