Michael Blalock Email & Phone Number

Naperville, Il, Us

Naperville, Il

ESGC Inc provides enterprise solutions transforming client's Information Technology Assets resulting in a high performing organizaton in the public or private sector. ESGC focuses on providing solutions in Power Quality: UPS and Distribution, Enterprise Data Storage, Infrastructure/Networking, Wireless Networks & Cloud Computing.

Award-winning, full-service engineering design and construction firm with $42M revenues.Business Unit Manager (1/07 – 8/07) Key Clients: Nicor, IBM, Illinois TollwayProject Manager (8/06 – 12/06)Managed $8.3M/19-member business unit whle driving revenue and leading national market expansion project. Pre-promotion engineering development and technology project direction, from concept to completion across 7 locations. Increased revenue by 39% while reducing operation costs by 15% Added 3 states to firm's U.S. client line-up, totaling service in 4 states Instrumental in acquiring $19M in additional work from Chicago's Midway Airport

Full-service design and construction firm with $27M revenues.Director of IT (3/01 – 12/05)Enterpirse-wide overhaul of obsolete technologies, managing a 1.9M budget and 6 personnel in developing and implementing architecture firm. Streamlined IT client support.Drove satisfaction indicators from 83% to 98% through new technology.Improved operations productivity by 15% through $1.5M Delteck Vision ERP conversion project..

National producer of corrugated paper and containers, serving 3,000+ customers with FY02 revenues of $722.8M. Director of System Development (1/98 – 1/01)Senior Y2K strategy and development consultant and corporate director, managing $2M upgrade budget and 13 personnel in system-wide application development and support. Oversaw IT and business strategy assimilation; strategic business unit re-organization planning; hardware and software upgrades; and purchase function streamlining. Reported to Director of IT. • Reduced support backlog by 72% and increased software enhancements to 8 per month.• Eliminated potential Y2K loss of an estimated $100M in revenue.• Reduced systems setup downtime by 20%.• Delivered 90% reduction of over-budget and 85% reduction of past-due projects.• Reduced annual hardware and manpower downtime by $100K with net savings of $50K in year one.

Leading global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company with $12.3B in FY98 revenues. Senior Project Manager (12/97 – 1/98) Key Clients: Pharmacia & Upjohn, Amoco, Project Manager (10/95 – 12/97) Ryerson Steel R. R DonnelleySenior Consultant (1/95 – 10/95)Primary driver behind large-application client solutions projects, managing teams of 20-40 professionals and budgets up to $16M. Developed niche focus on small- to mid-size companies. Key clients included Pharmacia & Upjohn, Amoco, Ryerson Steel R. R. Donnelley. Reported in final role to Senior Program Manager.

Functioned as a Product Manager developing MRP and configuration management software for the Aerospace and Defense industries

Ba, Computer Science

School Of Business