21025 Larkin Road * Corcoran, Minnesota 55340 * Phone and Email Available on Request

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

- Albert Einstein

Strategic thinker with excellent collaboration and team-building skills seeks to assist small-to-medium enterprises in transformation from good to excellent.

Highlights

• International Leadership - Proven technical leadership of diverse global teams over 14 years at a Fortune 250 enterprise
• Knowledge of Web and Internet Technology - Broad and deep understanding of Internet and web technologies
• Motivator and Mentor - Mentored highly-skilled technical resources in areas including XML, Collaboration, and Electronic Security, resulting in numerous successful application and infrastructure deployments

Accomplishments

International Leadership

• Chaired Seagate IT Application Architecture Core Team; grew team to over 150 members worldwide
• Brokered software development and technology standards across 3 major manufacturing sites - Singapore, Minnesota/US, Springtown/Northern Ireland
• Led proof-of-concept (POC) for secure Internet-based disk-to-disk backup service spanning 4 of Seagate's US campuses

Knowledge of Web Technology

• Led team to implement Seagate's first executive blog, with software costs <$1000, and integrated to company's intranet portal and single-signon infrastructure (2007)
• Initiated migration of business-to-business electronic transactions from EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) to XML (eXtensible Markup Language) in 1997, resulting in order-to-cash time reduction
• Launched Seagate's first business application-focused intranet and extranet web sites in 1995 (Sales Rep 2000 and Customer Web 2000)
• Led Seagate's first 3 generations of secure web-based collaboration systems for sales, marketing, and engineering

Motivator

• Inspired implementation of Seagate's first consolidated international remote access infrastructure, 1995-1997, rolled out to 14 countries globally
• Led implementation of Seagate Sales and Marketing's first secure, single sign-on suite of global Internet-based applications written in Java (1995-1997)

Work History

Seagate Technology LLC, Bloomington, MN

SKAMP Computer Services

Mirror Technologies

Northgate Computer System

Education
NEI College of Technology at Dunwoody (formerly Northwestern Electronics Institute), Associate in Electronics Technology (2-year technical degree)
University of Phoenix, Various undergraduate work
University of Minnesota, Various undergraduate work
Mankato State University, Various undergraduate work


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