VP Senior Director IT in Emerson NJ Resume Mark Brackenbury

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Mark has over 20 years of experience in IT leadership roles, specializing in enabling scientific workflows and lab automation. He has a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget while achieving financial targets.

Mark has held several senior director and director roles at Pfizer over the past 20 years, leading teams that implemented systems like Oracle ERP and SharePoint to improve collaboration and reduce costs. Some of his responsibilities included managing budgets, delivering applications and end user support.

Before joining Pfizer in 2002, Mark held manager roles at Health Management Systems where he led technical groups and outsourced a help desk, saving over $600k annually. He also has experience as a business systems analyst at other financial companies.

MARK J.

BRACKENBURY
New York City Metro Area
(201) 995-3622

[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbrackenbury

Information Technology leader with comprehensive experience in all aspects of Information Technology.
A proven, results-driven professional with demonstrated strengths in strategic and tactical planning,
project management, team leadership, and successful delivery of customer-driven IT projects. Successful
track record working with senior business executives to identify and analyze business problems and
directions and formulate and implement technology solutions that drive business value.

Business process improvement


Agile application development
Collaboration tools
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Strategic planning

Business Partnership
Operations Management
Budgeting/Forecasting
Product/Platform Delivery
Stakeholder Management

Professional Experience
2002 - Current
PFIZER INC, New York, NY
Senior Director, R&D Business Technology, 2010 - Current
Lead the Pearl River Research Business Technology team that enables and supports scientific workflows,
lab automation, regulatory compliance and data management for Vaccines, Oncology, Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Drug Safety, and Comparative Medicine at the Pearl River site.
Consistently achieved financial targets +/- 1.5%.
Implemented electronic Lab Notebooks at Pearl River site saving over $1 million.
Designed and implemented a Research Unit-wide SharePoint strategy to improve collaboration,
reduce storage costs and increase compliance.
Implemented an award-winning Bioconjugation Support System to allow for tracking of
Antibody Drug Conjugates and experiment metadata.
Drove Novell to Microsoft migration - 13 servers, 721 user accounts, 1860 home drives, 75 shared
drives reducing costs and standardizing support.
Reduced local data center presence and consolidated to central data center - 1,400 servers in
scope, with savings of $314,000 per year in Hardware Maintenance and reduction in server
support costs of $1.75 million per year.
Supported and facilitated move of 500+ colleagues and their IT and laboratory equipment from 5
buildings into 2 saving over $3 million a year.
Led Cybersecurity initiative for protecting pre-patent information including remediation of over
50 systems.
Director, Information Technology, 2008 - 2010
Led the Application Development and Data Migration teams for global implementation of Oracle
Manufacturing ERP solution. Managed an offshore development team of over 25 members.
Delivered over 30 enhancements tailoring the Oracle Manufacturing solution to Pfizer
Manufacturing standards on time and within budget.
Migrated data from over 25 legacy systems into the new Oracle solution.
Established and implemented an application delivery strategy and roadmap for implementation.
Director, Information Technology, 2006 - 2008
Developed and drove systems architecture and the delivery of application and end user support services
to Pfizer's Legal Division.

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MARK J. BRACKENBURY
New York City Metro Area
(201) 995-3622

[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbrackenbury

Produced and implemented an Operation Service catalogue using ITIL principles encompassing
Service Level Agreements and Operation Level Agreements in the areas of User Account
Administration, Application Support, Server Infrastructure Support, and Asset Management and
Control.
Managed $6-7 Million of infrastructure services and $1-2M of application and infrastructure
support.
Established the strategic planning and technical architecture design for systems supporting
Pfizer's Legal Division.

Senior Manager, Business Technology, 2002 - 2006


Led a team and managed all IT-related systems and initiatives in support of Pfizer's Corporate Affairs
division.
Migrated Pfizer's quarterly earnings release from a fax-based delivery system to electronic, secure
platform reducing errors by over 25% and decreasing reporting time by over 60%.
Implemented a program using knowledge capture and reuse methodology to support risk
assessments and compliance, resulting in no significant audit findings for the Corporate Affairs
division.
Formed and led an intranet advisory team to provide guidance and direction to various
initiatives resulting in faster and more consistent delivery of corporate intranet sites.
HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, New York, NY
1993 - 2002
Manager Distributed Systems Support
Led the technical groups responsible for all LAN/WAN operations, Network Security, Corporate Web
Servers, Notes E-Mail system, Notes Database Development, and the datacenter all non-mainframe based
servers including Windows NT and UNIX.
Outsourced and managed a nationwide Help Desk service resulting in over $600k of savings per
year
Designed and managed a data center to house all servers, provide redundancy, and plan for
disaster recovery
Upgraded network from Token-Ring to Ethernet.
Prior Relevant Experience
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE, New York, NY
Business Systems Analyst
MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST, New York, NY
Systems Analyst
CHASE HOME MORTGAGE, Montvale, NJ
Systems Analyst

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MARK J. BRACKENBURY
New York City Metro Area
(201) 995-3622

[email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbrackenbury
Education
Master of Science: Information Management
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Hoboken, NJ
Bachelor of Science: Systems Planning and Management
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Hoboken, NJ

Additional Information
Current Chief and Officer (2008 present) of the Emerson Volunteer Fire Department

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