larry@tremmel.com
209.869.3748 (Residence)
Qualifications for Senior Information Technology Specialist
Possesses
over 25 years’ experience planning and executing technical innovations for
companies, including expertise in start-up and international environments. Combines a strong background in product and
service development, information technology, business analysis, and program/project
management to improve organization and coordination. Delivers expertise in organizational
development by designing and ensuring quality for products and services that
create loyal customers.
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Decreased
costs over $2M by renegotiating an enterprise support agreement with Microsoft
Arabia.
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Eliminated
multiple projects with poor ROI, which dramatically reduced costs by developing
a new policy and process to evaluate and identify product/service investment
opportunities.
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Expedited
deployments from several months to less than 30 days by reengineering the
E1/leased-line provisions process with a vendor.
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Served as the
primary designer and developer for the creation of Ricoh’s suite of networked
multi-functional printers, scanners, fax machines, and copiers. (Three shared
US patents.)
Technical Director
DynCorp International
(
Technical Director for several large ($100 million plus) multi-site,
multi-year perimeter security projects for a government a VIP customer in
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During the period, I acted as program manager
during start-up phases, performing vendor evaluation, product and service
pricing, staff recruitment, and defining the critical customer training and
knowledge transfer strategy..
Senior Advisor
OmanTel
(
Designed
and established a department within an international, start-up organization by developing a three-year strategic business
plan after identifying departmental goals and needs, building and fostering
public and private partnerships and alliances, and identifying potential
corporate roadblocks involving the complex demands of privatization and market
liberalization. Utilized
external/internal market analysis, evaluation, and forecasting to better align
corporate practices to yield market growth.
Engineered and launched effective e-service and m-service product
strategies. Coordinated Eastern and
Western management personnel to facilitate more unified corporate processes and
objectives.
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Created
strong partnerships with the Royal Oman Police and a prominent bank to increase
the e-Purse functionality of the Oman national smartcard.
Senior Advisor
Saudi Telecom Company
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 1999-2003
Served as the
primary liaison for consultants
to facilitate better strategic planning, performance reporting, risk
management, business development, and capital allocation. Designed, documented, and trained personnel
on individual roles, responsibilities, and requirements as well as the
organizational structure for a new created Internet/Business Development
department. Directed a consulting team
to create and establish a strategic and annual plan to better align a large IT
company with its corporate functional requirements and objectives. Introduced a new metric evaluation to tool to
better monitor and improve IT initiatives.
Drafted corporate IT documents, including requests for proposals (RFPs).
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Increased
fiscal accountability by establishing a new frame contract model for
procurements.
CEO/Consultant Lawrence
Tremmel Inc. (Riverbank, CA) 1994-1999
Provided
P&L responsibility in addition to executive-level efforts for all
consulting operations. Created and supported relationships with new
clients, while maintaining and expanding contracts with the existing client
base. Communicated with key client
decision makers to deliver enhanced functionality, streamlined
configuration, and improved technical security for their systems. Directed and monitored all customer
relationships.
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Developed the
Microsoft network monitoring UMA software for a start-up company.
Senior Engineer
Novell
(San Jose, CA) 1989-1994
Led
a team developing a server-based network management product. Designed TCP/IP software to identify network
components and configurations.
Administered the full product development lifecycle, from conception
through testing, quality assurance, deployment, and integration.
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Increased
customer satisfaction and retention as well as reduced application bugs by
providing technical support for new products at customer beta testing sites.
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Migrated SNMP
software modules from a Unix to a NetWare environment.
Senior Engineer
NEC America
(
Designed
and developed network management products to support and enhance NEC’s T1
multiplexers. Led, monitored, and improved the software
development lifecycle. Interviewed,
hired, and trained product development personnel.
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Expedited the
application development process by coordinating multi-functional and
multi-cultural personnel while constantly evaluating performance to better
align efforts with project goals.
Languages/Networking: C, C++, Motorola/Intel microprocessor assembly
languages, Java, HTML, variety of Real Time operating systems, SPX/IPX, TCP/IP,
LAN/WAN communications, SNMP, UML development tools, SQL, ITIL, COBIT
Applications: Word, Acrobat, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Project, and Access, Lotus
Notes, Visio, UNIX applications.
M.B.A., Information Systems, Capella University
B.A., Liberal Arts, Rutgers University