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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

St Louis Park, Minnesota, Us

Turning Point was founded on the belief that technology alone seldom solves business issues andrarely drives lasting value; rather transforming process, and changing how people do work does.Our PurposeTurning Point helps clients achieve competitive advantage and operational excellence through successful change and transformation to reach their full potential.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

As CIO, led business process advancement, applications, infrastructure and operations; As Sales Adviser, coach sales executives, architects and consultants in solution selling; As Customer Executive Sponsor, foster and maintain key Customer Executive relationships. • Provide IT industry insights driving corporate and sales strategies• Drove LEAN initiatives to scale business 65%; spanning order, contracts and services management. • Deployed Professional Services Automation for all services businesses• Rapidly stabilized core business processes after deployment of new ERP system• Enhanced InfoSec and compliance programs, improving Corporate risk and security posture • Optimized IT Infrastructure; 80% reduction in data center footprint • Lead M&A integrations

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Management Consulting; IT assessments; Strategies for improved Business and IT performance; Interim IT leadership.• Clients: MTS Systems Corporation, Chamilia LLC, Broadway Equipment Corporation, HealthEast Care System, Skybridge Americas

Cranston, Ri, Us

Provide Executive leadership to scale global business operations and technology for a high growth, personalized jewelry design business. •Led Digital strategy and execution, culminating in new B2B, B2C and Social Media initiatives serving 2500 global retail customers w/4500 points of distribution. Deployed global B2B system (85% automated retailer orders), design your own configurators, with expanded promotional capabilities. Launched consumer portals, e-commerce and social media into 6 global markets. •Led initiative to take back control of product designs, specifications and IP from all global suppliers driving reductions in product lifecycle cost and improving product management.•Championed several critical Supply Chain initiatives; improving inventory management, fulfillment operations and global quality management process.•Established a resilient IT architecture for critical applications and services; incorporating both cloud and outsourced services. •Aligned Business and IT priorities and investments through effective governance and service management processes.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Led team of 90 IT professionals and specialists to implement strategic business initiatives to improve go-to-market, manufacturing, supply chain, and product development functions. Reformed the mission of IT to support and enhance business performance through effective and creative use of technology. Identified business architecture and operating models, reviewed existing IT strategies, and shifted those strategies to build core capabilities essential to grow the business. Introduced solid project management and service management methodologies to accomplish the IT mission and meet business goals. • Engineered complete IT turnaround within six months; transformed adversarial relationships between IT and business leaders to collaborative, delivering technology and services to fully support the organization’s needs. Instilled structure, accountability, and teamwork into each project and service. • Drove global sales management methodology with CRM to capture, track, and raise visibility of accounts, contacts, products sold, cost effectiveness of marketing campaigns, sales activity, customer service levels, and selling opportunities from a single, global viewpoint.  Resulted in ability to precisely target marketing dollars and reach twice the market audience. Provided global, accurate and real time sales and marketing data for the first time, a drastic improvement from 4-week-old reporting prior; drove timely and data driven business decisions. • Streamlined global Customer Service systems from 15 to 1, using CRM to elevate problem calls, reduce time to resolve customer issues, and improve productivity. • Developed Oracle Order Management system to replace Mainframe for US business.• Deployed NextGen global network, storage and server platforms w/standardized reference architectures.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL IT (2005 – 2007)Provided executive leadership for 230 employees and budget of $45M. Led IT planning, applications, and operations company-wide. Created IT Council to align business investments and priorities. • Successfully upgraded SAP R/3, Business Warehouse, Supply Chain Management, and Strategic Enterprise Management systems to ECC 6.0 release, and deployed SAP Employee and Manager Self Service portal; spanning all markets and businesses in the Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Employed structured project and communication methodologies, driving a project team of 180 global resources speaking 6 languages. • Stabilized EMEA business after troubled acquisition integration, halting a $20M quarterly loss. • Deployed e-auction application saving $15M in direct and indirect procurement costs.• Launched offshore captive center in India, resulting in $4.5M annual savings.• Created SOX compliance program; resolved decade-old audit compliance issues. MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ADC Communications and InfoTech Private Ltd., India (2006-2007)DIVESTITURE TRANSITION LEADER (2004 – 2005)Successfully carved out three businesses totaling $300M in revenues encompassing manufacturing/distribution, customer service, finance, treasury, HR/payroll, real estate and IT without business disruption. Delivered new SAP system for one business. GLOBAL DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (2001 – 2005)Led a team of 60 technologists to centralize services and control costs during a severe market downturn. Oversaw infrastructure projects: data center relocation, integrated-global network and server virtualization. • Drove the downsizing, netting a 75% ($28M) reduction in annual costs, without business disruption.

Irving, Texas, Us

Led technical services and e-commerce operations for iMcKesson, an e-health business unit startup, integrating web-based products that managed physicians’ office, clinical operations workflow, and secure patient-to-doctor communications online. • Coached McKesson corporate IT on how to design and deliver corporate IT shared services including e-commerce, application hosting, storage, networks, end user computing, email, and security; maintaining business unit separation and while driving costs down. • Architected and deployed a secure, scalable, and high-availability e-commerce network and hosting service for iMcKesson, and integrated three acquired businesses into that service.• Served as technical advisor both pre- and post-sale, ensuring smooth integration and ongoing operations with healthcare client systems.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Led team of 50 employees developing and delivering shared IT infrastructure services to five Carlson business units with a department budget of $7M. Services included telecommunications, call centers, network services, EDI, groupware/messaging, web services. • A Carlson 1st, developed the “Cornerstone” project, establishing a standardized portfolio of IT infrastructure services utilized by all 5 Carlson Business Units. Delivered $1.5M under budget, ahead of schedule, with a 25% reduction in TCO. This launched the Carlson Shared Services business. • Instrumental in the development of the Shared Services Business Unit for Carlson Companies, incorporating ITIL and IT service management concepts years ahead of the IT industry.• Part of Executive team that developed the E-Commerce strategy for Carlson Companies in 1999• Established the Web Services group• Negotiated key business deal with Qwest Communications, enabling new Qwest Corporate Travel contract win for Carlson Wagonlit Travel business. • Oversaw technical operations for 80 client call centers, consistently exceeding service-level targets.

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Managed all Corporate Wintel servers and Networks for 250 US locations. Developed companywide server and network strategies/standards through creation of various technical steering committees. Directed staff of 40+ permanent and contract employees. Managed capital and expense budgets exceeding $12M. •Successfully integrated IT infrastructure through seven acquisitions, doubling infrastructure annually for four straight years. •Architected $100M infrastructure build out and integration between UHC and MetraHealth (Met Life & Travelers Healthcare joint venture)•Negotiated terms of the AT&T outsourcing deal; $750M 10 year contract •Developed financial management processes, realizing significant improvements in capital/expense management, budgeting, forecasting, and asset management. •Reorganized Network Services into self directed customer teams. This enhanced customer focus/service with all business units.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Through M&A, transferred from Park Nicollet to American MedCenters/Partners National Health Plans/Aetna Health Plans. Responsible for Data Networks, Telecom, Call Centers, LAN’s, and Wintel servers at four data center locations in Mpls, Dallas, San Bernadino and Iselin NJ serving dozens of Health Plan locations nationwide. • Successfully consolidated all operations into Aetna Corporate data centers in Hartford.

Saint Louis Park, Mn, Us

Managed team of 6 Bio-Med Technicians providing medical equipment repair and maintenance services for all medical departments at nine Clinic locations. Supported MIS department with computer and network installation and repair services for both Clinic and MedCenters Health Plan/American MedCenters (HMO Management) operations. • Engineered, manufactured and deployed network equipment to operate computer terminal networks at all Clinic and Health Plan remote locations after supplier’s equipment failed to perform, at 50% less than suppliers cost. • Engineered means to re-use old computer terminals on new IBM mainframes when vendor said it could not be done. Methodology exchanged with Cycare Systems (McKesson) for application source code for all Clinic and Health Plan core applications. • Developed medical instrument sterilization process to insure lots were tested for proper sterilization and tracked by lots prior to patient use.

Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Management

Mini - Masters, Executive Leadership

Mini-Masters, Executive Leadership

Dce Open Computing And Client Server Computing

Associate Of Applied Science (Aas), Electronics Technology