Brian Benson

Background

About Brian Benson

Over 31 years of broad information technology experience in the Financial, Insurance and Civil Engineering industries. Demonstrated success initiating best practices using strong communication and organizational skills, ability to work autonomously, with minimal supervision. Breadth of experience includes Information Security, Operation Management, Vendor relations, Project Management, Network Management and, Server administration 2003/08/2012, Specialties: In my IT career I have had exposer to all aspects of the development path. My specialty is being able to put the full picture together and provide recomendations, costs and resources to complete any given IT situation. Program Management - Team Leadership - Software Development - IT Strategy - Change Management - System Integration - Operational Streamlining - Merger Integration - Process Re-engineering Primary Career Accomplishments: Security Implement a Defense in Depth strategy Project Manager: Office Headquarters relocation including data center Citrix Server migration Desktop Refresh XP Pro to Win7 including hardware and OS dependent software Disaster Recovery exercise Patch management (monthly) Enterprise wide, servers and workstations Server migration 2003-2008 Project Technical Lead Data center relocation from Indianapolis to Minneapolis ImageRight corporate rollout including application and hardware upgrade Citrix Server migration Desktop Refresh