Shane Winegard

Professional Summary

I am a dynamic IT leader with over 15 years of diverse experience in the fields of Information Technology and Technology Consulting. Throughout my career I have leveraged technology solutions to strengthen competitive advantage and enhance corporate value for my clients. My expertise includes problem management, project management, LAN/WAN infrastructures, UNIX and Windows Server management, storage management and technology administration. I have a strong track record in defining, developing, and delivering technology solutions that optimize efficiency, enable high-availability systems, and support rapid organizational growth. My diverse background includes the development of shared services strategy, vendor management, process design, business case development and support, consensus building across autonomous business units, and budget administration.

Professional Experience

Inforte

Director of Information Technology
Chicago, Illinois
February 2000 - Present

As Director of Information Technology at Inforte, I am responsible for building and managing the company's information technology group. Given their diversity, my responsibilities in this position are best summarized in the following categories:

Personnel Management (25%)

• Managing corporate IT personnel responsible for providing 24x7x365 business systems and end user support.
• Mentoring staff in interdisciplinary team project approaches; motivating staff and contributing to the corporate culture.
• Facilitating staff time management, quality assurance and user acceptance skill sets.

Project Management (35%)

• Managing the direction and selection of software and hardware standards.
• Ensuring project design and development requirements are thorough, complete and documented.
• Establishing realistic design and development timeframes, milestones and resource loads across multiple corporate IT projects to meet specific client needs.
• Managing each corporate IT project's successful completion on time, within budget.

Technology Management (40%)

• Developing and communicating long-term corporate technology plans detailing current, short-term and long-term resource utilization, budget, and growth forecasts.
• Managing all technology related initiatives, projects, processes, people, and planning.
• Managing and supporting all corporate IT infrastructure and application assets.
• Corporate IT budget administration.
• Researching, implementing and introducing strategies for global systems implementation and support based upon competitive analysis, market demand, and corporate goals.
• Corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Accenture

Experienced Manager - Technology Competency Group (Technical Architecture Skill Track)
Chicago, Illinois
September 1992 - February 2000

Web-based Energy Trading System

During this engagement I managed a team of twenty technical architects and application developers responsible for supporting the design and implementation of the Energy eXchange^TM, an Internet-based Java application used to support the market systems, administrative systems and daily processes necessary to create the market for the trading of energy in New England. The secure, robust and fault-tolerant application and technical architectures designed for this New England-based Independent Systems Operator (ISO) provided the ISO with the ability to receive bids for energy and related services from participating organizations and use these bids to schedule and control energy resources in the New England region.

Market functions supported by the above architectures include bidding, contracts, metering, billing, settlement and publishing of pricing and trading information. Each of these functions is currently being used by the 2000+ market participants - public and private electric utilities, independent power producers, power marketers, power brokers and load aggregators - accessing the Energy eXchange^TM via the Internet

As a result of my success in translating the technologies outlined above into significant client take-up, I was awarded Accenture's 1998-99 Pioneering and Defining Engagements Technology Cutting Edge Award.

Web-based Energy Trading Architecture Conversion

On this project I managed a team of five consultants throughout the cross-platform migration of the Energy eXchange^TM, a large Internet-based Java application, to Accenture's SolutionWorks Solution Center. My responsibilities included coordinating the inventorying, procurement, installation and configuration of all required hardware and software components. In doing so, I successfully outfitted SolutionWorks with a robust development and demonstration environment supporting the Energy eXchange^TM market offering.

In addition, I detailed the goals and plans for performance testing and product testing of the migrated application which included approaches to fine tune Inprise's Visibroker ORB, implemented and tested an intricate network and application security architecture, altered Java code for performance benchmarking, and assisted in neutralizing the application to run in both the Netscape and Microsoft browsers.

Wireless Field-Force Automation Architecture Design and Implementation

For the duration of this assignment I managed a team of four analysts and two consultants responsible for the successful design and implementation of WORK/1: Field, a wireless client/agent/server application extension of Accenture's WORK/1 work management software. Working closely with all levels of Accenture, Racotek, RAM Mobile Data and Telxon personnel, I lead the coordination, creation, and implementation of an integrated work management solution consisting of WORK/1 and Racotek's Keyware wireless middleware package. Using the Visual Basic programming language, I created an open interface into the WORK/1 host environment using TCP/IP sockets. Once integrated, work order data could then be successfully dispatched to a Telxon pen-based field computer using RAM's two-way wireless Mobitex data network.

Web-based Customer Service Prototype Design and Implementation

During this engagement I developed a World Wide Web (WWW) prototype site for a major midwestern utility to demonstrate the ability for Internet users to have access to real-time work order inquiry and work order initiation functions. I implemented the prototype using HTML, JavaScript, and CGI programs (coded in Perl).

Once full-scale rollout initiated, these important work functions - previously available only from within the company's work management package - became accessible from the Internet by the utility's 500+ builders and developers.

Wireless Workflow Management Architecture Design

On this assignment I acted as team lead in the design and implementation of a wireless client/agent/server computing proof of concept at a major midwestern utility company. Using Visual Basic and C, I created client applications that successfully communicated with the utility's IBM mainframe using TCP/IP. These applications were then integrated with an existing RF network to show the client how to strategically utilize its existing radio infrastructure to provide wireless data to remote users.

Related Skills

Software

• Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere
• Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visual Studio
• Veritas Netbackup

Networking

• Cisco ASA5510 firewalls, Cisco Catalyst 3560/3750 switches
• Symantec SGS5420 firewalls

Servers

• Dell PowerEdge
• HP Proliant

Languages

• ASP, PHP
• C, Visual Basic
• CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript

Web Servers

• Apache
• Microsoft IIS

Databases

• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• Oracle

Operating Systems

• Mac OS X
• Unix (HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris)
• Windows (XP Professional, Vista, 2003 Server Standard/Enterprise)

Education

Michigan State University (September 1988 - August 1992) - Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
Member, Eta Kappa Nu - Computer & Electrical Engineering Honor Society

Activities

Technology Director, Advisory Board - IA Institute
Freelance IT consulting - http://iainstitute.org, http://carryhandbags.com, http://fin-now.com, http://frontauracapital.com.

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