Sol Domanico

Lynbrook, New York 11563 Telephone: 646.263.9823

Email: sdomanico@optonline.net Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sdomanico

CIO CTO VP Technology & Cost/Compliance Specialists
Technology and business visionary with 25+ years of hands on experience and success in developing robust IT departments, fiscal
budgets and infrastructures. Proven ability to generate benefits from IT to solve complex business issues, maintain efficiency, costs,
and resolve risks. Dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem solving, strategic planning, and project management
skills to produce results and leverage IT resources garnering total business success.

Areas of Expertise Include
Strategic & Business Planning
Department Reorganization
Team/Project Management
Risk Management
Data/Network/Cyber Security
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Budget, Cost & Resource Management
Vendor & Contract Management
Data Center Management
ITIL & SOX Compliancy
Process Improvements
Large Scale Deployments
Career Highlights
Organized and build Change Control process that reduced change risk by 65%. Organized process where all 8 support vendors
and IT Staff adheres to Contracted Support SLAs, Service Enhancement Processes and Cost reductions, improved Incedent
and Problem Management, and cross vendor services.
Reorganized the IT Division of the New York Liquidation Bureaus and improved all aspects of the Helpdesk/Technical
Operations groups. Consequently accomplishing: 1) Improved response time to 70% of Attorney and staff calls; 2) Reduce
staff needs for additional helpdesk/vendor resources; 3) Improved application delivery time by 60%; and 4) institute ITIL
processes for support services and changed the desktop build process from 2 days to 2 hours.

Entrusted by senior management with restructuring the IT Department and planning the installation of Lee Hecht Harrisons
new WAN, accomplishing the following 4 items: 1) Consolidated 87 offices, centralized all data to one datacenter, one Internet
access, and resolved 90% security issues; 2) Implement ITIL and meet SOX requirements; 3) Reduced expenses $1.5 million
and centralize Internet security; and 4) Cut additional $500,000 without a single disruption to business in all offices.

Key Areas of Competency
Developing IT Policies utilizing ITIL Technology and Process improvement/Reengineering Situations
Project Leadership by Example Managing Multiple Platform/Multi-Site Logistics & Multiple Budgets
Creating a Shared Corporate Technology Vision Facilitating Departmental & Staff Cooperation
Formed & Leveraged Vendor Alliances Long Term Strategic Corporate Goals & Budget Planning

Professional Experience & Accomplishments
GADNCD Technology Services, New York, 2007 to 2008 & 2010 to Present
CTO & Executive IT Consultant Scope of duties consist of providing comprehensive IT budget planning, management of
senior-level initiatives and projects for completion/technology transfer. Responsibilities include IT Process (ITIL) implementation,
management of several global datacenters, IT cyber/security compliance, vendor management, Disaster Recovery and
infrastructure Design/development. Managed budgets, VoIP projects, compliancy, multi-office relocation and infrastructure design.

Executive IT consultant, for the US/UK VP of IT, managing multiple vendor and service contracts on a new outsourced IT
Services for a global utility company. Managing services and budgets, enforcing adherences to contract agreements, meeting
financial goals, cutting $800K and 900K in service costs in 3 months, and improving adherence to SLAs and other processes.

Served as Interim Executive Director of IT for CIO of North/Central America region, controlling several regional IT groups for
12 operating companies spanning the U.S. and Caribbean. Managed managers and directors, reorganized strategic IT projects,
budgets and staff to reduce expense $2 million, while supporting new operational company in Haiti without increase to budget.

As Interim Executive Director, managed several global projects across 12 regional locations (US, Mexico, Haiti, Caribbean,
Europe). Projects included the corporate migration of 6000+ users to MS Exchange, implemented a high availability backup
system using VNX and VMWare, and DR functionality. Email migration completed 100% in 9 months, ahead of schedule and
within budget plan. Completed high availability system and first Disaster Recovery test for US and Caribbean region.

Build complete Windows 7 migration plan for 10 operational companies in 3 phases including entire budget, department
resource needs, and all approvals. Phase 1 completed 1 month ahead of schedule (1,025 users migrated) with 0% disruption.
Phase 2 and 3 in progress and transferred to local resources for implementation of 5,000+ users in 3 months as planned.
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Executive consultant to Senior Vice President of information technology charged with enhancing in 3 months a cohesive newly
centralized IT department to support SOX/HIPAA security regulations and other designed security functions.

Managed and controlled 25 multiple projects, including 1,100 staff department relocation to network/datacenter builds.
Responsibility included management of technology enhancements, budgets, and relocation (IT and telecomm, construction,
AV conferencing, etc.) to datacenter relocations and Disaster Recover.

Managed/restarted major global project to merge and consolidate two corporate systems into one global system. Project
encompassed 2 companies, 18 different architecture systems and 11 datacenters and various local offices. All systems
and infrastructure were merged into 1 common infrastructure, 6 global datacenters and new centralized corporate
applications. Completed 2 US and 1 UK datacenter within 7 months, with other UK datacenter underway.

Managed major Voice-over-IP implementation involving 2 major call centers and several business facilities for a major
service company. Implementation involved development and deployment of redundant host PBX and VoIP deployment
for 1100 desktop stations, call center systems, and management, and functional business recovery ability.

Served as Senior Project Manager on a datacenter consolidation project. Managed all aspects of the project from
conceptualization, budget, to completion while working closely with departmental personnel, vendors, and contractors to
ensure that the project was completed on time and on budget for the systems move to a new datacenter.


New York Liquidation Bureau, New York, New York (Left due to downsizing) 2008 to 2010
Chief Information Officer Served as a critical member of the Executive Team, recruited for ability to make critical IT decisions,
analyze policies and implement cost effective choices. Managed 32 member IT staff, operational support, meet state/federal
regulations, merged technologies from liquidated insurances and migrating systems/data into the NY Bureau environment.

Reorganized IT Division and developed IT budget that included consolidating all bureau-wide technologies and staff into one
IT division. Charged with taking control and organizing the IT Division, managing operational expenses, and developed an
operational budget that replaced out of service infrastructure while reducing IT expenses $2.5 million.

Created 3-year IT department plan with goals on implementing ITIL practices and new security regulations for HIPAA
compliancy and reduce expenses by an additional $2.5 million while incorporating advance technology for further
development initiatives and management of 24x7x365 datacenter, within budget constraints.

Established an IT Governance Structure in the bureau and managed IT steering committees with other state liquidators. Bureau
Representative for the federal project on the CMS Medicare Reporting Committee for Guarantee Insurances/Liquidators.

Renegotiated IBM lease contract on new AS400 systems, providing 4 years complete maintenance on all production and DR
systems with 15% cost reduction. Contract includes support for data replication for offsite Disaster Recovery and testing.

Designed and managed a comprehensive document retention imaging project, for the Legal Division, that developed/installed
imaging system to record and store all medical, insurance, and financial documents. Subsequently, systems fully comply with
HIPAA/HITECH Act 2009 and eliminate 50,000 square feet ($3.2 million) of storage and providing increased data security.

Lee, Hecht, Harrison, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey (Left due to downsizing of IT department) 2004 to 2007
Chief Technology Officer/VP of National Infrastructure Built IT department from scratch, with accountability for supervising
a 35-member IT staff, vendors, and consultants and consolidating all technology budgets to one department. Primary duties focused
on planning/managing $15.3 million budget, Security/SOX/HIPAA and ITIL compliance, IT procurement of $5 million and 20
major IT projects, and overseeing all technology, telecommunications, and information processing for the organization.

Transformed a 35-member technical group in 6 months into a global strategic IT department supporting 4000 staff globally,
and assumed responsibility and management of all Lee, Hecht, Harrisons IT systems, datacenters and recovery processes. As a
result, slashed operational expenses by $2 million and increased services by 200% within a 4-month time frame.

Instituted comprehensive IT security plan and developed a 3-year IT strategy that met company objectives and complied with
SOX / HIPAA regulations. Brought company into compliance, cutting additional $1.3 million in expense in 1
st
year of
implementation and maintaining budget at $650,000 over next 3 years.

Successfully managed complex WAN infrastructure project, organizing departments, vendors, and resources to complete the
conversion 3 months ahead of schedule without service interruption. New WAN provided central management of all systems
and reduced office support expenses by $800,000 per year.

Led a 6-member IT team in migrating all desktop and systems to new global network in all office. All Security, server and
switches upgraded to latest hardware and Intrusion Detection software; created technology hardware and software standards;
designing new corporate wireless network and consolidate IT expenses to one central department.
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Developed redundant network for high availability needs using HP SANS and ipSANS technology. This implementation
positioned the company as compliant with Federal SOX and HIPAA requirements and corporate recovery goals. Designed
and built a testing area for new products (MS SQL, Web Services, Windows w7, MS Office Suite, VMWare).

Managed datacenter migration project that moved equipment to a new facility in a new state within 2 days, successful
resuming operations on start of normal business day. This effort will generate more than $5 million in savings over 5 years.

Designed and built a Global Technology Infrastructure that resulted in centralized telecommunications, Internet access and
security, and data storage/warehousing. This new infrastructure cut telecom expenses by $1.5 million, saved $500,000 in
support costs, and improved customer service by 150%.

Managed 16-member cross-function team in development of the next generation of customer management system and
conversion of all customer/client data from MS Solomon to MS SQL. Completed project on time with less that 5% startup
problems and increased accuracy in customer billing/reporting by 85%, and meeting SOX and HIPAA requirements.

Cosmopolitan Cosmetics, Inc., New York, New York (Parent Company consolidation) 2002 to 2003
Chief Technology Officer/VP Scope of duties consisted of managing systems and technology for North American division.
Responsibilities included oversight of external DB consultants, networks, desktops, telecomm, Internet/intranet systems, EDI, and
software in all U.S. locations. Developed IT strategies for system/application improvements and budget controls/restructuring.
Managed vendor/developer on financial/inventory/order system Absolution developed in Oracle.

Managed entire Windows 2003 and Cisco network across 5 U.S. locations and all remote users including two data centers.
Installed/handled new VoIP between offices, decreasing telecomm costs by 40% with new deployment of WAN infrastructure.
Additionally, renegotiated ISP contracts for improved WAN communications, resulting in an annual $450,000 cost reduction.

JPMorgan Chase, New York, New York (Left due to reduction of staff due to merger) 1998 to 2002
Vice President of Infrastructure Charged with directing a multi-service facility providing IT services to 134 business units.
Provided operational support for department expansions, performed operational tests, planned/coordinated disaster recovery
corporate testing with each business unit and branch, and wrote SLAs and support documents. Managed banking datacenter,
upgrade of facilitys voice/voicemail systems and project-managed disaster recovery tests.

Managed IT budget and updated datacenter for improved support to all business units with increase to infrastructure telecomm.
Developed and implemented migration plan for IT Business Services department for new datacenter. Completed move 2
months ahead of schedule, which reduced migration expenses by $500,000.

Prior 1998 Professional Experience
Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP, New York (Left due to downsizing) 1997 to 1998
Operations Director, Network Systems
Doubleday Direct, Garden City, New York (Promoted to a position with more responsibilities) 1995 to 1997
Manager of Network Services
Intelligent Systems Group, Hauppauge, New York (Promoted to a position with more responsibilities) 1994 to 1995
Senior Systems Engineer & Integrator
State Street Bank and Trust, NA, New York, New York (Left due to downsizing) 1991 to 1994
Technology Systems Officer
Sedco, Div. of Raytheon, Melville, New York (Left due to downsizing & attended Graduate School) 1986 to 1989
Computer Engineer

Education
M.B.A., Management Information Systems, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 1991
B.E.E.E., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 1986
Graduate Business Certificate in Business Administration, CW Post, Greenvale, New York
Certifications & Memberships
ITIL, MCSE, PMI. CNE-6, Cisco CCIP/CCSP/CCNP, Checkpoint CCSE, HP Master ASE, & CompTIA
Member of PMI Organization, Member of the IEEE, Association of Computing Machinery
Member of LinkedIn Groups on IT Governance, Security, Compliancy, and CIO IT Committees