Toby Getsch

Current

Information Worker Consultant at Inetium

Past

IT Consultant at State of Minnesota, Department of Public Safety
Knowledge Manager at ECG Management Consultants
Owner, Consultant at Toby Getsch Consulting

Technology Strategist at Drug Free Business
Production Manager at Microsoft, Digital Media Division
IS Coordinator at Career Professionals
Associate Manager, Business Development at Performark

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Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Normandale College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Toby Getsch’s Summary

Team Leadership, Technology Prowess, Business Acumen. Technology Enthusiast and Information Technology Professional with a decade of team leadership and client service excellence. Skilled at the planning, coordination and prioritization of IT projects that solve Client problems, support business initiatives and drive process efficiencies. Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, with keen ability to build professional relationships of trust and mutual respect with Clients, Partners and Vendors. Works effectively across functional groups to build consensus and drive uniform strategy to accomplish business goals.

Toby Getsch’s Specialties:

Business Process Innovation, Project Management, Knowledge Management, Workflow Management, Collaboration Tools, Web 2.0 Technologies, Vendor Management / Partner Management

Toby Getsch’s Experience

Information Worker Consultant

Inetium

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

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

SharePoint IT Pro
IT Consultant

State of Minnesota, Department of Public Safety

(Government Administration industry)

September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)

SharePoint Guru; Communications Aficionado; Efficiency Savant
Knowledge Manager

ECG Management Consultants

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

2007 — April 2008 (1 year)

Recruited to gather business requirements, plan and implement technology and training business process improvements for national consulting services Company. Initiated and chaired Knowledge Management Committee (Executives to Senior Consultant levels) to vet and secure buy-in for business and change management processes. Project priorities and results included the following:

* Enable offline Consultant project worksites. Addressed infrastructure issues through existing and historical data migration to SharePoint (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007) and integration with Microsoft Outlook and Colligo Contributor.

* Architected IT best practice search solution that scaled search from words within a specific project to robust search capability across all project worksites and entire intranet.

* Improve project worksite navigation for ease of use and ease of management. New schema used master pages, themes and style sheets. Reduced security profiles from 50+ to just 4.
Owner, Consultant

Toby Getsch Consulting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2006 (7 years)

Provided IT consulting, online marketing and communications analysis services to small businesses and non-profit organizations.
Technology Strategist

Drug Free Business

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years)

Managed IT infrastructure, IT strategy, business architecture, service delivery, procurement and maintenance functions for a multi-million dollar company. Representative project work and results included the following:

* Program Manager for online and enterprise applications. Improved data quality, security and reporting. Redesigned processes for random drug testing and roster management from multi-day engagements to resolve in minutes with exponential scalability.

* Created and launched public and internal web sites, including corporate intranet. Implemented SharePoint, enterprise database tools and secure remote access to improve collaboration between headquarters, satellite locations and 3000+ Customers.

* Advised Executive Director on market strategy and business development that resulted in a change management plan and 200% revenue growth.
Production Manager

Microsoft, Digital Media Division

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)

Go-to contact for virtual team of 100+ Vendors and Strategic Partners that contributed to early adoption of High Definition DVDs using Microsoft’s WMV HD platform. Select production work included the following:

* Educated Senior Management-level Partners in new ecosystem of HD DVD production.

* Managed complete product cycle release and shipping experience. For example, setup and implemented intradepartmental testing procedures to move product builds through internal content review; and directed daily triage of priorities and high-level decisions regarding simultaneous HD DVD productions.

* Developed internal asset management system to facilitate global logistics of digital assets for every project, including Company and external Partner resources.
IS Coordinator

Career Professionals

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years)

Coordinated all marketing and PR campaigns as well as IT and communications infrastructure systems for a multi-million dollar employment service organization. For example, architected, deployed and maintained a proprietary candidate tracking and recruiter workflow management system that facilitated an increase in managing quality resume traffic from approximately 200 to ~2000/month, while also being scalable to accommodate future growth.
Associate Manager, Business Development

Performark

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

Innovated online research and surveys that enabled rapid business growth and reduction of personnel hours. Project Manager for complete redesign of Performark.com and sales demo project that secured new $2M+/year client. Also managed a web site redesign and maintenance plan.

Toby Getsch’s Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

B.A. , Communications , 1996 — 1998
Normandale College

A.A. , 1994 — 1996

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Toby Getsch’s Interests:

knowledge management, strategy consulting, strategic communications, business development, IT architecture, business process reengineering, IT strategy, management consulting, change management, crisis communications, business strategy; blogging; writing