BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Certified Project Management and ITIL Professional with a history of
successfully delivering enterprise-class projects on time and within
budget. Key competencies include:
. Leadership, corporate diplomacy
. Budget, resource, and risk management
. Fostering cross-functional teamwork
. Charter development and requirements gathering
. Simultaneously managing projects with multiple technologies
. Containing costs, principled negotiating, and problem solving
. Leveraging Project Management Best Practices
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LANDS' END, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
A leading Internet and phone retail sales company with $2 billion in annual
revenue.
Project Manager/Business Analyst - Technical Services 2001 - 2009
Subset of Accomplishments:
. Managed development of business resumption plans
. Managed implementation of remote business process access
. Led implementation of SOX compliant security logging appliance
. Led anti-virus enterprise software selection
. Led Green initiative to reduce energy consumption
. Developed project charters, resource and budget estimates
. Led database system software upgrades
. Led business process recovery analysis
Database/Data Warehouse Administrator 1988-2000
Subset of Accomplishments:
. Technical lead for implementation of data warehouse
. Established service delivery workflows
. Created and leveraged database Quality Assurance environment
. Led database team to 97% customer service satisfaction rating
. Implemented database systems, monitoring, and productivity tools
. Performed process performance and availability analysis
. Lectured nationally, internationally, and published technical
articles
STATE OF WISCONSIN, Madison, Wisconsin
Department of Industry, Labor, and Human Relations
Database and Resource Chargeback Administrator,
Database Developer 1985 - 1988
. Established and maintained chargeback capability using KOMAND
software
. Managed database environment providing a high degree of
availability
. Performed database development
PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
. Conducted an ethics workshop for Lands' End business interns, 2008
. Authored book From College to Career - Making a Successful
Transition to the Corporate World. 2007.
www.fromcollegetocareer.com. Edited by Linda Taylor Bustamente
. Authored article Implementing a Data Warehouse - 5 Steps to
Success, DB2 Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, 1997
. Authored article DB2 for MVS and Parallel Processing in a Data
Warehouse: Here Today, Here Yesterday, IDUG Solutions Journal,
Volume 3, Number 2, 1996
. Presented Large Query Success Stories at the DB2 Intl Users Group
Conference, Miami, Florida and at the Inaugural Asia Pacific
Conference, International DB2 Users Group, Sydney, Australia. 1995
. Co-authored article Decision Support at Lands' End - An Evolution.
IBM Systems Journal, Volume 33, No 2, 1994
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
. Certified ITIL Foundation Service Mgmt Professional # 00142599
. PMI Certified Project Management Professional PMP # 1291584
. Certificate of Achievement - Project Management, Villanova
University
. Sun Certified Web Component Developer
. Sun Certified Java Programmer
. IBM Certified Solutions Expert for DB2 UDB
. Certified Associate Business Continuity Professional
. BS - Management, Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, WI
MILITARY - Marine Corps, Honorable Discharge