Syd Limerick is the General Manager of SSG's Facility Management Practice.

Mr. Limerick brings significant experience and numerous successful engagements in his 29 years as a technical and management consulting professional.

His technical experience is evidenced by the various awards he has received including, a patent from the US patent office, recognition as a top technical contributor at a Fortune 100 company, and one of the founders of Texas InstrumentsÕ IT Technical Council.

His experience includes building a development organization to be SEI Level Three compliant, managing a central IT infrastructure organization with 600 employees and a budget in excess of $140 million. Mr. Limerick acquired his experience in manufacturing at Texas Instruments and his telecommunications experience with a variety of service providers including BellSouth and Verizon.

Mr. Limerick has experience building Consulting and Support Services in professional services and product software companies. These departments were developed with new processes and structure in order to elevate the services capability of these software firms. His experience is inclusive of the entire range of computing platforms, including mainframes, distributed, and Internet technologies.

Mr. Limerick has managed strategic IT programs, working closely with executive-level management. In all of these engagements, extensive effort ensured that the IT strategy matched the business initiatives. For example, at Texas Instruments, Mr. Limerick lead a series of five-year programs to lift financial and manufacturing systems to a level that allowed both their semi-conductor and defense systems business to achieve leadership positions in their respective industries. The improvements in the business processes and the problems resolved by these programs allowed more detailed tracking of costs to the business process, giving the business managers the ability to make better, more informed decisions.

Mr. Limerick has managed large IT infrastructure and hosted environments including large centralized and distributed systems, networks, and software. These environments were managed with very high SLA expectations and were measured to have industry benchmark availability.

Additionally, Mr. Limerick has been the leader of three separate customer support organizations that included sophisticated help desks. In each case, the help desk performance was measured using industry standard metrics and acknowledged by their customers to have achieved excellence. This high level of performance was achieved by implementing major improvement in systems and processes.

Mr. Limerick holds BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from Mississippi State University