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Minneapolis, Mn

Managing a portfolio of multiple major projects in Information Services to provide IT Infrastructure and applications for this Fortune 500 company.

Minneapolis, Mn

Multi-million dollar project to upgrade significant portion of their IT environment to newer technology.

Richfield, Mn

Manage a portfolio of application and IT infrastructure projects for Professional Services carried out for multiple Fortune 500 companies, worth over $2M annually. Lead dozens of projects – up to 7 simultaneously -- involving coordinating over 30 remote technical resources to update datacenters with Unix and Windows servers, middleware, and special purpose applications.

Richfield, Mn

At the Best Buy HQ Campus as contractor with Verizon handling their IT Infrastructure projects, including the major technology refresh of the servers handling the main eShop website.

Minneapolis, Mn

End-to-end RFS Project Manager at client’s (Ameriprise) downtown Minneapolis location. Coordinating, planning, and managing the deployment of IT solutions at multiple data centers. Activities include: Provisioning of Windows, Linux, and Unix servers; SAN and NAS storage; Disaster Recovery environments; Middleware (TWS, TSM, Oracle, WAS) installation & configuration; and coordinating with global execution teams (USA, Argentina, India, Brazil).

Minneapolis, Mn

On-site Project Manager for IBM Global handling their IT Datacenter infrastructure projects.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

Created education courses for training for technical sales teams on IBM’s System & Technology Group (STG) offerings. As storage and server expert, worked with the sales education lead on requirements while collaborating with the extended product teams to create consistent and high quality education deliverables.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

Managed programs of $8M+ annual investment utilizing cross-discipline teams to provide the technical support deliverables to select, size, configure and price midrange servers and storage. Involved with all phases of the project life cycle, including gathering requirements, proposing the deliverables, securing budget, establishing the plans, directing teams, establishing metrics, tracking progress, controlling changes, and addressing variance. Directed creation of diverse set of deliverables including software tools (size and configure solution), technical training modules, web content, published documents, and processes.

Drove launch readiness and managed overall product offering for 17 countries across Asia and Oceania for the mid-range iSeries server. Established close working relationship with both country product and global development teams, allowing unique content to be designed then approved by those governments to incorporate into the product offering in a timely manner. Cooperatively developed winning strategies with IBM teams in the Asia-Pacific to leverage new iSeries technologies to address intensely competitive situations, resulting in a 20% increase in revenue during tenure.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE

Advanced Studies

Advanced studies in a wide range of areas, including Business Law, Queueing theory, Database Design and management

Computer Science