Reasonable Human Being
Sacramento, California Area
- Current
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- Partner at PM Game Plan
- Information Systems Manager at State of California Legislative Data Center
- Principal at Chompff Consulting
- Past
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- Consultant at Spherion Professional Services
- Client Systems IT Manager and Project Manager at Starr Technologies
- Operations Manager at ComputerCare
- Network Services Manager at A'n D Network Services
- Rifleman at United States Marine Corps
- Education
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- Sacramento City College
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Alex Chompff’s Summary
My first job is to be a good father and husband, and mostly this entails being a reasonable human being.
In order to accomplish this first job, I have to earn a living.
This leads to my day job. As far as that goes, my real specialty is solving business problems. To do this, I generally employ business process design and process reengineering techniques, with a strong focus on developing and delivering practical solutions. It happens that the solutions are usually rooted in project management philosophies and delivered hand in glove with technology systems.
I come from a business operations background, with emphasis in high tech, venture capital, biotech and most recently, State government. While I am a capable technologist from the perspective of your everyday business person, I'm not a technical engineer.
It's very important to ask questions, to learn from those who have gone before, to listen to what's being said, and to think deeply on the problem being examined.
Solutions have to be practical, grounded in reality and executable. Otherwise, they're just good ideas.
How can I help you?
Alex Chompff’s Specialties:
Thinking
Listening
Asking questions
Applying common sense and practicality to challenging business problems.
Alex Chompff’s Experience
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Partner
PM Game Plan
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
New project management training business being started in partnership with Mr. John Simko. More to come!
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Information Systems Manager
State of California Legislative Data Center
(Government Administration industry)
2004 — Present (5 years )
The Legislative Data Center is part of the Office of Legislative Counsel.
Together, these two agencies provide the California State Legislature and several other government agencies with legal and IT support services.
I work for the Legislative Data Center as an Information Systems Manager.
My responsibilities include leading the teams which design and deliver:
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Enterprise Project Management as a Center of Excellence
Enterprise Business Productivity Tools Training and Second-Level Support
Enterprise Process Management and Business Productivity Tool Prototyping
What this means is that we develop and deliver best practices around project and portfolio management, manage the Legislature's IT Project Portfolio Program, reengineer business processes as requested, and generally provide advanced training and support for tools in the MS Office Suite. -
Principal
Chompff Consulting
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
Chompff Consulting is a business I started during the dot com days.
I use this business (which is just little old me) to provide IT consulting, PM consulting and general business consulting to a small group of customers.
I'm in the process of starting a business - PM Game Plan - with Mr. John Simko. -
Consultant
Spherion Professional Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SFN; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year )
Spherion is a very large contractor placement agency. For a while, they were working on making a professionally managed IT outsourcing play for (among other companies) biotechnology firms in the South San Francisco area.
I worked for Spherion as part of their managed services offering. I managed network operations for Nektar Therapeutics and did various things at Genentech, including helping to design an implementation of the Niku project portfolio mangement product (Niku is now known as CA's Clarity product). -
Client Systems IT Manager and Project Manager
Starr Technologies
(Information Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Starr Technologies was a highly customized networking services firm which focused on venture capitalists and funded startups.
My primary responsibility was to be the onsite consulting IT Manager for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Integral Capital Partners.
In that capacity, I directed all IT services, assisted many funded startup companies through incubation & critical initial-growth cycles, and ensured incubated companies launched with robust scalable IT infrastructure environments.
I was later responsible for leading Starr special projects and programs teams. This meant that I provided the technical escalation paths for problems, pre- and post-sales engineering for high-value clients, and project management for all integrations, installations and upgrades.
These were very sensitive, fast moving high-profile clients in a very competitive financial services environment. Work was demanding and the tolerance for error was close to zero. -
Operations Manager
ComputerCare
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
ComputerCare was the largest hardware repair facility in the SF Bay Area, servicing 1500+ systems per month on average. InfoMatriX was acquired in 1998 as a subsidiary of ComputerCare, and provided network integration.
As the Director of Operations & Sales at ComputerCare, I responsible for all aspects of sales and operational delivery. As Operations Manager for InfoMatriX, I responsible for coordinating delivery of projects for a variety of Silicon Valley technology firms. -
Network Services Manager
A'n D Network Services
(Computer Networking industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
A'n D Network Services was a division of A’n D Cable Products, Inc. The division was created to service a growing need for general services network integration.
I created and led the division, developing relationships and delivering general networking solutions for companies like Fujitsu America, EDS, Georgia Pacific, PLM International, Hyatt, Kaiser and Pacific Bell Internet. -
Rifleman
United States Marine Corps
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USMC; Military industry)
1991 — 1995 (4 years )
I proudly followed family tradition by serving in the USMC.
My military occupational specialty was infantry rifleman. Marines called this being a Grunt, or 0311. I was also a member of Security Forces Battalion, which specialized in physical security. This specialty was known as an 8152.
My duties included working as a member of the Naval Air Station North Island Security Forces Company before serving in the fleet Marine Corps as an infantry Non-Commissioned Officer (E-4).
Alex Chompff’s Education
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Sacramento City College
AA , Liberal Arts , 2004
Basic AA degree from Sacramento City College. The result of many years of junior college in California finally coalescing into a transferable degree!
Additional Information
Alex Chompff’s Websites:
Alex Chompff’s Interests:
Project Management Project Portfolio Management State, National and International Politics Economics & Philosophy (Aren't these the same thing?) Business Strategy and Planning Finance & Capital Structure Process Engineering
Alex Chompff’s Groups:
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Institute - Sacramento Valley Chapter (PMI-SVC)
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Project Manager Alliance! -
Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org -
Project Management Institute - Sacramento Valley Chapter -
Gartner Master Data Management (Xchange)
Alex Chompff’s Honors:
PMI Certified Project Management Professional PMP)
(USMC) Joint Forces Achievement Medal
(USMC) Navy Achievement Medal
(USMC) Miscellaneous awards
Alex Chompff’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
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