Our Executive Team

Ms. Cheryl O’Brien is the Principal and Founder for Technology Management Corporation (TMC) headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Ms. O’Brien provides IT consulting services for governments, international airports, multi-national large enterprises, large venue facilities, financial, manufacturing, multi-national religious ecclesiastical, healthcare, and retail verticals around the world. Ms. O’Brien has specific expertise and extensive experience in enterprise WAN, IP data networking infrastructures, converged communications including VoIP and SIP, business continuity and diversity planning and design for outside plant, fiber rings, data centers and failover sites, cloud/hosting/colocation and enterprise risk assessment, and network operations centers (NOC). In addition, Ms. O’Brien leads all physical and legal contract risk assessment and mitigation, and compliance consulting services for both public and private sector clients globally and nationally.

 

Ms. O’Brien has over 40 years of industry experience and has spent the past 32 years building a highly respected technology consulting firm that is entrusted to plan, design, implement, and manage multiple technology services for national and international organizations with locations around the globe including those areas with state-of-the-art technology resources as well as those with little or no resources.

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Cheryl was educated at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology for Architecture and Structural Engineering and also trained as one of the few female pilots including simulator training at NASA in California.  Cheryl is also a current Board Member of the Society of Communications Technology Consultants, as well as a former Board Member of the Cloud Security Alliance of Minnesota.

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Previous to founding TMC Cheryl worked for the City of Minneapolis as the Minneapolis Community Development Agency and Minneapolis Public Housing Authority Telecommunications and Facilities Manager which included the RFP process for selection of providers and technology under the detailed legal and bidding environment of a government.  Cheryl has a comprehensive understanding of interaction with and direction of key team members.  Her knowledge of international technology and international market rates coupled with her professional negotiating skills has allowed her to negotiate technology contracts which have reduced her clients’ costs by an average of 42% over the years.

 

Cheryl uses her years of experience and knowledge as well as her lasting commitment to operating as an independent consultant with no agency agreements or financial ties to any vendor, to oversee all activities and ensure the customer receives the best value for the technologies, and that specifications, project timelines and goals are met.

 

Cheryl has brought her depth of experience and insight from founding a business to growing it to ensure survival for all economic environments. Cheryl has mentored thousands, including clients, on the needed skills to succeed as a WBE in a male dominated industry through speaking, seminars and panel discussion events.

 

Cheryl represents clients to ensure maximum technology design impact while still achieving favorable business terms for Capital and Operating Expenses.  Her firm consults on IP Voice, WAN/LAN, A/V, Wi-Fi, Cable Infrastructure and Security from design/specifications, negotiations to project management implementation. She is able to bring the finances, operations and multi-faceted options and opportunities for social interaction to the table.  Her business knowledge completes the overall integration of technology with the business operations.