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Mankato, Mn, Us

Peosta, Ia, Us

Plan and Direct Strategic Initiatives: Crafted and directed strategic initiatives across multiple campuses and satellite facilities including but not limited to: rebuilding the complete infrastructure, implementing virtualization (VMware), moving from Novell to Windows 2008 servers, moving from windows XP to Windows 7, implementing a document imaging system and assisting with the design of a “state of the art” business/community education, meeting and services center. Manage Personnel: Restructured organization of department personnel to better serve diverse user community. Performed all duties attached to IS personnel management. Managed Help Desk, Technology Infrastructure Support, Analysts, Network support, Phone System Support and Multimedia employees. Control Multiple Budgets: Write and manage departmental budgets from multiple funding sources including the general fund, bonds, fees and grants. Heavy Committee Involvement: Chair or search committee member for the hiring of new personnel for 2 million dollar “Title III” grant. Member of Campus Safety Committee, Campus Council, Xpress Committee, Technology Steering Committee, Building renovation committees, CAST Oversight Committee, Intrinsik Informer committee, SoftDocs oversight committee and Technology Oversight committee.

Hopkins, Minnesota, Us

Evaluated and prioritized corporate technology needs. Created and executed technology strategy for the corporation, including converting multiple facilities onto one system. Built and managed interdepartmental teams and successfully facilitated the completion of both simple and complex projects. Led process re-engineering efforts including the re-engineering of sales and shipping processes in order to make use of new ERP features.Reduced department expenses by eliminated unnecessary expenditures and negotiating lower rates.Evaluated vendors and negotiated all technology related contracts, including negotiating a reduced price on the ERP system with several free modules and free systems modifications.Reduced downtime by anticipating problems and implementing appropriate redundancies. Headed data center upgrade and consolidation effort to combine multiple company operations into one. Increased network capacity and added features and functions while still reducing the appropriate recurring costs by renegotiating and re-engineering the EDCO WAN. Provided primary support for databases and Security administration for ERP and HRMS.Planned and executed or directed the execution of all security strategies.Led the conversion of the Nortel phone system with Meridian Mail to the Call Pilot unified message system including the conversion of our Otsego Sales department to IP based phones. Gathered and document business requirements. Provided requirements and specification to team members. Wrote Crystal reports for HRMS. Report writing experience included assisting Crystal and SQL report writers with planning and debugging. Total responsibility for IT/IS department personnel including Hiring, managing and developing professional and technical employees.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Software and hardware test auditing: Audited year 2000 preparedness plans and testing procedures.BCP (Business Continuity Planning): Created business continuity and year 2000 preparedness plans, which included business process review (BPR), identifying risks and Re-engineering using alternate methods, Planning for recovery (equipment replacement and backup operation services such as collocation).IT Audit: Performed IT/IS portion of SAS 70 audits.Documentation: Documented a software system to meet requirements as stated in an audit.IT Technology expert: Provided technical expertise to auditors and other consultants.Professional written communications: Wrote installation, configuration and user instruction Manuel for BCP software package. Impressed partner in charge with superior writing skills as demonstrated in deliverables.Variety of Clients: Clients included financial institutions, software companies, gaming industry leaders and many in the public sector.

Consulting: Provided outside consulting services including systems and programming support.IT support: Installed software, trained users, wrote programs, tuned systems, provided help desk support, provided network support and provided 24/7 emergency support for clients, specialized in emergency datacenter support and maintaining high availability infrastructure, for data centers of all sizes.Published technology expert: Published articles as a mainframe systems expert in an industry trade journal.Multi industry experience: Employed by customers in a wide range of industries including medical, dental insurance, printing, retail, manufacturing and railroad