OBJECTIVE

Pay the price of success in honest effort in order to achieve balance and fulfillment in my spiritual, family and professional life.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Ability to recognize and act upon opportunities for growth in myself and others.
• Joint Information Technology-Business Area strategic planning and budgeting.
• Understand and manage client, peer and employee expectations and priorities.
• Develop and successfully manage project, support and maintenance budgets.
• Recruit, coach, develop and mentor Information Technology analysts, developers, team leads and project managers.
• Performance management, career planning, competency ratings and salary administration.
• Manage backlog, assign work, ensure quality, resolve issues.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Ability to learn quickly, understand and retain information and apply appropriately.
• Very good interpersonal relationship skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Wide variety of interests and areas of knowledge, both technical and nontechnical.
• Strong personal desire to fully understand the technology I use.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project management including scope definition, planning, issue resolution, communication and team management.
• Full-cycle application development including requirements definition, design, coding, testing, documentation, training.
• Programming and scripting knowledge and experience in a variety of languages.
• Knowledge of PC operating environments including WinXP, WinNT, Win98, Win95, Win31, MS-DOS and CP/M.
• System administration of DEC VMS (including clusters), SCO Unix and PC operating environments listed above.
• Network administration of TCP/IP, DECnet, and IPX/SPX environments.
• Experience with many aspects of administration of WinNT 4.x and Novell 3.x network servers.
• Knowledge and experience with SYBASE, Oracle, MS Access and Paradox databases.
• Application knowledge and experience including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, Visio Technical, eXceed, MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, CorelDRAW! Procomm+ and many others.
• Experience installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting various hardware elements, including PCs, minis, hubs, switches, routers, terminal servers and peripherals.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Successful transition from technical expert to Group Leader then Manager.
• Developed a very talented, dedicated professional team.
• Responsible for design and implementation of high-availability infrastructure supporting mission-critical systems and applications including several external interfaces.
• Helped create the vision, strategy, structure, policies and procedures of Information Technology for the American Transmission Company during its formation.
• Managed implementation of corporate weather information systems and interfaces, also responsible for key development efforts and ongoing support.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Primary client contact for multiple internal business areas and external entities. Responsible for understanding and meeting client information technology needs for real-time systems and related applications involved with operational safety, reliability and economics of these clients.
• Responsible for technology interfaces to American Transmission Company, Midwest ISO, Mid-America Interconnected Network and several neighboring utilities.
• Member of corporate e-Business Forum, Business Continuity Planning Team and Emergency Response Team.
• Responsible for for 10-15 concurrent information technology initiatives.
• Technical project management.
• Performance management for three teams, consisting of 20 information technology professionals.
• Responsibility for interviewing and hiring for various skillsets / positions.

• Primary client contact for multiple internal business areas and external entities. Responsible for understanding and meeting client information technology needs for real-time systems and related applications involved with operational safety, reliability and economics of these clients.
• Responsible for technology interfaces to American Transmission Company, Midwest ISO, Mid-America Interconnected Network and several neighboring utilities.
• Member of corporate e-Business Forum, Business Continuity Planning Team and Emergency Response Team.
• Technical project management for 6-10 concurrent information technology initiatives.
• Performance management for a staff of 17 information technology professionals.
• Responsibility for interviewing and hiring for various skillsets / positions.

• Primary client contact for Electric System Operations, Power Marketing and portions of Distribution Operations, Customer Service business units. Responsible for understanding and meeting client information technology needs for real-time systems and applications involved with operational safety, reliability and economics of these clients.
• Technical project management for 6-10 concurrent information technology initiatives.
• Performance management for a staff of 17 information technology professionals.
• Responsibility for interviewing and hiring for various skillsets / positions.

• Project manager, primary developer and system integrator for corporate real-time weather information system.
• DEC VAX EMS system and network administration team leader.
• DEC VAX EMS system and network administrator.
• DEC VAX EMS application analysis, design, implementation and support.

• CDC Cyber/NOS EMS system and network administration team.
• CDC Cyber/NOS EMS application analysis, design, implementation and support.
• CDC Cyber/NOS-BE EMS application analysis, design, implementation and support.
• Mainframe application analysis, design, implementation and support.
• Loaned Representative to United Way of Greater Milwaukee - August 1986.

• Custom application analysis, design, implementation and support.
• Computer and peripheral installation, configuration and maintenance.

EDUCATION

• Numerous technical and leadership seminars and workshops; many PC and video based self-paced tutorials; ongoing subscriptions to relevant industry publications.
• University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI - September 1978 - December 1985.
  Major: Computer Science.
  Minor: Electrical Engineering.
  Also Significant Coursework in Geology and Meteorology.
  Worked while attending school part-time in order to completely finance education.
• Whitnall High School - Greenfield, WI - September 1975 - June 1978.