Information Technology Manager

Jerry L. Beavers

**** * ***** ******, *******, NE 68022

Phone: 816-***-**** (Cell), 402-***-**** (Home) ************@*******.***

Career Summary:

A proven leader in implementing innovative technology, business process reengineering, application development and technology support solutions. This includes a wide range of experience in multiple technologies across multiple industries for both infrastructure solutions and application development and implementation. Infrastructure experience includes solutions for LAN, WAN, server, storage, backups and disaster recovery. Applications experience includes managing large scale application development projects spanning multiple years with budgets in excess of $30,000,000. Certified practitioner in all areas of ITIL best practices for IT service management.

Track record of success in managing a Line of Business and achieving positive Profit and Loss (P&L) results. Proven negotiation and customer skills with considerable experience working with all levels of management, multiple IT areas, vendors, contractors, and consultants. Demonstrated ability to recruit IT professionals and build highly effective teams committed to delivering business results.

Professional Experience:

2010 –2018 International IT Manager, Conagra Brands Omaha, NE

Currently leading International IT operations in Canada, Mexico, Italy and China. Full budget responsibility for people, hardware, applications and support. Total revenues of approximately $1.1B. Lead IT teams consisting of employees and contractors based in US, Canada, Mexico, Italy and India.

Responsible for program management of projects for our business in China, Canada, Mexico and Italy. Recent projects include: PRISMA plant maintenance system; Smoothie Supply and Demand Planning system; Canada Management Reporting in Oracle, BOBJ and Tableau; Microsoft Dynamics ERP for China operations on a Microsoft Azure platform; IT Infrastructure for China Headquarters and new plant; Trade Promotion Management for Canada and Mexico; Retail Sales solution in Canada; migration of AS400 to IaaS solution; and transition support for two divested entities.

Previously managed IT teams responsible for: IT support of our Spicetec Flavors and Seasonings (SFS) and J.M Swank (Logistics) business units. Initial role at ConAgra was in Enterprise IT Systems managing unified communications (Exchange and Microsoft Lync); Managed Print Services; Antivirus; Software Distribution; Shared File Services; Desktop virtualization (VM View); and Application virtualization (Citrix) support teams.

1999 – 2010 President Professional Services, Tallgrass Technologies Lenexa, KS

Joined Tallgrass as Vice President, Professional Services and advanced to President, Professional Services with Profit and Loss responsibility for all technical service lines of business. Defined service offerings, created methodologies and defined standards for service delivery. Managed internal professional technical staff, established business partnerships with external organizations, and provided consulting services to customers.

Significant accomplishments include:

Increased services revenue from $150,000 year to $2,000,000 per year and gross profit from -5% to over 30%.

Expanded service capabilities for infrastructure consulting in the areas of LAN, WAN, server, storage, backups and disaster recovery and Enterprise Content Management solutions. Key tools included Stellent/Oracle ECM, Oracle database, RAC, Data Guard, JAVA, Microsoft SharePoint, VB, VB .Net, and SQL.

Program management for multiple customer projects, including:

Implementation of new LAN/WAN environments; High availability and disaster recovery solutions; IP load balancing solutions; and Enterprise Content Management solutions.

Management of IT engineering team for US Central Federal Credit Union. This team supported over 500 servers on all aspects of IT infrastructure including Exchange e-mail, storage, network services, level 3 help desk, web services, storage, backups and disaster recovery.

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Certifications

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – Management Foundations

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – Practitioner, Plan and Improve

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – Practitioner, Support and Restore

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – Practitioner, Release and Control

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – Practitioner, Agree and Define

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – V2 to V3 Managers Bridge

Education

Elmira College, B.S. Computer Systems Analysis, Cum Laude

References

Gerrit Schutte Joseph Elrefaie

Chief Information Officer, Conagra Brands (Retired) Director, International & Commercial Quality, Conagra

Dan Jones

Former Vice President, IT, Conagra Brands

Glenn Bruneau

IS Manager at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska

Gregg Schuett

Director Delivery Management, First National Bank

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