IT Manager for Perot Systems at Catholic Healthcare West, Phoenix, AZ.

Manage a group of 5 application administrators and developers in project and support work for a critical financial system at a $7 billion regional healthcare provider. Lead projects to improve system performance, security auditing, and system manageability. Temporarily managed a 20-person staff of production support business analysts during the three months of the permanent manager's maternity leave.

Independent Lawson Technical Consultant
Provided Lawson development and integration. Contracts included:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, NC
  Developed interfaces between Siebel CRM, Callidus performance management, and Lawson AP applications using SeeBeyond EAI, UNIX shell scripting, Oracle PL/SQL, and Lawson AGS calls and conversion programs.

Programmer-Analyst for Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco, CA.
Supported corporate HR and financial systems. Accomplishments included: Assembling and leading a team of web programmers, including off-shore developers; leading a project that successfully implemented a heavily-customized employee self service application in time to meet an aggressive deadline for benefits open enrollment; working closely with vendor to identify and mitigate security risks.

Independent Lawson Technical Consultant
Provided Lawson development, implementation, and integration. Contracts included:

• Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco, CA
  Established standards and procedures for developing custom web programs. Wrote specifications for and programmed modifications to employee self service programs. Conducted baseline performance testing.
• Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
  Provided advanced skills to supplement an inexperienced staff facing a major project. Converted ADP HR, payroll, and benefits data as part of an implementation. Incorporated Lawson security into Crystal Enterprise.
• Information Builders, New York, NY
  Incorporated Lawson security into IBI's business-intelligence product, helping them to increase sales to Lawson clients by improving their competitive profile versus Crystal Decisions.
• VSOURCING, Mexico City, Mexico
  Provided customized training for an application service provider.

Senior Network Computing Engineer for UNIFIED Technologies, Troy, NY.
Provided Solaris systems administration, and server and network security for government clients. Lead projects to redesign a state agency’s web architecture in order to improve their development process, and to improve data center scalability and flexibility by converting a SAN to switched fabric. Mentored junior systems engineers.

UNIX Systems Engineer for FairPoint Communications, Troy, NY.
Administered Sun enterprise and workgroup servers for regional telecommunications provider; planned infrastructure for voice and data network operations center; implemented expansion from four to sixteen servers.

Consultant for Cotelligent, Minneapolis, MN.
Provided Lawson consulting to clients nationwide in the healthcare, professional services, retail, and transportation industries. Worked with clients before and after the contract signing to analyze project goals and requirements. Led programmer teams to design and development custom Lawson 4GL and web applications. Installed Oracle DBMS and Lawson applications on UNIX servers. Developed Lawson security policies. Mentored junior developers.

Programmer/Analyst for Old Dutch Foods, Roseville, MN.
Developed COBOL supply-chain and financial programs for a regional food-service company.

Programmer/Analyst for Quest Research, Burnsville, MN.
Developed COBOL financial and manufacturing programs for a small channel provider.

Programmer/Analyst for Minnesota Multiple Sclerosis Society, Minneapolis, MN.
Developed SQL fundraising applications for a non-profit; administered UNIX server; supervised data entry clerks.