Experience

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  NEWMAN HOLDINGS, INC

  • Lynxville WI

  • Semi Retired

    • May 2024 - Present
    • Lynxville WI

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  Elign Consulting

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • CFO - Operations Management

    • Nov 2016 - May 2024
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Jim brings deep organizational process management and back office experience; along with an extensive management consulting background with finance and operations management experience. Jim leads our day-to-day operations, including consultant care, contract administration, time reporting and invoicing and finance to ensure the needs of our consultants and clients are being met.

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  Newman Technology Partners, Inc.

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • President

    • Jan 2004 - May 2019
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Operate and manage an independent consulting company focused on initiatives surrounding Business Separation and Combination, Operational and Process Improvement, Compliance (SOX, GLBA and HIPAA), and Program/Project Leadership. Performed direct client work and sourced subcontractors for larger client engagements. Worked for clients such as AgriBank, GMAC RFC, Ameriprise Financial, Rust Consulting, Medica, RedBrick Health, LTCG, Heartland Crop Insurance, Lifetouch and Exousia Business Metrics.

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  SAGESS3

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Chief Operating Officer

    • Nov 2014 - Apr 2019
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Responsible for all Operations at SAGESS3, LLC, a Managed Service Provider in the Unified Communications space.

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  TekUplift

  • Operations Leader

    • Dec 2011 - Nov 2013

    Responsible for all Client Relationship Management, Service Delivery and SLA management for a Cloud Computing Startup.

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  Genesis10

  • Senior Vice President - Business Consulting

    • Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

    2010-2012 - Led the Management Consulting division for a National Staffing and Consulting services firm. During my tenure, our team tripled booked division revenue and delivered 13 times Net Profit. Also was a part of a team that closed the largest single deal in Genesis10 History with tremendous client satisfaction over the course of ramp up and delivery execution.2008-2009 - Business Development Executive - In this role, I was responsible for new business development, new client development and delivery management for management consulting and staff augmentation. During my tenure, I established three new client relationships and supported delivery for 18 new resources on varying projects.

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  Rust Consulting, Inc.

  • CIO

    • Jun 2005 - Jan 2007

    During my tenure, I was responsible for the strategic planning of the operations of Rust Consulting representing the technology perspective. Also managed all technology operations, technology strategic planning along with Data management, Forms Processing technology solutions, Call Center technologies and Payment Processing.

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  McGladrey

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • CIO

    • 1996 - 2004
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Some highlights while with McGladrey - Participated in the organization’s growth and operational strategies; merged 27 newly acquired accounting firm’s into the fabric of the Organization’s technology, cultural and operational structures representing a two times additional revenue over a three year period; helped spin off two business groups to function as independent entities, participated on the Business Separation Team in order to create two separate and distinct companies; RSM McGladrey & McGladrey & Pullen following the H&R Block Acquisition of the RSM McGladrey assets in 1999; As the organization’s CIO, performed as the Technology Team Lead along with HR, Sales, Executive, Finance and Operations Team Leaders on the steering committee for a CRM implementation in a Business Services organization; Implemented Software Development Lifecycle Methodology and Project Portfolio Management; Implemented Business Intelligence solution that improved the organization's access to actionable information; Implemented Custom Practice Management Reporting Package; Implemented Organization Wide ERP in PeopleSoft including Business and process re-engineering, including two subsequent upgrades

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  Daka International / Champps Entertainment

  • Director of Information Technology

    • 1987 - 1996