John Dodge | Chief Information Officer, Senior Solutions Architect

John Dodge manages the Foedus New York office that services New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He designs and implements enterprise solutions that leverage Virtualization Infrastructure based on solutions from VMware and other strategic partners of Foedus.

Dodge directs internal processes and delivery systems as well as Foedus' pharmaceutical solutions, sales and service business. A certified MCSE, VCP, CCNA and IT Project+ professional, he possesses more than 15 years of experience in systems analysis and network as well as troubleshooting and design.

Prior to joining Foedus, Dodge served as Senior Systems Engineer for API Systems in Denville, N.J., where he was responsible for Active Directory design, implementation and diagnosis for clients, and where he led all VMware virtualization technology projects. Serving as Project Manager for the firm's solutions delivery team, he became certified to deliver ESX, Virtual Center and P2V Jumpstart training as well as professional services on behalf of VMware.

From 1997 through 2003, Dodge served Novartis Pharmaceuticals in East Hanover, N.J. As an IT Process Engineer, he directed the company's Windows 2000 deployment across more than 4500 workstations in North America. He also planned and managed the Novartis server-consolidation project, creating the processes and tools required to analyze and migrate 3.4 TB of data from legacy NT 4.0 servers to W2K servers.

Also at Novartis, Dodge authored the FDA Quality packet for the Gx Prelevant VMware ESX Server deployment. He also served as Technical Project Manager of the company's NetWare decommission project, a Veritas NetBackup/StorageTek tape silo-implementation,and a new data center in LaJolla, CA.

Dodge also has served as a Senior Project Manager with Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy in Piscataway, N.J, as a  Project Manager with Chubb Computer Services in Parsippany, N.J, and as a PC Support Manager with the EDS Electronic Commerce Division.