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Omaha, Ne, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Renton, Washington, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Offered position following over ten years of service as consultant with intimate campus knowledge and managerial guidance of all IT systems. Works closely with customers to support business needs and to expand campus offerings. Oversees all campus IT, building management control operations, associated personnel and strengthen staff through training. Interacts with clients, potential customers, vendors, and business partners on a daily basis. Manages and maintains department budget and track ongoing expenditures. Delivers management and forecasting of fiber and copper infrastructure throughout campus. Utilizes technical expertise in engineering, product management, systems architecture, network security, building management controls and campus IT systems. Optimizes energy savings and reduce cost through innovative design engineering.Key project role in live Data Center recommissioning to retest automated controls functionality and mechanical failovers. Lead full Building Management Control System change-out on live Data Center with zero downtime or impact on Data Center customers. Achieved utility cost savings and efficiencies through innovative building controls and programming yielding over 12% utility cost savings from prior year. Managed complete Building Management Control System change-out on our tenant occupied three story office building. Through new intelligent and optimized programming to control the mechanical systems, achieved over a 18% utility cost savings over the prior year.

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

Founded and successfully managed a IT consulting business. Provided practical system solutions within fiscal consideration and supplied technical management for small to enterprise companies. Offered a level of support which exceeded typical IT companies due to dual role of IT solutions provider and business owner. Served as advisor for emerging startup businesses. Worked to creatively scale enterprise solutions down to smaller business without the enterprise price tag.With the knowledge of a business owner and an Information Technology consultant, advised business owners on several levels from executive to operations. With this instinctive vision, implemented numerous return on investment projects resulting in saving to recurring costs or increased labor efficiencies. Aided growth to the companies served by implementing scalable solutions.

Brought onboard at the early stages of this company’s startup to support expanding the commercial general contracting business as Project Manager. Worked at all stages including competitive bidding, contract agreements, change orders, estimating, critical path method scheduling, tracking estimates to actuals, coordination with subcontractors and project foremen, maintaining project budgets and overseeing project schedules. Worked closely with owners, architects and engineers from design to project closeout. Responsible for managing the company information technology systems and software. Authored standard subcontractor agreements for consistency and to mitigate potential liabilities. Implemented streamlined accounting, property management and estimating systems to maximize time and efficiencies.