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West Bend, Wi, Us

West Bend, Wi, Us

Charter Steel

Across The United States

I took 18 months off work to travel the country and knock a few things off my bucket list. Amazing journeys and wide open vistas are all over this great country!

Germantown, Wisconsin, United States

In this unprecedented pandemic crisis we've all had to make adjustments, and being flexible while overcoming challenges is the new calling for organizations both large and small. With my 21 years of military experience in precisely this kind of highly dynamic and changing environment, coupled with over 20 years of project management and Agile coaching in Fortune 500 companies, I know I have the skills and experience to guide teams to achieve their goals and deliver some truly outstanding results. Let's talk so we can learn more about each other, our strengths and opportunities, and whether I'm exactly the individual who can help you get it done.

Hartland, Wi

Scrum Master and Project Coordinator for multiple teams within the Batteries Plus Bulbs IT department. Appointed as Scrum Master for both the ERP implementation and eCommerce Replatform projects, two of their biggest initiatives, while supporting the legacy eCommerce and business application support teams.

Milwaukee, Wi

Worked within the IT department as an experienced and certified Scrum Master in support of the Rockwell highest priority Digital Business initiative, specifically coaching and leading vendor and internal teams working on the SAP/Hybris platform, Marketing Operations, and Product Selection. Based on my experience and skill I was asked to extend my scrum master role to assist three additional teams in the Global Sales Operations which encompassed Sales Force Automation, Microsoft Dynamix, Anaplan, and internal CRM platforms. It was challenging and rewarding work, and the teams were doing outstanding work in adopting Agile and scrum techniques.

Rockwell Automation

Infrastructure project manager working with the Rockwell IT teams to deliver essential infrastructure upgrades and services for the data center.

Greater Milwaukee Area

I provide project management and customer engagement for installation of the One Identity (TM) security applications suite. My responsibilities involve sales interaction, customer engagement, project scheduling and prioritization, relationship management, advocacy, and the ever present application of project management skills and activities. This is a challenging and dynamic role abounding in opportunities to deliver results to both Quest and my customers.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Founder and owner of Starbright Enterprises, LLC, a small privately owned company specializing in project and program management specializing in technology and IT infrastructure projects. I bring over 26 years of leadership and management experience with emphasis on team building and process development. I've worked with fortune 500 companies on their IT infrastructure and corporate application initiatives in Colorado, Virginia, and Wisconsin. I thrive on high tempo and highly focused projects where I can bring my unique skills and perspective to accomplish business objectives, and to put it simply I aim to get it done.My last engagement for Brookdale Senior Living involved deploying wireless Internet services to 526 retirement communities and required the creation of the vendor proposal/management framework, budget control guidelines, establishing a vendor supply chain, and ensured quality objectives were defined and met.I recently signed a 2-year contract with Dell Security Services to provide project management support and customer engagement for installation their security applications suite. I am excited and quite proud Dell has selected Starbright Enterprises for this prestigious role! Check back with me often to see how this opportunity is developing.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Project and program manager at fortune 500 companies in the Milwaukee area. Working directly with global vendors, corporate executives and technology teams to deliver projects including security upgrades, next generation data center vision/strategy, sales applications, and core infrastructure systems. This is my zone where I thrive and build success.

Menomonee Falls, Wi

Manager for the middleware application server team responsible for 24x7 support and maintenance of over 1100 application servers including Oracle Enterprise Manager, Weblogic, Websphere, and Apache servers.

Us And Worldwide

13 years active duty as a Senior Navigator on C-130 and C-141 aircraft, Software Engineer and Project Manager, Command Post, and Squadron Chief of Current Operations. Served at Little Rock AFB, Norton AFB, Peterson AFB, and McGuire AFB on active duty. Most recently served 8 years as a Reservist assigned as an Air Force liaison for the Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol. Retired November, 2011.

Leader for Direct Supply's IT voice and data network infrastructure teams and systems. Provide guidance on daily stability efforts, direct the strategic planning and lifecycle efforts, and deliver vision on long-term technology and business initiatives.

Supports the IS department initiative to mature our project delivery efforts. Provide analytical and process support to measure efforts and apply new or existing processes to consistently delivery IS projects within 5% of scope, schedule, and cost constraints.

Responsible for the daily support of the two NML data centers, to include power, environment, space planning, and cabling infrastructure. Plans upgrades and coordinates budget requests. Interacts with all hardware support teams to ensure requirements are satisfied and reliability goals are met or exceeded. Leads projects involving data center resources or groups tied with the Daily Operations directorate.

Provided project leadership and training to the IT staff in support of application and hardware implementations.

Southern Colorado Internet Provider (scip.net) was my entrepreneurial attempt to jump into the burgeoning ISP market. I launched an initiative to merge the many small ISPs in Colorado Springs, and in November 2001 scip.net merged with High Plains Internet (hpi.net) followed shortly thereafter by Marketwise Data, Inc (mdi.net).

Y2K Project Manager supporting MCI/Worldcom financial applications. Promoted to lead the combined documentation and due diligence teams faced with the goal of processing 200+ documents by the June 30, 1999 compliance deadline. Met the deadline, and became the first group in MCI with a significant number of applications (over 150) to be Y2K compliant.

I managed all the day to day operations of a small internet service provider, from sales to server management to website design and hosting.

Provided PM oversight and control for multiple Y2K remediation teams.

Ma, Computer Resources And Info Mgt

Master of Arts degree in Information Management, specifically focusing on the business management aspects of IT. Team based projects.

Mba, 3.98

Completed 95% of the MBA program with 2 classes remaining. The needs of the Air Force moved me to a new duty station before completing.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Air Force ROTC graduate. Arnold Air Society.

Engineering

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