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Fairview Health ServicesDirector of UCC
Sep. 2020 - Jul. 2024Minnesota, United StatesI am directing the efforts of our communications and collaboration environments into a cohesive program that is in line with our modernized approach to patient care and communications. Transforming from old premise-based systems to cloud cored environments that support better economies of scale, higher quality, and significant simplification are the primary strategies driving replacement of all technologies at play. I am excited to bring to M Health Fairview my 30+ years of experience in both business management and transformative vision for the future. In my nearly 4 years at MHF I cut costs by over $600k a year in the first three months and avoided another $1M by preventing a motion that would have multiplied those costs. I directed my group to consolidate from 4 to one central voice environment reducing complexity significantly. I helped drive conversion of Contact Centers to Amazon Connect / Serverless cloud technology. All of this was done under an ever shrinking budget and workforce reduction.
BT Global ServicesChief Architect, BT One Portfolio Business Development Team
May. 2013 - Sep. 2020USAs Chief Architect I provide vision for large scale enterprises on how to transform their current voice, video, and collaboration estates into an envisioned end state combining assets across multiple teams and vendors into global solutions. I assist BT sales and account executives in strategic discussions and help with the formation of storylines, roadmaps, and financial models for clients. I also provide solution framework and architecture, and lead executive level discussions on strategy and business value for BT propositions. As a multi-team member my function includes acting as liaison from our group to other product groups within BT.
BT AdvisePrincipal Consultant
Oct. 2011 - May. 2013USI am a Principal Consultant in UCC and Hybrid Architecture Strategies as a part of the BT Advise Solutions Development Center. My focus is to tie technological capabilities into solutions that answer to business problems. Significant efforts include roadmap and strategy builds for Fortune 200 organizations, direct workings with the BT CTO staff on BT's largest 68 contracted global organizations on transformational strategies, and global lead of the Hybrid Architecture practice.
Microsoft CorporationEnterprise Tech Strategist
Jan. 2010 - Mar. 2012I am responsible for presenting at the Executive Briefing Center at MS Headquarters to global IT leadership. I work competitive sales efforts with the field sales teams, specifically around Unified Communications and associated collaborative discusssions. I also act as a feedback loop into the Business and Product groups by providing competitive landscape information to help alleviate customer issues with product position and direction. I won the Microsoft Rising Star award in 2010 for having a very high quality presentations in my first year as scored by the customer attendees.
BT Global ServicesPrincipal Consultant - National UCC Practice Lead
Jan. 2008 - Jun. 2010I consulted on deployments of UCC technologies to enterprise scale organizations as well as managed the UCC national practice which established much of the standard practices used in field consulting efforts. I performed many pre-sales duties as well as executed many public speaking engagements.
BT INSUCC Practice Lead
Aug. 2007 - Jun. 2008I am the Unified Communications and Collaboration Practice Lead for the North Central region and one of a few in the National effort.
Virteva LLCSenior Consultant
Mar. 2005 - Aug. 2007Executed projects for large scale enterprises. One noteable project included a multi-year 140K migraiton from Lotus Notes 6.x to Exchange 2003 where he was the lead of the entire project owning a team of 6 and interoperating with over 40 participants from the client company.
VirtevaSenior Consultant / Architect
Mar. 2004 - Aug. 2007I lead large scale projects that implemented infrastructure technology in Enterprise environments.
ENSVP of Systems Integration
Aug. 1993 - Mar. 2004I was a partner in a company that was 2/3rds consulting and 1/3rd ISP operations. Iead all of the ISP operations in house and also spent most of my days in the field doing consulting work at various companies.
Sovran, IncSenior Systems Engineer
Oct. 1992 - Aug. 1993Sovran is a large systems integrator in that handle the Greater Minneapolis/St.Paul area. Responsibilities included typical systems and network integration work. This included WAN work as well as LAN integration of all kinds and Microsoft server and communications infrastructure.
Connect Computer CompanySenior Systems Consultant
May. 1990 - Oct. 1992Connect Computer was once the premier systems consulting company in the Twin Cities, hands down. My work there was an extension of my previous experience with networking. I worked with Compaq and Tricord network server systems as well as Cisco and HP WAN equipment. I wrote articles for networking magazines on topics such as Lanalyzer and Novell 'LAN-tern' (a network analyzer system). I also was chosen to speak at technical symposiums on server troubleshooting/analysis and network protocol analysis.
Datasource/Connecting PointSenior Systems Engineer
Apr. 1989 - May. 1990A once very large integrator in the Twin Cities, sold off many years ago. I installed some of the very first novell/AS400 combined networks for banks in the Twin Cities while under employment here (AS/400 and Novell integration with PC Support with a Broadway & Seymore as well as FiServ banking systems
Connect Computer CoConsultant
Jan. 1989 - Dec. 1991Enterprise Networking and Server Environments
Computer-Exercise World (out of business)Systems Engineer/Technician
Jan. 1987 - Apr. 1989came about here after working for them a year while going to school. I installed network operating systems such Advanced Netware 2.0a and IBM PC/LAN. We used Ethernet, Arcnet, and token-ring with these operating systems.
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