Rick Melton

IT Manager | IT Generalist | Consultant | Project Manager

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

About

Dynamic IT professional with a robust background spanning IT management, consulting, and generalist roles. Demonstrated expertise in driving innovative solutions that optimize IT operations and support business objectives. Passionate about leveraging technology to achieve strategic goals and deliver exceptional results. Experience working in high pressure environments supporting a wide range of applications and devices with a strong focus on customer service and satisfaction.

Experience

  • Project Manager at Cisco
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Owner at RWMIT Consulting
    2014 - Jul 2025 · 11 yrs 7 mos

    IT Auditing / IT Consulting / IT Governance services. Jack of all trades consultant. Specializing in setting up environments and assessing user and business needs within the organization. With a broad range of experience and skills, I focus on how technology can be used to support and build the business. Technology should never be seen as a cost center, but more as a platform to be used to remove obstacles for your employees. I pride myself on the ability to work with all skill levels and attempt to work through all issues in a creative and thoughtful manner. My current client base is focused on building a lasting technology platform to allow this startup the room to grow unimpeded by technology and in the last year they have been able to far exceed our projections in terms of productivity and headcounts.

  • Senior IT Operations at BMO Financial Group
    Dec 2018 - Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Working in a systems administrative capacity. Supporting 200+ servers both virtually and on premises. I am responsible for our server health checks with utiilizes Ansible. As well as manage the automation of support driven opportunities. VMWare, Citrix, Ansible, GitHub are all part of my daily activities, support and design. Additionally, looking to use new tools and resources within the bank to ensure that we can support our lines of business, and provide them with resources for any issues they might have.

  • IT Manager at Beko Home Appliances USA
    2016 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs

    Helped drive Beko US from using USB drives to share files and print. To utilizing a full server/backup solution, wireless throughout a 100k sq ft warehouse. Worked with the corporate office to setup the branch to be in line with their standards. Responsible for the following: IT Budget, hardware/software acquisitions, infrastructure planning, IDF/Datacom for the warehouse. As well as ensuring end users systems were working as necessary, both onsite and remote.

  • Senior IT Consultant at Onward Technologies, Inc.
    May 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

    As a member of the Network Consulting team I was charged with providing consulting services to businesses throughout the Chicago metro area, and provide input to project proposals and implement solutions as designed by the MSP team. Primarily my work consisted of VMWare solutions including Clustering and VSS backup. Network and Server upgrades and migrations. Sales support for new clients and support for the MSP team as needed.