SUMMARY

I’m a Senior Technology Consultant. I have 30 years of industry experience and 20 years of management and senior leadership experience. Prior to becoming a Senior Consultant, I was a CDMA Wireless Program Director for Nortel Networks with experience managing a $96M P&L for a statewide greenfield wireless network deployment for Sprint. I’m a Wireless Networks and RF SME. For the past 10 years, I have been managing nationwide Wireless Smart Grid network deployments for Utility Companies across the US along with other nationwide and global IT programs. I have experience with demand response, IoT devices, BI Data Warehousing/Big Data, SCADA, MDM, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Automatic Metering Reading (AMR), CIS and many other Smart Grid related programs and technologies. This includes managing a State - wide Wireless Smart Grid network deployment for Great River Energy in Minnesota, Smart Grid POC for Sempra Energy/SDG&E, POC for First Energy/MetEd, and an AMI/AMR deployment for NiSource and NIPSCO. Please see my Wireless Professional Services work for Confidential Networks, NiSource, AT&T Wireless and Nortel Networks. Additionally, I have proven success in managing large regional and global resource teams, risk management, business risk analysis, financial management, sales and delivery support and large-scale global deployment experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 30+ years of senior leadership experience in complex, technical, large corporate settings
• Expert at team building, people management, and ability to build highly functional teams across geographic regions
• Business acumen, business planning, business development, marketing skills, and ability to manage customer relationships across the corporate landscape
• Experience reporting and presenting to the client’s C level leadership (COO, CTO, CEO, CFO & CIO)
• Serves as a strategic, proactive partner for executive-level leadership
• Manages and provides technology assessments and vendor/supplier vetting
• He specializes in managing large complex new technology programs ranging from $1 MM - $300 MM
• As a former Operations Director, he has managed a $96 MM P&L and large global resource teams of 200+
• Expert working with all of the Microsoft Office tools including Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013 and Office 365
• Experience with all project management tools and methodologies including: PMI/PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Primavera P6, Waterfall and Six Sigma
• Microsoft Project and SharePoint expert
• Experience using PeopleSoft, Clarity and other financial and supply chain management applications
• RF/Wireless networks SME
• He has managed large E-Commerce projects for retail clients
• He has managed both on-shore and off-shore technical and business resources
• He has managed large global merger and acquisition IS programs
• Marketing and Sales Consulting for several large POC and pilot Smart Grid programs for utility clients across the US
• Experience managing the business requirements gathering process and the full vendor vetting lifecycle process for RFI/RFQ/RFP/RFC and the proposal review and award process
• Extensive Consulting experience as a Senior Program/Project Manager for technical teams and as a Business Program/Project Manager for the business teams
• Extensive experience leading large, cross-functional programs and for enterprise level PMO managed organizations in the public sector, government, financial, utility and retail corporations
• Experience managing large corporate Data Center new builds, expansions, audits, decommissions and relocation’s

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Technology Consultant

Confidential

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Consulting and Program/Project Management for IT infrastructure and Enterprise Security projects.
• Deployed and Tested Enterprise Cyber Security and Identity Security - Active Directory Domain Controller Tools: Defendpoint Avecto and a POC/POT project for Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (MS Office 365 Security Tool). Worked closely with Cyber Security Team, Security Tools Team, Identity Security Team, AD Team and Network Team to implement the tool and run Use Cases to vet the tool. Managed the MS ATA production deployment in 2018.
• VPN Testing & Tuning - Managed a nationwide “VPN Remote Application Performance” testing project for remote office users across the US. Baselined and tested latency, throughput and other application performance characteristics. Implemented network head-end, routing and application updates to improve the remote office user experience. Other workstreams included Zscaler Security performance tuning and back-up node testing, various Microsoft upgrades including SHA-1 to SHA-256 Certificate updates, Duster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for upcoming Super Bowl event and Switch & Router upgrades for end-of-life hardware replacements at Ameriprise Offices around the country.
• Managed an RFP build and let process for new nationwide Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Carrier Services. Vendors included CenturyLink, Granite Telecommunications, Level 3, Verizon and AT&T (AT&T was the legacy carrier). Worked closely with TechCaliber Consulting; a 3rd party vendor contracted to help build and manage the RFP process. The scope for this proposal included $50MM annual recurring costs for network services.

Confidential Minnesota

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Consulting and Program Management for IT infrastructure and VoIP Contact Center deployments for Maximus State and Federal government clients across the US.
• Managed a large Cisco IT network and Cisco VoIP Call Center (267 agents & 183 IP Phones) enterprise deployment for the State of Michigan, Medicare division. This solution included all new CAT6 cable plant, LAN/WAN, network and firewall, Cisco UCCE (Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise) and CUCM (Cisco Unified Communications Manager/CallManager), IVR, ECR to IP IVR migration, a domain migration from the legacy domain to a new enterprise domain controller, print server migration to a virtual server, a 10-year call storage server migration from a legacy Avaya server to an enterprise virtual server, Telstrat Engage - Voice and Screen Recording, Active Directory migration and deployed Cisco Jabber (instant messaging (IM), voice, video, voice messaging, desktop sharing, and conferencing).
• Managed the decommissioning of a large data center in SLC that included 20 customer office migrations located throughout the US to other data centers for Cisco Enterprise VoIP solutions and new Verizon SIP spokes.
• Managed a large network refresh (87 new Cisco switches, routers and servers) for the Albany NY office and a new 4K seat Avaya VoIP Contact Center deployment for the Rochester office. The new solution also included adding 4 additional Avaya PBX nodes and IVR into the Albany campus and a new node and IVR for the Rochester office. Also, managed new transport services for the LEC/CLEC local and long-distance voice services and the LAN/WAN services.

Confidential Minnesota

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Consulting and Program Management for global IT infrastructure and Data Center upgrades/deployments for Thomson Reuters and other Confidential global clients.
• Managed a global “Managed Services Integration” project. Built out new head-end connectivity in the Eagan, MN and London, UK Data Centers for 3rd party MSP VPN and VDI connections. Migrated global 3rd party users to the new Network Head-end routing portals. This included all of the new IBM/AT&T managed service users (formerly TR’s global IT Service and Delivery teams - 1K global users). This project included setting up the security policies for 3rd party users using IAM Confidential practices and Palo Alto for the edge router firewalls.
• Managed a large Network Rationalization Project for the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region that included WAN migrations from the legacy BT MPLS to various new LEC/CLEC MPLS WAN connections at a dozen global offices.

Confidential Minnesota

Senior POS Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a new POS vendor solution selection process for a high-end restaurant
• Gathered and documented the business and PCI compliance requirements, researched the POS vendor options and created and distributed a detailed RFP to the 6 selected vendors
• Created & distributed an RFP that included financial requirements for lease verses buy, credit card processing fees/vendor, gift cards options, loyalty program, Business Intelligence reports, hand held mobile units, smartphone mobile applications, terminals, printers, cloud verses back office database servers, system installation, training and all hardware, software and licensing required for the new POS solution.
• Managed the vendor selection and award process and contract signing

Confidential Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed large BI (Business Intelligence) DBA Infrastructure programs
• Successfully managed various full life cycle infrastructure and software application development projects for Teradata EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) expansions and upgrades using the agile project management methodology.
• Managed both on-shore and off-shore global resource teams.
• Successfully implemented Teradata Tools and Utilities (TTU) v14 across all server and application environments including Win 7, SAS, MicroStrategy, WebFOCUS Solaris/Windows/Linux, DataStage, VDI and Citrix. Also, managed a SharePoint v2007 to v2010 migration project for the global Database Operations team and POC’s for TSET and Appfluent.
• Project Team Leader for the next generation architecture design and vendor RFI/RFP/proposal review process for Teradata’s MDHA dual system architecture solution, BAR expansion, disaster recovery and a 2014 hardware expansion project.
• Managed a SharePoint upgrade and migration project. Audited the Global Operations SharePoint site and cleaned up all outdated/irrelevant documents prior to the migration. Setup all related SP Home Pages and Communication sites, moved from a file folder hierarchy to a metadata format, setup all needed access permissions and provided end user training.

Confidential

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the installation of Itron’s FDM (Field Deployment Manager) Meter Installation and Maintenance Work Order product and the associated client IT infrastructure (internally hosted).
• Field Deployment Manager is a state-of-the-art client server architecture, using a smart client interface and internet protocol (IP).
• The FDM software runs on Itron FC200 and FC300 handheld computers equipped with an integrated SRead radio, or on customer-supplied laptop/tablet equipment using Itron’s 900 MHz or OpenWay Belt Clip radio.
• Installed, integrated and tested FDM with FCS (Field Collection System), SAP CIS and the Maximo Work Order systems.
• Managed the Architects, Business Process Analyst, Engineers, Trainers, Testers and other solution vendors.
• This pilot project was the first step for a 3-year deployment of new Itron AMR (Automatic Meter-Reading) and AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) Electric Bridge Meters and Gas ERT Modules.