Title: Head of Production Services Duration: FULLTIME Location: Chicago, IL. Salary: Give me your best W2 Responsibilities - Lead, provide and deliver 24x7x365 production management and operational duties for Chicago hosted applications and services. - Oversee the co-ordination and deployment of new infrastructure services to be hosted in the Chicago data centers throughout their lifecycle, from strategic definition to production. - Contribute to Fimat group strategy for the definition and maintenance of working practices, standards and procedures leading to global hosting services. - Planning and compliance with IT policies and procedures including but not limited to change management, incident reporting, data center management, production deployment and version control. - Provide best cost for service through collaboration and leverage of global abilities. Accountabilities - Exhibit strong organizational, project management, communication and leadership skills. - Maintain ongoing technical skills development and/or certifications within information technology and production management. - Rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. - Apply a wide degree of creativity and latitude in the performance of responsibilities. - Evaluate emerging trends in the production management field and their worth to the organization. - Ensure necessary controls are in place, reporting produced and documentation maintained. Technical Scope Production services deployed for: - Network and infrastructure services: Intranet, Extranet, Cisco, Nokia and Checkpoint solutions. - Systems Engineering: Design, hosting, technical support management and on-going optimization of new and existing Fimat group platforms, including but not limited to: IBM (I-series and X-series), UNIX, Microsoft, and Linux. - Application Services - GMI and associated products and applications. - In-house produced applications and solutions utilized by Fimat offices and customers of Fimat. - Data center management for Chicago and Lombard. Reporting and Supervisory Responsibilities - Reports to the CTO. - Supervisory responsibility of the All Regional Operations team. Experience - Senior management skills within global production services, network operations centers, data center management and hosting services. - Exposure to or accreditation within ITIL. If you are interested in this position please send your resume, desired salary, contact information, and availability to Michael Swan at or call at 847-466-1193. Experience: Desired skills: . To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here