Project Manager Management

Michael Bartz

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Germantown, Tennessee 38138 ************@**.*** Cell: 901-***-****

Summary

Goal-oriented, strategically minded executive with a vast array of experience in systems engineering,

electrical engineering, financial management, cellular/wireless operations, network services, applications

development and IT security. Resourceful team builder who establishes and promotes a standard of

excellence. Blends inspirational leadership and a strong technology background to initiate, design and

deploy cost-effective programs that provide sustained value.

Professional Experience

Hilton Hotels Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee 2003 to 2009

Hilton Hotels delivers hotel and resort accommodations to both the business and leisure traveler. Hilton is a subsidiary of

The Blackstone Group.

Director, Systems Engineering

Reported to the Vice-president, Shared Infrastructure Services. Managed the system engineering,

database administration, voice telecommunications, and messaging groups with a direct budget of

$9.2M and indirect capital budget of $5M.

Scope of Responsibilities

• Provided executive leadership of the engineering and architecture consulting for all

enterprise-class product solutions groups.

• Led systems design and development of enterprise infrastructure, such as data protection,

virtualization, storage, monitoring, and telecommunications.

• Managed custom software development efforts for the security and messaging domains.

• Provided executive management of the enterprise messaging group for 60,000 global email

users and 4,000 Blackberry users.

• Managed database and engineering teams that support 500 TB of shared storage,

approximately 35 enterprise databases, 350 Unix servers and 850 Microsoft servers.

• Participated in regulatory audits (SOX, SAS70, and PCI) and assisted in compliance efforts.

Major Accomplishments

• Assumed an increased level of responsibility each year of current assignment, starting with

11 direct reports in 2004 with a final staffing level of 39.

• Led the global email expansion with growth of 35% over two years while decreasing

customer service tickets by 60%.

• Developed a centralized hotel PBX system and service that would reduce hotel maintenance

costs and telecommunications costs over 60% per property.

• Developed an identity management service for 120,000 users and 25 applications.

• Designed a server virtualization infrastructure that supported 45% of data center servers with

capital and operating cost savings of 40%.

• Deployed a new email security and routing infrastructure, saving almost 50% over the

previous framework per capita while increasing service levels.

The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 1996 to present

Adjunct Professor

Teach evening courses in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (EECE) department

on various topics including software engineering, random signals analysis, and electromagnetic field

theory.

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dotLogix, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee 2000 to 2003

dotLogix was a privately-held technology services firm. dotLogix sold its intellectual property and assets to Lead Tech,

LLC in August 2003.

Vice president, Information Technology 2000 to 2003

Reported to the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Managed two major delivery and operational

groups: Managed Services and Solution Services. Managed Services provided operations and

infrastructure for internal and external customers. The infrastructure consisted of an externally located

hosting facility and approximately thirty servers (AIX/NT/Linux). The Solutions Services group had

twelve full-time consultants in Application Development, Quality Management, Knowledge

Management, and Project Management and generated approximately $4M in revenue in both Y2001

and Y2002. Other responsibilities included executive sales, third-party vendor management, and

internal business process management.

Director, Solutions Development 2000

Reported to the Chief Technical Officer. Directed the deployment all corporate software and

development infrastructure for the development group including programming, requirements

management, change management and quality testing.

SCB Computer Technology, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee 1998 to 2000

SCB was a publicly held management consulting firm (acquired by CIBER).

Project Director, Project Manager, Consultant 1998 to 2000

Managed one large Internet-based application project with twenty staff and $1.2M budget. Developed

a Year 2000 risk management practice for embedded systems and personal computers and built a

portable asset control software package. Managed five small-team (average team size of eight staff)

projects with technical, financial and personnel oversight. Other responsibilities included proposal

preparation and client relationship management.

Experience Prior to 1998

Senior Director, Systems and Technology, Skywire Corporation, 1996 to 1998

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Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis, 1992 to 1996

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Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989 to 1992

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Senior Engineer, Cylix Communications Corporation, 1985 to 1989

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Digital Design Engineer, Emerson Electric Corporation, 1983 to 1985

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Education

B.S.E.E., Magna Cum Laude, 1983, The University of Memphis

M.S., 1988, The University of Memphis

Ph.D., 1992, Georgia Institute of Technology

JPL Fellowships, 1993 & 1995, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Professional/Community

University of Memphis Industrial Advisory Board, EECE, 2007 to present

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Computer Society), 1992 to present

Society of Information Management, 2004 to present

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