SUMMARY

PMP Certified Project Manager and IT Professional with over twenty-five years of broad industry leadership and experience. Has successfully consulted and provided Voice and Data Communication solutions for various Fortune 40 companies as a consultant for IBM, as well as for large companies such as Weyerhaeuser. Possesses the ability to see the big picture, yet work directly with shareholders on every level – from the most basic technical personnel to non-technical top executives. Has successfully rescued multiple projects and brought them to completion, on time and on budget. Experience includes managing on small and enterprise-wide scales, and has experience conducting Business Impact Analysis (BIA). Leadership, mentoring and communication skills have contributed toward a successful career of IT Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS

• Project Management for Fortune 40 companies and IHC - a ‘Top Ten Best Hospital System’.
• Radio, wireless and cellular experience at IHC, IBM, Weyerhaeuser and Tektonix.
• Project Management experience includes full end-to-end management responsibilities. Lead projects in the scope definition, planning, budget, software development, hardware implementation, testing (hardware, software and stress), fail over, QA and user education.
• Pre-sales and marketing support for IBM Global Services and HP with CRM, Web-design and hardware design.
• Experience developing software systems in AIX, Mac OS X and Linux, utilizing XML, C/C++, Perl, SAS, PHP and financial systems.
• Hardware, software and QA implementation
• Considerable Network design skills
• Systems expertise including security
• Extensive VoIP experience including implementation with HP, HPOnline, and Intermountain Health
• Excellent written and presentation communication skills to all levels of staff and management.
• Scoped, managed, redesigned, tested and implemented the diverse set of sub-networks that make up the Sprint Corporate Backbone. This 23 month project saved Sprint $5.3MM per year.
• Scoped, developed, coded and managed the network and host performance measuring systems for both Weyerhaeuser and IBM.
• Implemented farms, acted as administrator, and software for AIX, Apple Mac X and Intel servers.

CERTIFICATIONS
PMP, IBM CCNA, IBM CCNE, Microsoft MCSA, A+, ERP, and ITIL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential,Owner and Primary Technical Writer – 2000 to Present (concurrent)

• Project Managed (PM\'ed) VoIP implementations at HP
• Research, validate info and write technical white papers and presentations for executive clients.
• Designed and PM\'ed international WAN at Sprint.
• Designed and implemented server farms and newsprint facilities at 19 newspapers for Pioneer Newspaper Group.
• PM\'ed multiple server farms and for HP Online and the connecting SANs and WAN

• Designer of Project Management Center of Excellence
• Completed 22 high-speed WAN projects that allowed small town hospitals to have most of the technical advantages of big-city hospitals. The overall scope of these projects finished 60 days early and under budget. The result of these projects allowed IHC to improve health care for people in rural areas, and therefore were extremely gratifying.
• Implemented a PBX/radio application (Vocera) that allows any staff member to contact any other staff member in 11 seconds 98% of the time. This has lowered the response of a ‘heart attack crash cart’ from 4 minutes 21 seconds to 23 seconds. This is another case of rescuing a delayed project, which was ultimately delivered in on time within the budgeted cost.
• Redesigned and implemented an Enterprise-wide Wan & LAN, microwave and corporate IP backbones for Sprint, tying them together as a failover for each. This ensured that a major hospital would have the bandwidth necessary to transmit new X-rays, MRI scans, etc.
• Solved local fiber-routing problems that feed rural hospitals while working with a team from the local telecomm staff, Qwest and IHC Engineers.
• Conducted a series of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) sessions on the risk of an enterprise-wide transfer of lab-work systems for single site radiology.
• Mentored three junior-level project managers to Senior or Consultant level PMP ranks during my stay at Intermountain Health Care.
• Implemented WWW hardware and software solutions.
• Implemented server farm hardware, firmware and software maintenance schedule allowing for 7x24x365 coverage based on the ITIL model.
• Developed and implemented web-farms and software for Apple Mac X and Intel servers.
• Developed software using C/C++, Perl, SAS and PHP.

• Web systems designer and/or security designer for 18 of the Fortune 40 companies.
• Designed and managed the creation of Toyota.com and Vatican.org. Also responsible for designing and managing the creation of FamilySearch.org, generating $3MM in cash flow that continues to this day.
• Managed customer communications in the planning of PGA.com, and the very successful NYSE.com ‘Three Billion Shares/Day’ project.
• Redesigned and implemented a diverse set of sub-networks that make up the Sprint IP corporate backbone. Presented this idea and redesign to Sprint’s upper management for approval. This project resulted in an annual savings to Sprint of $5.3MM.
• Reached a revenue target of $4.5mm in new business for six years, resulting in membership in the IBM Premiere Sales Circle. Membership in this exclusive ‘Premier Staff’ allowed participation in a twice annual conference providing opportunity to ‘grease the wheels’ with upper management for lucrative but difficult projects.
• Presented technical networking discussions in support of IBM’s University Initiative at the ACC schools, the WAC conference, and the Big Ten schools. These presentations were essential to the sale of $44MM of IBM consulting and hardware.
• Developed the plan for a server farm.
• Implemented server farm hardware, firmware and software maintenance schedule allowing for 7x24x365 coverage based on the ITIL model.
• Developed and implemented web-farms and software for Apple Mac X and Intel servers.
• Created and programmed an entire network reporting package primarily using SAS.
• Developed software systems in AIX and Linux utilizing XML, and financial systems, C/C++, Perl, SAS and PHP.
• Performed web programming in support of web sites in C and PHP.
• Implemented WWW hardware and software solutions.

• Consulting to Idaho State Journal (Pioneer Newspaper Group) as a systems/database administrator and web programmer in PHP and Perl
• Delivered a new print delivery system that cut print time almost 30%.
• Consulting included all customer communications with Pioneer Newspaper Group’s CEO, CIO and local editors regarding status, budget, design, implementation and documentation of new features of the messaging systems for 19 newspapers.
• Developed and implemented web-farms and software for Apple Mac X and Intel servers.
• Developed System Administration SOPs for Intel-based and MacIntosh OS X hardware and software upgrades and hardware changes, allowing a more efficient print system implementation.
• Implemented Cisco and Juniper security/encryption systems in support of HP mandated systems.
• Wrote technical white papers for CISCO, IBM and HP for management and stockholders.
• Provided sales and sales management support resulting in lucrative staff consulting contracts.
• Developed software systems in Mac OS X and Linux utilizing XML, financial systems, C/C++, Perl, SAS and PHP.
• Implemented WWW hardware and software solutions

Hired away from Tektronix by Weyerhaeuser as a Project Manager, then promoted to Manager over what was to be the highly successful design and installation of the Weyerhaeuser Data Network (WDN): an early international (14 country) TCP/ IP network.

• Managed a staff of 38 Engineers with an annual budget of $7.2MM.
• Directly managed the operations, engineering and designs of both Voice and Data Networks.
• During tenure, managed to integrate more than half of the voice and data into one network, resulting in $1.6MM per year in saving for Weyerhaeuser International.
• Working with staff engineers, started working with HTTP and Mosaic just shortly after the University of Illinois at Urbana made the code public, putting our staff far beyond the curve.
• Created and programmed an entire network reporting package using SAS as the prominent language.
• Developed software systems in C/C++, Perl, SAS and PHP.

Performed early non-IBM stress testing studies of the IBM VTAM and NCP.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science: English
Minor: Computer – Human Interfaces
Bachelor of Science: Data Communications
Minor: Physics
Master Bachelor of Arts with Information Technology Focus: Probable graduation