Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Information Technology management leader and trainer with 35+ years of proven experience. • Builds trusting relationships with clients, colleagues, and management using straightforward, honest communication • Addresses difficult situations with calm objectivity and coaches team members in managing issues and mitigating risks Project Leadership, Team Performance, Process Improvement, Conflict Resolution, Training, Mentoring Specialties: Microsoft Office 365, Cisco Unified Communications & TelePresence, Salesforce/CRM, Application Development, CyberSecurity, & Project Management Training
Project Manager for Office of Business Engagement (formerly Corporate Relations) Salesforce Implementation • Creation of Salesforce Org to replace Dynamics CRM as a central repository used by all of UW Campus Partners working with external businesses, partnerships, and relationships Project Manager for UW-Madison Research Cyber Infrastructure Strategic Initiative • Implementation of ResearchDrive a university-wide secure, sharable storage space on UW-Madison campus network for Principal Investigators (PIs) and their research group members Program/Project Manager for UW Extension Restructure Initiative • Program Manager for the synchronization and controls of UW Extension Conference Center, Wisconsin Public Media (WPR/WPT) and UW Extension Cooperative Education to integrate into the UW-Madison campus systems Project Manager for UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) • Managed the All of Us Wisconsin Research Program Electronic Health Record (EHR) data extraction process from UW Health and partnership to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data & Research Center Program Manager for Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Cybersecurity initiative to implement border management, endpoint management/security protection, and monitoring tools for campus • Implementation of Palo Alto Next Generation Firewall, Palo Alto Panorama, Palo Alto Traps, Cisco Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA), Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP), Trend Micro, and VMWare Workspace One Program/Project Manager for campus-wide email & calendar migration to Microsoft Office 365 • Responsible for the migration of 300+ departments and entire student body (94,000 end- users) • Transitioned email and calendar data from over 50 different systems into one central campus system
Project Manager for campus-wide email & calendar migration to Microsoft Office 365 at UW-Madison Project Manager for multiple Cisco Unified Communications (VoIP) and TelePresence implementations, including: universities, school districts, city government, large insurance companies, large financial companies, healthcare providers and several other manufacturing companies throughout Wisconsin and the United States Program Manager for a major Microsoft CRM installation for a member association Program Manager for large global manufacturing company initiatives, including procurement process implementation, migration of SAN, LAN/WAN phased enhancements, AD/Exchange pilot and roll-out planning, wireless implementations, security assessment and several other IT related projects Project Auditor for several organizations to analyze their project management on key projects
Created framework to initiate a project management process for John Deere Credit Implemented a project management and resource management tool suite
Designed, implemented, and consulted on benefit programs for Fortune 500 companies