Michael Spano Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Teaching full-time! Dream job! Teaching Lean Six Sigma, Database and Rapid Application Development and assisting in Senior Design!

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Dr. Michael Spano teaches the undergraduate (ISE 417) and the graduate (ISE 519) Database Applications courses in the Industrial Systems & Engineering department at NC State University. This is a design course in the area of Design of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems using Information Engineering and Database Management Systems techniques. The course covers the basics of data structures, business process modeling, database design, and information retrieval using SQL.

Dr Spano will help provide local school systems with modern financial and human resource platforms and update and streamline DPI’s technology systems, while implementing Data Transparency Data Driven Decision Analysis. and. Those systems manage, deploy and analyze more than $10 billion in funding and support more than 180,000 full-time personnel and more than 1.4 million public school students in North Carolina. The multi-year project is funded at an initial amount of $29 million over the 2017-19 fiscal biennium.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Transformed IBM resiliency services cloud managed backup and cloud data virtualization infrastructure services. Managed network, data centers, virtual servers, reporting, monitoring, alerting, and systems administration (Linux/Windows) for CMB offerings. Conceived and led Tier 0 automation and metrics to add business intelligence to all aspects of infrastructure services. Improved business resilience and security compliance to increase SLO to 99%. Deployed new ITIL service desk application (Cloud Control Desk), utilizing Agile development methodology. Cited in CIO Magazine for methodology: how-to-get-agile-to-work-at-your-company. Developed prioritized visual queuing model to handle backlog of work created due to resource constraints, and deployed visual Kanban tool for daily epochs for Agile project rollout.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Program Director for IBM’s largest business transformation project, Blue Harmony Services Project Office, for largest IBM business transformation and SAP rollout to China (R0.5) and Germany (R1.0). Drove aggregation and prioritization of multiple service business unit requirements and issues to core team, leading overall issue and risk management and mitigation of global SAP rollout (Blue Harmony). Focused on ensuring services ERP global installation was consistent with business unit expectations. Spearheaded and assumed additional responsibilities to ensure business case and value realization program delivered on expectations. Initiated CIO services transformation to focus on cost efficiency and rapid deployment of state-of-the-art applications, processes, infrastructure, and end-user devices. Led and championed global initiatives on behalf of all IBM service units, and promoted growth and business value through optimization of application portfolio.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Manager for the Infrastructure & Provisioning Requirements for the Office of the CIO focused on cost efficiency and rapid deployment of state of the art employee Infrastructure and end user devices. Led and championed global initiatives on behalf of all IBM Services Units in the areas of infrastructure, provisioning requirements and strategy to promote incremental growth and business value throughoptimization of people, process, and technology.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Working in the CIO Office developing strategies to leverage IBM's IT portfolio. Developing business value and driving business transformation through large scale SAP for Services roll-out. Champion global initiatives on behalf of all IBM Services Units inthe areas of infrastructure, provisioning requirements and strategy to promote incremental growth and business value throughoptimization of people, process, and technology.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Sold and delivered IT resource optimization and strategy/change engagements to CxO and board-level public sector and federal clients, often being called on for critical competitive contracts to position IBM value add and client benefits of IT and business alignment. Managed complex long-term partnerships and projects and mentored new consultants, which led to overachievement of all targets. Worked with large private healthcare provider to transform their current infrastructure and IT delivery model into IT SOA-based infrastructure and alignment with 10-year business vision, resulting in over $2.5B outsourcing contract for IBM.  Established “best practices” approach and white paper through operational efficiency and resource consolidation and optimization for several large clients. Partnered with large federal healthcare agency to drive organizational and strategy/change engagement encompassing all infrastructure and service aspects, leveraging ITIL and ITRO concepts to accelerate savings. Developed data center consolidation and relocation strategies and projects for numerous agencies, consistently resulting in at least 40% savings.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Developed service-oriented organization and operations while remediating university’s ERP system, resulting in significant increase in IT service delivery while meeting financial challenges. Reorganized department in 10 days to IT services model, and restructured helpdesk into IT service desk. Combined security operations center and network operating center, provided incidence response center for campus police, and moved to 24x7 operations with no increase in budget. Proposed and delivered core application (Banner ERP) project to remediate financial and security issues, including resilient infrastructure to provide disaster recovery and load balancing to overloaded application and infrastructure at peak periods.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Sold and led client engagements in IBM global complex opportunity support practice focused on CxO level. Positioned and secured $200M+ contracts for IT optimization as effective and efficient way to utilize IT resources, products and services to support business operation, aligning IT to business strategies and plans through linkages to applications, processes and people.  Led due diligence and specific areas of consulting value for $2B strategic outsourcing transformation engagement for global banking client, resulting in additional $154M in revenue. Led IBM program office for 24 international work streams and was contributing member of IT optimization and strategic outsourcing team, liaising with IBM client service executive's and account team. Performed best practice audits and assessments of numerous outsourcing engagements with very large global client bases. Managed marketing and delivery of global engagements ranging from $1M to $3B, gaining cross-industry experience in financial, industrial, distribution, federal, communications and SMB sectors.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Proposed, staffed and led the worldwide development and overall solution responsibility for the first Pattern-enabled infrastructure offering - The Automotive Common Environment (ACE). ACE is targeted at Automotive OEM's and is intended to provide the framework and applications to support the value proposition for e-infrastructure. The framework provided the backbone for interconnecting applications and provide a common environment for tasks like security, membership, messaging, data manipulation, collaboration, and business intelligence.

Founded consulting firm based on passion for people management in dynamic environment, engaging $67M medical company to create shared-services center for excellence to leverage common services provided by several sister companies. Supported “sustained profitability” model, resulting in improvements via cost reductions and increased revenues. Reorganized all IT departments and decreased operating costs, while helping sister division recover from disaster. Created performance planning philosophy and sustainable process, as well as center for excellence vision and strategy plan to ultimately provide optimal support model. Developed Internet/Intranet and Extranet strategies and several quick wins (email, SFA, SLA), as well as training and career development plans for all department personnel.

Munich, De

Created world-class information technology organization based on shared services application model along with corporate IT standards and chargeback model for five acquisitions which constituted newly formed Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution Corporation. Architected and implemented complete reorganization model to focus and align business and IT projects. Analyzed and replaced aged inventory of decentralized applications, and deployed centralized systems for HR, payroll, manufacturing, engineering and email. Designed and deployed innovative LAN/WAN infrastructure, which leveraged numerous acquisitions and allowed for inexpensive and rapid future expansion. Designed and deployed company’s first Intranet, Internet and eCommerce prototype. Created disaster plans and implemented major changes in computer operations department to virtually eliminate outages and downtime. Remediated all applications for Y2K by securing board funding and driving five post-merger applications to single instance, which was accomplished as part of formation of shared services IT service management project.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Worldwide leadership responsibility for the development and implementation of leading edge technologies in the client/server network-centric environments for SAP, ORACLE, Baan, JDE and PeopleSoft. Designed, constructed and staffed the first IBM Global Services Customer Technology Center and acted as the principle consultant in the areas of distributed scheduling, networking, client/server and performance tuning monitoring.Responsible for the SAP Worldwide Architecture and Technology Department, for the IBM Corporation Fulfillment and Production Re-engineering projects. Worldwide leadership responsibility for the development and implementation of the hardware, software, database, and infrastructure for a client/server installation for 15,000 concurrent SAP users in a distributed environment. Developed a stress and regression testing facility for the IBM Corporation and external customers for testing and performance tuning of SAP development and configuration. Developed and installed high speed/high availability networks, SMP and SP2 RISC hardware, managed client and MVS-OE DB2 database. Directed the SAP BASIS Team on all aspects of CTS, Security & Authorizations, ALE, EDI. Developed the processes for WW Architecture & change control to insure kernel conformance.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed the data bridges and data conversion algorithms for the project. Conducted research and development of enabling technologies for the Genesis project in the areas of high speed/high availability networks, SMP and SP2 RISC hardware and Parallel Databases. Led the software evaluation for the worldwide operational fulfillment project ERP system. This effort set the direction for the global PC Company and was adopted by the IBM Corporation into the IBM worldwide strategy. Re-engineered several Information Systems in the areas of materials replenishment, planning, and warranty/entitlement. Developed and deployed enterprise networking and heterogeneous cross-platform data access methodologies (ODBC, DRDA, OLE, DDE). Conceptualized and developed a complete Materials Allocation and Distribution Manufacturing Applications Network (MADMAN) architecture for the IBM PC Company Americas.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Leadership responsibility for the architecture and project management of the Direct Response Marketing (DRM) order entry system project. Conceived, developed and deployed the Real-time Inventory Management System (RIMS) and DFC Floor Control System to support real-time build to order for the DRM project. Served as the focal point for consulting services in the areas of IS & IT. Developed the architecture and prototype for the Client/Server Personal Computer Order Manager System (PCOMS), a cascading blackboard network of heterogeneous autonomous cooperative agents for real-time hierarchical distributed planning across multiple demand and supply sources.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Proposed, planned, justified, staffed, and launched the Site AME department in order to position the Research Triangle Park Site as a manufacturing technology leader. The major areas of research pursued by the department were Distributed Control, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Robotics, and Machine Vision. A Flexible Manufacturing Architecture and fully operational system was developed and installed at several sites, both in the United States and Europe.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led the mechanical design team in developing biomedical equipment for EKG monitoring and blood cell separation. Developed automated routings and testing employing converted teaching robots to improve quality and reduce manufacturing and rework costs. Numerous patents granted.

Phd, Industrial Engineering W Cs - Artificial Intelligence Minor

Ms Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Flexible Mfg Systems And Finite Scheduling

Bs Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Aas, Engineering Technology