Ray MacDonald Career Summary enterprise I.T. management, global I.T. management, technology architecture

Career Info

A 19 year career which shows progressive business enterprise I.T. management, planning & technology architecture standards, and strategic leadership. Additionally, an early background in operations, and in technology sales and marketing provides for effective communication at all levels.

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Brief Background Summary:

Expertise includes: infrastructure planning, architecture, negotiations, vendor relationship management, enterprise-wide program management, international staff management, and in driving enterprise-wide co-operation to reduce duplication of effort. Specific expertise has been gained in centralized consolidation of technology, staffing organisations, and facilities.

MMC - Marsh McLennan Companies (3 years) involved management of global technology architecture (and staff) for the consolidation of primary data center facilities among the 11 operating companies and the consolidation of enterprise data networks and recommendations for centralized ERP (Oracle 11i single-instance). Other key initiatives included: Software Development Standards, Enterprise Management Software, data storage strategies, collaboration software solutions, directory services, inter-company vendor contract negotiations for services and software licensing.

Oracle Corporation (7.5 years) involved management of Canadian I.T., data centres, North American technical staff operations (service/delivery), part of 10 person team at world-wide headquarters for the creation of the Global Networks Division (a $38M, 150 staff operation), managed networks for North America (data, voice, video), and finally responsible for Oracle's world-wide WAN Architecture designing the consolidation of 65 data centres to 4.

Other career building positions include:

Mobshop, Inc. Director of I.S. and Canadian H.R. A former San Francisco based dot.com - turned - ASP company specialising in aggregate purchasing with R&D in Toronto; Marc Andreessen was a key investor and Board member - ceased operations December 2001.

Air Canada Program/Project Manager for their technology requirements for the largest construction project in North America (the $3.5B new terminal at the Toronto Airport).

First-half of career involved programming, systems administration (UNIX & databases), technical analysis, sales, and marketing (product management) for high-technology companies.

Jonas & Erickson Software Technology Inc. (2 years)

Tandy Business Products (InterTan Canada Ltd.) (3 years)

MacDonald Consulting (various contracts including 2 at Northern Telecom (NorTel)) (3 years)