Patricia (Pat) Entesari

Education: Master of Science (MS) in Management and Administrative Sciences

IS/IT Management and Consulting

The University of Texas at Dallas

2000 : 2002

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Computer Science

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Experience: 2022 : Present

Western Governors University

Program Mentor for IT Cybersecurity

Pat Entesari has twenty+ years of professional experience in the computer-information arena as a manager, team leader, consultant, employee and teacher. Several of her jobs have been for Fortune 500 firms and she has repeat clients. She is highly skilled in project management, multi-tasking, data analysis and client interfacing.

Sample of Clients :

Supervisor of Elections, Orlando, FL

Short-term project involving facilitating 2020 General Election. Duties included Tech support and software build of Windows tablets and Voting Tabulators, ePoll Worker training support, delivering and testing elections equipment, Absentee ballot processing, Early voting and Election Day support.

Davis College, Online

Developing several courses to be taught online for students residing in Hong Kong.

WGU (Western Governors University), Online

As a SME, developed several new courses for WGU's Computer Science and CyberSecurity Bachelors degrees.

Cisco Systems, Orlando, FL

Team manager for set up, support and tear down of entire Cisco network for the major Cisco Live! 2013 event in the Convention Center and two hotels.

J. C. Penney’s, Dallas, TX

- Extended the life of Financial Profit Planning applications writing new Visual Basic code interfacing MS Access ETL of IBM DB2 data.

UTD International Student Services, Dallas, TX

Led a programming project team that created an advanced MS ACCESS application for all interactions with International Students accepted to the University.

Custom-Corner, Dallas, TX

Assumed a consulting role for all networking decisions of this innovative home decorating company. Installed and configured Windows & IIS web server, setup security for the network, trained System Administrator, etc.

Exxon-Mobil Oil, Dallas TX, Washington DC area

Programmer/analyst and mentor to IS developers. Added electronic payment systems to mainframe applications.

Dallas, TX - Applications developer to several Defense Contracting firms.

1986 : 2022

Various IS/IT Contracts -

Security Expert, Application Developer, Project Lead, Network Manager

- Brought curriculum up-to-date for next generation of IT professionals by leading many teams in designing and developing new course content within eCollege LMS.

- Guided teams made of both internal and external SMEs from around the world.

- Produced video training content and developed practical labs based on experience and research of newer technologies and trends. Worked with all professors on projects to better our programs and work with our students to be successful.

- Hired and mentored adjunct professors for technical curriculum.

- Attained Cisco CCNA and CCAI certifications to teach in the Cisco Network Academy.

- Spearheaded and taught Senior Projects involving all student disciplines with engineering students designing a new product, business & graphic arts students enhancing and marketing it, with IT students creating supporting network infrastructure, web presence and applications.

- Courses taught have centered on information technology, information security, databases and programming with some courses involving Project Management.

2000 : 2016

DeVry University

Professor / Technology Chair

- Project Manager for Accounts Receivable IMS COBOL application which handled 600 accounting clerks and processed in excess of $1 Million per day. Utilized mainframe toolsets, wrote and analyzed data using SAS. Led programming team of 8 developers.

- Lead support analyst for Datastream's MP2 3-tier client-server industrial facility software used in all US manufacturing plants.

- Oracle reports in PL/SQL were written for several manufacturing plants and a DB2 application was written.

- Trained on the AS/400 and assisted with the upgrade to the RSCS OS/400 environment.

- Coder/DB expert on a development of an application being used in several countries. This client/server system spanned an OS/2 workstation with EASEL, M/F Cobol, DB2/2 server and in-house written C software to upload/download data & transactions in real-time to IMS and DB II on an IBM mainframe. National Language (NLS) utilized in the coding standards to handle multiple languages, monies, and date/time formatting.

1994 : 1999

PepsiCo - Frito Lay

Consultant and Project Analyst

- Managed/led several large application systems and kept teams on schedule and budget tracking with MS Project. Four teams totaling 34 employees were managed.

- Interfaced with our mortgage company customers, taxing authorities and insurance companies working on applications such as changing year-end reporting for IRS regulations and Escrow Analysis and Reporting.

- Developed major parts of the systems development methodology and functioned as a LAN administrator working with Novell Netware.

1991 : 1994

Lomas Information Systems

Senior Group Manager / Team Leader / Systems Analyst

Company: Western Governors University

Years of Experience: 38