Teil Blackshare

- Proactively identify, evaluate, and monitor potential operational risks. - Focus on IT and cybersecurity to safeguard sensitive data and systems. - Ensure business continuity through meticulous planning and preparedness. - Manage vendor relationships to ensure compliance and service quality. - Inform workforce policies that support risk management strategies. - Coordinate with physical security to protect assets and personnel. - Enhance operational resilience to enable a swift response to disruptions. - Manage Emergency Operations Center and crisis response efforts.

- Directed the Business Continuity Team, ensuring operational resilience. - Oversaw the Emergency Operations Center, coordinating crisis response efforts. - Handled comprehensive management of COVID pandemic challenges. - Addressed response and recovery phases for natural disasters. - Managed IT outage incidents, minimizing operational disruptions.

- Leadership: Guided a 27-member IT team, overseeing infrastructure and applications with a budget exceeding $10M. - Strategy: Crafted and executed the company's technology roadmap, ensuring resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness. - Healthcare Initiative: Spearheaded a program reducing costs by $20M annually while maintaining or enhancing benefits. - Business Intelligence: Developed a marketing solution that leveraged comprehensive data to boost revenue by $10M yearly. - Organizational Change: Shifted the company's perspective on technology from a cost center to a strategic asset. - Strategic Planning: Formulated and implemented the organization's first Enterprise IT Strategic Plan. - Project Management: Completed a $2M data center upgrade and relocation under budget and ahead of schedule. - Efficiency Improvement: Reorganized the IT department, fostering a positive culture and achieving a 15% increase in efficiency. - Cybersecurity: Established an enterprise-wide strategy, heightening workforce awareness and maintaining zero data breaches. - Additional Roles: Managed vendors, budgets, strategic planning, compliance audits, disaster recovery, and set standards and guidelines.

Manage a team of 50+ members covering 5 distinct service lines serving a 7200 member organization. Responsible for establishing strategic direction, managing resource utilization, budgeting and cost control, communication strategies, employee development and coaching, facility utilization, process improvements and organizational development. As a member of the senior management team also involved with overall strategic direction, planning and implementation of this non-profit organization with a 8.9 million dollar operational and 1.2 million dollar capital budget. Mission Possible Capital Campaign - Managed scope, requirements and design of a 12.4 million dollar capital expansion including 1.2 million dollar land acquisition, 75,000 square feet of space, 200+ parking spots, covered portico and covered walkway while managing communication to the members. Long Range Plan - Participated in strategic discussions involving the trajectory of the organization. The plan included: key operating principles, ministry focus, funding decisions and communication priorities to the members. Standards and Guidelines - Developed guidelines to better communicate member responsibilities, staff responsibilities and volunteer interaction. Established standards for event management, communication vehicles and calendaring.

Built and managed a profitable technology company with product and consulting divisions. Responsible for business development, strategic vision and planning, pricing strategies, client management, employee development and retention, resource utilization, revenue forecasting, market segmentation and overall company success. Client base included companies in energy distribution, gas and oil production, video transmission, food production, non-profit, education and other public and private entities. Company had 18 employees at its peak.

Managed projects for multiple customers and industries. In addition, managed team of certified PowerBuilder trainers providing a wide spectrum of training opportunities to the Tulsa region. Responsible for forecasting and budgeting for business unit, client management, growth strategies and profitability.

Analyst and developer on multiple computer systems supporting multiple accounting functions across the company. Selected as technical representative on a Business Process Re-engineering project spanning multiple cities redesigning critical business systems using new technologies.