Thomas F. Janssen

Current

Director of Information Technology, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery at Horace Mann

Past

Sr. System Consultant at MSF&W, Inc.
Senior Consultant Responsible for Defined Benefit Pension Programs at Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.

Education

Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University
Lincoln Land Community College

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Thomas F. Janssen’s Summary

Information Technology – Business Continuance – Strategic Planning

Technology and business visionary with executive and hands-on experience in updating and automating multi-million dollar infrastructure. Strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. Proven ability to bring the benefits of Information Technology to solve business issues while managing costs and mitigating risks. Strong IT Infrastructure background with a proven ability to build and manage creative, highly energized, focused teams. Led design and development of 4,600 sq. ft. Data Center, Network Operations Center (NOC) and Print / Copy Center following TIA-942 standards. Core competencies include:

• Technology / Business Linkage Planning
• Procurement & Contract Management
• Strategic Analysis & Internal Consulting
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Staff Management and Team Building
• Budgeting and Cost Control
• Capacity Planning
• Performance Monitoring
• Organization and Staff Development
• IT Skills Gap Analysis

Seasoned consulting and management career with strong leadership for technical teams, planning, budgeting, team-building and project management skills. Fully responsible for managing the Horace Mann IT infrastructure and Corporate Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program.

Thomas F. Janssen’s Specialties:

• Direct Production Support Services, including Mainframe and Distributed Systems Engineering Teams. Improve service levels. Establish rapport and credibility with department heads.

• Direct Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery teams, including Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring team and Storage Area Network (SAN) engineers. Established offsite Disaster Recovery plan and moved infrastructure hardware to site, connected via dark fibre.

• Hire and manage diverse teams.

Thomas F. Janssen’s Experience

Director of Information Technology, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Horace Mann

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

May 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)

Manage a staff of 15+ direct reports
Built new Data Center and NOC
Indirectly Manage 25+ Business Resumption Plans (BRP's)
Eliminated 30,000+ tapes from environment
Project and Vendor Management

Chairman, Business Continuity Steering Committee

Provide leadership as head of Production Support Services. Responsible for all aspects of strategic infrastructure planning for corporate office and disaster recovery site. Engineered turnaround of IT’s performance and service levels by planning, purchasing, and installing new IBM z890 and z9 mainframes. Manage and deliver multiple large scale projects on time and within budget. Responsible for budgeting, design and support of all Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery technology.
Sr. System Consultant

MSF&W, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 1999 — May 2003 (3 years 7 months)

Senior Consultant with expertise in Oracle and SQL serving Illinois Universities with document imaging programs often requiring conversion or re-formatting of existing data. Universities served include Western Illinois University (WIU), Eastern Illinois University (EIU), and Southern Illinois University (SIU).

Senior Consultant with expertise in Medicaid Reimbursement serving the Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD), Illinois School for the Visually Impaired (ISVI) and Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education (ICRE) in Chicago. Most familiar with HIPAA Privacy Compliance and Enforcement.

• Led technology team in the migration and conversion of data from optical platter technology
• Provide technical and business support for various university-wide image solutions
• Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database Design and Administration
• Increased Productivity through application development and deployment
• Interpreted federal statutes surrounding the Medicaid
Senior Consultant Responsible for Defined Benefit Pension Programs

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.

(Computer Networking industry)

May 1992 — November 1999 (7 years 7 months)

Senior Consultant with expertise in Defined Benefit Pension Plans. Responsible for overseeing software enhancements and modifications to defined benefit pension programs including:

• Payroll Processing and Withholding
• Tracking and Reporting on Pension Contributions and Balances
• Wrote ACH Software for Automatic Deposit of Payrolls into Individual Bank Accounts
• Retirement Benefits Calculations and Worksheets

Responsible for overseeing use of software, modifications and training for Pension Funds in Chicago Illinois, Palm Bay Florida, Dallas and Ft. Worth Texas, San Antonio Texas, Austin Texas, San Mateo California, and Pasadena California. My responsibilities to these Funds often required travel to their offices with frequency ranging from 1 week per quarter, to 1 week annually. Outstanding customer relationships resulted from these travels.

Thomas F. Janssen’s Education

Western Illinois University

Bachelor of Science , Quantitative Information Science (Mathematics Based Computers) , 1984 — 1986
Western Illinois University

Bachelor of Business , Finance , 1984 — 1986

Activities and Societies:

Rho Epsilon Fraternity (Real Estate)
Lincoln Land Community College

Associates in Business , Business Administration , 1982 — 1984