Jay Bosch Mba, Msee, Pmp, Csm, Aws Practitioner Email & Phone Number

Granite Falls, MN

Am privileged to work with a highly skilled team of craftsmen restoring a WWII Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver bomber. I build wiring harnesses and fabricate parts from aluminum and steel following archived plans from the Smithsonian Institution. Follow https://www.facebook.com/FagenFightersWwiiMuseum/ for updates and visit the awesome museum in Granite Falls MN..

IT & Application Development ConsultingSince 2004, Blue Skies Unlimited has been meeting the consulting needs of companies from startups to Fortune 50 and is founded on the belief that there are opportunities without bounds for those who think beyond the horizon to be prepared for what lies ahead.Blue Skies Unlimited has the depth and breadth to understand.

Eden Prairie, MN

• Led multiple Oracle E-business suite, Cloud and legacy system integration projects related to Supervalu’s divestiture of Save-A-Lot.
• Led a team to implement remote distributed check printing solution utilizing Oracle cloud account payable processes. Analyzed legacy print solution, documented detailed operational and technical interface requirements.
• Conducted comparative analysis of Supervalu’s legacy Vendor and Oracle’s iSupplier portal capabilities for vendors to view invoice and payment status and ability to create and track disputes.
• Managed report creation, implementation and secure distribution through Supervalu’s legacy customer portal
• Assessed Oracle Cloud’s DR capabilities and compatibility with Supervalu’s DR processes
• Initiated readiness and cutover planning to assure all business, technical, are logistical aspects are planned in detail to assure final test iterations use exact steps to successfully move to production.

Golden Valley, MN

Managed the full life cycle deployment from procurement to operational turnover of security applications and hardware in new remote production and disaster recovery data centers in preparation for data center migration. This included Tufin (management of firewall policies and security controls), Tripwire IP360 (asset discovery, and vulnerability and risk.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Asked by Tennant's CIO to return and drive final stages of Cisco Unified Communications deployment to completion in the US and Canada.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

With a budget on the order of $5M, led an international team to establish the infrastructure for a new 600 seat business center in Warsaw, Poland. Responsible for establishing the global infrastructure project plan including ordering, delivery and installation of telecomm circuits, and network, server, and SAN storage equipment. Established required user.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Working with Sr. IT management, used Agile practices to successfully recover and deliver a global SAP Variant Configuration project to greatly improve reporting and implement uniform configuration and pricing of Tennant’s industrial floor cleaning machines.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led multiple projects to develop and commission SCADA (monitoring and control) systems for the refrigeration plants in two of Target’s new automated food distribution centers (FDCs). Using agile principles, led Target SCADA business and engineering teams and SCADA vendor with total budgets of $2M. Central point of schedule coordination between Target SCADA.

Chicago, IL

During the depths of the recession, led a large Agile team of high performance Java and legacy developers, BAs, and BI and QA teams engaged in operational support and enhancement of the mission critical Illinois Benefit Information System (IBIS). With an annualized budget approaching $11M, IBIS at its peak paid out nearly $100M/week in unemployment.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed over 15 concurrent technical infrastructure projects around the world using globally distributed teams in support of Cargill’s 75 business units in 66 countries around the world.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Working across geographically distributed business and technical operations groups, designed and deployed agile processes to prioritize, manage, and report on large volumes of work flowing into technology operations in support of government and proprietary home preservation programs. Managed and mentored a team of business analysts responsible for end to.

Corning, NY

Managed upgrade of PeopleSoft Supply Chain servers using Corning’s Six-Sigma project management processes.

Eau Claire, WI

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager: Managed simultaneous critical merger & acquisition projects with geographically distributed teams from multiple organizations across numerous technical disciplines in a highly resource constrained environment. Utilized rigorous Six-Sigma project management practices undergoing significant change due to integration of.

Data Warehouse Program Manager: Managed distributed onshore and offshore teams executing multiple data warehouse workstreams to enhance regulatory compliance practices.Business Continuity Program Manager: Responsible for full life-cycle of Thrivent’s business continuity program. Established program scope, budget, and project plans, enhanced IT.

Volunteer on the Technology Advisory Committee working to expand technology adoption and attract technology based companies to the area in general and to the MinnWest Technology Campus in particular.

Sr. Business Continuity Project Manager: Established disaster recovery capabilities for critical financial applications within rigid budget and schedule constraints.Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager: Established infrastructure and utility computing services in new enterprise data centers under very demanding timelines. Managed complex interrelated project.

Managed up to 20 concurrent projects in a highly matrixed, globally distributed environment to transition Carlson’s IT operations to IBM Global Services. Collaborated with Sr. IT executives in all Carlson business units to manage scope, resources, and schedules on time-critical projects. Projects involved infrastructure and enterprise application.

Defined infrastructure requirements and implementation options emphasizing scalability and investment preservation for new LSI data center and converged network to support operations of multiple subsidiary companies and tenants in a technology campus environment.

• Developed DR policies, guidelines, plan contents, supplemental documentation, test plans, and training to integrate DR into full life-cycle development and operations processes.
• Created frameworks to assess risks and direct and indirect impacts of downtime to establish appropriate recovery time and recovery point objectives for critical business applications.
• Separated creation of recovery plans from planning and execution of recovery exercises.
• Replaced monolithic, serialized recovery plans that did not account for parallel activities of separate recovery groups with coordinated, cross-functional, recovery plans reflecting how recovery would actually be.
• Identified and corrected deficiencies in backup practices that would impact critical recovery time and recovery point objectives.

Provider of software allowing airlines to automate tracking of heavy aircraft maintenance. Optimization and tracking of maintenance workflow reduces airlines’ maintenance costs up to 22%. Hired by Sinex President and CEO to establish processes for software development and technical operations. Managed and matured software engineering, quality assurance.

Provider of software and information processing services to regional insurance companies producing revenues of $776 million. Parent is W. R. Berkley Corp., a $2.7 billion insurance company (2002 num-bers). Hired by President of BIS to execute key business and technical projects, establish development processes, and redirect CMM implementation efforts..

Eagan, MN

Architected AirCore, Unisys’s next-generation e-commerce environment for airline reservations and operations. Utilized distributed, open-system, component-based design, and industry standards to create a service oriented architecture supporting 24x7 operations and high transaction rates.

Mba, Business Administration

Msee, Electrical Engineerging

Bsee, Electrical Engineering