Dave Tainer Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Coordinate the day to day operations and help the executive director elevate the organization strategically.

Current and former clients span a range of industries and business models, including cable television, health care, and insurance. Currently advising executive management team at CAN TV on business process improvements, including general management practices and quality improvement. Past projects include:-determining best practices in IT & Finance for New.

New York, NY, US

• Manage multiple elements of the agency’s infrastructure (Human Resources, Health Informatics, Building Operations and Information Systems).
• Renegotiated a lease to extremely favor GMHC which will result directly in millions in savings over the next 3 years, as well as capital improvements which will solidify the agency’s future.
• Took over and reorganized two departments (Human Resources and Health Informatics) to be major sources for cultural and corporate change which will define the next phase of GMHC’s future.
• Presided over the team that brought in over $500,000 in savings with a better health care plan while increasing the agency deductible but still decreasing monetary risk. This was done in an environment that had to.
• Completed a $4.5M construction project and headquarters move of 250 staff on time, on budget, and with only 6 hours total of Information Systems downtime using cutting edge technology and meticulous planning.
• Innovation in Technology: won a Computerworld Honors Award for Best Use of Technology for a Community-based organization for our use of bar-coded client IDs for services (2012). This reduced the task of data collection.

New York, NY, US

• Procurement and Cost Control
• Manage annual $5.25 million budget of complete building/administrative operations, in addition to IS
• Led utility modernization and consumables cost-containment effort which has resulted in year one 15% energy savings (moved to new electricity provider), 35% agency consumables savings, with potential for far greater.
• In year one, reduced overhead in operational budget by 16%, then reduced by an additional 2% in year two
• Instituted plan for regular annual vendor review, resulting in higher quality services and/or lower costs, mostly in security, cleaning, and food/beverage services.
• Increased donor commitments through relationship management, accounting for 2% of private funds raisedRisk Management

New York, NY, US

• Procurement and Cost Control
• Project-managed and implemented $1,106,000 capital grant well within the confines of strict N.Y.C. Economic Development Corporation rules to produce a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure that is driving the core.
• Revamped Data Center with strategic introduction of VMWare Virtual Server and full redundancy, leading to 25% electric energy requirement reduction in year one, with a 75% reduction goal by 2011 (year 5)Information.
• Initiated successful implementation of ITIL/COBIT practices where they existed only in the most rudimentary form
• Overhauled Disaster Recovery and Emergency Scenario Planning
• Modernized and standardized agency software/OS with complete software license assuranceProject Management

• Combined talent-acquisition skills with a hands-on approach to successful project completion, encompassing responsibility for all financial/budget decisions and sub-contractor hiring
• Excellent communication skills with both the technologically-adept and technologically-inept
• Frequent speaker at industry events, and writer for several magazines. Became the PEO Industry’s leader in the field of Information Technology, be it at conferences or in trade journals.
• Led the company to be first to market with a scalable and OS-independent Internet payroll/HR software solution.
• Managed a team of 17 Java software developers and testers working over the span of 16 months to get our solution to market ahead of powerful competitors such as ADP and Ceridian, and did so with a budget under $500,000.
• Worked hands-on, as necessary, in all areas of development to meet, and beat, deadlines.

Chicago, IL, US

Teaching Programming, User Interface Design, Usability, Multimedia, Relational Database, Statistics, and Digital Cinema. I teach everything from 100 levels in Bachelor's programs to 400 levels in the Master's programs. High teacher evaluations.

• Put real-time receivables information into the hands of the financial department, doubling the cash-flow availability for the company.
• The same data integration allowed other departments to perform quasi-real-time tracking of data, the management of which directly resulted in lower dollar pay-outs in the short-term and reduced insurance premiums in.
• Brought payroll and HR function in-house: completed in thirty-three days in a business-critical environment; Hand-picked staff and outside developers in one day for the task and worked hands-on 20 hours/day until first.
• The technology capabilities and their management resulted in a Year Two and Three net savings of over $1.2 million for the company in the crucial payroll and HR function.
• Worked in conjuntion with the VP of Sales to produce a hardware/software solution to the sales force’s main problem: too much paperwork which reduced time in the field. This solution reduced the time for processing.
• Combined all corporate data sources into one SQL database, with secure Intranet access for all departments, thus significantly improving efficiency for all administrative and financial functions.

Mba, (Mini/Certification)

Certification, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology And Philosophy

Master Of Arts - Ma, Applied Sociology

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Sociology