Director of Information Technologies - Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage Inc.
Greater Nashville Area
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- Director of Information Technologies at Odoms Tennessee Pride Sausage Inc.
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- Owner at Atrium Technical Inc.
- President at Hader & Associates/Atrium Learning Center
- President/Owner at Atrium Learning Center
- General Manager / CFO at Electronic Contract Services Corp.
- Education
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- Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
- California State University-Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
- Cypress College
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Mike Hader’s Summary
I have a broad range of interests and expertise. I enjoy building and managing a dynamic IT organization that is flexible and driven toward meeting the needs of all of our constituents. Strategic IT vision, project planning and execution are some of my main strengths.
One of my goals is to always be learning about new technologies and to evaluate how they might be applied to help achieve better results. I enjoy the challenge of mentoring and helping fellow associates and subordinates develop their full potential.
Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage is a privately-owned breakfast sausage products manufacturing company. We operate in the retail grocery and food service channels. Our company has enjoy over 60 years of continuous sucess.
Our company uses Infor Global Adage ERP and Supply Chain Tools. We use Assistics for our WMS. We are a Microsoft SQL Server shop and use all Windows-based applications. Microsoft Proclarity is our BI tool and we use Actuate as our web-based reporting platform. We develop solutions in Dot Net (VB, C# or J#).
Our plants feature state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment that is monitored in real-time through RS-Logix/Rs-View or WonderWare applications tied into our Analysis Server data warehouses.
Mike Hader’s Specialties:
Contact me at MHader@TNPride.com
Mike Hader’s Experience
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Director of Information Technologies
Odoms Tennessee Pride Sausage Inc.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Food Production industry)
June 2001 — Present (7 years 6 months)
I manage the operations and development projects for our company. I am responsible for looking for ways to use technology to improve our company's competitive position in the industry. We have two manufacturing plants and we make about 600 different products. I oversee all in-house and outsourced development projects and have responsibility for establishing and managing a seven figure IT budget.
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Owner
Atrium Technical Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — June 2001 (5 years 6 months)
General IT-related business consulting and development was the main focus of this consultancy company. We also worked on custom applications using Visual Basic and SQL Server platforms.
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President
Hader & Associates/Atrium Learning Center
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1983 — August 1995 (12 years 5 months)
Our company had two revenue streams: 1) General IT-related business consulting and development and 2) IT training. In the consulting side, we did project implementations, custom applications and network installation, training and support dating back to the dawn of the PC-era. On the training side, we provided fundamentals course through Cal State University, Long Beach and other traditional PC stores. We also conducted technical training in such topics as advanced programming, network troubleshooting, Microsoft Windows troubleshooting, etc.. We had certified trainers and were actually doing Novell and Windows courses prior to Novell or Microsoft lauching their certification courses.
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President/Owner
Atrium Learning Center
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1983 — 1995 (12 years)
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General Manager / CFO
Electronic Contract Services Corp.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
March 1980 — May 1983 (3 years 3 months)
I was the chief operating officer for this sub-contract electronics manufacturing company with plant in Tustin, CA and Tiajuana, Mexico. Our main clients were in either aerospace or computer-related peripherals. We manufactured custom backplanes, wiring harnesses and wire-wrap panels. One of our most interesting projects was to work on the testing carts used to function test the B1B bomber built by Rockwell during the Reagan administration. I had total responsibility for sales, operations and profitability.
Mike Hader’s Education
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Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
Master of Business Administration, 1982 — 1983
Presidential MBA program is a great experience. You meet and get to know some other smart, dedicated, professional people who all want to excel in their fields. Worth every penny and every hour.
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California State University-Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, 1970 — 1973
Great small business school with a great baseball team.
- Activities and Societies:
- President of Finance Association
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Cypress College
AA, Business Administration, September 1968 — June 1970
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Mike Hader’s Interests:
new software and hardware technologies, advanced business analysis, golf, slow-pitch softball, NFL, SEC football and basketball, grandkids, travel to foreign lands, public speaking, Users of the following software programs, Infor, Adage, ProClarity, Actuate, SQL Server, BI Tools, Lansa, anything with a CPU, golf, digital photography
Mike Hader’s Groups:
IEEE, AMI, TRIX, Crystal Cathedral, Hendersonville 1st UMC, Cooks UMC, CBMC, Gideons International, Infor Food & Beverage SIG
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Gideons International
Mike Hader’s Honors:
Author or co-author of: Mastering NetWare; Troubleshooting NetWare; Networking Windows 3.1; NetWare Unleashed; Using Windows 3.1; WordPerfect Tips, Tricks & Techniques; Windows Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Winner of Nashville Future 50 Company - 1994
Best Speaker, Comdex - 1993
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