Christopher Wininger, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide project and technical engineering assistance in factory automation projects that interfaces with manufacturing and supply change systems.

Twin Cities Minnesota

Providing Project Management and Business Process Improvement consulting services. Specialties in system implementation/deployment projects, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) projects, and computer systems validation.

• Program Manager and Project Manager for the implementation of manufacturing systems to over 60 3M plants around the world in support of supply chain expansion and optimization initiatives. Teams sizes: 8 to 50, with some umbrella projects to manage multiple related projects.• Program Manager and Project Management Coach: Supervised and coached project leads in standards and methodologies, including Six Sigma, ISO 9000, and Computer Systems Validation (ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 11). • Project Management Coach: Defined and executed training of implementation and technical leads from China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, South Korea, and Brazil, which improved the ability to respond to rapid expanding supply chain. Promoted plan to senior executives and secured approval and funding.• Overall Project Manager for the implementation of all IT systems and infrastructure going into a new 3M plant, coordinating with multiple software and infrastructure project teams.• Management Team Member for Release Level Development process for enterprise manufacturing application portfolio. Includes issues management and application change and release management.• Project Manager for a large SDLC project, where we created an enterprise product certification application on the Websphere platform, which resulted in moving inventory faster through distribution centers, and met customer requirements for more timely and consistent certification documents. This included managing an $1Million budget, and up to 16 off shore contract resources, as well as a cross-functional project team.• Solution Architect to identify solutions to meet unique product and customer requirements, facilitating collaboration with the other subject matter experts.

Lead Project Manager and Technical Specialist to four plants and over 12 business unit focus factories.• Technical Specialist in Lotus Notes, document management, factory floor labeling, process control, quality systems, management of change (MOC), incident reporting, product certification (e.g. CofA), Lockout-Tagout, and ISO 9000/14000. Project Manager for multiple projects in these areas of speciality.• Lead Project Manager for a large project SDLC to convert a VAX/Ingress waste management application to Websphere and SQL Server, utilizing offshore resources. This system is used to maintain regulatory compliance for industrial waste management.

Application Developer and Product Owner for in-house document management and quality applications.• Application Developer and Product Owner utilizing a team based structured release level development process to comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 software validation requirements. These systems were designed to help the company meet ISO 9000 requirements, and were used within the company, worldwide.• Lotus/Domino Application Development Expert providing technical assistance to people developing applications on the Lotus Notes/Domino platform within the company, worldwide.

Senior Software Engineer who designed, implemented, and managed technical operations to a business that provided music, in-store advertising, and data casting to over 25,000 retail locations across the United States on a 7x24 basis.• Product Engineer for DBS Product Line. Worked directly with customer major accounts and dealer network to deliver solutions. Managed technical operations of satellite upload and music programming services. • Project Manager for the design and implementation of a client-server application to provide operational support of business functions, including: serialized equipment tracking, customer service, contract management, billing, repair center operations, satellite receiver programming, and interfaced to corporate order and accounting systems.• Server Administrator for departmental servers and printers.

Provided advanced technical expertise on the initial planning and implementation of LAN’s and WAN's within 3M. Provided primary technical expertise for the design and implementation of the corporate Micom data switches.

Acted as systems programmer for HP and IBM computers. Installed and maintain OS, managed system performance, provided advanced troubleshooting and support.

Designed and implemented real-time operating systems software for CNC controls. Assisted the IT department in implementing multi-processing and multi-tasking applications on a Data General Eclipse, under AOS.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Math