Todd's Creative Design LLC

Todd's Creative Design LLC was founded, October 2006, as an experiment in order to demonstrate how to take an new idea from concept to reality. As inventor and management analyst, the new business plan was developed over time and included several research and rewrite iterations. The company implemented the business plan.
 

Kenneth Shelton
1647 Edgewater Court, Grafton, Wisconsin 53024
(414) 429-6742 or (262) 375-3441
ksheltoncpim@msn.com

Kenneth Shelton is a graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE); Rader School of Business (RSOB); Milwaukee, WI. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management, with Concentraion in Business Administration. He is Microsoft Certified Professional as well as Operations Management Professional; APICS CPIM. He has over thirty years experience with fifteen years in manufacturing and fifteen years information technology experience in enterprise, supply chain and distribution systems. He is an experienced Business Analyst, Applications Analyst, and Project Manager who deploys business processes by supervising organizations, motivating teams, and establishing client relationships.

 

Professional Experience

Entrepreneur
Todd’s Creative Design LLC (October 2006 – present)

Business Analyst / PeopleSoft Consultant / Management Analyst
Northwestern Mutual (RAVEEN Recruiting Solutions) (September 2004 – October 2005)

• Analyzed as staff augmentation, through RAVEEN Recruiting Solutions of Ohio, in order to troubleshoot their PeopleSoft implementation.
• Managed two business unit projects related to business process re-engineering, fact-finding, conducted affinity process interviews, developed various related technical diagrams, and wrote process documents in use-case or play-script style, and wrote end-user manuals as necessary.

Enrolled at Milwaukee School of Engineering (September 2003 – May 2006)

Business Analyst/Application Analyst /Quality Assurance Analyst/Project Manager
Catalyst International Inc. (April 1994 – July 2002)

• Implemented various Vantive and PeopleSoft modules using visual object studio based visual basic object oriented tools.
• Developed applications by defining fields, entities, records, table relationships, form pages and components as well as registering components and has tested each application and then confirmed integration stability and user acceptance performance.
• Experienced with most databases including Ingres, Oracle, Informix, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server at the command level as well as programming using embedded SQL transaction commit.
• Coded stored procedures for server side performance and coded shell scripts for data-migration purposes.
• Tens years experience updating customer data and reorganizing indexes as necessary supporting production environments.
• Led development and implementation of multiple projects across functional business units and client projects.
• Performed technical fit-gap analysis discovery, management analysis, programming, database, upgrades and deployment of Vantive Client Server and various PeopleSoft modules, Enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Quality, Sales and Marketing implementation projects.
• Provided in depth findings and best practices recommendations reports to information systems executive management.

Manager of Technical Customer Support/Programmer Analyst
Catalyst International Inc. (March 1988 – March 1994)

• Managed customer technical support staff including front-line supervision that generated $16 million annual revenue.
• Provided on-site support for large variety of client projects involving major upgrade of hardware and software elements. This included spending one week at each of fifteen US distribution centers for Chrysler.
• Set up all the networking communications hardware and installed the Catalyst WMS software for the new Chicago warehouse solely in one weekend.
• Provided maintenance programmer services and support for Catalyst Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
• Worked in C programming and development process, by editing source code statements, using C compiler and object linker to combine program statements with predefined routines to convert object files to executable programs that will run on specific hardware and operating system configurations.
• Corrected syntax errors as necessary and unit tested to confirm correct looping, error handling and breakout processing and preventing logic error conditions.
• Performed migration to deployment staging or integration testing platforms to validate and confirm programs are integrated together as designed.
• Extensive troubleshooting experience concerning technical support of live production environments for many unique Catalyst WMS clients over sixteen-year service. Reputation for seamless implementation effectiveness is well respected.

Materials Purchasing, Production and Inventory Operations Manager, Aircraft Instruments
Astronautics Corporation of America (March 1976 – March 1987)

Prior experience available upon request

Education

Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI (September 2003 – May 2006)
Bachelor of Science in Management; Honors; Creativity; and Technical Communication
Rader School of Business; Concentration in Business Administration

Almeda University, Boise, ID (September 2002 – October 2004)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Life-long Learning Professional Honors

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (September 1973 – May 1984)
Engineering Undergraduate, Engineering design, statistics, accounting,

Professional Training

• Website Design Series Certificate, Milwaukee School of Engineering: Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML, PHP

• Project Management Associate Certificate, Milwaukee School of Engineering: Sponsor, budget, charter, scope, work breakdown structure, status report, contingency, network scheduling, SWOT, PDCA, Porter’s five forces

• Individual Investor Training Certificates, Business Week Investor Education: Responsible investing education

• Microsoft Professional Certificates, IKON Technologies Corporation: TCP/IP, SQL, NT Server Admin

• Certificate in Computer Science, Milwaukee Business Training Institute, Honors: Programming languages.

• Certificate in Production and Inventory Control, APICS Operations Management Professional: Thirty years

Awards/Honors

• Silver Spoke Awards, Catalyst International, Inc: PeopleSoft Projects; 2000 / 2001

• America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals Honors; 2000 / 2001

• Strathmore’s Who’s Who Registry of Outstanding Professionals Honors; 1997 / 1999

• First Place Junior Division, Marquette University Science Fair; Plus education excellence award; 1969