Herb Thompson

About Herb Thompson

Specialties: IT Leadership Process Improvement - Six Sigma Green Belt Project Management - PMP Portfolio Management Technical Architect

Experience

1. Sled Strategist

   Vmware

   Feb 2018 — Present · National, US

   At VMware, I work as a trusted advisor with VMware\'s State, Local and Education customers to provide insight in the value that VMware\'s integrated management platform can offer through reducing costs, improving security and easing the complexity of managing heterogeneous platforms. VMware builds intimate customer relationships to understand our customers business and offer solutions and 24*7 support to make sure our strategic partners have smooth operations. I work closely with our customers to build long term strategies to solve complex business issues. Working with Cities, counties and universities on their Smart Communities initiatives. Helping set strategy on managing the large influx of IOT devices across the full portfolio of government services. With the large number of customer visits have been able to share best practices across Cloud, Edge and IOT strategies.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  BS, Computer Science, Political Science

  1974 — 1977

• Wisconsin School of Business

  Green Belt in Six Sigma, Process Improvement and reengineering

  2007 — 2009

• Wisconsin School of Business

  Advanced Project Management, Program and Project Management

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Erp
• Business Planning
• Six Sigma
• Architectures
• Business Strategy
• Pmp
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Management
• Architecture
• IT Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Center
• Disaster Recovery
• Process Improvement
• IT Strategy
• Portfolio Management
• Business Analysis
• Enterprise Software