Project Manager Data

Dennis Weringa

***** ****** ***** ***** - **** Prairie MN 55347

952-***-**** - C: 952-***-****

********@*****.***

Executive Summary

. Expert in the design and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance

technology solutions in support of rapid growth with budget

responsibilities up to $30 million annually

. Skilled in all phases of the project life cycle, from initial

feasibility analysis and conceptual design through implementation and

enhancement

. Effective at building culturally diverse, team-centered operating

units, with excellent business process and strategy development skills

. Customer-centric with the ability to initiate profitable alliances

with global vendors and suppliers

Core Competencies

. Strategic & operational Technology Planning

. IT infrastructure Design and Implementation

. Technology & Business Linkage Planning

. Global Voice/Data Telecommunications

. Global IT Delivery and Data Center Operations

. Emerging Technologies & Enterprise Arch

. Capital Planning & Investment Control

. Technology Architecture & Integration

. Cloud Computing

. Project Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cargill, Minnetonka, MN

Sr. Project Manager 30day Term 2/10

. Project manager for Disaster Recovery Data Center infrastructure

. Put together process and timeline documentation for finalizing data

center infrastructure for testing and failover procedures for the

Tartan Project

. Built migration and implementation project plans for a full disaster

recovery dc

. Defined application process and procedure for application migration

. Part of priority and RTO for data center continuity testing planning

Digital River, Eden Prairie

Director of IT, MN 2007- 2010

. Director of UNIX, Engineering, Architecture, System Infrastructure,

SAN and Datacenter IT departments

. Responsibilities included planning, budgeting and operational

initiatives for this $500 million, 1400+ employee global Ecommerce

company

. Major focus included IT organization design, voice and data

communications, system integration, emerging technologies, enterprise

architectures, data center operations, strategic alliances

. Managed 5 direct and 37 indirect professionals at 7 locations in 6

countries with a $20 million operating/capital budget

. Relationship builder for matrix interdepartmental project initatives

. Managed the IT Operational Project PMO

. Put together SOP and SLA information for internal and client facing

contracts.

. Lead in vendor contract negotiations and relationship maintenance for

hardware, software, colocations and bandwidth

. Redesigned and modified datacenter concept for all of Digital River's

datacenters, from concept to completion working with green initiative

and ROI

. Led a series of upgrades and application enhancements, including the

replacement of obsolete systems, hardware and software at 25 global

locations with new LAN/WAN, OS, SAN, Server technology and compliance

for SOX, PCI completing the projects under budget and on target

. Redesigned process flow for Ecommerce platforms which included

support, engineering and architecture

. Streamlined the IT governance process, reducing project costs by

better controlling the budget and prioritizing unjustified and

unreported projects

. Standardized the IT Vendor Management and negotiated $2 million in one-

time savings and $5 million in recurring annual savings

. Was the lead for the SAP architecture design and implementation group,

this included all implementation and operational aspects

Cargill, Minnetonka, MN

Sr. Global Project Manager 2006-2007

. Led a global team of 35 people to redesign and implement a full backup

and data archiving system utilizing CommVault software and EMC

hardware for over 200 sites worldwide

. Communicated to Vice President level for reporting and project status,

responsible for a $12 million project budget and resource allocation

of team

. Built process and integration for a full global data flow and backup

system

. Chaired committee for the corporate data retention and data archiving

policy

. Spearheaded the stage gate process for project on-boarding, approval

and making ITIL catalog compliant

. Provided guidance, support and leadership in the PMBOK project

management methodology

AT&T, Minneapolis, MN

Lead Project Manager 2005-2006

. Lead two separate projects for AT&T

- First project involved installing Cisco IP phone systems in Best

Buy new stores and retro fitting existing stores

- Second project was a $110 million dollar statewide network

infrastructure for the state of Wisconsin

- led teams of up to 37 people the makeup was 7 projects

. Put together a run book for installation of IP phone systems, which

included a troubleshooting guide enabling teams to use outside

engineers instead of flying local engineers to location

- This saved the project in excess of $350,000 for flights and

hotel

. Wrote process for maintenance, billing and vendor initiatives

. Wrote set of standards for ongoing project planning and template

creation in MS Project

. Streamlined the IT process for vendor equipment and procurement,

reducing project costs by better controlling the budget and

prioritizing

United Health Group, Minnetonka, MN

Infrastructure PM 2004-2005

. Project Manager for the 40 million dollar repatriation project which

moved all of the physical data center and infrastructure to company

owned instead of outsourced to AT&T

. Was involved in data center design, location, server moves, business

unit consolidation, vendor negotiations and contracts

. Designed engineering run book and process for using local resource

teams, saving 1 million dollars to the project through travel and

equipment movement.

. Worked with AT&T on design and implementation for data center and

networking infrastructure

. Setup move planning and priority for the business unit's teardown and

setup process

. Managed teams of up to 50 engineers and coordinators

3M, Maplewood, MN

Infrastructure Project Manager 1998-2004

. Led several projects including data center design, physical

infrastructure redesign, business unit customization, implementation

and operational process run books, vendor oversight and budgeting

. Was the Lead for data center design and facility build out using RCDD

standards for collocation with Qwest, Blackbox and AT&T

. Managed technology transfer from FDDI backbone to ATM, redesigned and

implemented core to edge switching and routing

. Designed and implemented customized LAN solutions for manufacturing

process lines

. Was the Lead of the business liaison committee to better plan the

needs and communications of business unit forecasting and budgetary

requests

. Lead technical project manager for the data and voice infrastructure

in three manufacturing facility and headquarters

- This included data center design and implementation

Previous Consulting Positions

Norwest Banks --- IT Dept Manager

Dain Bosworth --- Desktop Analyst

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bachelor of Science - Business Admin & Marketing, Minnesota State

University

IT Management Training

BICSI RCDD training

Wireless Training

Cisco Training

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