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Milt Haynes

Location
naperville, IL (US)
Work Category
Information Technology
Interests
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Birthday
Sep 24th
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National BDPA President Announces New Lifetime Membership Program http://blacksgonegeek.blogspot.com/2010/06/national-bdpa-president-announcesnew.html

About Me

I have over thirty (30) years of Information Technology experience managing people, projects and technical resources in the feasibility, analysis, design, implementation, installation, deployment, and procurement for information technology products and telecommunications facilities.

I'm a sought after motivational speaker, coach and mentor and I have helped thousands advance their careers in IT. I'm the founder of Blacks Gone Geek, a social networking initiative dedicated to promoting Blacks in Technology. I use blogs, podcasts, wikis, Facebook groups, Yahoogroups and my web site, www.blacksgonegeek.org, to network with an online community of over 20,000 IT professionals.

Click this link http://blacksgonegeek.org/CareerCoaching.aspx for IT career coaching.

Work Experience

  • Jan 2006 - present
    abbott park, IL (US)
    IT Director
    Abbott Laboratories
    Responsible for IT innovation practice, business planning, strategic planning, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Business Planning, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management functions. Created IT innovation and business planning practice from concept to fruition with emphasis on developing business ideas into new IT products and services. IT strategic planning function includes directing efforts in aligning Abbott’s IT strategy with business strategies, formulating and communicating enterprise architecture roadmaps as well as identifying IT trends and business opportunities.

    Institutionalized Enterprise PMO function and leading practices in IT project portfolio management. Initiatives include IT portal design, engineering and content management utilizing web 2.0 social networking and knowledge management tools and techniques. Vendor Management and oversight providing access to IT industry researchers and analysts and a robust repository of IT research resources.
  • Feb 1997 - Jan 2006
    naperville, IL (US)
    PMO Manager
    Alcatel-Lucent
    Managing a Project Management Office (PMO) responsible for roll-out and support of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) Project Management Methodology and the Concerto Enterprise Project Management Tool. This PMO supports over 620 Project Managers, Resource Managers and Task Managers. Vendor Manager for a global, multi-discipline, cross-functional, vendor management team responsible for CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) end points for the Lucent Next Generation Solutions platform. Utilizing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.323 and IP Multimedia core network Subsystem (IMS) Compliant standards. Global Project Manager responsible for North American Region (NAR) release management and deployment of the iGEN Compact Switch developed in Brazil. Responsible for product offer realization and systems integration activities for all hardware, firmware and software components needed for the First Office Application (FOA) trial.

Education

  • 1975 - 1983
    Bachelor's - Computing Science
    Columbia University in the City of New York