Ron Nielson Email & Phone Number

Logan, Utah, United States

Utah Chapter

- Maintaining active and good membership standing among current members and increasing membership by engaging current prospects in meetings and events. - Raise awareness and purpose for members, prospects and the local community by promoting and demonstrating the positive outcomes and benefits the IAMCP Utah Chapter brings to the state and local economy.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

-Effectively manage multiple system enhancements and modifications to existing applications in a fast paced compliance/regulatory environment with changing priorities-Develops and executes detailed effort based project work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports. Responsible for proactive and consistent, issue and risk management and risk mitigation-Through matrix management, is responsible for execution and delivery of projects through adherence to all IT project standards, defining and managing the project through the SDLC and associated IT processes. -Responsible for deploying projects on time, with quality, within budget, and as per specification, effectively monitoring project risks, employing mitigation strategies where appropriate.-Effectively manages the project team, demonstrating the ability to coach, mentor and positively influence others-Build and maintain an understanding of business processes and products across the Business Unit, establishing strong working relationships with counterparts across the functional areas.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

- Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of new sales opportunities with corporate clients that need to upgrade, maintain and improve their technology infrastructure solutions and products.- Initiate calls into new prospects and accounts to introduce products, services and solutions.- Identify each prospect's current environment, needs, expectations, budget and priorities.- Develop skills to properly propose additional products and services to help clients achieve their key priorities for managing technology solutions and resources.- Engage new prospects through calls and emails to identify pain points, and potential cost savings. - Pursue and generate opportunities to develop and present detailed proposals to solve customer problems. - Follow-up with prospects / clients to review proposed solutions, pricing, determine project start dates and obtain signed contracts.-Generate an accurate weekly forecast. Participate in weekly meeting, prepared to discuss current status of pending projects, proposals and challenges.- Maintain timely and accurate database of client contact data.

Network/Systems Administrator: Maintained, managed, and troubleshot network infrastructure for two departments within the School of Business. This included; servers, drives, email, wireless, hardware, software, VPN, A/V, etc. Worked with USU central IT to design, implement, and integrate new technologies, infrastructures, and payment systems for Partners In Business and The Shingo Prize. Database Administrator: Performed routine relational database maintenance and updates. Extensive ETL from MS SQL Server into compatible formats (.csv, .xml) was executed to import into Salesforce cloud platform. Created stored procedures and queries to extract meaningful data that were used to join tables across different datasets and normalize the data. Business Intelligence and Analytics were used to determine future trends and solutions. I also cleansed and filtered redundant data from incorrect table relationships for better data accuracy.Project Manager/Lead Developer (Cloud Implementation): Designed and implemented the integration and migration of outdated information systems to Salesforce. This included the importation of relevant data from existing databases to facilitate multi-user accessibility and better security controls. I developed and integrated multiple API’s for a PCI compliant online payment system, cross-platform data uploading, real-time KPI and reporting services, and financial software compatibility. This system allowed for an online seamless infrastructure reducing employee inefficiency by 70%. Also responsible for the direction of technical meetings to establish ITIL/ITSM for current and future business needs.Conference Coordinator: Partners In Business Conference Coordinator for 28th Annual Information Technology Conference at Utah State University. I worked directly with different department heads and faculty to increase IT conference attendance by 150% compared to previous years.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Officer AIS, Director of Community Service

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance

Education record