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MICHAEL KERKAU

MICHAEL KERKAU

Durham,NC

Summary

Driven Certified Scrum Master and IT Project Manager offering more than 15 years of leadership experience working with matrix teams, controlling all stages of projects from inception through monitoring and closing, exceeding expectations of being on time and on budget. Considerable client-facing project experience and driven commitment to customer satisfaction. Successful at building and maintaining open communication between team members, clients and leadership. Quality-driven and proactive with advanced understanding of contract management, contractor oversight and construction administration. Motivated

Work History

IT Infrastructure M&A Senior Project Manager

NCR
Atlanta, GA
02.2022 - Current
  • Directed large matrix teams in $3.5 Million global integration effort of newly acquired company with 22 locations and more than 2000 employees.
  • Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Adhered to budget requirements with excellent planning and consistent expense monitoring.

Senior IT Project Manager

Fiserv
07.2021 - 12.2021
  • Manage and direct delivery of large scale and complex technology projects involving moves, transformation of infrastructure and consolidation related projects
  • Responsible for build out of mission critical applications in go-forward Data Center and executing migration of clients from current products to future state
  • Lead project teams in Matrix environment consisting of resources and partners from across business operations, application, and DC infrastructure to create and execute project plan.

Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Cree/Wolfspeed
Durham, NC
01.2020 - 06.2021
  • Directed global implementation of SDWAN, enhancing network performance and user experience, while improving productivity, reducing production downtime and annual operational costs by more than $200k
  • Implemented Network Segmentation services, improving organization security posture and improving infrastructure management and incident response capabilities
  • Replaced compromised SolarWinds environment, following global security breach.

Senior Project Manager

Conduent
Raleigh, NC
11.2018 - 09.2019
  • Managed transition of multiple SBU's in 17 locations and 3 data centers, resulting from company's largest divestiture
  • This $15M+ project required relocation of more than 2500 employees, 9 BUs, 4000 clients, 735 servers
  • And 835 applications
  • Completed on-time and $2M under budget while meeting project goals for 0 downtime to employees, systems and business activity
  • Managed $8M upgrade and PCI certification project affecting 9 businesses in 17 locations
  • Managed major version upgrade of Sprint SBU's Verint call recording solution to satisfy PCI requirements
  • Managed $5M project to design and build-out IT infrastructure for new 370-seat NIST call center.

Network Infrastructure Manager

ABB Inc
Raleigh, NC
08.2016 - 01.2018
  • Executed network infrastructure refresh and standardization to eliminate out-of-date technologies, various network and telephony configurations, and redundant services, improving productivity, stability and user experience
  • Devised, defined, coordinated, and deployed new wireless network infrastructure
  • Managed and directed successful installation of 5K+ wireless access points, 300 switches/routers and 8K+ wireless computers
  • This major project touched every location and user in NA and was executed with zero downtime for all users
  • Authored 5-year technology roadmap to upgrade network infrastructure across NA, reducing annual costs by $500K+
  • Improved user experience, enhanced functionality, and reduced process time and annual costs by $500K through optimization of WAN/LAN network infrastructure using various solutions
  • Reduced process time and saved 10K+ man-hours, by accelerating application performance on multiple ERP and collaborative applications.

IT Service Delivery Manager

ABB Inc
01.2012 - 01.2016
  • Orchestrated technology integration, acquisition support, hardware and software installation, and upgrade projects
  • Coordinated IT infrastructure and application standardization for new acquisitions and server OS upgrades
  • Implemented Cisco WAAS device deployment along with enterprise-wide Active Directory upgrades
  • Implemented centralized Xerox print services and Office 365 throughout all locations, optimizing capabilities for 20,000+ employees, yielding hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings per year in operating costs
  • Spearheaded strategic planning and instituted process and infrastructure improvements for NA division, reducing cycle-time and costs, improving ROI.

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

ABB Inc
01.2008 - 01.2012
  • Drove high-quality completion of IT integration for acquisitions and enterprise-wide implementation projects to improve infrastructure and application performance and minimize business risks
  • 100% of projects delivered on-time, to plan, to budget to satisfied customers
  • Achieved on-time delivery and saved $2M in projected costs by rescuing multiple failing IS integrations for acquisitions
  • Conducted detailed reviews of IS infrastructure and production systems and processes, eliminating delays, single points of failure, and other risks to production environment to meet user and customer expectations
  • Identified and eliminated risks to production environment pertaining to information systems both inside enterprise environment and between company and external providers, customers, and vendors.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Project Management

Colorado Technical University
2012

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • IT Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Data Center Migrations
  • IT Service Management
  • MS Project
  • MS Teams
  • MS Excel
  • MS Sharepoint
  • Disaster Recovery
  • IT Operations Management
  • Vendor Engagement

Timeline

IT Infrastructure M&A Senior Project Manager

NCR
02.2022 - Current

Senior IT Project Manager

Fiserv
07.2021 - 12.2021

Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Cree/Wolfspeed
01.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Project Manager

Conduent
11.2018 - 09.2019

Network Infrastructure Manager

ABB Inc
08.2016 - 01.2018

IT Service Delivery Manager

ABB Inc
01.2012 - 01.2016

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

ABB Inc
01.2008 - 01.2012

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Project Management

Colorado Technical University

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