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Neenah, Wi, Us

Green Bay, Wisconsin, Us

Member of the core leadership team at this technology innovator in the Health and Life Sciences industry, driving strategic initiatives to enable rapid growth. Focus Solutions provides services and solutions in healthcare that streamline clinical operations, improve patient experience, and optimize IT operations. Our capabilities include EHR implementation/conversion, healthcare analytics, healthcare interop, and IT & Clinical Operations. My initial focus areas on the core leadership team include operational effectiveness, partnership development, human capital, growth, and culture.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

As a Board Member for this SaaS company currently serving Hospitality, Retail, and Franchise industries, I provide strategic input on technology, go-to-market, sales, talent acquisition, corporate structure and business strategy. Pacer is project management SaaS product that streamlines and automates large-scale project management and resource coordination. When brand consistency, efficiency, and visibility matter across multiple locations and geographies, get Pacer!

Indianapolis, In, Us

Transformation is a constant for any business. I've been in the Digital Transformation business for my entire career. Technology is the medium for digital transformation, but technology is the easy part. Change in it's many forms is the hard part. Change involves people - people with expectations. At Core BTS, we're great at Technology. We're great at People. We're great at Transformation. In our world, successful change has positive impacts on business and communities. If you're business needs positive change, chances are we can help. Reach out and let's talk.

Indianapolis, In, Us

I rejoined the sales team for a brief period of time, post-acquisition, to facilitate the transition and provide continuity with several strategic accounts.

Indianapolis, In, Us

In January 2021, Skyline Technologies was acquired by Core BTS, a leading IT consulting firm and managed services provider.Regarding SkyBITS:Since the acquisition of Skyline by Core BTS, SkyBITS has now been rebranded to Bion!Skyline took BI best practices acquired and honed over years of building custom Data Warehouse solutions for our client-partners and built them into a product we called SkyBITS (now Bion at Core BTS). At the time, SkyBITS was a new venture for Skyline Technologies. I had the honor and pleasure of leading the product development team and commercialization efforts as we developed a go-to-market strategy prior to the Core BTS acquisition. In addition to managing the P&L, my responsibilities included primary oversight of Product Development, Operations, Sales and Marketing. The SkyBITS Product Manager role was a great opportunity to combine my unique experience as a technologist, strategist, and entrepreneur. SkyBITS still lives on and continues to evolve as "Bion" one of several branded products at Core BTS. However, the Product Manager role was eliminated as part of the integration efforts when Skyline was acquired.

Indianapolis, In, Us

My business development role gave me the opportunity to build on my consulting experience and engage our clients at a new and more strategic level. Our clients-partners come to Skyline looking for ways to create differentiated value for their internal and external customers by improving people's lives with technology. As a Business Development Manager, I was a trusted client advocate and advisor. My client interactions often involved high-level strategies on how to build out technology delivery teams, make major technology platform decisions, and deliver new solutions to the business or marketplace. In this time frame, I also became a significant member of the Skyline associate-owner group.

Indianapolis, In, Us

As a Managing Consultant, I had the pleasure of taking on Associate leadership responsibilities. Coaching, mentoring, and advocating for Skyline's highly talented Associates offered unique challenges and rewards. along with a great degree of personal and professional growth. During this time frame I continued to be involved in project delivery as a Scrum Master as well as providing Advisory services in Agile and DevOps. I had the pleasure of collaborating with several clients to bring new products to market, from concept stage to product release. I also participated in the pre-sales process, developing proposals and estimates.

Indianapolis, In, Us

I have always loved the variety that consulting brings. As a Project Manager and later in my Managing Consultant role, I was fortunate to play a leading part in bringing several new products to market for our clients-partners. In these roles, I had hands-on experience in leading software development teams, many times as a Scrum Master. I also obtained my Scrum Master Certification from Scrum Alliance during this time frame.

Indianapolis, In, Us

I'm one of those consultants who was lured away by a client. I've had many roles at Skyline (now Core BTS), including 'customer'. That's one not many can claim. During these years, I had responsibility over sourcing and managing talent from a number of local and national partners, and this included Skyline Technologies (prior to merging with Core BTS). I've always said that it felt like I never left, because I continued to work with so many of the great people at a true partner. Many of those folks are still with us years later!

Indianapolis, In, Us

Developed web sites for several clients focusing on improving their online presence along with increasing conversions and integrating internet branding with print and other marketing materials. Brought in new client generating $500,000 in revenue in the first year and is still a top customer. Called on potential customers to demonstrate how our services could meet their business needs.Collaborated with a variety of clients throughout the analysis and design lifecycle, translating business needs into integrated solutions based on Microsoft technologies.Assumed multiple roles onsite at a variety of clients, including Technical Architect, Business Analyst, and Software Engineer.Prepared and delivered presentations and seminars on a variety of technology topics.Developed and enhanced applications for clients leveraging various technologies including ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.NET, T-SQL, VB6, ColdFusion, BizTalk, and others.

Member of the Board of Directors for this FinTech SaaS startup, providing strategic input on technology, business model, and funding. The product was a finalist and winner of several local and state-wide pitch contests. However, it was ultimately unsuccessful in securing funding needed to scale. The product was decommissioned in December of 2020. This was an incredible opportunity, and I am grateful to have been part of it. You learn a lot from failure.

Zurich, -, Ch

Provided work direction for a team of Development Analysts, ranging from 10 to 15 people, in support of several business units totaling over 2 billion dollars in revenue.Managed small to large (over $1 million) IT projects using both agile (SCRUM) and waterfall (PMBOK) methodologies that involved business and technical resources through all phases.Participated in the charter of a corporate Project Management Office, providing insights on corporate culture, resource needs, best practices, and standards for tools and methodologies.Defined Governance for and developed an IT service organization centered on a global platform for Collaboration, Communication, and Enterprise Content Management based on SharePoint.Managed software development projects covering business requirements ranging from the company's business to business web presence, to sales force automation, to manufacturing and inventory management and leveraging various technologies including SharePoint, .NET, SQL Server, MS Access, and others.Managed a variety of projects including several marketing projects to redesign and rebrand our web sites and focus on SEO leveraging Google Analytics to track conversions and other metrics.Developed strategies for leveraging ‘Enterprise 2.0’ technologies (aka Web 2.0) for this global organization of over 20,000 employees to improve collaboration and knowledge management.Proposed visionary technology solutions to IT and business executives that anticipated future challenges, solved business needs, and improved efficiencies in process management and support.

Zurich, -, Ch

Proposed Microsoft based technology solutions to IT leadership as well as business unit and corporate executives that anticipated future challenges, solved business needs, and improved efficiencies in process management and support.Architected the global application landscape as a member of an international project team implementing standard business process supported by a mix of Microsoft and SAP applications.Functioned as a combined Business Analyst and Programmer Analyst as needed, to accomplish goals and meet milestones as part of team focused on a business critical application for global product specification management.Developed and enhanced line of business applications leveraging various technologies including ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.NET, SharePoint, T-SQL, VB6, Active Reports, Crystal Reports, MS Access, ColdFusion, and others.

Documented, developed, tested, and implemented technology solutions for several clients, including Fortune 500 companies.Attended Consulting Solutions Training and Leadership Training with Arthur Andersen.Documented, developed, tested, and implemented solutions using ASP, PHP, T-SQL, MS Access, Fortran, HTML, JavaScript, and others for many clients, including several Fortune 500 companies.

Summer Internship at a small consulting firm in Neenah, WI that is no longer in business.Developed web based applications in ASP and JavaScript.Supported network infrastructure and a variety of desktop application for several local customers.

Developed and managed the band’s website using DHTML and PHP and incorporating strategies to increase web traffic and improve search results by consistently providing new and relevant content to engage repeat visitors and increase conversions.Developed business and marketing strategies that transformed the group from an unknown garage band into a $500,000/year well known regional show bandWorked with customers ranging from large corporations and festival organizers to local nightclubs and churches, providing support from pre-show planning to post-show analysis.Managed and coordinated performing and supporting staff.Performed in the show band, playing the saxophone, harmonica, Latin percussion, singing, and otherwise entertaining crowds as large as 20,000 people.

Developed strategies for ‘organically’ improving search engine page ranking for client’s websites by focusing on content, keyword density, and meta tags when SEO was first developing as a concept.Engineered an Internet service provider startup company.Developed and implemented marketing strategies to increase our market share.Collaborated with clients in the strategic design process to translate business needs into technical systems solutions.Developed and pursued potential sales leads by calling on local business owners.Developed websites for clients leveraging various technologies including ASP, PHP, MySQL, and others.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Summer Internship at the Point Beach Nuclear plant converting Fortran applications to VB6.

Green Bay, Wisconsin, Us

Supported a network of over 700 faculty and staff users.Taught workshops and seminars on a variety of subjects from basic PC skills to computer programming.

Installed computer networks and phone systems for a variety of customers.Managed installations as a site foreman.

Management Computer Systems, Information Technology

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