James (Jim) Schweder Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

Arizona, United States

Tucson, Arizona, United States

NetSuite PDF and System support

Arizona, United States

United States

Retired

Waukesha, Wisconsin

Accountable for overall corporate technology direction plus website and ecommerce development including security, ERP, NetSuite, PCI, and network.Accountable for overall corporate technology direction and alignment across multiple brands and locations including the management of a multi-million dollar technology budget.Served as one of Kalmbach’s Executive Committee members with input on financial and strategic direction across the enterprise.Guided the company through four generations of network and security infrastructure upgrades including onboarding, and sunsetting, three remote offices.Created, implemented, and tested Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity plans. Resulting work demonstrated consistent recovery of all critical systems and workstations within a 24-hour time period.Guided the corporation through an industry-wide technology and workflow reset from a manual-intensive process to a 100% digital workflow. On one brand alone, I was able to remove over $300,000 in non-staff related expenses.

Waukesha, Wi

Responsibility for Kalmbach’s call center infrastructure, general telecommunication. Created,staffed and managed Kalmbach’s first web development and e-commerce departments.Directed and managed an enterprise-wide PCI (Payment Card Industry) security implementation which included infrastructure (digital and physical), e-commerce security, policies, and workstation/server configuration. To date, the enterprise has had zero breaches or intrusions.Created, staffed and managed new web development teams which grew to a multi-million dollarecommerce operation with ongoing development and maintenance of 40+ separate content sites.Envisioned and implemented video services department for content creation. Allocated and configured the physical studio space, hired, trained and outfitted the initial staff, all before video was widely accepted onthe Internet.

Waukesha, Wi

Overall responsibility for MAC and PC desktops, server, and business systems, Help Desk

Waukesha, Wisconsin

Adjunct Professor teaching Computer Science and .NET web development courses. Created course content and instructed general computer science concepts, networking, programming and web development via ASP and .NET classes

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Managed a team of internal and outsourced software developers for DCI's Marketing Services group.

West Allis, Wisconsin

Developed K&T’s Flexible Manufacturing System as part of a teamof 20 software engineers to be installed in concert with their machine tools. I also lead on-sitecustomer installation and testing of the software for this system.