Engineer Sales
Resume:
James E. Onstad, BSEE
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SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL
SUMMARY
** ***** ** ** ********** experience with demonstrated career success envisioning and
leading high value technology initiatives.
Adept at collaborating with business development teams to identify, prioritize, and
deploy new market facing capabilities that increase revenue, improve internal
efficiencies, and attract new customers.
Proficient with IT operations, proprietary application development, project
management, systems integration, and technology life cycle management.
CORE EXPERTISE
Project Management IT Governance
IT Operations & Security Business Case Analysis
Team Building/Leadership Competitive Market Analysis
Change Management Strategic Planning
IT Consolidation & Optimization Product Development
Compliance & Standards Agile Software Development
Process Analysis/Improvement IT Life Cycle Management
Data Warehousing Business Intelligence
Technical Presentation Disaster Recovery
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Interstate National Corporation, Eugene, OR & Atlanta, GA
Vice President of Application Development May 2012 – Sept 2013
Amassed $700K in annual savings with the creation of a consolidated loan sales and
marketing engine that supports mission critical operations, sales, and marketing goals.
Managed SaaS based software application planning, design, development, and
maintenance with a geographically dispersed agile development team.
Managed five separate proprietary software solutions that support six branc h offices in
the US and Canada.
Three of the solutions are SaaS based and currently serve thousands of end-users in the
finance & insurance sector.
Replaced legacy SaaS software platforms with a single SaaS solution.
Payment Insured Plan / National Warranty Corporation, Eugene, OR
Chief Information Officer Oct 1999 – May 2012
Attained more than $500K in annual savings with the creation of a proprietary real -time
data integration system that supports sales processes and business intelligence
reporting. This innovative solution made it easy for our SaaS solution to communicate
with dealer management systems.
Realized an annual savings of $700K with the creation of a SaaS based software toolkit
for the finance & insurance sector. This software is currently in use today by more than
300 producer rooftops and thousands of finance & insurance professionals.
Planned and implemented IT infrastructure, processes, and procedures; focused on the
design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of a SaaS based product delivery
and business intelligence solution to maximize the va lue of every sales transaction.
Launched start-up of IT infrastructure by developing a comprehensive, enterprise -wide
IT strategy to support overall business objectives and goals.
Created IT department by hiring and retaining a high performance, cross-functional
information technology team. Organized internal and external employee/vendor
functions.
Formulated a compliance framework and implemented security measures such as Red
Flag identity theft rules and an OFAC (SDN) search engine.
Worked to incorporate standard policies and procedures to protect private information
(PCI & Gramm-Leach-Bliley), comply with financial reporting mandates, and to
strengthen information security.
Previously employed with Evergreen Technologies as Hardware/Systems Engineer (June 1997 -
October 1999); Acres Gaming Inc. (Acquired by IGT) as Quality Assurance Engineer (May 1995-
June 1997).
EDUCATION
University of San Diego School of Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1994
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, 1994
Minors in Mathematics and Physics, 1994
Recipient of the University of San Diego School of Engineering Award for Professionalism .
Member of the Order of the Engineer, devoted to standards and dignity of the profession .
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