• Information Technology Executive with more than 15 years of hands-on experience developing and executing IT strategies
• Exceptional communicator, presenter, and motivator
• Excellent leader, manager and mentor
• Recognized innovator and visionary with proven record of applying expertise to opportunity
• Record of guiding projects to completion within specification, on-time and on-budget
CTO/CIO @ • Manages Information Technology efforts and infrastructure for automotive aftermarket parts distributor with $240M/year in annual sales
• Conceived and implemented plan which resulted in 300% increase in customer marketing effectiveness
• Designed, planned and implemented multiple IT infrastructure transformations which dramatically increased system performance, availability and fault-tolerance, including private cloud implementation of complete virtualization of production infrastructure
• Engineered solution to support 400% increase in data and transaction velocity over 3 years
• Implemented product management and development practices and processes including ROI-based resource alignment From June 2008 to Present (7 years 7 months) Vice President of Information Technology @ From December 2007 to June 2008 (7 months) Director of Software Engineering @ From May 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 8 months) Senior Software Engineer @ From May 2005 to April 2006 (1 year) Information System Manager @ Information Systems Manager for internet business incubation firm. Responsible for specification, acquisition, deployment and management of all I.T. systems in support of more than a dozen internet startups. From May 2000 to October 2000 (6 months) Information System Manager / Senior Developer @ Managed I.T. installation at corporate headquarters and 200+ automated mobile workforce systems. Developed and maintained mobile workforce and warehouse inventory management software. From January 1998 to May 2000 (2 years 5 months) IT Manager, Senior Software Engineer @ Developed, managed and maintained mobile route management and vertical marketing infrastructure
* Developed, managed and maintained warehouse inventory management infrastructure
* Managed Y2K evaluation and response on above mentioned systems From January 1997 to January 2000 (3 years 1 month) Software Developer @ Developed and maintained mobile workforce and warehouse inventory management software. From January 1997 to January 1998 (1 year 1 month)
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in English, 4.0 @ California State University-East BayBrigham Young University Kalani Keala is skilled in: Product Management, Cloud Computing, E-commerce, Enterprise Architecture, SDLC, Team Building, Strategic Planning, Program Management, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Mergers & Acquisitions, Product Development, Automotive, Contract Negotiation, Leadership
Websites:
http://www.1800radiator.com