Professional Summary
As a proven Information Technology leader, my 24 year, award-winning career has been marked by managing teams, refining processes, and developing cutting-edge solutions. I have spent my career with both industry leaders and small businesses on a consistent track of accelerated upward mobility, achieving exceptional success in each role held. Possessing a unique ability to identify opportunities for improvement, I develop solutions, and implement them quickly and effectively.
I have in multiple instances saved my company hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost and manpower by proactively identifying inefficiencies, architecting solutions, and managing through implementation. Constantly aware of budgetary and resource implications, I maintain a reputation for exceeding set goals. I am always on the leading edge of technology, seeking to lead the industry in developing and rolling out revenue-driving solutions.
Selected Accomplishments
- Governor's Award of Excellence recipient
- Earned Employee of the Year award following the successful transition of a medical facility to a completely paperless environment—scheduled to take 24 months and completed in 12
- Member of executive committee, sharing responsibility of P&L
- Led up to 15 direct reports and 90 indirect reports
- Developed the first customer portal application in the industry, resulting in $520K revenue within the first 30 days
- Served as council member of the Manufacturing Leadership Council, a 1500-person nationwide group including the CIO's of Cisco, Boeing and Dow-Corning
- Initiated training academy to save $915K annually in human capital costs
- Multiple datacenter design and buildouts, in one case eliminating daily outages by decreasing server downtime by 21%, phone system downtime by 23% and increased network speeds up to 936%
- Rolled out mobile computing to management, program managers and the shop floor to allow real-time access to ERP and engineering data
- Developed a project estimation tool that improved departmental productivity by 10%
- Rebuilt routers to increase information availability by 90% and decrease errors by 15%
- Built a decision making tool that improved project implementation timeline by up to multiple weeks
- Automated purchasing to save tens of thousands of dollars annually, increased accuracy by 25%+ and reducing staff by 50%
- Led ERP selection process and ERP implementations across multiple sites
- Contributed extensively to the streamlining of production, resulting in reduction of project completion time by 50% while increasing monthly output from $1M to $3M
- Improved procurement processes to save two weeks in waiting time across hundreds of items per month
- Launched a helpdesk to reduce ticket times from over a week to less than seven hours
- Implemented MSP software to automate multiple IT related tasks and reduce helpdesk ticket working times
- Implemented software and hardware that catapulted staff productivity by 50%
- Created departmental metrics and company scorecard for accountability
- Redesigned production cell layout to decrease cycle time and headcount
- Created AI tools for data reporting and analysis
- Industry 4.0
Professional Experience
Director of Information Technology and ERP Solutions
Aero-Tech Engineering
2018 - Present
Lead IT operations and ERP for all subsidiaries.
Director of Information Technology
Galaxy Technologies
2011 - 2018
Additionally; Director of Plant Safety and led the Supply Chain department. In this position I also traveled to several other subsidiaries to direct their IT departments, company evaluations and acquisitions.
IT Department Head
Cowley County Mental Health and Counseling Center
2009 - 2011
Adjunct Instructor
Cowley College
2009 - Present
IT Manager
CMS Corporation
2002 - 2005
IT Manager for CMS and all subsidiaries (Radio, Television, Advertising and Finance).