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Gerald Van Dielen

Are you looking for an experienced project manager? I am Gerald Van Dielen, an experienced IT Professional located in Saint Louis, MO ready to meet your companies needs.

Gerald Van Dielen is a PMI and ITIL Certified IT Project Manager with hands-on experience with full life-cycle program management, Infrastructure Project Management, Application Service Management, and Process Integration. Gerald Van Dielen is certified in the following areas. CAIT CAIT, Professional Certificate for Project Management                   2010 CAIT – Graduate Certificate in Project Management                        December 2010 CAIT/HP – ITIL Mid-Level Certificate in IT Service Management April 2011  Project Management Institute Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)  ITIL Foundations Certificate ITIL Service Transition Certificate ITIL Continuous Service Improvement Certificate ITIL Service Operations Certificate  Six Sigma Yellow-Belt Certification  

Gerald Van Dielen's Background

Gerald Van Dielen's Experience

Problem Management Consultant at IBM

January 2012 - November 2012 | Saint Louis, MO

Continuous Service Improvement Consultant at IBM/Sara Lee. Currently working on Incident Resolution and Bakery Application Incident Management for all Mobile Sales and Manufacturing/Distribution applications. • Provided Application Service Transition Leadership and Support Process Training. • Responsible for Vendor Mobile Service (HW/SW) Coordination and Escalation. • Performed Problem Management analysis (Pareto Analysis) to identify improvement opportunities on mean-time-to-repair. • Performed Configuration Management on Mobile Architecture. • Reviewed and updated operations and support knowledge management and configuration tools, including break-fix cause categorization. • Performed Level-3 analysis on Incidents as needed (Mobile Sales, DEX, SBT, etc.).

Business Analyst / Project Manager at Charter

December 2011 - January 2012 | Saint Louis, MO

Consulted with Charter Communications SPMO to assess 2012 Capital Projects (12/11 – 1/12) • Completed chartering process and requirements documentation and vendor selection for project to develop video-asset search tool for national distribution. • Completed charter process and requirements documentation for Charter Business sales automation and provisioning tool.

Sr. Project/Portfolio Manager at Sara Lee Corporation

May 2002 - July 2010 | Saint Louis, MO

• Served as Executive Liaison for Bakery Portfolio Management (Budget impact of new initiatives, ETC, EAC) • Assessed IT and business process integration cost for acquisition of Butterkrust Baking (Sudbury, PA). • Assessed IT and business process integration cost for International Baking (Los Angeles, CA). • Planned and managed Project to replace hardware and application architecture for 4434 route operators. o This was a 2-year, $15M capital project and it was delivered on time. o We also implemented SAP XI and Websphere MQ interfaces to support mainframe-to-server data transfer. o Designed and implemented SAP to CommonStore link for storing images of 60,000 paper invoices per day, saving $200K per year in paper storage. o Wrote procurement requirements and managed the supply contracts for 5000 Motorola 9094 mobile computers • Managed Project to consolidate EDI translators for all Sara Lee divisions. • Managed the insourcing of all Sara Lee Value-Added-Network messaging contracts to an AS2 solution, which resulted in a $250K annual savings in EDI services. • Managed the migration of all EDI partnerships to implement GTIN. • Managed the integration of Sara Lee International Baking to corporate systems. Terminated all vendor contracts to the subsidiary, which saved $1M annually in HW/SW maintenance and IT labor. • Designed Sara Lee IT Controls and Processes for SARBOX compliance, including SAP transport migration automation tool. • Developed support training, call flow and SLAs for field sales processes, which provided transition support without increasing support staffing.

PMO Program Manager at Earthgrains

July 1996 - May 2002 | Saint Louis, MO

• Served as Executive Liaison for total IT Portfolio Management (Budget impact of new initiatives, ETC, EAC). • Designed and staffed the SAP Training Center to support SAP MM, PC, AM, PM modules. • Managed and prioritized portfolio and resource schedule for all IT development projects. • Managed the Metz Bakery systems acquisition integration and hardware (AS400 to MVS, AIX and MS Net) migration, saving $3M annually in HW/SW maintenance and IT labor. • Managed web solution for product data publication and synchronization with Wal-Mart, which accelerated new product approval process. • Managed all master data control record and report changes for all internal sales organization changes, including Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence. • Implemented RFID solution for refrigerated and fresh bakery at warehouse and back office system, which made Sara Lee one of first 5% of Wal-Mart vendors to comply with their pilot. • Created and staffed the Ariba call-center for indirect purchasing automation, saving $500K in field labor.

Gerald Van Dielen's Education

Saint Paul School of Theology

1979 – 1982

MDiv

Concentration: Social Change, Ethics


University of Arizona

Bachelor of Secondary Education

Concentration: English


Gerald Van Dielen's Interests & Activities

cooking, music, piano, politics, religion,

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