James Pyzyna

Background

About James Pyzyna

A seasoned IT professional with extensive IT purchasing experience. Including standardized the entire purchasing processes for a large non-profit organization covering purchases across a wide range of categories. Involved in enterprise wide technical IT procurement working directly with the manufacturers and major distributors for enterprise servers, storage, network equipment, software, as well as data center infrastructure build out, telecommunications and hosting services • An expert in contract and vendor negotiations, GPO vendor management, vendor consolidation, project management, procurement planning, budgeting, service provisioning, multi-tenancy, as well as responsible for multi-million-dollar procurement spend over several years for in-house purchases and resale to clients. • Maintained all Diversity Spend documentation and submissions to appropriate agencies to ensure proper reporting and recognition of Diversity spend. As part of this process i established new vendor relationships enabling us to transfer $2 Million to diversity vendors • Possess a successful track record in building and directing IT service organizations, managing networks and IT field technicians across several states as well as strategic and disaster recovery planning, project implementation, budget and asset management. Maintain a diverse knowledge and understanding of IT products, services and support. • Multiple experiences in operations support, help desk management, user training, desktop computer hardware, and data center management, enterprise Server and storage selection and support. Highly effective leader and team builder enhanced by excellent interpersonal and customer relations skill sets, and have always promoted friendliness, camaraderie, and joviality in my teams. • Software experience includes SAP, Ariba, Emptoris, Concur, PeopleSoft, Remedy, Microsoft Office, eRequester, Financial Edge and others.