Michael Richards Email & Phone Number

Muscatine, Iowa, United States

- Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers, and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business units, and the greater enterprise.- Responsible for leading the development and implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business strategy and requirements- Provides direction and mentoring to domain architects that works with the EA and Non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the organization- Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise's business strategy, targeted business outcomes and architecture- Present gap analysis and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.

Muscatine, Ia

- Continue as Technical Lead for multi-year implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX across an organization consisting of five companies- Implement and Foster growth of Enterprise Architecture methodologies across the organization- Responsible for overall solution and technical architectures across the organization- Supervisor of BI Architecture, SharePoint Architecture and application administration teams- Provide mentoring and guidance to teams within IT (infrastructure, development, BI, PMO)- Coordinate and manage vendor technical resources across various projects

Muscatine, Ia

- Technical Lead for multi-year implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX across an organization consisting of five companies- Responsible for the architecture of both infrastructure and software components- Assist in the implementation of ISVs- Coordinate and manage vendor technical resources- Work with Business Architects and Interface Lead to determine the need for customizations- Assist in the establishment of company development and design standards- Mentor members of the development team on those standards

App Technical Designer - Leads the design phase of projects. - Act as a bridge between business analysts and developers by translating business requirements into technical specifications. - Responsible for creating the Functional Specifications document capturing the three levels of design namely conceptual, logical and physical. - Analyzes, defines, and documents requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs. - Makes sure that developers conform to established design; does code reviews and mentors developers in best practices.Primary SharePoint Administrator/Developer - Developed and implemented WSS 3.0 - Assisted Enterprise Architect in creating of MOSS 2007 implementation and introduction - Researched and integrated both Team Foundation Server 2008 and Project Server 2007 into WSS 3.0 Farm - Designed and developed custom solutions for WSS 3.0 that involved custom CAS policies and data retrieval with multiple SQL Server 2005 databases.NET Developer - Assumed technical lead on several large scale integration projects and worked with business, development, and networking entities - Work with Enterprise Architect to introduce and move company into the use of SOA practices - Developed custom web parts for the Kentico CMS system - Developed application that used LDAP and WMI services in order for the networking team to work more effectively without the purchase of additional tools. - Create and maintain SSRS that utilized Nested Lists, SubReports, and Matrices

Performed major infrastructure migration from RISC6000 to a mixed Windows 2K3 and Linux ES 4 environmentImplemented DNS/WINS/DHCP structure for corporate and the seven state branch locationsInstalled and managed network topology using Cisco VPN/Firewall/IPS for both corporate and branch locationsAssist I.T. Director in redesigning of the company's website using .NET 2.0 TechnologiesDeveloped SQL Server 2000 driven application to replaced existing Access applicationsDeveloped and improved web interfaces for the updating and maintaining of products distributed

Primary Developer for current JSP/DB2 & ASP/DB2 web-based reporting structureDeveloped and maintained 255+ page intranet site with security features, production data, and integration of SharePoint WSS 2.0Install new servers W2K3, including HA Clusters, as directed by corporateMaintain Exchange and Lotus Notes Mail SystemsImplemented multiple VLANs and performed IP migration using CISCO routers and managed switches