Todd Wasielewski Email Address

Senior Manager

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm, provides coordinated legal services headquartered in Chicago, founded in 1934.

Todd is a seasoned IT professional with hands-on involvement ranging from designing enterprise systems to building and managing a state of the art Netops Dept. Todd has been referred to by his colleagues as "the wizard of westpac", "most valuable person in IT" and as the "James Brown of IT". Todd served seven years for the United States Navy and received the Navy Achievement Medal for managing the installation and configuration of a Top Secret SCI system. Upon separation from the Navy Todd worked for large law firms like Reed Smith, Dewey Ballantine and Bingham McCutchen LLP with 1000s of customers and smaller sized firms like Swidler Berlin LLP (600 customers) and McKee Nelson LLP (450 customers). Here is a brief overview touching upon a small example of Toods accomplishments: *Created a successful and cohesive Engineering group from scratch *Migrated enterprise systems like Lotus Notes to Exchange *Selecting a hosted datacenter and transitioned primary operations to it *Implemented modern technologies like VOIP, SAN, Virtualization, WAN Acceleration, etc *Setup and managed permanent and temporary offices Managed over 700 servers distributed internationally *Manage change management for 2500 employee law firm *Project manager for dozens of upgrades, migrations and new technology implementations. *Streamlined and automated many manual processes that take hours and days down to minutes and hours. Todd loves all aspects of Information Technology and his goal is to one day make a contribution so he'll be remembered after he is gone. Specialties: Todd doesn't consider himself a specialist in any single area, though he has a remarkable track record of succeeding with anything technical asked of him. Todd places emphasis on the human aspect. Todd often reminds us that how customers perceive the technology presented to them is even more important than the technology itself.