Michael Werick

About Michael Werick

Seasoned IT Executive with over 30 years of experience driving technology solutions and strategic initiatives. Expertise in ERP support and implementation, staff development, vendor relationship management, cybersecurity, and crafting impactful strategic plans. Strong background in manufacturing operations combined with a deep understanding of business dynamics, enabling effective alignment of IT solutions with organizational goals to drive growth and efficiency.

Experience

1. Senior Technology Manager

   Fives Intralogistics Corp

   Jan 2020 — Present · Louisville, KY, US

   Manage all technology functions, ensuring continuous growth with tripled headcount and sales while maintaining service levels and support through effective management of service providers and the internal team. • Built a strong relationship with our MSP, allowing the IT staff numbers to stay static while the company more than doubled in size in revenue and headcount. Recognized by MSP as an example of how to make a relationship work and benefit both sides. • Drove Cybersecurity knowledge and awareness by implementing Cyber creative activities and events. Dropped fake phishing caught rates from over 20% to 1%, while increasing cybersecurity posture with the implementation of an MDM, CISCO Umbrella DNS filtering, and EDR with 24 monitoring. • Enhance SAP support by identifying and utilizing internal and external resources, boosting ERP functionality and usage, and developing expertise in SAP applications, configuration, and ABAP report writing. Developed additional internal support staff. • Formulate and implement a strategic technology plan encompassing staffing, applications, and infrastructure. • Achieved a 30% reduction in IT budget via strategic vendor management, optimized equipment procurement, and service adjustments, maintaining organizational performance.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

• University of Pittsburgh

  MSIS, Information Science

Skills

• Project Management
• Business Process Design
• Data Warehousing
• Sap Erp
• Business Process
• Sapscript
• Business Intelligence
• Software Project Management
• Abap
• Sap Bw
• Systems Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Continuous Improvement
• Six Sigma
• Sap R/3
• IT Management
• Erp
• Master Data Management
• Integration
• Data Migration
• Business Objects
• Enterprise Architecture
• Manufacturing
• Sap Products
• Sap Mm
• Sap
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Requirements Analysis
• Sap Implementation
• IT Strategy
• Management