Project Manager

Drew Thompson

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Summary

Over 20 years experience of IT experience applying people, process, problem-

solving, and technical skills to improve organizations. Extensive

management experience combined with technical expertise. Deep experience

with project management and designing, developing, and implementing both

application and infrastructure solutions. Positions held include:

Regional Director, Regional Operations Manager, Sr. Manager, Project

Manager, and Senior Consultant.

Professional Experience

IDS Scheer Americas - (IT Director) 10/2004 to present

IT Director

Regional Management responsibilities include:

. Budgeting: Cost Reduction/Controlling

. Technical Integration / Consolidation

. Operations consolidation and restructuring

. Staffing

Technical responsibilities include:

. Cloud Computing / Virtualization / Enterprise Storage (VMWare, EMC,

Cisco)

. Services Consolidation: Regional / Global

. Video Conf / VOIP solutions: Regional / Global

Anexinet 10/2000 to 10/2004

Senior Consultant

Provided the following services to various clients:

. Enterprise Architecture

. Process analysis, requirements gathering, and system design using

object oriented techniques and modeling.

. Extensive IT background including network, systems, and facilities

engineering.

. Large and medium scale, multi-vendor integration projects

. Software development in n-tier and client-server environments

Project/Client: Global Chemical Company - (Business Continuity & Disaster

Recovery)

Project management, process and architecture analysis services provided to

Global Operations (EITS) organization. Scope is the DRP for the entire

EITS organization.

Project/Client: Global Chemical Company - (Incident Management and SPOF

Project)

Project management, process and architecture analysis services provided to

Global Operations (EITS) organization. Responsible for the Incident

Management project. Essentially, this project entails an in-depth

architecture analysis, system vulnerability analysis and the development of

incident response procedures. Areas of analysis include GPN and ERP

networks, WAN and internet networks, IBM LPAR systems, ERP SAN Solution,

and Data Center facility. Also involved in other efforts in disaster

recovery test planning and execution, and monitoring ongoing efforts of

other DR projects.

Project/Client: National Power Company - (IT Director)

Provided staff augmentation as IT Director. Responsible for managing day-

to-day operations, several projects and key initiatives. Oversaw and

managed the relocation of the corporate datacenter, frame relay

consolidation and management, move of telecom activities to Blair Park, and

various divestiture activities. A critical project was the relocation of

the corporate datacenter. The datacenter including the extensive WAN

infrastructure and all was up and running in full production within our

planned 12-hour window. During the planning and restructuring phase of the

datacenter relocation, we also prepared for DR recovery of the critical

systems. A few critical systems did actually have component failures and

the DR strategy was executed flawlessly and within the planned outage.

An emergency project was initiated to handle performance and transaction

issues with a three mission-critical DB servers. A combination of factors

led to sporadic problems affecting several applications. Using analysis

and debugging tools and methods, the problem was quickly determined and a

solution charted. Numerous databases were migrated and upgraded to a new

server platform and SQL2000. Maintenance plans were also updated and

coordinated with the backup strategy. Long-term high-availability DB

system with SQL Server Enterprise Edition using transaction log shipping

was planned as a second phase.

Project/Client: Regional Bank - (Metastorm BPM e-Work Project)

Responsible for deployment and rollout of Metastorm's BPM platform.

Established base development to production landscapes, database and process

modeling practices and Metastorm e-work development practices within a

short time period. Acted as a technical resource for post-rollout and

ongoing support activities to both Patriot Bank and Metastorm.

Project/Client: Global Chemical Company - (Global ERP & WINTEL DRP

Projects)

Provided project management, process analysis, and architecture analysis

services to Global Operations (GOPS). Managed and facilitated several

projects including ERP Disaster Recovery, WINTEL Disaster Recovery, ERP DR

Network at Remote Data Facility, and Home Office Recovery. Extensive

coordination and interaction with the ERP, Competency Center, SAP R/3

basis, and EITS organizations.

ERP and WINTEL projects were a comprehensive disaster recovery analysis and

plan development. Disaster Recovery planning included application

architecture decomposition and documentation, recovery procedures (SOPs),

host recovery mappings. Notable ERP applications included were SAP R/3,

Manugistics, Dazel OMS, IBM MQSeries, Control-M. Notable technologies

included IBM AIX Hosts (P680s with HACMP), EMC SAN Storage (Symmetrix with

SRDF), EMC Backup Solutions (EDM), BEA Weblogic J2EE Clusters, and Oracle8i

database systems. The WINTEL project also included the development of the

"Unlike HW Restoration for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000" procedures.

Project/Client: Global Finance/ Investments Company - Oaks, PA -

(Development Project)

Provided Project Management, Process Analysis, and Architecture services.

Project entailed developing a fully scalable application leveraging

Microsoft DNA methodology. Project size ~2.5 million, team size ~14

developers. Initial phases of the project were led by defining business

processes, company organization structure, and database modeling. The

Process, Organization, and data modeling efforts produced 10 business

modules and after the design sessions, 3 addition modules where built to

handle system based functionality (Access Control, Work Queue, and

Interfaces). The project entailed developing ASP/XML/XSL/VB Script under

Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0 (Web Server), Visual Basic

components under COM+ (Application Layer), and T-SQL under SQL 2000

(Database Layer). XML utilized throughout all tiers.

Development/Organization Tools utilized: Visual Studio 6, MS SQL 2000

Tools / Utilities, ERWIN, MS Project 2000, MS Visio 2000, MS Office 2000.

Summit Data and Network Services, Inc.

Senior Network Engineer 3/1998 to

10/2000

Systems Engineering -

- High Availabilty Solutions: NT Cluster server, Shared Storage solutions,

Compaq Storage Works.

- Backup Solutions - Software: Veritas BackupExec, CAI ARCserve,

Retrospect, Knox Arkeia

- Email Systems - MS Exchange, Sendmail, Novell Groupwise, Altavista Mail

- Database Systems - MS SQL 6.5/7.0, Oracle 8i, Btrieve, Pervasive SQL.

- File Servers - MS NT 3.5 to NT 4.0, Novell 3.x to 4.x, Samba, NFS.

Network Engineer -

- Network Analysis, Design / Implementation, and Security Auditing -

Performed several audits for educational institutions, engineering and

production facilities. From OSI Layer 0 through 7- Network hardware,

protocols, system and system component securities to end-user

applications. MS NT 4.0, MS SQL, MS Exchange, Novell 3.x-4.x, Unix,

network topology

Other Notable Skills -

- Disaster Recovery - Client-Server Applications VB/SQL (database/data

reconstruction), MS -NT 4.0 servers, MS SQL 6.5/7.0, Exchange 5.0/5.5,

Novell 3.x, 4.x servers.

IDS Scheer, Inc.

SAP Consultant / IT Manager 5/1995 to 3/1998

Technical lead resource for multiple concurrent SAP Projects.

Responsibilities included SAP R/3 Basis-R/3 sizing, landscape design,

implementation. SAP R/3 ABAP/4 Development-Legacy application integration

analysis, inbound/outbound interface development, R/3 customization

development and development coordinator. Instructor / Presenter for ARIS

Toolset in business process / organizational / data modeling and SAP R/3

integration. Designed and facilitated the IT strategy for IDS Scheer (N.

America) in coordination with IDS Scheer AG. (Germany). Responsibilities

included: LAN/WAN/RAS/Internet network design and implementation, a

complement of network applications and services for Corporate, remote and

regional offices. Also responsible for public and intranet web sites,

including partner web services, R/3 Training and development R/3 project

systems. Designed and developed customized VB/SQL application for Asset

Management and Helpdesk support

APPEARANCES / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

. VMWare SAP Virtualization, IDS Scheer America : (SAP VSR Case Study)

VMWare VMUG Malvern-PA, May '10

. Metastorm e-Work: Process Management case study and external system

process trigger event handling Metastorm eWorkUG Phila-PA, '02

. SAP R/3 Basis, ABAP and ARIS Platform GTE, Dallas TX, '98

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

. Cisco VOIP QOS practices and policies Cisco, '09

. Cisco Call Manager / Unity Digital Dynamics, '09

. VMWare VI3 ESX and VirtualCenter - Deploy, Secure, and Analyze VMWare,

'08

. VMWare "Jumpstart" VMWare, '07

. EMC Clarrion & Brocade EMC / Digital, '07

. Six Sigma: Quality Performance Rohm and Haas (Internal), '04

. Metastorm eWork BPM Metastorm, '01

. MCSE - MS Server Core technologies Techdata, '99

. MS Exchange Techdata, '99

. MS OEM Training Microsoft, '99

. Cisco Network Core Training; Routers, Switches Summit Network Services,

'98

. Advanced Networking and analysis, Bay Networks, '98

. Advanced Firewalling and FW HA DEC, '98

. DEC Server Alpha Server HA, Cluster, HA Storage DEC, '98

. SAP R/3 Universal Programmers Interface (UPI) Deloitte, '96

. SAP R/3 ABAP Development SAP AG, '96

. ARIS, ARIS for SAP R/3 IDS Scheer Inc., '96

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