Director of Information Technology Services @ From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Greater Atlanta AreaGlobal Project @ From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Greater Atlanta AreaDirector of Compliance and Project Management Office @ I am still with the same company, but due to our rapid growth we needed to open a formal PMO and bring structure to our technical projects. I spend more time working directly with clients and managing projects, as well as Project Managers and their projects. I still maintain my strong technical background and 25 years of experience, but am no longer doing the day to day internal management. I truly enjoy working more closely with the external clients and the new technical projects. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Director of Technology Services @ We provide complete hosting services for Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, File, Print, Web, Enterprise Backup Solutions, VoIP, Wireless, Host more than 40 Medical Applications including EMR and EHR and several Financial Systems. We serve more than 3,000 locations across the country and Hawaii and have a rapidly growing team of Engineers, Developers, Analysts, Service Desk Staff and Professional Services Team. We are also partners with more than 50 hardware and software vendors. We have a Tier 3+ SAS 70 Type II Data Center with 8 additional Data Centers strategically located around the country to offer the most robust solutions for Cloud Computing, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and exceed expectations for any enviroment. Additionally, we have developed and host one of the most comprehensive Dashboards for Executive Views into Practice Management, Clinical and/or Financial Systems and are deploying these solutions for a very wide range of Clients. If you have databases and need easy to read reports on real time data to manage your organization, you will want to see our Dashboard. From July 2009 to July 2012 (3 years 1 month) Director of Technical Services @ From September 2006 to November 2008 (2 years 3 months) Infrastructure Development Manager @ Lived and worked in Grand Cayman for three years and was fortunate enough to travel around the world upgrading Infrastructures and performing migrations from Novell to Microsoft, GroupWise to Exchange, NDS to ADS, extensive Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity and Contingency Planning. Performed a flawless DR live exercise through a Category 5 Hurricane (IVAN) on a small tropical Island with minimal downtime. We all plan for it, but I have lived it and successfully performed the tasks forwards and backwards with great success. Plan the work and work the plan! From February 2002 to January 2005 (3 years) Director of Technology @ From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) Technical Consultant @ From 1996 to 2002 (6 years) Technical Consultant @ From 1996 to 2002 (6 years) Technical Consultant @ From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Senior Systems Engineer @ From 1995 to 1998 (3 years)
BS, Computer Science @ TU From 1991 to 1995 Associate of Science (A.S.), Electronics Engineering Technology @ RETS Electronics Institute From 1986 to 1988 Ron Piper is skilled in: Microsoft SQL Server, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Computing, VMware, ITIL, SharePoint, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Data Center, SQL, Citrix, Databases, Cisco Technologies, Business Intelligence, IT Management