
Systems strategies for profitable performance
Greater Seattle Area

Systems strategies for profitable performance
Greater Seattle Area
15 years experience producing and implementing consumer-grade technology products from web sites to enterprise-class production systems.
My goals are to be independent, have fun, work with talented people and help others grow their personal brands and businesses.
Agile/Scrum project management, business process engineering, requirements analysis, project and program management, software development and implementation, compliance, quality, continuous improvement systems, marketing and human factors, employee training and internal communications.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
ScrumMaster for multiple software development projects.
(Management Consulting industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
Brand development and operations at small consulting firm.
(Public Company; Renewables & Environment industry)
May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)
Led successful implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) as intranet and collaborative extranet for 750-person publicly-traded company. Established governance structure and operations team, as well as custom applications for Legal Contract Management and Employee On-Boarding.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)
Planned and oversaw launch of WindowsMobileConnection.com, an online community for mobile industry professionals.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — January 2008 (3 months)
Developed migration strategy to replace several antiquated online publishing systems with a more efficient MOSS- and XML-based system.
(Public Company; JWN; Retail industry)
July 2007 — November 2007 (5 months)
Supported launch of $5M capital upgrade project to Norstrom's online store. Assisted with definition and recommendation of strategy to improve key supply chain sourcing process for Nordstrom Direct and stores.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SI; Medical Devices industry)
April 2001 — July 2007 (6 years 4 months)
Lead program to reduce division's non-conformance costs by target of $6.22M in engineering, manufacturing, and customer service. Defined and implemented process to further gain from re-use of successfully implemented project ideas. Implemented IIS, SharePoint Team Services (collaboration), CaliberRM (product and project requirements), ARIS (business processes), and global employee training system to improve process efficiency and effectiveness. Created open intranet platform to help improve cross-campus communication within Siemens Ultrasound Division.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 11 months)
Built a business that offered information services to college communities. Developed markets and received thousands of contributions from customers at University of WA, Western WA University, and WA State University.
(Information Services industry)
June 2000 — September 2000 (4 months)
Developed and supported custom web applications as front-end to large-scale relational database system.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Services industry)
June 1996 — September 1998 (2 years 4 months)
Provided technical care to individual and business computer users.
Master of Business Administration , 2004 — 2006
Master of Science in Information Systems , 2004 — 2005
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration , Management Information Systems , September 1995 — March 2000
Information technology, databases, people, organizations, business, snowboarding, outdoor recreation, process, efficiency, performance, productivity, governance, replicating systems.
NW Entrepreneurs Network. Project Management Institute. Project Management Professional (PMP), MIT Enterprise Forum