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 Founder and Chief Information Officer

     Michael Long began his career in the computer industry with Dupont in the early 1970's.  Starting with mainframe operations, he moved into software coding in various languages and on various platforms before moving into project management and then leadership.  His last 15 years of project management has been in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, energy, banking, retail, and real estate industries.   Michael's personal strengths in leadership, team development, training, and presentations help him in his role as Chief Information Officer for MagnaTech, Inc. which he co-founded in 1989.  Some of the applications Michael has been involved in:

  • Project management for large pharmaceutical company in-house systems

  • Project management for hardware/software platform migration of health care systems

  • Project management for Sarbanes/Oxley compliance-related security initiatives

  • Project management for HIPAA Privacy related activities

  • Project management for Payroll migration from PeopleSoft to ADP

  • Migration of expense management from PeopleSoft and internal legacy application to Web based ASP

  • Human resource/Payroll system -project leader responsible for evaluation & implementation of a new client/server HRIS.

  • Project leader directing the migration of numerous (40+) applications from DuPont to ICI Americas following a merger

  • Directed the creation of a database and application for daily operations of a Corporate Executive Information System.

  • Student Information System project leader of an 8-person team to design and implement a relational database

Some companies Michael has worked for:

  • Geisinger Health Systems, Danville, PA

  • Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Malvern, PA

  • Anthem/Wellpoint Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Richmond, VA

  • Independence Blue Cross - Philadelphia

  • Exelon (Philadelphia/Chicago)

  • Wellpoint, Los Angeles

  • ICI Americas

  • Binswanger real estate company

  • Mobile Oil Company

  • Cognos Corp.

  • ARAMCO

Education: Penn State University & University of Delaware, Business Management

Certifications:  MCSE Windows 2000 (January 2002),  Essentials of Project Management, Villanova University (February 2004) Project Management Institute, Project Management Professional, PMP,(June 2004)

Organizations: Project Management Institute