Experience

National Conference of Bar Examiners

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Information Technology

  • Jun 2000 - Present

  Developed and manage the performance of a robust IT department for a $100M organization that sells and administers the bar exam and character fitness examinations to all of 50 states and territories. Primary responsibilities center on the architecture, development, installation, integration and strategy for the association’s management information systems, as well as security and safeguards for company, employees and users. Responsible for minimizing risk and exposure and streamlining processes and communications to manage, on average, 60K applicants/users daily. Serve as trusted technical advisor to the senior team. • Played pivotal role in growing company from 30 employees to 90+ and scaling up the IT department from a 2-member staff to a robust, high-performing 17-member team with nearly 100% employee retention • Direct team on development of all custom programs offered by the organization, including scoring, equating, reporting, etc. For one recent 2018 5-month period, the association tested 65K+ applicants• Started department with two servers (accounting and fire sharing); now manage 40+ servers on-premise• Direct the information and data integrity of the company and its business units and high-stakes offerings which includes Testing, Research, Character & Fitness, Publishing, Accounting, ADA accommodations, meetings and education, sales and licensing and general corporate• Manage 10-15 external vendors to ensure quality delivery and alignment with corporate objectives, budgets and timelines• Collaborate with other company mangers on internal and external operations impacted by capture, storage, processing and communications• Prepare, review and negotiate major contracts for computing and IT services and equipment• With ongoing training, engagement and mentorship have retained nearly 100% of all team members, with caveat of advancing to higher roles and responsibilities • Stay in front of potential risk, exposure with minimal downtime for systems



New Resources Consulting

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • 1997 - 2000

  Directed the Quality Assurance team on mission-critical applications and led a team of up to 16 developers on projects primarily focused on database design, conversion programming, client server and server programming. Led teams that brought in from $250K to $1M annually in new work for New Resources. • Standardized the methodology and simplified the client’s code work to make it more user friendly• Mentored teams in Delphi and Oracle and how to assess why things were being done a certain way, and to look deeper to figure out a more efficient and impactful way, to engage and increase critical thinking skills• Served as client liaison, interacting with clients at all levels to ensure quality service and value • The on-call expert for trouble shooting systems within skill set to quickly address client and company issues



Comdisco

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst / Programmer, Technical Specialist

  • 1995 - 1997

  Played a valued role as a lead analyst and technical expert, helping grow one of the nation’s leading computer leasing companies during the tech boom that, at my departure, was doing $4B in sales and employed nearly 1,500 people in the Chicago area. Was recruited to position at New Resources Corporation three years before the company liquidated in 2002. Led the review of technology and products to determine business value and compatibility with defined architectures. Worked on enterprise mission critical financial applications (leasing).• Served as Lead Analyst for enterprise lease quoting applications• Led the Sybase (RDBMS) conversions• Top technical resource for company for migration from main frame DBMS to Sybase / Microsoft SQL Server• Served as the technical expert for UNIX, client / server, Internet / Intranet and databases



State of Wisconsin

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Information Specialist 6

  • 1991 - 1995

  Managed projects for State of WI Department of Administration, including systems implementations and supervised assigned project staff (employees and contractor).• Lead system analysis and design functions for relational database systems, client/server systems and internet / intranet applications• Served as primary technical consultant in relational database systems, UNIX, Internet and emerging technologies• Held several positions with consistent increased responsibility, and title advancement during tenure