Ward Sandahl:
CLASS OF 1966
St. Andrew's High SchoolClass of 1966
Sewanee, TN
Florida Institute of TechnologyClass of 1969
Melbourne, FL
Lakeland High SchoolClass of 1965
Lakeland, FL
Southwest Junior High SchoolClass of 1962
Lakeland, FL
Dixieland Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Lakeland, FL
Ward's Story
Life
My wife: Patricia Patrick
My Pets
Barney - solid black Labador
Buffy - solid white Pekinese
My Kids
Richard and Ingrid
Richard - Bud Man
Ingrid - persuing Masters in Nursing- Degree in Emergency Medicine
My Job
Service Area Manager - IBM - Federal Practice travel world wide
Workplace
Professional Profile
Mr. Sandahl is a consultant in IBM Supply Chain Consulting Practice. His focus resolves around assisting clients who are implementing PSDIÂs Maximo and SAP with in the maintenance arena. He has over thirty years experience, in both the private and governmental arena in fleet management, aviation, plant maintenance, and financial budgeting. He has over twent years of hands-on experience selecting and implementing information systems. He has demonstrated effectiveness in interpersonal communications, team-oriented relationships, and strong organizational, analytical and planning skills. He has consulted for maintenance clients in the fleet, parts inventory, workflow process, retail industry, procurement and service management oriented areas.
Professional Experience
Mr. Sandahl has led teams defining business requirements,
re-engineering business processes, developing and implementing automated solutions. His operational experience has proven to be an asset to his clients in understanding and working with personnel on their problems and solutions. He has utilized proven industry methodologies to achieve clients' goals or assessments, system selections, and implementations.
He has worked with corporate and teams at a large Fortune 500 Waste Hauling Businesses. The project produced a set of implementation plans for the roll-out of a new CMMS system in five hundered and fifty sites. The sample plans included, detailed implementation, Cost, Training, Resource, customer routing, Data Conversion, etc.
He completed an engagement at a snack foods corporate headquarters implementing a new CMMS product....Expand for more
He worked with corporate and site teams in building an implementing guide, based on Best Practices, which will be used at additional sites during the corporate roll out. He also helped develop their internal educational program for use at the site implementation.
One of his recent engagement was to design and present an overall CMMS Implementation 4.6C for a Global Fortune 500 Fleet. The implementation of an ERP Plant Maintenance, Material Management and procurement is planned for a roll out to over a thousand sites in the US plus several sites in Canada. The project includes the development of Corporate configuration, working with a large corporate Core Teams selected from around the country. Mr. Sandahl was part of the clients design, Blue Print and Realization phases which was a selection of the processes and the decision to utilize an Âe business approach.
His most recent engagement was to be part of the design team of a CMMS Implementation 4.6C for the US Army. The implementation of an ERP Plant Maintenance andProcurement system is being implemented Globally. Mr. Sandahl was part of the clients Realization and Go-live phases which went live August 2003.
Education and Additional Training
Mr. Sandahl attended Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL. He has a strong Electrical Engineering background with emphsis in the computer software area. He attended Aerospace Technical Institute where he obtained his commercial pilots rating and took courses in A & P. In his earlier career, in fleet management, he has been recognized as an inovative designer of fleet systems and proceedures.
- SAP Materials Management ver. 3.1 Â 6.0
- Dbase
- SAP Plant Maintenance ver. 3.1d  6.0
- Access 97 / 2003
- Oracle EAM
- Ron Turley Fleet Maintenance
- Management Training
- Purchasing Training
- Lotus Notes
- PSDI Maximo 4.0
- Lotus 1-2-3
- DataStream
- WBI
- Remedy 5.5, 6.0
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