Management Professional in Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
- Current
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- IT Manager at Progressive Insurance
- Past
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- IT Manager at MRK Technologies
- Project Manager / Sys. Admin at SAIC
- Education
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- Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
- Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
- Case Western Reserve University
- Case Western Reserve University
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Matt Bakaitis’s Summary
I am a technology manager working with large infrastructure-oriented projects and systems. My technical experience includes Microsoft / Linux / *ix operating systems, middleware and web server infrastructure, load balancing and fail-over technology. Most recently I am managing the Oracle Financial development team at my company, which is currently working on a major upgrade and 'build-out' project.
Additionally, I have substantial experience and education in business process management and financial control functions. I have worked on IT budgeting, capital planning, value estimation (CBA, NPV, IRR, ROI, etc), staff planning and forecasting, and other related work. From this work, I worked with another specialist at the firm to create two training classes: one for vendor management and a second for "RFP Best Practices".
Finally, I'm fascinated by the way that technology changes social structures. I have owned my own domain for over a decade and have used it for several small experiments. My education towards a graduate degree gave me more tools to think about this and I've begun to work on small experiments with blogs, forums, 'wikis' and social networking (like this site).
Matt Bakaitis’s Experience
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IT Manager
Progressive Insurance
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PGR; Insurance industry)
February 1999 — Present (10 years 10 months)
* Responsible for the systems used to make over $15 billion in payments per year to a range of claimants, suppliers and other entities. Managed the team of developers maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite, Teradata Data Warehouse and a mainframe-based payment system written in COBOL.
* Worked with business partners to review business goals, discuss strategic plans and identify the appropriate use of new technology to meet those goals.
* Prepared budgets and forecasts for a 1,000 person, $300 million organization over a three-year period. Managed four senior financial analysts in the definition and expansion of budgeting processes and forecasting tools/spreadsheets.
* Managed the team of infrastructure engineers that built the first Progressive.com Web server farm. Introduced load-balancing, monitoring, scripted disabling/enabling of nodes and other high-availability functions to the company to maximize performance and up-time for customers and business users of the website. -
IT Manager
MRK Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Managed server and desktop environment; supervised staff who supported desktop and server infrastructure.
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Project Manager / Sys. Admin
SAIC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years )
As Project Manager (3/97 - 3/98):
* Worked three months on a multinational team rescuing a lagging migration project for British Petroleum at the Nerefco Refinery in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
* Supervised project and design to migrate 2100 systems and ~50 servers to new Windows OS.
As Systems Administrator (3/95 – 3/97):
* Acted as technical lead for various server and desktop support teams in Cleveland.
* Supported BP’s international oil trading group’s real-time market data systems.
Matt Bakaitis’s Education
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Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
MBA , Marketing, Economics , 2001 — 2003
Concentration in Marketing; Economics training focused upon "Economics of the Organization" and "Economics of Negotiations", giving me insight into the mechanisms and economic structures that exist *within* an organization, company or bureaucracy
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Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
MSM-IS , 2001 — 2003
The Masters of Science in Information Systems program enhanced my existing understanding of information system theory and practice. The program was very pragmatic and 'hands-on', giving me exposure to all levels of n-tier systems design and to several programming languages.
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Case Western Reserve University
B.S. , Civil Engineering , 1989 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, WRUW (associate programmer), Ballroom Dance Society
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Case Western Reserve University
B.A. , Religion , 1989 — 1994
