Jeremy Godinger
Email: godinger@alum.mit.edu
Phone: +1.212.724.1502; Cell: +1.646.584.7570
Location: New York

Executive Summary: Hands-on Windows/Networking Architect with ten years of experience. Returning to industry after spending four years in China learning language, culture and working for personal and self-enrichment.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Feb 2006 - Dec 2006, Microsoft Corporation, Beijing, China
Program Manager (IT Regional Solutions)

• Drove smooth deployment and adoption of sales-related applications in the Greater China region. Served as an interface both for global IT as well as local business users and business representatives, helping facilitate communications between these different teams and persons. Represented local regional issues to global IT and solution developers, and helped with knowledge-transfer to business users. Key focus was CRM applications, including Siebel and related reporting tools and interfaces. Global Project Manager for a key CRM-related project, focusing on improving user's experience with CRM. This involved coordinating activities worldwide.
• As a Microsoft internal-IT employee, I was a beta-tester, early-adopter, and heavy user of many Microsoft technologies including Windows Vista, SharePoint, and Office 2007.
• Note: This was an opportunity to work in the field of IT in China while leveraging my bi-lingual language abilities. However, this position was less technical than what I am looking for now, as I am looking to return to infrastructure-related IT.

Feb 2003 - Jan 2006

• Chinese language and cultural studies in China
  

May 2000 - Jan 2003, Aelita Software Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Senior Technical Consultant, Sales Engineer

• Led pilot implementation for Exxon-Mobil's Windows NT to Windows 2000 domain migration project, and played key role in the migration design. The environment consisted of over 150,000 users and the pilot spanned international boundaries, including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, requiring efficient coordination of network administrators, managers, security personal and business units across the world from a central office in Malaysia.
• Presented at Microsoft technical seminars to audiences of up to 150, including various presentations abroad. Was selected to be videotaped for a distribution DVD that was given to thousands of Microsoft customers.
• Developed relationships with Aelita's largest customers, including Delta, Pepsi, and the US Government.
• Designed and implemented domain and e-mail migrations for large customers.
• In first year as a sales engineer, reached sales goal and made the company's President's Club.
• Received employee of the month award twice.

June 1997- Apr 2000, CIGNA Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
NT Architecture/Design team

• Designed Windows NT migration process for 5000 users as part of a time-critical project related to the sale of a division of the company and the separation of computer systems. The project was completed in three months, on schedule, with no major impacts, and involved training and managing three people to assist in the implementation.
• Developed unique process, using network monitoring software and hardware, to identify the percentage of users that were not running Windows NT-based logon scripts, which quantified a problem affecting the 40,000-user network and confirming a software bug on Windows NT server.
• Implemented database and set of reports on Year-2000 application certification, and received recognition for this work.
• Designed SQL database and associated Visual Basic application to keep inventory of NT servers.
• Other positions included LAN Support, Desktop Support, WAN Support and Software testing.

EDUCATION

1997-2000, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

• M.S. Computer Science; GPA: 3.93/4.0

1993-1997, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering; GPA: 4.6/5.0
• Varsity Baseball
  

Feb 2003 - Jan 2006, Chinese Language and Culture Studies, China

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• (Misc. consulting work) IT, database, and development support for translation company, Translation Aces. Migrated DOS-based accounting application, Q&A, that had been used for fifteen years on DOS and Windows 95 to Sesame Database Management System, which runs on Windows XP. This involved learning the Q&A database system, using software provided by Sesame to "translate" the database, determining incompatible back-end database code and updating such code, and completely re-writing the GUI and re-writing reports. Also worked with client to implement new functionality, and fully document the installation procedure. In addition to this work,served as consultant for general IT needs, such as hardware purchasing, network support, PC technical support, backup design, etc.