About Mike Weinkrantz

Dynamic PMP and CSM certified professional with continued demonstrated success in managing strategic information technology projects involving multiple workstr...

Mike Weinkrantz's Work History
Company

President - CEO

Mike Weinkrantz Consulting
Sep 2016 - Present
Independent consulting firm providing professional IT advisory, relocation and project management services.
Company

Senior Consultant

Cs Technology
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Provide IT advisory and consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. Manage complex, high risk technology consulting engagements delivering projects successfully by integrating quickly with IT staff and business unit representatives to determine and align IT specifications with business requirements. Recent Projects: Government Sponsored Mortgage Company Migration lead: Reviewed current state of the client’s data center portfolio and provided a detailed strategy to meet space and power consumption reductions required to facilitate shuttering of an existing data center by migration of compute assets from Virginia to an existing Maryland location. Provided leadership to the migration execution team, coordinating all planning and scheduling efforts for migrations. Present migration plans to stakeholders, CTO, and business units, develop and manage migration-reporting dashboards. Leading a team of 5 consultants coordinating the efforts of client and 3rd party vendor resources performing the actual migration program. Fortune 1 Retail Company Member of a consulting team providing thought leadership and strategic insight to assist the client with development of an enterprise grade cloud environment solution. Reviewed existing shared services intake and order fulfillment processes and identified inefficiencies and opportunities for reduced delivery time and increased customer satisfaction. Defined target deliverables to be used as a road map for cloud based development initiatives based on current workload and orders. Led a team developing the user experience (UX) criteria for a new internally facing web site to be used for ordering shared services including PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
Company

Senior Project Manager

Cablevision
Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
Manage project life cycle, develop business and functional requirements, coordinate staffing requirements, maintain project budgets while working closely with business planning and the contact center management teams to define deliverables and schedule.
Company

Project Manager

Cablevision
Jul 2011 - Feb 2013
Managing projects for customer facing applications and systems. Including roll out of wifi services to subscribers across multiple MSOs, voice infrastructure and IP based streaming video projects .
Company

President

Shorewood Technology
Jan 2009 - Jul 2011
Information technology Consulting Firm Specializing in Project Management, IT infrastructure and corporate relocation planning. Provided PM services to Cablevision corp.
Company

Senior Technology Consultant

Pts
May 2006 - Dec 2008
Senior project manager for IT relocation, infrastructure build and review,BCP,and upgrades. Specializing in trading floor telephony and network infrastructure including VoIP, Turrets, private lines, carrier services, LAN, and WAN. PTS is a rapidly expanding professional services firm located in mid town Manhattan.
Company

Senior Project Manager

Constantin Walsh Lowe
May 1998 - Apr 2006
Senior project manager for IT relocation, infrastructure build and reveiw,BCP,and upgrades. Specialiazing in trading floor telephony and network infrastructure including VoIP, Turrets, private lines, carrier services, LAN, and WAN. Standard Project Responsibilities: Technology Needs Analysis Develop Budget. Review existing and future technologies for implementation. Generate project schedule. Space Planning Determine square footage. Specify carrier access routes. Specify riser and station cable routing. Design data center and TR room layout Determine HVAC and electrical loads. Provide schematic room layout. Bid Phase Identify vendors. Generate and issue RFPs. Evaluate and level responses. Negotiate contracts and develop statements of work (SOW). Maintain budget. Implementation: Coordinate schedule milestones. Manage vendor deliveries and implementation. Manage CWL project team ranging from 2 –10 members.
Company

CIO

Westcom
Jan 1997 - Apr 1998
Retained to restructure the information systems and develop the technology strategy to drive the aggressive growth targeted for 1998 and beyond. Responsibilities encompassed all functional areas of IT, including applications development, strategic planning, project management practices, quality assurance, testing and infrastructure. Primary deliverables: Upgrade of existing infrastructure system to allow for rapid expansion. Coordination of field service staff. Development of central database to migrate from existing paper records. Manage relocation of corporate offices to larger space.
Company

Senior Technology Consultant

Cs Technology
Jun 1995 - Jan 1997
Senior consultant for IT relocation, infrastructure build and reveiw,BCP,and upgrades. Specialiazing in trading floor telephony and network infrastructure including VoIP, Turrets, private lines, carrier services, LAN, and WAN. Projects including site selection studies, data center relocations and new corporate headquarters builds.
Company

Director of Telecom and Infrastructure The Americas

Banque Paribas
Jan 1992 - Jun 1995
Director of operations and engineering staff for support of Telecom, network and market data operations for mid size banking/trading firm. Supported 250 trading positions, plus back office in NY as well as satellite offices throughout the US and South America.
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Mike Weinkrantz's Expertise
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Dynamic PMP and CSM certified professional with continued demonstrated success in managing strategic information technology projects involving multiple workstreams and stakeholders, along with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels from the CIO to the systems administrator. Excellent interpersonal, leadership and mentorship skills providing direction and guidance to cross functional teams developed in my extensive career in the IT industry. Adept at moving quickly and effectively between projects, defining project specifications, goals, and deliverables as well as improving operating efficiencies and initiating cost reduction programs. Able to leverage a diverse background in operations management and system installations to quickly understand the priorities and impacts of programs and projects to ensure minimal disruption to ongoing operations. Specialties: Subject matter expert in the following areas: • Infrastructure design and implementation • Data center migrations • Server and application migration planning and application to infrastructure mapping • IT business alignment • Process design • Risk mitigation and business continuity • Vendor selection and negotiation
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Program/Project Manager | Corporate and data center relocation specialist
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Mike Weinkrantz's Education
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Hofstra University

Hofstra University Bachelor's Degree , Psychology

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