Mike Mcallister Email & Phone Number

Pleasant Hill, Ia, Us

Pleasant Hill, Iowa, United States

Many business teams don't have established repeatable process, let alone have ways to use technology to simplify how they work. Your true efficiency begins with identifying what consumes the most of your time. With the vast array of tech available today, we help business teams find the right solution, identify gaps and hidden opportunity to be more efficient.

• Fulfill roles as a technical expert and trusted advisor in the Information Technology-related areas of retail construction, corporate facility design, and fixture design.• Manage multiple IT-related facility projects, crews and vendors concurrently while providing project planning, budgets, coordination, implementation oversight and negotiations as necessary.• Design facility and fixture-related technology solutions that exceed business needs while maintaining standardization and abiding by all internal, legal, and compliance requirements.• Lead cross-functional teams within the context of large projects or small programs.• Apply use of technology innovation to address business requirements, streamline existing processes, and expand functionality all while effectively managing costs.• Participate in conversations to understand organizational stakeholders needs, translate those needs into technology based solutions and assist organizational stakeholders with identifying appropriate technologies for accomplishing their strategic technology goals.• Recommend approaches to align key organizational stakeholders to the changes associated with projects, programs, implementations, and standards. (Stakeholders include Real Estate, Construction & Design, Brand Marketing, Facilities, Information Technology, Operations and Sales teams.)Honors:Recipient of the 2017 TDS Outstanding Performance Award - presented by US Cellular's Parent Company, TDS. • Only six project teams from across the TDS Enterprise were selected in 2017 to receive this award and the award honors the efforts of the "best-of-the-best." • Team created a traveling point of sale solution that enables the US Cellular Sales team to sell outside of traditional retail environments such as fairs, festivals, on-site business selling, pop-up store events, etc. Solution not only fulfilled security requirements, it simplified and addressed critical business challenges head on.

• Provide project planning, coordination, and implementation oversight in partnership with internal business stakeholders, other technical teams, and external vendors. • Create, communicate, and maintain internal infrastructure standards for all corporate facility types (e.g. Retail stores, Contact centers, Business offices, etc.). • Ensure technical elements of planned projects and internal initiatives are accurate, complete, current, and within existing standards.• Manage multiple medium complexity projects and/or internal initiatives at the same time.• Support compliance with disaster recovery, security policies, and other regulatory requirements.• Establish working relationships with technical, business and sourcing counterparts.

7 Direct Reports - Responsible for End User Support in Regional areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska. Supported 200+ Locations across support area.Project Planning & Project Management including Operating System upgrades, Application upgrades, Retail Construction & other Company-wide initiatives.

Internship - independently analyze, troubleshoot and remedy client configuration, connectivity and hardware issues. Install, configure and upgrade PC Client and LAN hardware/software. Maintain/monitor 90 printers on LAN network at Corporate Offices. Reconfigure & Install New user computers. Update Trouble Tickets with problem history and resolution information.

Provided written articles for Hearinglikeme.com.

Tutoring; Grading Papers and assisting professors & students in the Telecommunications & Computer classes. Mentor & Tutor first term "Alternative Program" students

Bachelor'S Of Science, Telecommunications Management

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude Honors

Business & Sales