Teaching various business and technology courses in the CUW MBA program

Chief at the Holiday Shores Volunteer Fire Department

➤ Spearheading several technology & business improvement campaigns, collaborating with Operations, Front, Mid & Back Office, Compliance, Legal, Operational Risk, Finance, Markets & Business Development; global Management team member, responsible for influencing and guiding numerous technology and change initiatives, while acting as a coach and mentor to various team members around the globe➤ Business partner & key stakeholder for our direct lending, input financing, & retail banking entities, leading customer digitization & transformation initiatives for rural, wholesale, & retail customers➤ Leading several key Digital Transformations including Digital Sales Channels, customer facing financial management solutions, and implementing cloud forward integration, security, infrastructure, and client portals.

➤ Created a Private Cloud Service Delivery organization with colleagues and became COO of Rabo Diversified Services; migrated legacy on-premise data centers to a hyperconverged, hybrid-cloud, virtual environment.➤ Led creation of the Rabo NA Culture commitments program, professional facilitator in rolling out the new culture across the US, and started a DevOps transformation for combined US technology and development teams.➤ Instrumental in creating Rabo Diversified Services – the US entity responsible for the management of all US based Rabobank IT assets providing data center and private cloud services

➤ Led the advisory services team, regularly engaged with WWT customers on Virtual CIO, Systems Development, and CISO opportunities, and acted as a virtual CIO / CTO / CISO and advisor to clients.➤ Assisted various clients in mapping out more effective operational processes and organization development activities, and created technology execution strategies for numerous local SMB and healthcare organizations.➤ Strategically planned customers cloud transitions to SAAS, IAAS, and PAAS solutions for internal use, and recommend E-Commerce strategies while maintaining PCI compliance.

➤ Led and enhanced IT and Operations functions including service desk, infrastructure and security, Facilities, supply chain operations, hiring and development of staff, idea generation / implementation, data warehousing / BI, business analysts and project managers, telecom/networking / security, and mill / farm automation systems. ➤ Spearheaded the creation of a three-year IT Roadmap and five-year strategic plan that aligned Information Technology with vital business goals and company objectives and lead the ‘Why’ for IT➤ Rapidly rebuilt the IT and Business Analyst teams through intense personal recruitment, leveraging contacts, and deployed the team to solve business problems, enhance revenue, and re-align the IT culture with the organization.

➤ Led operational, management, and technology teams responsible for maintaining and improving our E-Commerce sites for SecurePak, Courtesy Coffee, Keefe Commissary and TRG, sites generated 500M in annual revenue►Managed $MM annual budget and accountable for IT Operations, BI/Data Warehouse and Reporting, AS400 Operations, Networking, Security, Service Desk and Systems➤ Created effective, manageable and innovative solutions to complex business problems and drove value through boutique development shops, off the shelf solutions, and local IT data integration and development architects

➤ Led the IT department of 35+ resources in diverse geographies, and managed the technology services department, responsible for all servers and infrastructure (Cisco and Microsoft) networking, virtualized systems, telecom inc. billing / contract negotiation, security, and workstation engineering ➤ Evaluated, selected, and implemented technology solutions, data center operations, and management of our nationwide business network ➤ Led the implementation and migrations of numerous EMR solutions including McKesson Paragon and Meditech at new acquisition and managed IRF, SNF and LTAC hospitals.

✔Provided support for the corporate headquarters in St Louis, training center, service center, three factories in Mississippi and remote sales offices around the world ✔Managed a 12 person department broken down into two areas Systems Development and Infrastructure/ PC Support ✔Migrated developers from AS400 and converted them all over to web applications ✔Re-configured core and remote network infrastructure including Cisco enterprise class switches, new internet connectivity, redundant VPNs between locations and VOIP integration✔Led projects to get infrastructure current Including advancing new core network and WAN uplinks to remote sites✔Sponsored and implemented a project to upgrade the companies Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007✔Implemented a Major shop floor data collection system used at 5 plants to replace a proprietary, and flawed system✔Facilitated the implementation of Share point 2003 into environment to centralize documentation and enable better collaboration✔Brought in specialists to assist with development of first Data Warehouse ✔Used new capability along with BI analysis tools to help company make better strategic decisions based on current data available ✔Employed Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Analysis Services and ProClarity✔Established central Portal for web apps, pushing to replace many of the standalone applications with web based, and rich UI programs✔Consolidated infrastructure (servers and networks) into one Data center from two and simplified computing environment✔Launched project initiatives that pulled ‘satellite systems’ off I-Series applications and transformed them into richer client apps which were also extended to customers

Member of the silent service. Worked with a phenomenal group of men in one of the most arduous jobs in the world. Learned leadership skills in perhaps the fastest paced, highest pressure environment possible (literally, considering we operated under water!). Led a group of highly motivated electronics technicians, navigators, and electronic counter-surveillance specialists during missions that were vital to the strategic defense of our nation.