Kipp Drake, MBA
IT Director - Voice Services @ Banner Health
About
Director / Senior Information Technology Architect with significant experience creating and implementing innovative, effective technology solutions with positive impact to bottom line. Driven, natural leader with ability to recruit, retain and motivate teams of high-quality contributors to achieve and surpass specific goals and objectives. Project management track record of exceeding customer expectations through developing, managing, and communicating effective project plans. Excellent communications skills combined with precise problem solving, analytical ability and passion for maximizing team effectiveness through mentoring, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to apply knowledge and experience to disparate industries and business environments. Specialties: Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, Event Correlation, Audit/Alerting Encryption/Key Management LAN, MAN & WAN VoIP Systems, Voice Mail & ACD Systems Fault-tolerant, high-availability clusters VM & Blade Servers RDBMS, data replication SAN, NAS and consolidated storage E-mail, collaboration tools, WebEx, videoconferencing & document management Change control Enterprise Job Scheduling Network monitoring, availability and performance monitoring, asset management and software deployment
United States
Tucson
Hospital & Health Care
Firewalls, VoIP, VPN, Network Monitoring Tools, Replication, Change Control, RDBMS, Collaboration Tools, SDLC, Security, IT Management, ITIL, Virtualization, Network Security, Vendor Management, Integration, Windows Server, Storage, Operating Systems, Process Improvement
Experience
IT Director - Voice Services
Banner Health
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Information Systems Engineer Sr Consultant
Banner Health
Tucson, Arizona Area
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ETS Corporation
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Infrastructure Support Group Leader
Tucson Electric Power
Managed, coached and mentored 4 teams with 17 total staff performing hardware and operating system support for all corporate computer systems, including 5 IBM and SUN mainframe-class systems, 80+ Windows servers, and 1400+ personal computers. Implemented and managed performance, availability and security of all local, metropolitan and intrastate data communications networks. Prepared and managed annual operating and capital budgets of approximately $6M.
Education
University of Phoenix
Technology Management
University of Arizona
Management Information Systems
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