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St. Louis

Premier Information Technology and CIO Services Consulting. Strategic Consulting, including business plan & strategy development. Multi-Industry. Writing and Research. Enterprise content management. Business process management. Customer experience management Technology Assessments for Venture Capital firm.

Greater St. Louis Area

Adjunct Instructor teaching Digital Foundations. Students from almost every available major must have at least some technology skills and include those on their resume to be in consideration for a job. Regardless of the student majors like engineering, administrative, finance, or non-clinical healthcare, IT skills are absolutely necessary. The program focuses not just on tools, but the educational and professional reasons for learning the tools.

Reporting to the COO/President, my role is to plan, coordinate, direct, and implement technology solutions within the company, as well as, provide direction and support for innovation in operational technology. Collaborate with the executive management team and decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization. Develop and manage application portfolios for each department… Show more Reporting to the COO/President, my role is to plan, coordinate, direct, and implement technology solutions within the company, as well as, provide direction and support for innovation in operational technology. Collaborate with the executive management team and decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization. Develop and manage application portfolios for each department and attain all IT service level agreements for the user groups. This role provides vision and leadership for developing and implementing IT initiatives across all areas of the organization.Established guidelines for Cloud Vendors in how company data was stored, secured, protected, and audited.Oversight of Technology Integration on Company AcquisitionsWorked with business to establish risk tolerance for all systems. Classified the Systems based on Response Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives. Orchestrated co-location DR facility. Formed a Field Solutions team that concentrated on emerging technologies for the Construction Industry. Focused research and implementation in Laser Scanning, Drones, iOT, Augmented and Virtual Reality, etc.Developed strategies on the increasing risk and storage for Records being stored on multiple databases on multiple platforms on premise and in the cloud. Facilitated the establishment of policy on system of records, primary source of records, retention, location, security, and retirement. Developed a Lean IT program within IT to reduce defects, improve processes, and improve customer satisfaction.Developed Company policy for Enterprise Social Media. Team implemented Yammer as internal Social Collaboration platform. Program recognized to improve employee engagement.Contract Negotiations with Enterprise solution providers: Oracle, Microsoft, Autodesk, Replicon, Primavera, Synchro, Notevault, Okta, and Trimble. Show less

Worked in a variety of increasing responsibilities throughout my career with Anheuser-Busch including: IT Manager for Recycling/Packaging Division, IT Customer Service Manager for Anheuser-Busch Entertainment, and Group Manager-SAP Solution Center

Master'S, Information Management

Master's, Information Management

Bachelors, Computer Science

Bachelor's: Computer Science

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