IT Architect and manager of operations for a variety of companies including Healthcare, Financial Services, Automobile Insurance, Brokerage and Manufacturing / Distribution. Responsible for staff, budgets, strategy and operations. Specialties: Business Analyst, Industrial Engineer, Consultant and Seven Layer IT Architect - Build with Security and High Availability foundations - OpenSystems, J.D. Edwards, EDI, Mainframe Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Medical Billing, Claims Processing, Designed cost effective architectures for Information Technology, International VOIP and Call Center's, VMWare, Windows, Linux, AIX, AS/400 (I-Series), S390, High Availability and Disaster Recovery and Geographically Distributed Replication, Internet Publishing, Social Networking, Big 8 Consulting Background, Problem Solving.

IT Manager @ From March 2010 to Present (5 years 10 months) CTO @ Developing sustainable technology for today's information management systems. From 2009 to Present (6 years) Senior IT Manager @ From August 2002 to December 2008 (6 years 5 months) Co-founder and CTO @ As the Chief Designer for the First Cloud Computing Company and Managed Service Provider I was also responsible for growing a Consulting Practice - Manager for A.G Edwards Internet Network Design - High Availability and Disaster Recovery; Designed & Implemented DNS / DHCP Service Layers - Manager for Rawlings Sporting Goods Network, Voice and Messaging Implementation From July 1997 to August 2002 (5 years 2 months) CTO @ Responsible for the development, design and operation of Post-Line, PostFax, PostNet and STLToday for Pulitzer Publishing From July 1994 to July 1997 (3 years 1 month) CTO Pulitzer Technologies @ From 1994 to 1997 (3 years) President @ From 1992 to 1995 (3 years) MIS Director @ Hospital MIS Director From April 1989 to July 1994 (5 years 4 months) Senior Manager @ Healthcare Consulting From October 1987 to April 1989 (1 year 7 months) Senior Manager @ Management Consultant From February 1980 to October 1987 (7 years 9 months)

Industrial Engineering @ University of Missouri-Columbia From 1978 to 1980 BA, Physics, Math @ William Jewell College From 1974 to 1978 Richard Truex is skilled in: Social Media, Social Networking, Messaging, Managed Services, Digital Media, Information Architecture, EDI, Consulting, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, Digital Certificates, Network Security, ERP, Healthcare Information Technology