A senior level Information Technology executive with extensive experience both as an IT Director and Soloutions Provider. Demonstrated capabilities include tactical and strategic planning, P&L responsibility, operational, systems security and project management. Highly skilled in staff training, mentoring and supervision. A resourceful, adaptive and self-directed team contributor & leader, with excellent problem solving & communication skills.
Senior Program Director @ Responsible for projects and the project team around the conversion of multi-thousand traditional PBX-based phones to Cisco IP phones and contact centers at one of the world's largest healthcare institutions, in the greater Boston area. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Services Executive @ • As the Northeast Regional Services Executive, held direct responsibility for all client service delivery by five IT professional services teams. These teams consist of Core Infrastructure, Unified Communications, Server Infrastructure, Project Management and Staff augmentation; each team led by a managing consultant encompassing three regional offices with more than 60 staff members. From April 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 10 months) Director of Technical Services @ Responsible for management of presales engineering, implementation engineering, project management and service delivery in the areas of networking, unified communications, data center technologies and information security for the NY metro area clients and projects of Cisco and EMC‘s third largest U.S. partner From January 2008 to November 2010 (2 years 11 months) Security Practice Manager @ Our parent company has rebranded Networked Information Systems and all partner companies to the name Presidio Networked Solutions. From June 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 8 months) Senior Manager Technology Solutions @ From June 2003 to June 2006 (3 years 1 month) Engineering Duty Officer (LCDR) @ As a Reserve Engineering Duty Officer I was a Restricted Line Officer in the United States Naval Reserve. As a member of various Naval Reserve Units, I was involved with the design, acquisition, construction, repair, maintenance, conversion and overhaul of ships and submarines and the systems on those platforms (weapons, command and control, communications, computers, etc.) From March 1982 to July 2005 (23 years 5 months) Director of IT & Managed Systems @ From June 2000 to January 2003 (2 years 8 months) Senior Project Manager @ From June 1999 to June 2000 (1 year 1 month) SE Manager @ Transitiond to EDS through a contract between EDS and Cunard Line. Upon termination of that contract I moved to the American Express Bank account until dissolution of that contract. From January 1996 to May 1999 (3 years 5 months) Assistant VP, Fleet & Office Systems @ From September 1989 to December 1995 (6 years 4 months) Instructor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology @ From September 1977 to August 1991 (14 years) Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science @ Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in operating systems, programming languages and computer graphics. From September 1980 to June 1985 (4 years 10 months) Consulting Bioengineer @ Consulted at the Vocal Dynamics Laboratory of the ENT Department .
I developed an automated patient charting system on the PDP-12 minicomputer in the Focal12 language. Data was taken from the various equipment used to measure patient pulmonary capability, spectrum analysis of recorded vocalization as well as high speed cinematography of the vocal chords and the subsequent digitization of those images. From June 1975 to June 1978 (3 years 1 month) Greater New York City Area
MS, Bioengineering @ New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering From 1975 to 1978 B. Tech, Electromechanical Engineering Technology @ City University of New York City College From 1973 to 1975 AAS, Electrical Technology @ Queensborough Community College From 1969 to 1973 Robert Packer is skilled in: Project Management, Systems Engineering, Data Center, Cisco Technologies, Security, Disaster Recovery, Network Security, Managed Services, Integration, CISSP, ITIL, Unified Communications, Solution Selling, Pre-sales, Networking