Michael Austin

About Michael Austin

An enthusiastic, multi-disciplined professional seeking to be an integral member of a progressive organization that prizes personal integrity, leadership performance and outstanding results. Demonstrated abilities to create and maximize business partnerships. Managed the development activities on an $11.3M investment with an external business partner, creating an environment where projected sales are forecast to exceed $100M. Improved bottom line performance by managing a strategic in-sourcing effort that created bottom line saving of $8M annually, while retaining intellectual capital. Built a PMO from ground up, utilizing PMBOK standards, providing improved schedule, cost and effort controls, while allowing resource managers to improve the staff competencies. Global reach, managing staff up to 600 FTE in 5 US locations, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Romania, India, Australia and Singapore, through direct and matrixed relationships. Served in many leadership positions within the organizations, participating on the CAPEX and Audit & Compliance committees, the Executive Leadership Council, the Product Solutions executive management team, and served as the Divisional CIO for 3 different business units.Specialties: Banking and Financial Service Industry, Domestic & Offshore Contractor Management, Distributed Systems Integration, Six Sigma & Process Ownership, Financial Systems & Processes, Item Processing Systems, Large Mainframe Systems, Systems Integration, Customer Needs Analysis, High Volume Transaction Processing Systems, Team Building & Leadership, Business Partnerships

Experience

1. Sustitute Teacher

   Omaha Public Schools

   Jul 2025 — Present

Education

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  Computer and Information Sciences, General

  1972 — 1973

• Bellevue University

  B.S., Management Information Systems - Summa Cum Laude

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Business Process
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Information Technology
• IT Service Management
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Analysis
• Strategy
• Enterprise Architecture
• Systems Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Data Warehousing
• Project Delivery
• IT Management
• Business Analysis
• Visio
• Software Development
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Contract Negotiation
• Operations Management
• Budgets
• Customer Analysis
• Ms Project
• Agile Project Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Outsourcing
• IT Strategy
• Great Motivator
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Project Management
• Six Sigma
• Requirements Gathering
• Disaster Recovery
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership