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Management

As a service company, NAVIGIST|group recognizes that people are our "intellectual property" and the depth of this value starts at the top with management.

Craig Michaelis - CEO, President, and Founder
Resume

Over 20 years of Information Technology (IT) experience ranging from programming to network design & systems integration to project management.  Platform experience ranges from IBM Mainframes to Intel-based servers/desktops.

> Product and project management services for an eSupport system focused on streamlining the management of the end user’s computer environment.
> Acting CIO for a $1 billion semiconductor manufacturing company.   Key objectives at the time were to stop the exiting of additional IT staff through team building, migrate the computing environment, including ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, to Y2K compliant levels, and transition department to new full time CIO, once hired.
> Developed course materials for Cisco Systems, which focused on training Cisco resellers on the proper methodology for designing and proposing Cisco-based network solutions for the small to medium size market space which at the time was dominated by 3Com
> Developed multiyear technology plans for a medium size semiconductor company, an international software development firm, and a California municipality.
> Designed and planned a migration from an Apple peer-to-peer network to a NT Workstation/Server network for a medium size investment banking firm (Hambrecht & Quist, LLC).
> Designed and managed the implementation of a private dial-in network which provided both terminal and client/server access to a new regional-based real estate MLS system.  Solution covered the entire San Francisco Bay Area and provided 500 concurrent local access modem connections for approximately 13,000 real estate agents.  Scope of work was extended to include the management of Tandem Systems, Inc. in order to expedite a resolution associated with the Tandem mainframe’s inability to support the high volume of users and database queries.
> Managed a marketing and technical team to develop an Internet strategy plan.  The focus of the plan was to provide direction for the company on how to leverage the Internet as a channel to increase sales and awareness on the health and medicinal values of spirulina.  The plan covered establishing Internet partnership relationships to reach medical practitioners and their patients, as well as the general consumer.  Furthermore, the plan addressed technical & business operation issues related to establishing an ecommerce web site and budget required to deliver and manage such a system.