IT Service Desk Manager; Anaheim, CA

Salary Grade: 162E

Salary Pay Range for This Position: $ - $

This position will coordinate and manage all team member and back office systems for Wescom’s branch, corporate and remote locations. The Manager of the IT Service Desk will manage Wescom’s Help Desk, branch and back office systems environments and departments to ensure that all technology needs are met for our employees to serve our members. This includes the management of all system upgrades, patching, monitoring, backups, software and hardware inventories and reporting across the enterprise.

This person will ensure that all audit and security requirements related to employee file systems, email, network access and end point systems, including mobile devices, are maintained in a compliant and secure manner. This position will require core competencies in project management, employee and board member customer relationship management, back-office system design, and overall responsibility for all Wescom’s IT Service Desk needs.

This position will also provide design and planning coordination for desktop, server and mobile end user system upgrades, Wescom video conference and collaboration needs, strategic project support and management of critical infrastructure including Active Directory, anti-ransomware system backups, Office
365 and physical asset inventory.

• Undertake practical and strategic activities; a fluid balance between operational activities, strategic work, and project management.
• Managing multiple projects simultaneously – would include direct department projects or projects outside immediate area of responsibilities.
• Leads teams responsible for end user computing, collaboration and remote access in addition to back office systems such as O365 and branch systems.
• Monitors and manages branch team member systems including CFD, Card Wizard, ITC and check printing/scanning systems.
• Takes complete ownership of teams and activities responsible for troubleshooting, resolving and communicating the impact of individual employee, executive and board members in office and remote environments.
• Responsible for management of the IT ticketing system, order management, inventory tracking, system delivery and system support.
• Manages overall system patching process for back end servers, desktops, laptops, printers and associated peripherals, devices and network connected equipment.
• Responsible for defining employee department file sharing, collaboration, communication and printing solutions.
• Attends project planning meetings and provides support for future and ongoing projects related to end user computing upgrades and rollouts.
• Responsible for main storage systems and platforms in use across Wescom, including Dell/EMC and PURE for Tier 1 application hosting, databases and servers across the enterprise.
• Oversees back office server and end user backup jobs, processes and monitoring/restores for business critical applications. Responsible for reporting and escalating system backup failures or issues to Sr. IT leadership.
• Manages projects, upgrades and software licensing for end user and back office systems and vendors.
• Manages the RFP process, cost analysis, and vendor recommendation for branch, back office and end user computing systems and software.
• Implements applicable industry best practice support model, such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 to improve IT operations maturity level and move to a more customer‑centric support focus for all IT services.
• Stays appraised of end user, collaboration and back office computing technologies. Acts as technical advisor for leveraging end user and back office software and productivity tools to support the business.
• Defines and approves appropriate access to information resources, systems and data sources in conjunction with HR, Information Security and data system owners.
• Prepares and monitors budgets, resources and recurring processing tasks, reporting on budget and uptime variances that are affecting the department or company.
• Ensures staff and assistant managers are trained, coached, counseled, developed and supervised in effective and efficient manner.
• Makes…