Zygmunt G. (Zig) Wiedemann
PO Box 64114
Sunnyvale, CA 94088-4114 --- (888) 208-2221 

Skills

Expertise

Achievements

Projects

Positions

Organizations

Education

Zig Wiedemann re-joined Huntington Mechanical Laboratories, Inc. in May 2000 as Chief Information Officer. He has more than 30 years of information technology, strategic planning, and production management experience in the manufacturing, financial, and entertainment sectors.  He also works as an independent consultant in the area of Technology Implementation to a varied group of corporate, educational, and not-for-profit organizations.

From May 1994 to May 2000, he served as a Senior Technology Implementation Consultant with American Business Solutions of Beverly Hills, CA. From 1991 to 1994, he was Director of Information Services for Breslauer, Jacobson, Rutman & Sherman the leading business management firm serving the entertainment industry. Prior to that, Mr. Wiedemann spent five years as an independent consultant designing, implementing, and managing database applications for manufacturing companies. 

From 1978 thru 1986 he held positions of Production Control Manager, Production Manager, and Manager of Information Services for Huntington Laboratories. He was responsible for planning, designing, and implementing Huntington Laboratories' initial information technology infrastructure, including database design, engineering CAD implementation, in-house publishing activities and business applications design and development. 

He holds APICS certification in Production Control and Inventory Management, is a Certified Data Professional, and a Certified Computer Programmer.  He earned his BSC degree in Business Administration/Finance from Santa Clara University and has completed the coursework for his Masters degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University.

 

"I am committed to utilize my unique organizational and information technology talents, training and experience to make a difference in organizational information effectiveness, I seek to work with goal oriented, principle motivated, progressive organizations. I contribute best in organizations which exhibit high levels of trust, integrity, and commitment to quality."

"In a world of increasing competition, instant communication, and dynamically changing environments the strategic importance of information technology is critical to an organization's success."

Skills:

bulletI Solve problems.
bulletI am service and stakeholder oriented.
bulletI Work successfully with users from the computer-phobic to the supremely, technically sophisticated.
bulletI Speak the languages of the timid uninformed user, the system architect, and everyone in between.
bulletPeople like telling me things, and I like listening.
bulletPeople learn from me and enjoy it.
bulletI understand and have successfully implemented and worked on mini-, micro-, and main-frame based systems and networks.

Greatest Expertise:

I make systems and networks responsive to user needs and users conformable with the technology.

In other words:

I make Systems, Networks & Organizations WORK, AND PEOPLE GLAD THEY DO.



Achievements:

bulletThe conceptualization, design, development, installation, training, maintenance and management of a diverse group of information systems and networks.

bulletMaximizing the usefulness of existing information systems and networks through careful consideration of key constituencies' needs, appropriate system modification and management, and effective user training and support.

bulletSpecifying, installing, training and maintaining local and worldwide, public and private access, electronic mail and communication services.

bulletMediating and resolving significant service issues and negative perceptions among end-users, IS technical staff, and third party software and service providers.

bulletMaintaining mission critical systems and networks on a 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week basis.



Current Projects and Interests:

bulletSurveying the various network access and tool providers.

bulletConsulting/Programming issues for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and its fit within the Internet structure ( EDIINT ).

bulletDevising and Improving EFFECTIVE e-Commerce initiatives; including designing World Wide Web sites and integrating them with existing internal computer systems (Intranets/legacy system).

bulletUtilizing the power of Appreciative Inquiry to unleash organizational and human potential.

bulletCompleting my thesis on the organizational considerations of information technology implementation.


Positions Held Include:

Information Technology Consultant Information Systems Mgr.
Organizational Development Consultant Production and Production Control Manager
Computer Operations Mgr. Personnel and Administrative Officer
Programmer/Analyst College Instructor
Actuarial Assistant Soda Jerk

Organizations I Have Worked With or For Include:

bullet800 Inc.
bulletThe Internal Revenue Service
bulletBeverly Hills Financial Group
bulletKarras
bulletBourns, Inc.
bulletSanta Clara (Calif.) Unified School District
bulletBreslauer, Jacobson, Rutman & Chapman, Inc.
bulletSenco Products
bulletBurke Industries
bulletSony Pictures Entertainment
bulletCoates, Hurfurth & England
bulletSpelling Entertainment Group, Inc.
bulletHartnell College
bulletSystron-Donner
bulletHuntington Mechanical  Laboratories, Inc.
bulletU.S. Army
bulletInter-Pacific Corporation
bulletWestern Union

Education Includes:

Bachelor of Science in Commerce (BSC)

bulletSanta Clara University 1970 (field of emphasis -- Finance)


Masters of Science in Organization Development (MSOD)

bulletPepperdine University (non-resident, executive program 1992-1996)
bullet(thesis emphasis -- Organizational Implications of Technology Implementation)

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