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Senior
consultant with over 20 years of IT experience and a proven ability to
combine business and technology expertise throughout the design,
development and implementation of enterprise solutions. Highly
passionate and results oriented with a proven record of success
transforming business goals into measurable actions, and ideas into
savings. Experience reflects extraordinary leadership,
entrepreneurial and visionary skills throughout each of the following
knowledge areas:
Project Management, Leadership, Governance, Team
Building,
Process Improvement, Strategic
Business Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Enterprise
Security, Systems Analysis/Design
Program
Manager (Oct 2013 - Present)
Murphy Management Consulting Sussex, Wisconsin
Successfully managed and mentored
staff using project management best practices while facilitating the
execution of a Cost Optimization program for Johnson Controls across
various IT work streams including data center consolidation, end-user
computing and other business related functions. Transitioned into a
portfolio management role and was responsible for identifying SAP based
dependencies across all corporate programs/projects.
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Successfully hit the programs cost savings goal of $10.5M in
2014
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Designed financial scorecards, dashboards and business
processes to manage all interdependent projects
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Developed the core project teams and support resources
across IT
Project
Manager (March 2012 - Aug 2013)
Apex Systems Brookfield, Wisconsin
Managed the small projects
portfolio for the MillerCoors PMO including overall budgets, schedules,
resources and financial reporting. Led the companies SharePoint 2007
to 2010 enterprise upgrade and governance planning.
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Managed project plans, costs, timelines, dependencies, and
resources
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Designed a SharePoint portal and business processes to
manage all tasks, resources and budgets through dashboard financial
reporting
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Oversaw the pre-planning and start-up efforts for the SAP
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC 10) implementation
GIS
Project Manager (Feb 2011 – Jan 2012)
Evanston Group Chicago, Illinois
Hired to manage strategy and
architecture projects for Harley-Davidson, Inc. throughout the SAP ECC,
CRM, BW, APO and Mii landscape. Led the functional/technical design
of a data archive initiative in preparation for the company’s business
transformation efforts.
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Led the High Availability implementation throughout H-D’s
SAP landscape
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Key resource in the planning, process design and
implementation of a data archiving solution to retain legacy data prior to
system retirement
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Managed project teams, budgets, schedules, deliverables and
vendors
Technical
Project Manager (Jan 2010 - Jan 2011)
Trissential Waukesha, Wisconsin
Managed a program consisting of
network security enhancements, application virtualization, and the design
and implementation of a VMware VDI virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Oversaw the Network Access Control (NAC) implementation and
VMware ESX/View desktop strategy
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Worked hands-on with off-shore resources, third-party
architects and hardware/software vendors
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Managed all project teams, budgets, schedules, deliverables,
and contract negotiations
Program
Manager (Jan 2005 - Jan 2010)
Murphy Inc. Sussex, Wisconsin
Led the technical
analysis/planning, design and development of custom CRM enhancements for an
Open-source CRM solution to functionally align with SalesForce.com.
Hands-on throughout the management and migration of customer data from
smaller site-to-site migrations to major overhauls including relational
database changes, process/workflow development or design changes from all
the major CRM/ERP solution providers. Designed the infrastructure to
enable provisioning instance based hosting services for each customer CRM
in a fully redundant data center/cloud.
Highlights
included:
OwnMAX
Nationwide Real Estate Corporation Led the design and implementation of integrated solutions
for a web-based real estate advertising network from concept through
Go-Live. Designed and deployed the technical infrastructure that provided
brokers and agents virtual desktops using Microsoft and VMware
technologies.
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Developed an enterprise customer relationship management
system (CRM) to provide real estate professionals with a lead generation,
management and marketing platform
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Developed the business and technical roadmaps, policies and
standards
Application
Service Provider
Architected the design of an enterprise collaboration of Microsoft, VMware
vCenter, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, and CentOS Linux servers.
Deployed Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server solutions for enterprise
collaboration.
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Managed the scope, design, development, and testing efforts
for a custom CRM and ERP solution deployed using a SaaS (software as a
service) model
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Led offshore teams through custom interface design and app
development
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Oversaw HW/SW virtualization efforts, app design/testing,
and DR planning
Ownwire
Real Estate Auctions Led the
design and development efforts for an on-line real estate marketplace
providing realtor's a unique bidding platform to acquire home seller
leads. Technologies included PHP/MySQL and VMware desktop offerings
to realty auction houses and offshore Dev teams.
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Managed the design and deployment of a real estate auction
marketplace
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Developed the business and technical roadmaps, policies and
standards
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Led all project management efforts and offshore development
teams
The Cure
for Cancer Organization
Launched a non-profit website and community forum to provide users the
ability to exchange doctor reviews and share personal experiences.
Technical platform was based on Fedora Linux, PHP and MySQL.
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Designed a social networking portal using PHP and MySQL
complete with member profiles, blogs, article submissions and community
forums for collaboration
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Assisted with the development and launch of a global banner
advertising network to serve rich media ads throughout the health care
community
Account
Manager (Jan 2002 - Jan 2005)
MortgageIT - MIT Lending Jacksonville, Florida
Hired to establish a new
wholesale and correspondent based mortgage branch office in Jacksonville,
Florida. Responsibilities included business development, client
relations, and all mortgage product and software training efforts.
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Strategically acquired and maintained $10M a month in loan
production by establishing 125 new accounts
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Trained brokers on all company products, services and loan
submission software
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Successfully established first Florida branch office before
relocating back to Wisconsin
Senior Consultant / PM (Aug 1999
- Dec 2000)
Compuware Corporation Madison, Wisconsin
Responsibilities included
application integration, quality assurance, testing and network
architecture design and implementation.
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Led cross-functional teams through enterprise solution
development, system integration, performance testing, cut-over and
stabilization
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Supervised and assisted with the development of
comprehensive test plans and data for manual and automated system
regression testing
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Worked closely with account managers to communicate
technical details to non-technical audiences including customers,
stakeholders and senior level executives
Central
Region IT Manager (Jan 1997 - Aug 1999)
CrossLand Mortgage Corporation Madison, Wisconsin
Hired to manage all corporate
desktop, network, and telecommunication services throughout the central
United States. Successfully planned and deployed a Microsoft and
Citrix MetaFrame based thin-client architecture across the
enterprise. Managed the day to day operations while ensuring all
business functions aligned with the long term IT strategy.
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Successfully managed an infrastructure migration of more
than 100 Novell NetWare servers to a Microsoft and Citrix MetaFrame based
thin-client architecture; eliminating the need for file servers at each
branch location
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Researched and identified new technology offerings including
desktop and network hardware, telecom equipment, software applications, and
Internet advancements
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Facilitated on-site user training throughout each branch
office on mortgage loan origination and underwriting systems, MS Office
applications, Internet and email
IT
Systems Administrator (Jan 1995 - Jan 1997)
St. Francis Bank Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hired to manage and support all
desktop, network and telecommunication services for the mortgage banking
division. Worked directly with senior leadership and corporate
executives to provide oversight into the company’s future technology
strategy. Managed all HW/SW vendors, ELA's, and contract
negotiations.
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Oversaw the companies network infrastructure and
desktop strategies combining broad based technology and business expertise
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Led the functional, technical and design efforts for a large
scale loan origination and loan servicing system implementation
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Assisted with the development of a training program for loan
officers and branch employees through the adoption of a new loan
origination, servicing, appraisal, and credit reporting system
Project
Management Associate (2011)
Milwaukee
School of Engineering Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Microsoft
MCSE / Cisco CCNA / Citrix CCA / A+ (1998 – 2002)
New
Horizons Learning Center Madison, Wisconsin
Business
Administration (1994)
Madison
Area Technical College Madison, Wisconsin
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