Hot Tech Projects: SAP Implementations, Microsoft Upgrades

Company

Location

Project/s

Ace Hardware

Oak Brook, IL

Implementing SAP for retail. Donna McIntyre, IT Business Analyst is working on the project. 

Anadarko Petroleum

The Woodlands, TX

Migrating to Windows 7 under the management of David Bell, IT Project Manager. Completed a global conversion from PeopleSoft to SAP HCM. Seth Stevens, Manager, Global Business Systems & HR, was responsible for managing the conversion.

Avnet

Phoenix, AZ

Two months into the deployment of Workday HR. Copmany is rolling out the Workday service to 7,000 employees in the Americas, and will then consider a global rollout. Steve Phillips, CIO, is overseeing the project. Phillips is also leading the company's pilot Bring Your Own Device program in which they will give employees an allowance to buy a phone, email service, data and voice plan. They manage each device using Good Technology software. 

Belk

Charlotte, NC

Chooses SAS Integrated Merchandise Planning, Size Optimization, Demand Forecasting for Retail, Merchandise Financial Planning, and Merchandise In-Season Management. Mike Laurenti, Chief Information Officer, was involved in the selection.

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Bay Shore, NY

Implementing Solarwind's Network Monitoring System.

Brown & Toland Medical Group

San Francisco, CA

Selected the Allscripts Community Record to deliver end-to-end information connectivity for its 1,500 physicians serving 335,000 Bay Area patients.

Charming Shoppes

Bensalem, PA

In the midst of replacing its Campaign Management platform with a Unica platform, including Unica Campaign, Unica Optimize, Unica eMessage, and Unica Interact.

Citrix

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Deployed Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. Dimitri Mundarain, Manager, Data Center Operations oversaw the project. He also replaced Citrix's SAP global services with a fully redundant HP SuperDome complex, partitioned with HPUX for the back end, and 64-bit Windows OS serving the application thru a Citrix Presentation Server farm front end. In addition, Mundarain oversaw a full data center relocation to a Tier-1 Network Access Point. 

City of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Will begin rolling out public Wi-Fi access along Market Street, from the Castro district to the Ferry Building, in December. Jon Walton, Acting CIO, is leading the initiative. The city also has developed a mobile app that allows users to access content from sfgov.org on Android & Apple smartphones. Ron Vinson, Director, Media IT, led this project.

Core-Mark International

South San Francisco, CA

Selected Descartes' advanced telematics and driver compliance solutions to improve use of its mobile assets.

Department of Homeland Security

Washington, DC

Awarded ManTech a $5.9 million contract to provide systems engineering, regulatory compliance, and testing services in support of the congressionally mandated Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technology Act of 2002.

Enbridge Gas Transportation / Enbridge Offshore

Houston, TX

Glenn Fullerton, Manager, Enterprise Architecture, is expanding social media, integrated product suites and consumerization using Outlook, Sharepoint, OCS, and Identity Management.

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center

Danville, KY

Coleman James, IT Applications Analyst, is upgrading workstations from Windows 2000 to XP.

Exxon Mobil

Irving, TX

In a business process redesign and applications consolidation effort, Richard Fordan, IT Project Manager, is leading a team to retire a legacy mainframe-based financial application and migrate users to SAP ECC 6.0.

Frontier Airlines

Denver, CO

Working on deploying a new version of Frontier Airlines.com. Nagesh Anupindi, Senior Director of Branded Technology Strategy & Execution, is overseeing the project.

Frontier Communications

Stamford, CT

Completed a successful pilot of Windows 7, and is migrating to Windows 7 & Office 2007. Jim Pawluckie, Supervisor, Technical Services, is involved with the migration.

Furniture Brands International

St. Louis, MO

Implementing SAP. David Halpin, Project Manager of SAP Blueprint, is involved with the implementation.

General Motors

Detroit, MI

Piloting Google Apps for a possible migration from Lotus Notes.

Georgia Gulf

Atlanta, GA

Steven Martin, ERP Applications Architect, is overseeing a Workday HCM & Benefits implementation. 

Gerber Scientific

South Windsor, CT

Beth Soulier, SAP Business Analyst, is leading a SAP Business Intelligence front end implementation with SAP CRM.

Gerdau Ameristeel

Tampa, FL

Kin Cook, Manager, IT Strategic Sourcing, is responsible for a nationwide contract for consolidation of local telephony service lines. Cook is also responsible for transitioning data center infrastructure, servers, network and security systems to a new IBM facility. Multiple physical and virtual servers will be moved, and a third party service desk, security, and compliance processes will be integrated. Meanwhile, Eric Sause, Director, SAP HCM Deployment, is working on a Global implementation of all SAP 6.0 HCM modules.

Getty Images

Seattle, WA

Emily Ireland, Manager, Technology Services, PMO, is implementing ITIL.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Los Angeles, CA

Colin St. Rose, SharePoint Administrator, is leading a project to install an enterprise-wide Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 environment.

Gilead Sciences

Foster City, CA

Giorgio Grasso, Associate Director, IT, is involved in the specification and testing of Oralce Supply Chain modules, OM, Inventory and AR of Oracle EBS r.12.

Harris Corporation

Melbourne, FL

Michael Higgins, Chief Information Security Officer, is overseeing a $10 million security enhancement project.

Harris County Hospital District

Houston, TX

Bill Bowker, Manager, IS/Field Services, is responsible for a Windows 7 Upgrade. Bowker also recently deployed Wyse Thin Client Infrastructure and Support Systems, as well as a work-from-home solution.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Wellesley, MA

In the midst of a Joint PMO & Agile Scrum methodology implementation to replace core systems over a five-year period. Michael Hurst, Manager, PMO & BP Implementation, is overseeing the initiative.

Hasbro

Pawtucket, RI

Ed Ward, Senior Technical Analyst is working on server and workstation virtualization with Vmware.

Houston Healthcare

Warner Blvd, GA

Selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital.

Humana

Louisville, KY

Will expand its relationship with Interactions Corporation to streamline member enrollment for Medicare Part D benefits using Interactions' voice portal technology.

IASIS Healthcare

Franklin, TN

Jay Simmons, Director of Physician Information Services, is responsible for the implementation of NexGen EHR & McKesson Practice Plus PM. The organization is also implementing the McKesson Suite of products including HPP, HED, HOM, HEO, HMM, HSM, & HLAB. Cynthia Szymanski, Clinical Application Support, is involved with the implementation.

Johnson & Johnson

New Brunswick, NJ

In the midst of a technology refresh & data center consolidation initiative.

Level 3 Communications

Broomfield, CO

In the midst of a computing, data center virtualization & consolidation project. This initiative includes data center transformation, optimization, server virtualization, consolidation, enterprise storage, enterprise backup, and recovery. Gerald Carr, Director of Global Technical Infrastructure Architecture Design & Solutions, is responsible for this initiative.

Morguard Corporation

Mississauga, ON

Maria Aiello, Chief Information Officer, is working with Deloitte to develop a three-year IT strategy. Aiello is also leading an implementation of Argus Lease CRM.

Plymouth Rock Assurance

Boston, MA

Jeremy Deane, Director of Research & Architecture, is leading a team of principal architects working on enterprise and application architecture initiatives including Rich Internet Applications, Identity & Access Management, Data Management & Service Oriented Architecture.

Progressive Insurance

Mayfield Village, OH

Raymond Voelker, CIO, is looking to undertake a major infrastructure simplification project.

Rice University

Houston, TX

Has implemented the Azimuth Systems ACE MX Channel Emulator.

Russell Investments

Tacoma, WA

Laura Johnson, Global Project Manager, Technology, is leading an initiative to implement a Virtual Desktop solution for Russell off-shore business units.

Safeway

Pleasanton, CA

Roberto Bondoy, Project Manager, IT Risk Management & Systems Development, is leading a labor forecasting and scheduling optimization project.

State of Delaware

Dover, DE

In the midst of retiring five Lotus Notes applications. When completed, the public search will be replaced by Java. Parthiban Jayaraman, Team Leader, Application Delivery, is overseeing the migration. In addition, Kamlesh Sheth, Manager, ERP Service Delivery, is overseeing an upgrade to PeopleSoft v9. The state government also is in the midst of a Carvel Network/Phone Upgrade overseen by Colleen Gause, Team Leader, Telecommunications. 

Target

Minneapolis, MN

Jessica Madson, Project Manager, IT is managing a Windows 7 conversion project through deployment.