• Provide guidance and leadership to an IT Team for a multi-family flooring company with 25 locations across the US• Focused on cost saving initiatives to better position the company for growth and expansion• Reviewed and groomed approximately 50 circuits for branch locations, resulting in lowering monthly spend by $6,500• Review and grooming of O365, Adobe, Google Services, and various other licensing, resulting in approximately $9,500 in savings for monthly spend• Designed and conducted an RFP for their Managed Services Provider (MSP) and guided them through the process for selection. This resulted in a more comprehensive focus on cyber security, on-premise server stack management, and allowed for future planning and scaling of the IT organization toward migration to a cloud environment aligned to their business growth for their 3-5 year roadmap• Designed and conducted an RFP for their Help Desk provider, and further implemented the service to their Corporate Credit and eProcurement teams in addition to the IT Team• Stood up Microsoft Fabric environment for reporting with Power BI to provide better analytics to the C Suite• Introduced a new front-end .net web application for internal company automation with the CRM tool in order to automate previously labor intensive tasks• Optimized mobile device policy and authored MDM strategy for go forward company managed phones and BYOD phones• Overall annual spend optimization of $15,000 per month

Partnering with the head of Emerging Trends to identify and leverage new ideas and technology to help Southwest achieve a competitive advantage and better serve their passengers as they move about the country.

Principal Consultant and Senior Manager with Daugherty currently consulting for Cargill in Program and Project Management.

Project Manager within the Global Business Solutions Division helping to lead the identification and implementation of business process change and solutions development for Supply Chain, HR Shared Services, Sales, Convenience & Foodservice, Finance, and Internal IT.• Master and leverage project management best practices, standards, tools and documentation to deliver annual cost savings of between $5-$7 million per year• Examples of current and completed projects: - Manufacturing Execution System Program – 3 Year Budget $9 million – ROI $30 million over 5 years - Manufacturing Analytics – 2 Year Budget $4 million – ROI $10 million over 3 years - Unix to Linux Migration – 2 Year Budget $1.5 million – ROI $5 Million over 3 years

Commander of the only Full Time Schoolhouse in Minnesota. Responsible for multiple MOS (job skills proficiency) schools in the areas of tracked vehicle, wheeled vehicle, and engineering vehicle maintenance. Organization educated and graduated between 800-1,000 students per year.

Source and maintain vendors with a focus on internal cost accounting initiatives. Source and sign MSA Contracts with 3rd party carriers in 4 different regions. Identify and reduce managerial accounting costs related to providing services to customers. Develop inventory documentation and controls in order to eliminate excess costs in both customer facing and infrastructure accounting.• Identified and recouped annual costs leading to $3.2 million ROI over 3 years• Tailored financially viable solutions for business applications across multiple industries, including the acquisition of new fiber routes for ever increasing bandwidth requirements.

Develop process controls and scheduling matrices for implementation and installation of tailored Managed Communications Systems and Bandwidth Infrastructure for a wide range of clientele. • Manage timeline for installation of T1 Circuits, Copper and Fiber Ethernet, and GIGe Circuits both on and off the company network• Liaise between customer and network design personnel in order to custom tailor solutions for business applications across multiple industries• Versed in Broadsoft, Salesforce, Syniverse, and multiple third party applications/websites such as Qwest, Level 3 Communications, Charter, and XO• Develop and update tracking presentation for all areas of the business unit, including Tiers 1-3 Support, Customer Care, Sales Funnel by Required Capital, AR Management, Contract Retention Management, and Network Development

Plan, coordinate, and track logistics requirements for Division elements in an effort to allow subordinates to perform their mission. Assist with coordination within the section to synchronize and execute mission requirements of the Division. Assist development of logistical plans and support concepts.

Operations OfficerOversees all operations and training related to brigade sized organization of 2,500 personnel.

Commanded a field maintenance company in the Iraqi theater of operations from August of 2006 to July 2008.

Advisor to an Afghan Company Commander in command of a company of 168 personnel. Provided guidance and direction on the placement of personnel and equipment on the battlefield in order to achieve better interdiction of insurgents and anti-government forces conducting operations within our area of responsibility.• Coached and taught my Afghan Counterpart on the deployment and operation of 168 troops and $700 million of equipment on the battlefield• Improved proficiency rate of soldiers in critical job positions from 15% to 60%• Implemented a comprehensive maintenance program which increased the company’s combat effectiveness from 40% to 90%• Traveled over 50,000 miles in Northern Afghanistan to oversee the emplacement and operation of 7 different remote combat outposts• Successfully integrated over 25 different NATO Partnerships while serving under a combined Croatian/Norwegian/Swedish/German command

Provided guidance and direction to 3 subordinate battalions (4,500 personnel) on the scheduling and budgetary considerations inherent to the Army's personnel management systems.