Arnie Kilk

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OBJECTIVE:

DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / CIO

  • Strong focus on designing, building, deploying and managing secure technology solutions.
  • Skilled in communication between executives, managers and technology departments.
  • Successful VP/ IT Director for two publicly traded companies.
  • Proven business leader with executive level experience.
  • More than 18 years of information technology business experience
  • Expert in compliance and security within industry standards

 

KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Infrastructure

Administration

·         Data Center Co-Lo Architect

·         Business Acquisition & IT Integration

·         Project Management, Application Development

·         Financial Planning / Cost Benefit Analysis

·         Vendor Relations & Contract Negotiations

·         Business Liaison with IT Departments

·         Security & Business Continuity

·         Corporate IT Governance

·         Active Directory, Exchange Implementation

·         Effective Public Speaker / IT Advocate

·         Internet / Telecommunications / WAN Management

·         Manager / HR Administration

·         Voice Over IP (VOIP) Implementation

·         Problem Solver / Arbitrator

 

EDUCATION

 

University of California Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business

Master of Business Administration, Information Technology                                      June 2007

University of Colorado Boulder, The Leeds School of Business

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems     June 1992       

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

RP Holdings Group, LLC                                                      Denver, Colorado                                                                                                   March 2007-January 2011 Chief Information Officer

 RP Holdings Group provides foreclosure, bankruptcy, title and escrow services to the real estate market in eleven states.

  • The IT Decision Maker for all information technology projects; including application development, hardware acquisition, licensing, systems maintenance, project management, and security.
  • Reseller of support services and hosted Citrix data center for internal and external clients including government agencies.
  • Leader of Information Technology Department including management of personnel, budgets, contracts,  internal and external client relationships
  • Specific accomplishments include building the technology infrastructure, managing the deployment and maintenance of multiple applications across a Citrix farm, and consolidating and reselling IT resources for multiple companies.
    • Developed IT strategy and presented the progress of the strategy at board and investor meetings
    • Negotiated multiple contracts with suppliers, developers, contractors, and clients
    • Performed IT due-diligence and assimilated information technology departments for multiple acquisitions
    • Consolidated IT resources across multiple “brands/companies” while improving support services
    • Installed and maintained Citrix, Virtual Machine, and Microsoft based Data center servicing over 500 users
    • Standardized and implemented IT policy and procedures across the organization.
    • Participated in and passed all yearly IT audits for clients (Major Banks) and investors (VC’s)
    • Created the WAN using the MPLS medium growing it from two sites to 25 sites.
    • Upgraded to Exchange 2007 across the organization including newly acquired companies
    • Deployed Cisco VOIP solution across the enterprise, including overseas
    • Installed and deployed new case management system allowing for work to be off-shored

Fidelity National Financial (FNF)                                 Orange County, California                                                                                          September 2001-September 2006

  • VP, Director of Information Technology           Fidelity National Title Group                                                                                  06/2005-09/2006

FNTG provides title and escrow services to the real estate market in North America via the subsidiaries of Chicago Title, Fidelity Title, Ticor Title and Alamo Title.

  • Manager of 30 systems administrators in California and Colorado for over 250 branches.
  • IT Decision Maker for infrastructure projects, application development, systems maintenance, and security.
  • Specific accomplishments include upgrading the technology infrastructure, managing the deployment of applications, and consolidating IT resources across multiple company’s
    • Consolidated IT resources across multiple “brands/company’s” while improving support services
    • Early Adopter of Network Security Scans & remediation
    • Standardized and implemented backup procedures across the organization.
    • Conducted IT Forensics for Legal/HR and Insurance commission audits.
    • Public speaker on HP RISS E-mail Archive solution for legal and regulatory compliance
    • Upgraded the WAN architecture to a more manageable FRAME and MPLS medium.
    • Implemented co-locations for network and server farm consolidation.
    • Implemented WSUS, EPO, SMS and MOM agents across the enterprise.
    • Migrated the AD under one forest
    • Upgraded over 2000 workstations to Windows XP, Office 2003 on a Windows 2003 AD.
    • Deployed new applications designed to replace legacy industry specific software.
    • Enhanced existing web based software to replace legacy industry specific software.

  • VP, Director of Information Technology           Ticor Title Company of California                                                                                  09/2001-06/2005

Ticor Title provides title, escrow and real estate related services through its branch offices and six subsidiaries.

  • Manager of Systems Administrators in California, Nevada, and Arizona for over 100 branches.
  • IT Decision Maker for all IT projects (infrastructure, application development , systems maintenance, security)
  • Upgraded Ticor  to a standard & easily maintained IT infrastructure facilitating the fast growing real estate market.
    • Created & implemented enterprise WAN for over 100 branches.
    • Designed, created and implemented two Co-location data centers to facilitate new WAN architecture and the deployment of new title, escrow, and back office applications.
    • Managed Sarbanes Oxley / Gramm-Leach-Bliley remediation and audits.
      • Access Control (Active Directory)
      • Network Security (Architecture)
      • Application Security (Cryptography)
      • Physical Security & Continuity Planning
      • Policies Procedures, Standards, Guidelines
      • Audit (First to pass FNF SOX Audit)
    • Facilitated corporate acquisitions of companies. (Parent & child acquisitions experience)
      • FNF Acquisition of Ticor Tile (2003)
      • Ticor Acquisition of Emerald / American Docs (2001)
      • Technology Infrastructure Project (Assimilation into FNF IT infrastructure)
    • Designed and implemented corporate web site
    • Conducted IT Forensics for legal and HR.
    • Managed multiple large scale office relocations.
    • Regional IT installation from scratch (Entered real-estate market in Nevada)
      • Six branches in production within 3 months of inception
      • Remote administration for all Nevada branches

Emerald Mortgage Assistance Company / American DOCS                 Denver, CO

Manager of Information Technology                                                   November 1998 – September 2001

o    Systems support and administration for over 70 users at two real-estate industry companies

o    Network support and administration for two law firms in Colorado and Nevada

 

Request Television / Reiss Media / Liberty Media                                Denver, CO

Manager of Information Technology                                                   November 1996 – October 1998        

o    Supervisor of IS staff, IT administration, projects, and budgets

o    Systems support for over 75 users

 

Coastal States Management / ANR Freight                                            Denver, CO

Systems Analyst                                                                                      November 1994 – October 1996

o    Systems Administration / Programmer

o    Imaging system  workflow analyst

 

Nordby International                                                                                 Boulder, CO

Systems Analyst / Securities Analyst                                                 August1992 – October 1994

o    Systems Analyst / Programmer

o    Novel Network Administrator

 

Résumé

Arnold@Kilk.com

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