SUMMARY:

• More than 25 years in IT leadership and management, data processing and engineering.
• More than 17years as CIO of an IT consulting company that offers multiple managed services and custom systems development. Grew company to $1+ million in 3rd year and $2 million in 5th year.
• Technical, hands - on experience in software and web development, systems and network infrastructure design, and software/hardware and service sales.
• Delivered many on-time projects that stalled or failed under previous IT management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Omaha, NE

CIO

Responsibilities:

• Creating and delivering sales and informational presentations for technical and executive audiences.
• Negotiating contracts with clients, vendors, and business partners.
• Exercising financial responsibilities including accounting, cash flow and maintaining a positive operating margin.
• Performing technical sales and marketing duties including determining marketing focus, advertising, image and strategy.
• Determining staff requirements and exercising final hiring approval.
• Directing consultants and customers in assessing solution approaches based on technical and non-technical considerations.
• Leading the gathering of requirements and performing fit analysis.
• Correlating tactical and strategic decisions.
• Managing teams to design, develop, and implement solutions.
• Maintained positive profit margin for 17 years
• Grew revenue to $2 million for biggest year
• Built partnerships with and gained reselling rights for Microsoft, Dell, EMC, VMWare, Cisco, C2G, and many others
• Led the company’s evolution of services to match customer needs

Technology includes: OpenCart, DotNetNuke, VP-ASP, AdSense Tracker, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Google WebMaster Tools, ACT, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ColdFusion, ANSI C, Norton AntiVirus, AVG AntiVirus, McAfee AntiVirus, Iolo System Mechanic, Asigra Backup, MS Visual C++, MS Visual Basic, MS Visual Studio, MS SQLServer, MS Reporting Services, MS Powerpoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Exchange, MS Office 365, Quickbooks Pro, HTML, CSS, Citrix, SQL, UML, UNIX, DDL, DML, XML, XSL, FTP, TELNET,CorelDraw,SalesForce.com, MATLAB, VMWare, Oracle DBMS, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Doc2Help

Confidential - Omaha, NE

CIO / Director of IT

Responsibilities:

• Directed all aspects of Engineering and IT. Areas of responsibility included infrastructure, web development, internal systems development (e.g. order entry, workflow, counts), database management, and business intelligence.
• Deployed help desk and entirely new architecture which included virtualization (VMWare) to save on hardware costs.
• Led the transition of the IT department to Experian’s control after purchase by Experian.
• Implemented business continuity planning and disaster recovery per Experian guidelines.
• Managed budget in excess of $2 million and staff of 12.
• Re-initiated and completed an enterprise database restructuring project that the 2 previous CIOs failed to deliver. This allowed us to produce 5 new database marketing products in the next 6 months
• Virtualization reduced the number of physical servers from 21 to 4 which allowed us to decommission 2 datacenter cabinet at $3000/month each
• Implemented Agile Development Methodology to increase team productivity and SLA performance
• Restructured staff rolls to increase efficiency and job satisfaction

Technology includes: Adobe ColdFusion, ANSI C, Norton AntiVirus, AVG AntiVirus, McAfee AntiVirus, Iolo System Mechanic MS Visual C++, MS Visual Basic, MS Visual Studio, MS SQLServer, MS Reporting Services, MS Powerpoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Exchange, HTML, CSS, SQL, UML, DDL, DML, XML, XSL, FTP, TELNET,SalesForce.com, VMWare, Crystal Reports

Confidential - Omaha, NE

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the design and delivery of a database marketing warehouse for First Data Corp's client, Western Union.
• Operational data store was housed on an IBM mainframe and decision support utilized Oracle on a SUN/UNIX server with a Business Objects client.
• Over 200,000 money transfer transactions per day were fed from EDS and prepared for weekly upload to the DS system.
• The entire system was operational within a 6-month development cycle. It had stalled under previous management.
• The Western Union account contributed over $2 million annually to FDC's revenue.
• Managed a team of 6 developers which included an Oracle DBA, a database architect, a Business Objects developer, and 3 mainframe COBOL programmers.
• Delivered previously stalled Western Union Project on time
• Implemented Cap Gemini project management methodology

Technology includes: MS Powerpoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project, SQL, UNIX, DDL, DML, FTP, TELNET, Oracle DBMS, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, COBOL

Confidential - Omaha, NE

Director - Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Managed the design and development of PC-based consumer, library, and desktop marketing CD-ROM software products.
• Duties included: hiring, contractor interfacing, project scheduling, and software design and development.
• Directed the work of an 18-person development team, which consisted of Windows programmers, UNIX programmers, quality assurance personnel, and technical writers.
• All software was written in C and C++ in a PC/LAN environment.
• Also managed the relationship with Microsoft on a joint development effort.
• Developed and released 13 (from 5 to 18) new CD Rom products and 28 product updates in 15 months
• CD Rom products sales grew from $1 million to $15+ million during these 15 months

Technology includes: ACT, Adobe Acrobat, ANSI C, UNIX, MS Visual C++, MS Visual Basic, MS Visual Studio, MS Powerpoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Project, Doc2Help

Confidential - Omaha, NE

Work Package Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the design and development of 5 large computer simulation programs for USSTRATCOM client at Offutt AFB in Omaha.
• Duties included: subcontractor and customer interfacing, program scheduling, software design and development, software documentation, design review preparation and presentation, and delivery of the final product to the customer.
• Directed the work of a 7-person development team and performed all configuration management duties for 14 delivered software products.
• All software was written in FORTRAN and C in a SUN/UNIX environment.
• All documentation was written to MIL STD 2167A standards. Held Top Secret clearance.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the design and development of large computer simulation programs for SAC/USSTRATCOM at Offutt AFB in Omaha. Duties included the direction of an 8-person software design team programming in FORTRAN in a VAX/VMS environment. Also created predictive models for physical rocket booster profiles using BMDP modeling software. I was responsible for integrating the simulations for 4 ICBM/SLBM systems into one program. Held Top Secret clearance.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coded the orbital analysis section of large computer simulation program in FORTRAN on an IBM mainframe.
• Held Secret clearance.