Reasons to Have Tim Loftus on Your Team

Mr. Loftus is an honest, pleasant, and friendly person who earns respect with integrity during professional interactions. He is a leader with vision, who works hard for success, and does not give up when difficulty is encountered. Please review these bullets and consider Mr. Loftus for your team. Thank you.

∗ Utilizing extensive experience, Tim has proven himself an expert at uncovering needs, designing, deploying and operating IT network infrastructures for global, Fortune 500 companies. Tim has published his methods in ‘Success Strategies for Technology Management’. Experience managing the global network infrastructure at Liz Claiborne and advising IBM and Avaya clients have provided Tim the broad experience required to understand the high level functionality of complex, technical IT infrastructures.

∗ Education and practice with ITIL v3 methods gives Tim the knowledge necessary for implementing processes and procedures effectively to create a more efficient and dependable IT service.

∗ Solutions require fresh ideas. Execution often proves much more challenging. As a project manager, Tim has mastered execution skills many times over. A slew of activities and an assortment of people need to be managed effectively to achieve successful execution. The skills of comprehending the grand impact of projects, managing people to success, and communicating with constituents are absolutely necessary, and have been proven again and again by Tim.

∗ Tim is certified by Dale Carnegie training for Frontline Leadership and has successfully managed technical staffs, effectively turning around unhappy, isolated, unproductive service groups into happy and productive service teams. Always maintaining a positive, motivating outlook, people enjoy working with him. Executives greatly appreciate his services. Engineers outside his management have consistently requested membership on his teams.

∗ Tim has successfully managed multi-million dollar Cap-ex and Op-ex budgets in the IT areas of data networks, voice networks, global messaging, file servers and more.

∗ Tim possesses a vast amount of experience managing multiple, large, global projects with multi-million dollar budgets that have included LAN, WAN and server deployments, enterprise application deployments, telecommunications, development of regional dial plans, support team process, disaster recovery testing, etc. Tim has extensive education and experience with IBM-GS for fact finding and solution development.

∗ Through negotiations and competitive bidding, Tim obtains the best prices possible to keep IT costs as low as possible. At Liz Claiborne Tim cut operating costs by $1M while improving service levels.

∗ Tim has closely examined different IT infrastructures and support organizations at dozens of Fortune 500 corporations in a wide range of business verticals while functioning as an IT Architect for IBM-GS.

∗ Tim has interviewed many IT managers, business leaders and executives in data gathering efforts required to develop quality, successful IT solutions that empowered business.

∗ Tim has created and presented large scale technical solutions and technical documentation to IT executives while representing IBM as an Advisory IT Architect improving business processes and cutting costs.

∗ Working with large Fortune 500 Avaya customers, Tim has developed modern communication solutions and designed systems in various sizes and levels of manageability.

∗ Tim possesses global experience gained in Asia (Hong Kong, Indonesia), Europe (UK, Netherlands, Hungary), Latin America (Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico), and North America.

∗ Tim has demonstrated an inexorable ability to surmount challenges and achieve success.

References at all levels (technicians to CEOs) will support these claims.

Published Books:• Success Strategies for Technology Management

• How to Figure It Out: IT Network Trouble? "Just be the ball"

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Authored Technology Blogs:• 10 Rules for Designing, Deploying and Operating Your IT Infrastructure

• Managing Your Day, One Task at a Time

• Saving IT Infrastructure Operating Expenses 101

• Building a Better IT Infrastructure

• The IT Service Desk & Project Hand-off

• Six Priority Questions To Ask For Every Technology Solution

• Be The Ball: IT Infrastructure Trouble Investigation

• Vendor Relationships

• How to Obtain the IT Capital You Need

• New IT Management Position? A 90-Day Plan

• Excerpts from 'Success Strategies for Technology Management'

o Chapter 2: Manager, Leader, or Both?

o Chapter 8: Take Care of the People That Take Care of You

• Selecting and Maintaining an IP Telephony System & Network

• Small Business & The Cloud

• Don’t Be Ashamed of Self-Serving Infrastructure Design

• Primary Information Technology Concern: What is working and what is not?

• Basic IT Infrastructure Design Steps for Corporate IT Leaders & Enterprise Architects

http://freeknowledgenetwork.com/it-blogs.html

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Timothy R. LoftusIT Consultant, Infrastructure Director ITILv3, IBM IT Architect, Avaya IPT Specialist, Published AuthorFree Knowledge Network, LLC http://www.freeknowledgenetwork.com