Al Bergstein

Current

• IT Consultant at Covestic
• Consultant/Owner at Mountainstone Consulting

Past

• Business Development at Advantage Factory
• Enterprise Strategy Manager at Microsoft Corporation
• Technology Evangelist at Microsoft Corp

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Education

• City University of Seattle
• Columbia College Chicago

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Al Bergstein’s Summary

Experienced IT professional with a background that includes significant project, operational and budget management; technical marketing to a global audience; proven public speaking skills to executive audiences, and teaching at a university level, including course curriculum development. My background has included setting up teams in foreign regions, group process creation and program management. My last assignment at Microsoft was setting up and managing a three year program for technical marketing in legacy migration.

I offer consulting to help companies complete long running projects, help IT organizational change, explore mainframe and other legacy migration and/or renewal, and provide strategic guidance on these issues prior to project start.

Available for 1 to 3 month assignments.

Al Bergstein’s Specialties:

Significant project management, technical marketing, training and small team management.

Al Bergstein’s Experience

• IT Consultant

  Covestic

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  I am currently on assignment to a large NW software vendor working on intergroup processes. This includes identifying existing processes, working with staff from both groups to create or modify these processes, project manage the work to completion and report to management on the success and/or roadblocks needing help.

• Consultant/Owner

  Mountainstone Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  I have been working as an independent consultant on a variety of computer topics, including project management of enterprise software implementation, deployment, legacy systems renewal, integration and replacement.
  
  I have skills in web development, IT management, IT strategic planning, business development, and many other areas.
  
  Additionally, I have created and run the Olympic Peninsula Environmental News www.olyopen.net for over two years. This portal website for news and community collaboration around environmental issues has garnered strong support from regional activists.

Al Bergstein’s Education

• City University of Seattle

  MBA , Business , 1990 — 1995

• Columbia College Chicago

  BA , Communications , 1974 — 1978

Additional Information

Al Bergstein’s Websites:

• My Website

Al Bergstein’s Interests:

mainframe migration,legacy migration,music,skiing

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