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Business Development for all phases of startup, operations and marketing.

Health & Wellness Business Startup, Training, Communications, Sales, Marketing, Webinars, Customer Relationship Development, Vested Mentorships

Business Development Partner for all phases of operation and marketing.

Health & Wellness Consultant, Web Development, Marketing, Video Production.

Interactive Business Modeling - ROI, Cash Flow, Break Even Analysis

Direct the ongoing development and operations of administrative computing consisting of 11 professional staff with an annual budget of $1,041,000. Administrative computing supports Admissions, Alumni, Financial Aid, Finance/Receivables, Graduate School, Human Resources, International Programs and Services, Student Affairs, Student Services (OSRR), Tech Fund, and a host of other administrative areas. Assist administrative units in the evaluation and application of information technology. Lead efforts for the acquisition of new software and technologies to enhance business functions. Lead technical efforts to keep administrative systems in compliance with privacy, security, and standards regulations/legislation. Direct the operations group, consisting of five staff and an annual budget of approximately $200,000. Operations group supported both the academic and administrative areas providing printing, test scoring, surveys, systems support and automated mail services.

Lead feasibility Study.

Needs, Acquisition, Implementation, Operation

Direct the on-going development, deployment and operations of the recruiting and admissions CRM strategic enrollment management system.

Development, Deployment, Operation

Compliance Procedures Development

Acquisition, Deployment, Operation

Development, Allocation, Monitoring University Information Technpology – 3 Million Annually

Develop one time software tools to facilitate campus wide course content changes need to take university wide curriculum from a quarter based system to a semester based system.

Modify University ERP Systems to Accommodate Semesters

Coordinate campus wide remediation of all Y2K affected hardware and software systems.

Needs, Evaluation, Acquisition, Deployment

Direct all phases of the University ERP implementation.Directed and managed the implementation of the new Banner administrative computing system and maintenance of the legacy systems being decommissioned. Complete responsibility for the implementation and resource allocation for the system conversion to Banner. Structured the project management and control system to guide the implementation, as well as setting the primary planning components. Via an extensive cost analysis and project budget model I justified the 2.5 million dollar administrative conversion during the budget crisis in the fall of 1991 to the administration and external auditors from Arthur Anderson. The Banner implementation affects five major areas of the university: Student Services, Financial Aid, Financial Services, Alumni and Human Resources and ultimately all who utilize their services. As project manager, I interacted with the President, Provost, Director Enrollment Management, Dean of Students, Director of Financial Aid, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Advancement/Alumni, Director Human Resources, and a variety of staff and clerical workers.Responsible for a staff of 32, with 25 direct reports and a project budget of approximately 2.5 million dollars. Supported the graduate program and enhanced the conversion by employing four GRAs to assist with the conversion. As major components were completed resources were distributed as appropriate to various administrative units or reallocated to other areas within computing services. At the completion of the Banner implementation an annual general fund project budget of $570,000 was returned to the general fund for other purposes.

Evaluation, Acquisition, Deployment

Supported and allocated resources for the decommissioning of the last remaining central academic computing system, the IBM 4381. Supported and allocated resources to work with the Computer Advisory Council (CAC) and the department based system administrators in developing guidelines for a distributed computing environment. These guidelines were adopted by the Computer Executive Committee (CEx) on May 6, 1994.

Recruited in March of 1990, by the director of computing technology services to assess and evaluate why two prior attempts to convert the administrative computing system(ERP) had failed and to develop a “New Plan of Action.” Through analysis and assessment and work with existing IT staff we determined that the current direction of administrative computing was inappropriate for MTU in terms of functionality, cost and positioning for the future. I lead an effort to put together a “New Plan of Action.” This plan included a complete analysis of the options available to meet MTU’s administrative computing and business needs. I began the Conversion Connection newsletter (1991-1995) to inform the campus about the conversion. I performed a complete cost analysis of both the current system and the proposed new system. The cost analysis demonstrated that the proposed new system was economically feasible for MTU and would actually pay for itself in seven years. The “New Plan of Action” required the administrative units to select the software within the published standards that were developed. I secured a written sign-off from the administrative area directors and managers on the proposed new software to insure all parties were on board. The “New Plan of Action” culminated in a comprehensive proposal unanimously accepted by the MTU Board of Control in May of 1991.

Assisted faculty, researchers and students in the selection and use of application software packages. Implement, test and maintain new academic software. Update and enhance existing applications software. Instructed user education seminars in the use of systems and applications software. Supervised in-house applications development staff and student programmers. Provided technical systems support for machine dependent components of applications software. Performed analysis and reporting on Academic Computing Services’ budget. Performed ad-hoc reporting on computing resource utilization. Provided back up and assistance to department head. Co-taught BA500. Produced articles and made technical contributions for the CTS Newsletter.Project lead on;• The automation and networking of the Provost office. This was the first introduction of a UNIX workstation and TCP/IP based networking in an administrative area.• The installation of the IBM 4381 and setup of user software environment.• The decommissioning of the UNISYS 1100/80, and migration of the user software environment to the IBM 4381.• The consolidation of three IBM 4300 series systems into the IBM 4381.• The standardization of the PC office platform for administrative users.• Technical coordinator for VMCENTER products.

Responsible for all phases of University Academic Computing Services.

Implemented and tested new academic software (SPSS, MINITAB, SIR, DISSPLA, BMDP, ACSL, DYNAMO, IMSL). Assist faculty and researchers in overcoming software/hardware limitations. Processed incoming and outgoing magnetic data tapes for faculty, staff and students, maintained locally written software (ACT, SAVE/CLEANUP, DUMPALL), supervised student programmers, instructed user education seminars. Produced articles and made technical contributions for the ACS Newsletter. Designed and programmed the mainframe user accounting system.

Lead programmer analyst in software development projects. Instructor of Academic Computing Services’ user education seminars. Consultant to faculty and students in the utilization of the Unisys 1100/80 system and software. Assisted the MEEM department in getting the first Structural Analysis Program (SAP) working on campus. Produced articles and made technical contributions for the ACS Newsletter.

Graduate teaching assistant. Rated best instruction in computer sciences department winter semester 1980.