Jeremy Mistry

Reporting directly to VP Technology, lead the IT function for a 200-employee animation studio, overseeing a team of four direct reports, and ensuring all technology strategies, operations, and investments directly support the studio’s creative and business objectives. Drive continuous improvement of IT policies, processes, and service delivery standards while maintaining operational resilience across production, pipeline systems, and corporate infrastructure. • Provie strategic leadership for all IT operations, ensure alignment between departmental initiatives and the studio’s long-term organizational goals. • Manage, mentor, and develop a cross-functional IT team, fostering a culture of accountability, service excellence, and proactive problem-solving. • Oversee annual IT budgeting and fully manage all technology spend, including procurement of hardware, software, licensing, cloud services, and vendor-managed solutions. • Develop and refine departmental policies, processes, and documentation to enhance security, operational efficiency, and compliance with industry and client requirements. • Lead lifecycle management for all technology assets, including server infrastructure, storage systems, networking equipment, production hardware, and endpoint devices. • Engage with vendors, conduct competitive evaluations, and negotiate contracts to ensure on-time replacement of aging infrastructure with a strong focus on cost savings, performance, and long-term viability. • Collaborate with executive leadership and production teams to ensure IT initiatives support pipeline performance, data security, and business continuity planning. • Direct infrastructure modernization efforts, ensuring scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platforms to support animation production workloads.

Reporting directly to the CEO/Owner, focused on creating roadmaps, goals, and team objectives for a company that experienced rapid growth from 35 to over 150 employees within a year. Managed a $3MM CAPEX and $2MM OPEX IT budget and oversee a team of 7 staff members. • Reduced capital expenditure by $250K between 2023 and present through an in-depth analysis of tools and licenses, eliminating redundancies, and leading a company-wide software restructuring with minimal impact on production over nine months. • Directly responsible for the studio's IT infrastructure, Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud, hosting game content and overseeing all SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS applications, resulting in annual cost savings of nearly $100K compared to on-premises infrastructure. • Implemented robust security measures that reduced security incidents, by 42% and aligned with industry standards.

Reporting to the CEO, owned the technical road map and evolution of the IT department in an organization of 150, implementing industry leading security measures. Accountable for $10M yearly budget and staff of 12. • Led large-scale global Microsoft O365 migration from G Suite, resulting in enhanced collaboration, security, and communication among employees. • Achieved the TPN Blue Shield compliance standard, with trajectory to be Gold Shield compliant within 1 year. Critical to ensuring an increase in client partnerships with leading companies such as Paramount, Warner Brothers, Amazon, Apple, Disney and Sony. • Unlocked ~$500K in savings through local infrastructure strategies, that previously relied on AWS for cloud rendering while maintaining 99.99% up-time.

My focus is to grow, manage and lead my team to support the studio's IT needs with cutting edge technology relevant to the industry. I place emphasis on team coaching, studio roadmap and collaboration with partners both internal and external. Plan, design and execute overall IT infrastructure projects, and digital storage solutions. My team is responsible for the daily support for over 950 users in the video game industry. Strong leadership and project management skills with over 20 years experience.

Team Leader for IT Staff providing solutions and support for over 400 users at the Magna Corporate Headquarters. Roles included VPN Support, Hardware/ Software support, Virtualization and Email Administration, Windows 2003-2008 Active Directory Management, Project Management and demonstrated leadership to IT Team members.