Senior Infrastructure Project Manager/Servers & Databases - Plymouth MN in the UHG IT Infrastructure Services division of UHG IT.

Responsible for both application development and infrastructure-based projects for global payments solutions and initiatives. • Led 22 developers in NA and Europe establishing an international processing platform (IPP) for Europe. Developed project plans, managed and tracked daily progress, budgets, change requests and testing activities which resulted in the successful conversion of 200,000 merchant accounts.• Managed and coordinated new network and desktop infrastructures to support 400 users in Ireland, Frankfurt and Warsaw for IPP initiative.• Provided on-site leadership and support for both Ireland and Warsaw bringing a successful conclusion to the $35 million IPP conversion.• Managed project bringing all external conference calling in-house saving nearly $400,000 annually.• Designed and implemented a global project central repository for all project information. Achieved improved project collaboration and information sharing with the use of SharePoint, MOSS 2007.• Brought in to manage and establish best practices for development and testing resources in support of twice yearly Regulatory Releases for Visa and MasterCard to successful completion.• Mentor, trainer for other PMO resources.

Provided technical project management and services on contract for the following organizations.BEST BUY.COM – Eden Prairie, MN (3) mth contractProvided engagement management and support for a team of 10 Instructional Designers tasked with creating new User Guides and Training Courseware. Managed the scope, budget and costs of the project as related to the proposal. U.S. BANCORP - St. Paul, MN (22) mth contractResponsible for network infrastructure-based projects and initiatives. Managed multi-departmental projects involving connecting acquired companies providing various network connections to outside vendors, changes to firewalls, routers, and the deployment of web and application servers. Typically managed or coordinated two to eight projects at any one time.• Analyzed network policy compliance, provided initial consulting to business units and assisted in setting timeline and networking project budgets.• Researched and implemented web-based project management tools and repository providing the ability to roll-up project and resource information for management reporting. Researched and implemented web-based collaboration, information access and document management tool for departmental teams reducing errors and duplication of engineering and project related documents to better support production environments.• Introduced Lotus Sametime to US Bank Networking departments increasing collaboration, information sharing and communications.• Provided training, education, mentoring, documentation and support to project managers, engineers and management increasing the use of technology. TARGET CORPORATION – Minneapolis, MN (9) mth contractProvided project management plans, ABT toolset expertise and administrative services for four data warehouse development managers and their senior management.

Network Consultant - 1997-1999Managed the development, implementation & delivery of network infrastructure for e-Commerce business solutions involving both consumer & business-to-business web & application servers. • Managed (4) separate business unit projects to share common IT infrastructure that significantly reduced maintenance, support, & scalability costs. • Established relationships & partnered with the e-Commerce business unit to understand business requirements & align IT technical solutions.• Coordinated efforts of technical services (NT, UNIX, and Mainframe servers), DB resource mgmt, operations, capacity planning & network engineering as well as supporting vendors to meet the e-Commerce imperatives and project requirements. Manager – Workgroup Technologies - 1996-1997Managed, scheduled & coordinated workgroup technology projects & processes for enterprise messaging, calendar, & scheduling. Included a staff of (6) employees & (3) contractors.• Evaluated & recommended improvements in enterprise messaging, C&S infrastructure. • Implemented Lotus Sametime to facilitate real-time collaboration & sharing of information. • Implemented a consolidation of (5) messaging systems & migration to Lotus Notes/Domino for 8000 clients resulting in a single unified communication system.Sr. Systems Design Analyst / Architect - 1994-1996Responsible for Intel-based client/server technologies for desktops, notebooks and servers. Defined and created technical specifications, hardware & software configurations & vendor pricing for all workstations & servers. • Researched a messaging comparison between Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Exchange/Outlook and Netscape facilitating a reduction in the number of e-mail systems & reducing the cost of operations & maintenance. • Provided strategy & architectural leadership to migrate 300 existing OS/2 servers to MS NT server. Designed Windows NT domain strategy & structure, naming & deployment strategies.

Responsible for the idea, design, creation and implementation of the first day school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in over 100 years within North America.• Led the efforts creating a new Charter School (K – 8th grade) for deaf and hard-of-hearing students using American Sign Language (ASL) and teaching English as a second language completely from the ground up. • The primary purpose is to empower students to develop a sense of identity and pride as Deaf persons while providing them the skills and knowledge to succeed as global citizens.• In 1993, MDS started with 12 students – this coming Fall the pre-Kindergarten – 12th grade program will support more than 100 students.