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Vice President Information Technology

With more than 3,800 company-operated and franchised stores across 48 states, Mattress Firm (NASDAQ: MFRM) has the largest geographic footprint in the United States among multi-brand mattress retailers. With the 2016 acquisition of Sleepy's, Mattress Firm is the nation's first border-to-border, coast-to-coast specialty bedding retailer. Founded in 1986, Houston-based Mattress Firm is the nation's leading bedding retailer with pro forma sales of over $3.5 billion over the last twelve months. The company offers a broad selection of both traditional and specialty mattresses, bedding accessories and other related products from leading manufacturers, including Sealy, Tempur-Pedic, Serta, Simmons, Stearns & Foster, and Hampton & Rhodes. Mattress Firm guarantees price, comfort and service with the ultimate goal of ensuring that customers Save Money.

Dedicated and motivated professional with 25 years experience in the IT field, actualizing corporate strategy, vision, and operations in start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Identify areas of strengths and weaknesses and implement company policies, standards, changes in operations, and systems that optimize productivity and the bottom line. Identify, develop, and implement IT opportunities to improve the operating effectiveness and financial performance of organizations. Background includes directive IT experience and network engineering and infrastructure skills in a variety of industries, including advertising/marketing/media; social media; managed services; aerospace; education; healthcare; and retail. - Demonstrated ability to deploy, upgrade, and maintain corporate IT infrastructure - Experienced in implementing, configuring, and managing servers - Expert knowledge of a variety of environments, such as servers, switches, databases, routers, networks, and platforms - Proficient in motivating staff to maximize productivity and control costs - Adept at measuring performance and capacity requirements - Accustomed to absorbing, understanding, analyzing, and identifying critical problems that may result in an outage - Resourceful in adapting quickly in a dynamic environment - Self-starter with demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a team environment; excellent communication skills