Mike Bisek Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Richfield, MN

• Sr. Manager Information Architecture (Data Governance Office, Data Architecture and Strategy, IT-Solution Architecture Board Chair)
• Set technical roadmaps that meet business requirements and allowed overall cost savings.
• Defined enterprise architectural practice framework for all data practices to include redefining Policies, Standards and Practices
• Ensured all governance activities meet business and audit requirements with focus on metrics and transparency.
• Helped redefine DMZ to minimize cost and optimize security
• Owned and evolved the enterprise information (data) architecture strategy for Best Buy Inc. Partner with business and technology stakeholders to implement the strategy.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Brought over 8 million in annual cost reductions/savings over the four year period while raising service levels and over all functionality to the business.
• Accountable for network and telephony services to +250 sites, over 8,600 people and the corporate help desks. This included the 2 data centers and the corporate campus.
• Planned and maintained an annual budget of over twenty three million dollars.
• Worked with many 3rd party vendors through full life cycle
• Lead network integrations for 2 major acquisitions and over 300 real estate activities.
• Played major role in successful 280 million dollar project in converting in house trading platform to an out-sourced solution and the reintegration of retained applications. This included integration of over 120 systems.

Across The US

• General technology consultant with focus on: IT Governance Solutions, Data Management Solutions, Business Intelligence, Agile, Ad Hoc Data Analysis, Data Quality Assessments, Large scale system integrations, Network.
• Assisting executive and senior management on assessing and building high performing teams/systems and business capabilities.

• Enterprise Principle Data Architect/Thought Leader
• Core member that helped create the Data Architecture Strategy for the Governance body to approve as the Corporate Standard. This included Master Data Management strategy, Data Quality, Meta Data and general data.
• Ensured all IT activities meet business and audit requirements with focus on metrics and transparency.
• Managed all Data Architects, Data Analysts and ETL developers from a technical guidance/direction and growth perspective.
• Defined Enterprise Standards that brought about consolidation of network and servers.
• Developed relationships with other Shared Services groups to form cohesive vision and help coordinate efforts. This was accomplished though use of Centers of Excellence (CoE’s)

Minnetonka, MN

• Managed Enterprise Data Architects. Rekindled broken relations with business lines. Built Data Practice to meet business needs (cost and timeliness)
• Managed Data Architect team and its budget.
• Managed other IT (and business) staff through matrix based project efforts.
• Developed relationships with all major MIS groups to form cohesive vision in efforts. This was accomplished by building a framework around existing and future business needs.
• Met weekly with the executive levels of the three largest business units (Bank Operations, Collections, Credit Risk). To ensure current and future Architectures would meet/exceed their needs.
• Regained trust from business units that IT had lost and was the foundation in building a common working dictionary.

St Paul, MN

• Managed geographically dispersed development teams. Built layered software development teams to optimize high end developers. Designed several data focused application and libraries that saved time and bought higher.
• Managed a team of geographically separated staff and its budget.
• Designed new lines of business as directed from the CEO. Transformed our internal expertise into new line of capability that was sold to other CRM VARs. This improved the companies name branding with a wider range of.
• Built estimating practices for development efforts. By creating a standard template approach to gathering business requirements estimating practices. This allowed for better planning of work flow for projects and more.
• Participated in weekly executive meetings to cover financial goals and work with other Directors and the Executive level to solve road blocks and find new opportunities and how to leverage new and existing products.
• Managed all development efforts internal and external.

Minnetonka, MN

• Redesigned operational platforms to include technology upgrade and addressing Y2K issues. Worked with business to define best uses of technology.
• Implement data centralization and enterprise reporting metrics. This simplified application development efforts and allowed for standardized framework to be designed and developed. This brought a 1/3 time saving.
• Lead effort to make inventory tracking and billing system Y2K compliant.
• Developed standard process analysis methodology. Trained business analysts, PM’s and other technical personnel as required having a consistent method to describe business needs/problems and consistently formulate.
• Performed system analysis and development of technology-based, stand-alone and/or system based software, hardware, and integration. Led modernization of many of the hardware and software platforms. To include highly.
• Assisted in designing, programming, and development of software and system utilities. This focused on building smaller pieces to the larger application framework later used by all developers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Played roles at local and corporate offices. Focus was on delivering data analytics as a service. Designed and delivered technical systems to solve for complex business processes and data management problems.
• Acted as primary technical point of presence for company.
• Managed all IT Staff and budgets to include project budgets.
• Guided company from manual process to limited automation.
• Retained a high degree of confidentiality and system integrity when working with sensitive client information.
• Acted as internal consultant regarding new products, development of technical projects, communication, and electrical subsystems.