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Nashville, TN, US

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee

Led $53 Million program to build out Data Center capacity for Fortune 100 healthcare client and transition multiple business units and applications as part of acquisition. Later managed the program to fully separate all network and service connections from former business unit owner.

• IT Project Management – Led corporate initiative to transition 300+ customers to new Warehouse Management System (WMS). The two year $2 Million dollar project involved complete re-configuration of inventory, billing.
• Project Management - Responsible for the conversion of file transfers during a complete data center migration for a Fortune 100 retail pharmacy and healthcare company. The file transfers supported internal HR, Finance.
• Resource Management/Project Governance – Designed and implemented a methodology with supporting policies, procedures and tools for resource management and project governance at a Fortune 100 Company. The project.

Providing Technology consulting and project management to non-profit organizations, city and county government offices and schools.

• Primary Project Manager for wireless and wired network installations including site surveys, design and planning. Largest project was 10 sites in 9 states with budget of approximately $1 million.
• Provided managed network services, including network management and planning, budgeting, installation and configuration of enterprise level servers and software, disaster recovery, Exchange, MS SQL Databases and.
• Installed, configured and trained ERP system focusing on areas of Purchasing, Job Costing, Plant Data Collection, and Inventory and Shipping.
• Managed Technical Services help desk employees, and Technical Services Field Technicians.
• Interacted with clients from President to Manager at over 20 different companies throughout the US and Canada.

• Directed the strategic planning for the company’s information systems including planning, preparing and implementing policies and procedures for disaster recovery, security and backups, business communications, data.
• Managed all computer, telecommunication and network resources for the company including outside vendors.
• Maintained Windows 2003 Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Databases, BES, Backup Exec and Watchguard Firewalls as well as supporting corporate PCs and mobile user’s equipment.
• Provided technical support for corporate ERP system and successfully transitioned from Gupta SQL to MS SQL. Transitioned company from NT environment to Windows 2003 environment and upgraded phone system.
• Served as Corporate Purchasing Manager with responsibility for all vendors including over $4Million in raw paper..

• Lead corporate team to transition company from a small custom written UNIX business system to Imaginera, an industry standard Windows based ERP system.
• Created first computer based system for gathering, analyzing and reporting job cost data.
• Provided monthly and yearly analysis of customer purchasing trends and corporate sales activity.
• Upgraded corporate wiring infrastructure from 10-Base to 100-Base for better performance.

Establishing systems to achieve a total quality approach throughout the company; Supervise staff of quality auditors; Customer relations and problem solving; Involved extensively in the development of procedures and standards for ISO9000 certification

Supervision of entire production shift including hiring, training, discipline, and ensuring correct and on time shipments for the customer; Provided support and direction for employees in working toward goals of the company; Called on to provide technical assistance and knowledge of computer applications.Monitoring machine performance to ensure quality.

Provided financial support for TV Marketing/Production Planning; Assisted in total company budgeting process for capital, headcount, and departmental expenses; Tracked and reported monthly headcount, capital expenditures, and fixed expenses.

Mba, Business

Bs, Marketing / Accounting

Activities and Societies: Men's Basketball Team (1986 NAIA National Champions) Who's Who among American Colleges and Universities

Diploma, College Prep

Activities and Societies: Captain - Varsity Basketball Team, photographer for school newspaper