Ken Engstrom

Ken Engstrom

Systems Specialist

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director of Financial Analysis at Stinson LLP

  • Education

    • DePaul University

      1992 - 1998
      BS Computer Science, Information Services Certificate of High Honors
  • Experience

    • Gilson Labus & Silverman

      May 1990 - Apr 1996
      Systems Specialist
    • Blackman Kallick Plante Moran

      May 1996 - Sept 2012
      Director of Information Systems and Financial Systems

      Direct all aspects of technology for a 250-member firm, including management of a five person staff and alignment through a comprehensive technology plan and technology committee. Recent projects include Universal Communications, Social Networking, Print Reduction, Secure Client Portals and Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence.

    • Data Fusion Technologies

      Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
      Senior Consulting Manager

      Development, upgrades, training and support of Elite Enterprise, WebView, Extend and Whitehill ... including custom VBA programming, custom reports, custom bill and proforma presentation and custom interface development.

    • Wilson Legal Solutions

      Mar 2013 - Sept 2016
      Senior Consultant

      Consulting on many topics throughout the Thomson Reuters Elite Enterprise and Elite 3E software products for law firm practice management, including Data Validation/Imports/Extracts/Migrations, Mergers, EGR, Custom Reporting, Extend Events to Manage by Exception, Cost Recapture and Customizations to the front end software.Consulting for Integrations with many third party systems, including Chrome River for Expense Reimbursement, Global Exchange for Foreign Currency Transactions, ACH, Positive Pay, Precost Uploads and anything else that requires two systems to trade data.Developing within Integration Tools, like IntApp Integration Builder, Microsoft SSRS, Excel VBA and the full complement of Microsoft’s Office Suite. Some exposure to Visual Studio for C# and other development around XML Data Structures and Transformations (XSLT). Show less

    • Stinson LLP

      Sept 2016 - now
      Director of Financial Analysis and Strategic Reporting

      Developing in-house Reporting and Data Mining solutions to gain business insight from the practice management data in Thomson Reuters Elite 3E and other software throughout the firm.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) - SQL Server 2000

      Microsoft
      Oct 2001
    • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE): NT 4.0 (mixed)

      Microsoft
      Nov 2000
    • MCSE: Windows 2000

      Microsoft
      Aug 2001