Michael J. Rolfsen

ac7wc3@r.postjobfree.com 317-***-**** (c) 4605 Broken Bow Drive Greenwood IN 46143

Career Summary

Dynamic and motivated professional with a proven record of generating and building relationships, managing projects from concept to completion, and coaching individuals to success. Skilled in building cross-functional teams, demonstrating exceptional communication skills, and making critical decisions during challenges. Adaptable and transformational leader with an ability to work independently, creating effective presentations, and developing opportunities that further establish organizational goals.

Education & Certifications

Indiana University, Bachelor of Arts Degree Economics ~ May 1993

PMP Certified Project Management Professional ~ Nov 2011

Agile / Scrum Development Boot Camp ~ Sept 2012

Special Awards

TIP award for Ethernet Stranded Port Tool idea saved the company $10M in freed up network capacity

Senior VP Excellence Award, Program Integration Office 2Q 2010

VP Excellence Award, Architecture and Planning 3Q 2009

VP Excellence Award, Architecture and Planning 3Q 2008

President’s Award Nomination 2005

Eye Specialists of Indiana – Communications Project Manager

Decision maker on design-build out of new south campus, a 33,000 square foot complex complete with administration offices, luxury guest accommodations, testing facilities, exam rooms and a Lasik Operation Center (2017-2018)

Drive all design, budget, and schedule considerations, reading out directly to top stakeholder

Directed fiber to premise data network build out while determining critical path to optimize readiness

AT&T - Senior Technical Project Manager

Service Delivery Migration Program (2015 - 2016)

Designed, developed and deployed mission critical tooling to internal business, automating customer data acquisition and migration functionality to assist Sales and Service Delivery teams when converting PRI customers to iPFlex

The $27M platform allowed for future product pairings to be added with minimal development dollars

MIS Bulk Migration Tool (2012 - 2015)

Led a team of 50 towards a tooling solution allowing pipe level circuit swings from one Cisco platform to another

The $8M system allowed both Physical and Logical connections to be processed seamlessly

Failure to implement the solution before outgoing Cisco architecture expired would have cost AT&T $10B in revenue

Software Decommissioning & Systems Retirement (2011)

Appointed to lead “Accelerate One”, one of Randall Stephenson’s (AT&T CEO) top 5 priority efforts, where I was responsible for retiring grandfathered products

Real Estate & Asset Retirement (2006-2011)

Drove efforts to free up critical network capacity, allowing the retirement of systems, and more importantly, the exit of costly real estate leases

-Saved $19.3M in Telco Real Estate (2011)

-Saved $19M in Telco Access (2011)

-Saved $11.5M in FRATM Access (2009)

Out of Region Migrations (2006-2008)

Retired duplicate provisioning platforms after the merger between SBC & AT&T

SBC Communications - Project Manager

Managed NVPN data network installations (2000 - 2006)

Brightpoint - National Account Manager

Oversaw inventory, retail kit packaging & shipping (1999-2000)

AT&T Local Services - Account Executive

Hospital, Manufacturing & Insurance firms (1998-1999)

Losberger Intertent GmbH - U.S. Sales Director

Launched joint venture between Losberger GmbH and Jack Elrod Co. (see below) to import and sell pre-engineered aluminum / PVC tensile structures (1995 - 1998)

Established nationwide network of manufacturers’ representatives enabling start up sales to quickly reach $3M (1995 - 1998)

Jack K. Elrod Co. - Construction & Event Management

Proficient in all aspects of Operations with this special events contractor specializing in design, manufacturing & installation of temporary grandstands, structural steel stadium seating, staging and soft goods (1993 - 1995)

Thrived in a culture where long hours and hard physical work were demanded, customer satisfaction remained paramount and deadlines were never missed (1993 - 1995)

Select Major Events:

-Pan Am Games Opening Ceremonies

-Indianapolis 500

-Walt Disney World Resort Events

-Summer Olympic Games

-World Cup Soccer

-NBA All Star Games

-NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournaments

-PGA Championship Events

Special Note

Rider on historic Indiana University Little 500 Cycling Team the Cutters (’89-’92) - made famous by the 1979 Academy Award Winning Movie, Breaking Away

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