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Wheaton, Il, Us

Dekalb, Illinois

Professor at NIU teaching Project Management courses and coaching an Experiential Learning Center (ELC) team. www.cob.niu.edu/elc

Big Rock, Illinois

XSport® Fitness is one of America's fastest growing fitness chains in the nation. As CIO I am Responsible for all IT operations and providing the ownership with vision and leadership to the XSport Fitness information technology program.

Greater Chicago Area

IT Management consulting, helping CIO/CTO/CISO/CFOs navigate the complexities of the IT world and bringing maximum business value to your organization. Specializing in IT Global Application and Infrastructure development, Project Management Offices, Business Intelligence, Strategic Investment Planning and Leadership.

Oak Brook, Illnois

Responsible for the full lifecycle development and deployment of a Global Web based application that updates prices and other key information to operate the Point of Sale (POS) solution. Reported to the VP of IT Restaurants and directed a combination of employees, matrix employees/consultants and offshore consulting firms approximately 70-100+ resources. Re-Architected and replaced the infrastructure addressing global scalability and data integrity issues. Redesigned the application User Interface. Structured the development supplier proposal process and negotiated the contracts. Established roll out plans for deployment worldwide. Spearheaded the development of 2 mobile application pilots.

Oak Brook, Illinois

Responsible for the McDonald’s Enterprise Architecture services and standards. Reported to the Chief Enterprise Architect with 9 direct reports including 2 outside the U.S. Restructured the Architecture standards and variance process to re-build the discipline. Developed standards and roadmaps for Network, Security, Data, Data Movement, Application and Computing architectures. Oversaw over 65 key initiatives domestically and worldwide. Foundational projects focused on delivering identity management, collaboration tools, shared server solutions, Software Oriented Architecture, network optimization, data movement, security frameworks, application portfolio, Rational Suite of tools, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing environments.

Oak Brook, Illinois

Responsible for McDonald’s Infrastructure Technology product and service delivery. Reported to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with 10+ resources. Designed and implemented the “General Contractors Office” a Project Management Office (PMO). Provided partner relationship management, project management and process/measurement management to the Infrastructure Team. Launched a consistent process for estimating, prioritizing, planning, delivering and measuring infrastructure delivery and quality. Delivered steady measurable improvements in delivery times, quality, cost, and customer satisfaction. Over 150 requests were addressed. Established quality gates resulting in 20% of projects not passing design gates, putting teeth into architecture and security standards and catching issues earlier in the development process

Oak Brook, Illinois

Responsible for the McDonald’s Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture and the creation of McDonald’s Intranet, Internet and Extranet technologies. Reported to the Chief Architect with 7-10 resources.Re-engineered the approach of Architecture to develop standards and technology “blueprint” templates. Oversaw the team that developed over 100 architecture designs annually, crossing all business functional areasStructured a team of engineering technologists to design and implement the infrastructure required to support the web environment and portal efforts.

Oak Brook, Illinois

Responsible for developing the IS Department’s 3 year business strategy. Mapped initiative proposals to processes and dependencies resulting in an approved list of coordinated efforts, a 3 year strategy and a Master Plan. Developed the overall presentation and coordinated all the aspects of the IT alignment meeting with the Top 30 McDonald’s Management Executives.

Oak Brook, Illinois

Responsible for improving decision making by providing an easily understood and unobtrusive access to McDonald’s data and information warehouse accessible to all levels of the organization. Reported to the Development Director with 8 direct reports. Designed, engineered and populated the Data Warehouse. Built an Information Access tool utilizing process and data metadata for end users to build their own fact based queries. This effort resulted into the Business Intelligence platform. Programmer/Business Analyst Modernized data into information, using the story that it tells to provide business intelligence and knowledgeable decision making. Areas of analysis and reporting included Human Resources, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Sales, Product Mix and other operational information.

Ms, Operations Management And Information Services

Currently a member of School of Business Experiential Learning Center and OMIS Executive Advisory Boards.

Bs, Business Specilizing In Information Management, Minor In Computer Science