Sheldon Fettig
Accomplished and versatile Senior IT Management professional with extensive experience in leading growing teams, process improvement, project management, and P&L. Focuses on customer success, operational efficiencies, security, and employee growth.
EXPERIENCE
Mar 2019 – Current, Cary NC
Senior Manager, Implementation, Hillrom
- Lead a group of Managers and Team leaders that cover implementation call center, remote server implementation, technical sales support, project management, new product readiness, wireless deployment, DoD RMF, and customer integrations
- Primary focus of this role is to improve operational efficiency across all technical services
- Provide leadership and guidance for the technical service team integration of a new business acquisitions
- Weekly reports on KPIs for implementation and implementation support center
- Guidance and execution management for the DoD Risk management framework of medical devices
- Leadership team member on internal security posture
- Collaborate with commercial marketing and sales for technical demo’s and trade shows.
- Manage contract, pricing and relationship with 3rd party vendors and business partners across the globe
- Technical leader for deploying products in emerging markets across the globe
- New product readiness (NPR) team manager
- R&D core team member as the services representative
- Confirm all products are ready for services to accept the product to be used for our customers
- Team handles all beta and limited availability product installs
- Validates all documentation is ready for services to install and service
- NPR Team trains the training team on all new products
- Track and manage all outstanding service related defects in software releases
- Design and deploy custom demo/test environments for customers
- Design enterprise solution roadmaps for large customer enterprises
- Collaborate with product management on product roadmaps for future features and design
- Lead specialty integration team for HL7, wireless devices, medical device middleware, and mobile device management
- Drive employee compliance in project time tracking, project cost, and training compliance
- Champion of change leadership for Technical Services organization
- Core team member of culture committee
2011 – 2019, St. Louis MO / Cary NC
Implementation Manager, Hillrom
- Promoted to this role as the first technical manager for implementation engineers
- This role’s primary focus in the beginning was to bring all the engineers up to a standard skill level and manage out the others
- Managed the engineer scheduling, expenses, revenue, process improvement, performance evaluations, and travel
- Technical lead for the implementation team and escalation point for all network, servers, software, and hardware being deployed in the field
- 100% field-based employees east of the Mississippi River
- In charge of month reporting of KPIs and engineer workload
- Track accountability for implementation revenue and margin
- Drive completion and project documentation closeout
- Lead a CAPA project for implementation issues (18 Months and 86 customers)
- Conducted all training for 12 new employees
- Managed all communication with customers
- Scheduled all resources
- Managed all deliverables for hardware and documentation
- Managed all costs associated with project to stay within budget
- (2016) Relocated to Cary office to start a new team of office-based engineers to reduce travel costs for the business.
- In a 2 year period, lowered per implementation travel by 30% while revenue increased by 15% over same period. This included new processes for Project Managers, Engineers, and Trainers.
2008 – 2011, St. Louis MO
Implementation Engineer, Hillrom
- Technical leader for all Care Communication products
- Trainer for new engineers
- Effective communication with customers and project managers
- Network configuration lead
- Server setup and troubleshooting
- SQL admin
- Software deployment
2005 – 2008, St. Louis MO
Network Engineer, Hillrom
- Field service leader for St. Louis area
- SME for legacy nurse call system
1999 – 2005, Fargo ND
IT Manager, Clinical Supplies Management
- Managed all areas of networking (DHCP, DNS, Routing, Wins)
- Managed all servers and workstation PCs
- Managed all IT and facilities projects
- Managed all Network gear (Cisco routers and HP Procurve switches)
- Managed Watchguard Firewall system including SOHO VPN and MUVPN (13 office locations)
- Team leader for all CFR part 11 Validations
EDUCATION
- McKendree University – 2017 – Masters of Business Administration
- Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society Member
- North Dakota State University – 2004 – Bachelor of Science
- American Chemical Society Certified Degree in Analytical Chemistry
- Vice President of the Chemistry Club
ACTIVITIES
- Habitat for Humanity – Volunteer 4-5 times per year
- VP of the Hampton Ridge Swim and Racquet Club
- Manage Pool technology, Facilities, and contracts with vendors
- Coach Youth Softball and Bowling
- President of the Raleigh area NDSU watch party group