1. Benjamin Toso
1757 Fry Street * Falcon Height, MN 55113 * (651) 442-4080 * Benjamin@toso.org
My passion is to help an organization leveragebusiness automation to make a business moreefficient. Always
with risk mitigation in mind,evaluatethe problem/opportunity from every angle, consider purchaseor build,
always beingableto keep not only the big picturein mind but to be capableof traversingthe problem/solution
from top to bottom with all of the interfaces itmay have to other projects/solutions. Engender intrinsic
motivation in personnel ensuringthat the most important aspectof the organization,the people, possess a sense
of continuous accomplishmentand contribution to overall success.
Experience
 Industry Experience (Business Automation)
o Energy (Natural gas,power)
o Manufacturing(MMS)
o Publishing
o Insurance
o Control automation
o NGO
o Military
U.S. Energy Services, Inc. - CIO
2004-2016:
 Enterprise Architecture
o Software Architecture
 Technology evaluation and selection
 High level requirements analysis
 ROI analysis
 Risk assessment
o Software Development/Infrastructure
 DBA, DB analysis,design and implementation
 Custom BI
 UI design,implementation
 OS installation,maintenance
o System/Network Architecture
 Security
 WAN infrastructureintegration
 Remote computing
 Multi-location integration
 Physical infrastructurerelocation
 Server and storage virtualization
 B2B: Inbound and outbound paradigms involvingEDI,web services,FTP processing,batch processes and
the likewith multiplepipelines,energy partners, data providers and clients for various businessprocesses
such as natural gas scheduling,pricingimports and updates,invoiceprocessing,consumption data and
etc.
 M&A: Worked on both sides (acquiring,beingacquired) of the M&A process both from a business and
technology standpointwith multiplemergers/acquisitions,prospectiveacquisition evaluation,due
diligence.
 Instrumental in the success of major business,infrastructureand ERP integration with Fortune 100
company.
 Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
 SSAE16/SOX Compliance:Prepared for and participated in multipleaudits with satisfactory results.

2. Benjamin Toso
1757 Fry Street * Falcon Height, MN 55113 * (651) 442-4080 * Benjamin@toso.org
Millennium Services, Inc. - Consultant/owner
1997-2003 – From April 1999 through the end of 2003, consulted full-timewith U.S. Energy Services,Inc., actingas
the de facto CIO (see previous section). Previous to that, I provided custom software development to various
manufacturing,publishing,NGO and insuranceorganizations. Onemajor projectwas the complete
reimplementation of the databasebackend for a material management system that was critical for the Y2K
problem.
Projects:
 Material management system
 Custom large-scaleprintingwith on-the-fly PostScriptprocessingand databaseintegration
 Robotics integration
 NGO projects
Fourth Generation, Inc. – Software Development Consultant
1995-1997 – Software development consultantfor the main object-oriented software development organization in
the Twin Cities area. Clients that I worked for included GML (manufacturing), 3M, St. Paul Insurance(now
Travellers),United Health Care and FirstBank.
U.S. Navy – Supply Officer
1979-1995 – Various assignments included:ITDirector, largecontracts negotiator, transportation officer,logistics
officer, ship supply department head, food service,retail,payroll. Served on two ships as well as transportation
and materiel receiving officer at the supply depot in Guam duringthe build-up for Desert Storm. Awards included
5 medals and two fleet excellence awards for best supply department. Developed various customautomation
solutions includingcustomhardware/softwareinterfaceto allowold-school messageeditingsystem to useWord
Perfect as well as a customer transportation management system.
Previous Miscellaneous Experience
Miscellaneous customautomation,purchasingagent, directsales,retail,bartender,restaurant, construction,dish
washer.
Education
University of St. Thomas, 1997-2002 –Masters of Science degree in Software Engineering. Maintained a 4.0 GPA.
Concordia College,Moorhead, MN, 1974-1979 – Bachelor of Arts: French (major)/Spanish (minor). Additional
coursework in computer security/networking, mathematics, Six Sigma. Navy officer schoolingand required on-
going trainingincluded leadership and management, TQM, logistics,projectmanagement.
Volunteer
Church president, meal preparation,yard work, software development, photography.
Technical Experience
Software architect/developer, business analysis,business processmodeling,databasedesign,programmingand
administration with extensive experience in MS SQL Server TransactSQL, Java, VB. System administration
experience with Windows Server, VMWare, networking and security.
Hobbies
Custom system controls (Raspberry PI,Arduino),TaeKwonDo (4th degree), aikido,photography, piano,gardening,
snowboarding,hunting, fishing.

3. Benjamin Toso
1757 Fry Street * Falcon Height, MN 55113 * (651) 442-4080 * Benjamin@toso.org

4. Benjamin Toso
1757 Fry Street * Falcon Height, MN 55113 * (651) 442-4080 * Benjamin@toso.org

5. Benjamin Toso
1757 Fry Street * Falcon Height, MN 55113 * (651) 442-4080 * Benjamin@toso.org

6. Benjamin Toso
1757 Fry Street * Falcon Height, MN 55113 * (651) 442-4080 * Benjamin@toso.org