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Kristie
kristie.cody@outlook.com
850-206-7440
Dallas, TX 75202
SENIOR MANAGER, IT OPERATIONS
17 years experience W2
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Summary

  • Accomplished Technical Leader with 12+ years of success directing and supporting information technology operations and services, blending technical and business expertise to promote a high-quality IT user experience.
  • A history of successful service delivery, using modern service management, the ITIL framework and IT best practices along with strategies to continuously improve the end user experience.
  • Keen Change Agent focused on end user experience with the ability to identify inefficiencies, remove roadblocks, and implement modern IT solutions while transforming infrastructure, systems, and applications.
  • Collaborate with business partners to deliver new program initiatives, drive the achievement of deadlines while improving processes, managing risks, and introducing results-driven policies and procedures to meet key business objectives.
  • ITSM champion with several years of experience in owning and implementing ServiceNow platforms and instances. As for CMDB architecture, I am well versed in dissecting and mapping assets to their relational dependencies to create a solid linkage of defined configuration items (CIs). My CMDB experience also includes creating structured CMDB design, workflows, processes and documentation of asset management in an IT environment.

Areas of Expertise

  • Service Now Implementation
  • Software & Hardware
  • Technology Policies & Procedures
  • Project Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Risk Mitigation & Problem Solving
  • IT Transformation
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Collaboration Tools
  • BMC Remedy
  • Onboarding/Offboarding
  • Unified Communications
  • IT Service Management (ITSM)
  • Vendor Contracts & SLAs
  • Cloud Platform Management

Career Highlights

  • As business owner created strategic roadmaps and led high level projects for tech stacks as the technical advisor for hardware, software, security tools, networking, engineering, and cloud services.
  • Spearheaded the first cloud-based solution and OKTA system integration, introducing a $1M mobile interface cloud-based telephony system with up to $300K in annual cost savings.
  • Experience with Microsoft Windows, Linux, Office 365, Azure, and Oracle devices, software and applications.
  • Boosted operational readiness with 24-hour uptime, network hardware replacements, managing administration and upgrading functions to cut system interruptions.
  • Engineered and implemented a virtual support model for remote connectivity including modernized voice functionality for over 20,000 Alliance Data associates.
  • Enhanced PC Hardware, Security Tools, and Software by implementing standard models, modern software and deploying cutting edge security tools for over 5,000 devices.
  • Introduced unified modern cloud-based conference room collaboration tools and scheduling system.

Experience
Education
Master's in Business Communications
University of West Florida
Bachelor's in Management Information Systems
University of West Florida
Minor: Business
Associate's in BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Chipola Jr. College
Certifications
ITIL Version 3
Microsoft O365 & Skype Administration and Support
ETS Testing Administrator
LEAN Certificate
Skills
Project Management
2020
11
Compliance
2020
8
ServiceNow
2020
8
Systems Engineering
2020
8
BMC Remedy
2015
6
Problem Management
2015
6
Quality Assurance
2015
6
ServiceDesk
2015
6
SOX
2015
6
Audit
2020
5
Auditing
2020
5
AWS
2020
5
Contract Negotiations
2020
5
Database Maintenance
2020
5
IaaS
2020
5
IAM
2020
5
Incident Management
2020
5
ITIL
2020
5
Microsoft Excel
2020
5
MS SCCM
2020
5
PaaS
2020
5
Program Management
2020
5
Program Management
2020
5
Release Management
2020
5
Requirements Gathering
2020
5
SaaS
2020
5
Strategic Planning
2020
5
System Administration
2020
5
Desktop Support
2012
3
ITSM
2015
3
NOC
2012
3
Telephony
2012
3
Training
2015
3
Salesforce
2009
2
Asset Management
0
1
Budgeting
0
1
CMDB
0
1
Linux
0
1
Office 365
0
1
Vendor Management
0
1