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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Stanley, North Carolina, Us

SUCCEEDED WHERE OTHERS HAD FAILEDResurrected an ERP migration project (which the ERP vendor themselves stated was likely the most complex migration they had ever seen) from the ashes left by two previous failed project managers. Starting with zero buy-in from other company managers, driven by a mandate from the company president, successfully led the project through Go Live within 18 months.At the same time, made strategic positive improvements to the corporate computing infrastructure, as well as the business continuity, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity postures. Completed other IT related projects as requested by the president. Worked closely with the managed service provider to enhance the responsiveness and reliability of day-to-day support activities.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

BRINGING ENTERPRISE LEVEL SENIOR IT MANAGEMENT TO SMBsBlue Line is not your average MSP, and we do things a bit differently. My focus is on successful integration of acquisitions into the Blue Line fold, including personnel and clients of those acquired companies. I also have a leading role in determining the Overall Technology Landscape for Blue Line clients, Supporting their current Infrastructure, Recommending Changes and Advising Regarding New Technologies, Writing Proposals and Negotiating Agreements for Technology Projects.Seeking out Opportunities for New Business, including New Clients, as well as ways for our Current Clients to Benefit from More of our Service Offerings.Building and Maintaining strong Relationships with Clients.

FACILITATED GROWTH AND MATURATION OF CORE FROM A "1 MAN SHOW" TO A TRUSTED TEAMProvided IT Management on a customer-facing consultative basis to multiple business clients across North and South Carolina, in Non-Profit, Construction, Manufacturing and other industries.Provided Business Development by winning new business and by creating opportunities for additional services from existing clients. Provided Guidance in selection, plus implementation and support, of IT Solutions and Services, as well as Vendor Selection, Contract Negotiation, and Project Management.Provided full SDLC and ALM to clients for Business Critical Applications (C#, SQL, Azure).Built and maintained strong client relationships.

DEDICATED TO PROVIDING TOP-NOTCH IT SERVICES TO COMPANIES OF ALL SIZESMuch of the job of an IT Director, CIO, or CTO is keeping up with new technologies, making sure the technology being used is stable, and that it fits the goals of the company. A good portion of that work is redundant among IT Leadership at different companies. Redundant effort equals wasted money, which is a luxury many SMBs can’t afford; especially right now.Teknowlogix cuts out the redundancy by providing Consultative IT Directorship (SM). In so doing we provide the same function, duties, and services of a full-time Senior IT Leader, but at far less than the cost of an on-staff IT resource.For an average mid-sized company, services can be provided at around $5000 per month. For a company looking to pay an IT Director a salary of $150K/yr that is a savings of $85K per year in salary alone! When you tack on savings from not having to pay taxes, benefits, and bonuses or provide a computer/laptop and office space, etc. it really begins to become clear that Consultative IT Directorship (SM) is a great solution.

Concord, North Carolina, Us

TRANSFORMED THE IT DEPARTMENT FROM AN EXPENSE TO A PROFIT CENTEREstablished the IT Services Division with the goal of transforming IT from an overhead expense to a profit center. IT was break-even at 12 months, and we accomplished the goal of profitability within 18 months, despite the lack of a marketing budget.Also, brought the core of the corporate network and computing infrastructure up-to-date including racks, switches, servers, NAS, security (firewall, antivirus, etc.), and backups.Created robust web applications using Java, JSP (including JavaScript and JavaBeans), and Oracle for external corporate clients.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Designed, Developed, Tested, and Documented intranet and internet web applications and associated databases for the Web Team using Java/JSP, WebSphere, and DB2.

Managed a team of QA specialists testing in-house applications. Managed and maintained the equipment in the QA lab. Managed the QA end of defect tracking for tested applications. Devised testing procedures and tools, and took a hands-on role in testing. Created processes for build/release as well as installers for the finished products on CD.

Never having seen a single line of PL/I code, joined the PL/I remediation team and was quickly promoted to Team Lead, and soon thereafter was given two teams. Lead projects with teams of up to 25 members through the successful remediation of millions of lines of PL/I and Fortran program code.Discovered previously unrecognized code issues which Improved the Quality of the Remediation Process Company-wide. Helped port remediation technology and processes created by the PL/I department to other departments.Represented the PL/I department on the Standards Committee.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Two weeks after having programmed myself out of a job, and after the coolest job interview I've ever had, started with Weston as a Systems Administrator. Installed and maintained Novell servers, Windows workstations, ethernet networks, remote access, R:Base databases, Property Management Software (MRI), printers, PBX, and Access Control systems, for multi-location office.Key Accomplishments: Wrote custom document management system (Envision!) and associated tools to store and index numerous reports for search by specific criteria and viewing in their native applications. Developed a custom text file viewer (SeePlus) allow locking column and row headers when viewing reports printed to text files.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Just having completed my Freshman year in College, I obtained a paid Internship where I installed, maintained, and administered both UNIX and NetWare servers, a network bridge, and Windows workstations.Learned the art of SQL coding and performed extensive programming of custom queries and reports, plus managing and maintaining the Informix database.Key Accomplishment: Using some very clever UNIX shell scripting, I automated the manual process of structuring large amounts of unstructured data for upload to on-line databases. Reduced the time necessary to complete each conversion from 2-4 days down to 2-4 hours, resulting in a 700% increase in efficiency and an 800% increase in productivity.

Boston, Ma, Us

As a high school student, making minimum wage, doing the same work as folks down the hall with college degrees...I streamlined the TPS development process by creating a modular code library.As probably the only 16 year old to ever hold superuser access to every VAX cluster owned by GE worldwide...I designed, coded, tested, and implemented numerous database maintenance utilities for the GE worldwide Stock Inventory System, and handled support calls to resolve SIS Database and Application issues.Subsequently, working in Development, and Challenged with Creating and Completing my own project...I designed, coded, and implemented one of the first database-driven paperless document management systems to replace an existing paper-intensive process for tracking of experimental results.