Kristina Strain
CEO, Strain Consulting

Thank you Tim, this sounds great. 

You have been a true asset to PartnerRe and a blessing to me throughout this entire process.  Throughout the entire project, they have praised your professionalism and competency for what was a very complicated project. I can't thank you enough for all the work you've done. I will send them a message as well that if they ever want to hire you in the future they are welcome to contact you directly.

You made a difference in our life. Thank you 

Margaret Paul
Principal Recruiter, Turnberry Solutions 

During his tenure, Tim worked at our client, Starkey Hearing, and consistently demonstrated exceptional professionalism, dedication, and expertise.

Starkey Hearing funded a three-month discovery phase and sought a leader to develop a future state vision, process, and technology roadmap in collaboration with their business and IT stakeholders. Tim was selected to assist in creating a new offering that would connect hearing aid customers to insurance providers and brokers. Given that hearing aids are typically not covered by regular health insurance, Starkey wanted to offer marketplace options for specialty insurance providers. Tim’s role included conducting a technology-agnostic review, performing a vendor scan, and assessing tools to support this new capability.

Tim proved to be an excellent consultant, earning high praise from our client for the value he delivered in a short time. 

I am confident that Tim will be an asset to any organization he joins. I highly recommend him for any position requiring a hardworking and reliable professional. We would gladly welcome the opportunity to work with him again in the future.

Charlie Milkey
Senior Staff Accountant

I highly recommend Tim Sunde. His ability to train and lead are consistently at a high level. I have personal experience training under Tim for agile methodologies and through that experience, I have witnessed someone who is absolutely committed to helping people develop and even advance on their own. Tim's style of leadership is a personal favorite of mine, in that he comes to you and says "how can I help you?" He isn't there to drag you along, but rather build you up so that you feel confident in what he's showing you. Tim is humble and kind and takes on more of a servent leadership role, which in my opinion, is quite effective.

I only have good things to say about Tim and cannot recommend him enough. He has the right attitude, the abilities and the drive to help anyone achieve their goals/dreams and that's the person you want on your team.

Carrie Snyder
AVP, Project Management at PartnerRe

I have worked with Tim as a part of our project management team to develop a new administration system platform for our Division. Tim is a likable guy who is easy to work with. Interacting with people from various departments, who utilize different functionalities in the platform and who work in different time zones, he has been a reliable team player. He has demonstrated effective problem solving and organizational skills during our requirements gathering phase. Tim has been a great asset to our team and I have enjoyed working with him.

Matt Graunke
Sales & Marketing Manager - at ProForm Fabrication

I have worked with Tim for the past few years, in various capacities. He is an excellent communicator, organizer, and is notorious for finding solutions. I can trust that if a task is assigned it will be completed to a standard that I've come to expect from Tim. I highly recommend working with Tim, if you are given the opportunity to do so.

Matthew Timm
Internal Support at TR Computer  

Under my tenure and even before it, Tim played a vital role in re-igniting the worship ministry at North Heights Church. As a musician, he regularly honed his craft, offered meaningful feedback, and openly received feedback and improved in areas as requested and needed. As a teammate, he regularly took steps to build others up, made sure he was offering the correct pieces of the puzzle, and seeking out areas he could add his unique perspective. As a leader, he championed multiple search committees, offering his valuable insight assessment, and discernment over candidates, both on paper and in person. His servant heart, knowledge and experience are a unique and extremely valuable combination. Tim would be an incredible asset to any organization and team.

Annie Hayden, PMP, CPPM, 6 Sigma GBAnnie Hayden, PMP, CPPM, 6 Sigma GB
Sr. IT Project Manager/Scrum MasterSr. IT Project Manager/Scrum Master, Starkey

I worked with Tim briefly on the Initiation phase of a CRM implementation. He is easy to work with and brings great insight to the discovery and planning thought process. Tim is very flexible and works easily with different personality types and approaches. He is compassionate and easy-going, bright and fun to work with.

Tim Dailey
CRM Manager, Starkey

Tim is a great person to work with. His attention to detail and acceptance of feedback is stellar. He thinks of things that others don't during projects, which can save time and money for any business. Would highly recommend having him work on any project. 

Sonja Dixon
Microsoft

Tim has been an absolute joy to work with. He has been committed to a graceful handoff and is ensuring a smooth transition away from working with our team! So glad to have had the opportunity to work with Tim! 

Melissa Stokes, MBA
Product Owner, Optum

Beneath Tim's humble demeanor lies a treasure trove of project, process and problem solving knowledge, tools and experience. As a servant leader, he gently coaches and facilitates teamwork that produces fruitful outcomes. He is unafraid to lean into difficult conversations, making sure people at all levels of the organization understand the why behind the what, have a clear definition of done and are brave enough to say no to deprioritized items. Although he is a capable knowledge worker who could handily get the the job done alone, his superpower is coaching others to visualize, define and walk out the road ahead. This secures buy-in, and builds sustainability within people, projects & processes to deliver enduring value. 

Bao N. Vang, MBA
Director of Caring Center, Starkey

Tim’s quick approach in bringing ideas to life in visual presentation and customer experience mapping is beyond exceptional. He is a joy to work with and his problem-solving skills along with his open approach provides a seamless outcome to what is requested. Communication is important when it comes to bringing projects to fruition and he does an excellent job at it to ensure it meets the clients needs from start to finish. 

Vito Mazzarino
Marketing Automation Developer

Tim approaches projects systematically in order to set project goals and to achieve those goals. We worked together on a recent project and he steered us through each step via a logical framework.

As a result, we were able to prove out the project's hypothesis. Our findings will help streamline the internal systems of Outsource Consultants and will save the organization time and money.

Lastly, Tim is an approachable and fair leader who laid out expectations and communicated them clearly.

It was a pleasure working with him and I hope we can work on additional projects in the future.  

Nate Lein
IT Specialist

I have worked with Tim for more than a year and his presence on the team was felt immediately. His methodical and blameless approach to team building and problem-solving evolved the operations department into a well-run machine where everyone had a role.

Tim works harder than anyone on the operations team poking holes in existing processes and integrations to improve the efficiency and security of the company. His dedication to the company’s success is apparent in his blameless communication style.

John Pia
Developer

As I mentioned the other day, I think what your doing is great for the company, I know the constant attention to details and refocusing (or rather not breaking focus) has been super helpful personally (outside of work). Your approach is exactly what is needed. 

At any rate, I wanted to share my vote of support for your effort.

Mari Fellrath
Vice President BI & Technology

Thank you for all of your work, particularly on GSuite.  The migration and rollout went so smoothly.  Thanks for all of your in-depth, detailed analysis.  Thanks for helping us through this process. 

Frank Matteson, MCSA
Solutions Architect | Cloud Platform

I had the pleasure of working at a client with Tim for over a year and saw first-hand his quality of work and dedication to the client and project. He worked as the Product Owner for a cloud services partner that our client selected, and proved to be extremely insightful, hardworking, self-motivated, and great at conflict resolution and workflow management. He also takes great pride in generating documentation and visualizations to ensure our client maintained the knowledge and understanding of the work he did. Tim would be a great asset to any team and I highly recommend him.

Kevin Kieger, MBA, PMP, CSM
Business Intelligence Lead | Senior Project Manager

I had the opportunity to work and get to know Tim at Great Clips Inc for roughly a year as a peer BA. During that time I saw him successfully navigate several manager changes (massive IT restructuring), work through a few midsize projects all while balancing GCI's need for him on a larger year-long initiative. He's an agile orientated BA that is technically perficient and known as a problem solver who works well on a team. He has a keen sense of reading others all while keeping it fun. I'm happy to recommend a person w/such a hard work ethic for any future BA roles. Tim takes ownership of every facet of getting a project completed on time, in the budget. I witnessed this first hand at a major franchise-based, retail services company. 

As part of an On-Premise to Google Cloud Migration, Tim:

1. Evangelized the value of an automated, data-driven Active Directory, 

2. Delivered functional and technical requirements, 

3. Skillfully moved the project team to scrum

4. Artfully served as product owner for Agosto as a 3rd party provider. 

The backlog and tasks were addressed with diligence but without drama. I’ve observed this guy lead a team drawing from skillsets as a PM and BA, and brilliantly performing the responsibilities.

Mike Sebero
Business Analyst, Great Clips

I had the opportunity to work and get to know Tim at Great Clips Inc for roughly a year as a peer BA. During that time I saw him successfully navigate several manager changes (massive IT restructuring), work through a few midsize projects all while balancing GCI's need for him on a larger year-long initiative. He's an agile orientated BA that is technically perficient and known as a problem solver who works well on a team. He has a keen sense for reading others all while keeping it fun. I'm happy to recommend a person w/such a hard work ethic for any future BA roles.

Tim Bartram
IT Operations Manager, Great Clips

Tim is a Customer Service oriented Project Leader who is always willing to go the extra mile for the team members.  Tim has always been willing to own team backlog tasks (and remove impediments) to free up time and keep things moving.  Tim is a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend this self-motivated go-getter anytime!

Tari Mosby, CSM
Senior Business Analyst, US Bank

Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile/DevOps is never easy. My hurdle as a Scrum Master WAS understanding distributed team dynamics and how to gracefully apply Agile principles (and not blow up my team). We worked through setting up sustainable systems and validating that those systems were improvements. Tim’s input and suggestions were invaluable to me during this process. I feel confident that my recent promotion is the direct result of a better understanding of Agile team dynamics.

Tim’s attitude is one of not if, but how something can be done. Tim brings value to any team as when he puts his mind to accomplishing something he doesn’t quit until his goal is complete. 

Bruce Bong, CSM
Project Management

An amicable business analyst with a visual flair for representing requirements. Communication is 90% of every project; Tim easily meets this mark. Tim balances his diagramming & visual representation approach equally well between executives and technical resources.

Brigitte Nesser
Executive, IT Business Consulting

From the first moment that I met Tim, I knew that I wanted to work with him. He has strong hands-on technical expertise and excellent business experience married with superb people skills. He is a hard charger, strategic, and gets the lay of the land rapidly. Tim is an excellent consultant and a gifted individual as well-artsy, creative, and thoughtful. 

Tiffaney Styles
Vice President

Nobody has received as glowing of a review, in such a short period of time, as I did with Tim. The client is pleased with his ability to“hit the ground running while adding immediate value and blending into the team”. It’s been a pleasure working with Tim, and would highly recommend him to other clients going forward.

Dee Rhoda, CSP
Agile Coach & Trainer

I am pleased and privileged to recommend Tim Sunde! I have known Tim for almost two years through his dedicated participation in the Agile certification program at the University of Minnesota's College of Continuing Education. As his instructor in the program, I greatly appreciated his ability to use his past experiences and apply them to Agile philosophy and the specific methodologies and frameworks being introduced. Tim combines his past successes in traditional project management with new education to find the best process management style and fit for each engagement he encounters. 

Tim has a great ability in bringing his skills of analysis, creativity, and innovation together so that the best possible business value and solutions can be delivered for each unique product.  

Lisa Needels
Business Owner

Tim has a unique ability to analyze information and accurately predict the outcome. He has knowledge of the sales process, real-world technology, and project delivery.

Tim’s work included delivering a CRM System, ERP system, streamlined processes, and several revenue-generating products.

Over the years, I’ve grown to trust his upbeat personality, financial acumen, and goal achieving drive. 

David Albright
Product Technology

I had the pleasure of working with Tim for a couple of years at Milestone. He was always supportive in our efforts to build out a stronger contact database and brought some great ideas to the table as part of those efforts. Tim was always willing to take on extra work when needed, and I learned a lot from him about strategies for building and segmenting our database and doing more targeted marketing communications & analytics. I'd recommend Tim for similar roles, as his passion for the work was always clear. 

Jessi Larson
Communications Consultant

I had the pleasure of working with Tim for four years at Milestone. He combines an analytical, data-driven mindset with a focus on sales and growing the business, something that was so invaluable to our marketing team. Our business moves at a rapid pace with new requests coming in constantly, and Tim welcomed the challenge to help our marketing and sales teams achieve their business goals through email marketing and CRM management. It’s easy to get wrapped up in the technology and the data, but Tim always understood that at the heart of it all, we’re here to connect with customers and provide them with the best products and services. As a marketing manager, I appreciated this immensely. As a teammate, Tim is smart, kind and considerate with an extremely strong work ethic. He is easy to work with and always willing to help. For example, he would often stay up late to be online when our Asia team had work hours so they could chat in real-time for projects. There was no project too big or too small that Tim would tackle. He was flexible and understanding, even when we piled last-minute projects on him. I’m not sure how he kept track of it all, but he did! If I had to describe Tim in one word, it would be integrity. He always does the right thing for the business and is a humble, hard-working teammate you can always count on. He is an asset to any company! 

Scott Libby
Director of Product Development

In the 4 years that I worked with Tim, he has been a consistently high-level performer. Tim is self-motivated and holds himself accountable to an exceptional level of customer service with both internal and external customers delivering results and solutions complete and on-time. Tim is committed to these objectives and routinely does whatever it takes to get the jobs done right the first time.

In my experience, Tim is one of the few technical professionals that have a combination of deep technical knowledge and great social skills. I consider him a great coworker and a strong team player that I would honor to work with in the future.

Marco Adriaans
Sr. Manager, EMEA

Tim has supported me several years in scheduling and organizing e-mail marketing and customer databases. I have enjoyed working with Tim as he has always shown an eye for detail and has proven to be very dependable. As I am responsible for marketing in the EMEA region, I especially liked how Tim took the time, even out of US business hours, to work with the European team.

Allison Cooney
Sales & Marketing, Canada

Tim is definitely knowledgeable about working with data. He managed our Salesforce customer database and assisted me on several email campaigns where we needed to segment the Canadian customers by region. We used postal code segmentation to do so, including using a buffer zone around certain centers to capture all of the relevant contacts. I would absolutely trust Tim with my data and would be happy to get to work with him again in the future. 

Jason Branvold
Product Development

Tim is a hard worker, who is flexible and has a great attitude. He is a skilled cross-team communicator with a passion for excellence. He will go the extra mile for you. A good name has to be earned and Tim has one. He is a valued team member.

Pascal Scherpens
Marketer, EMEA

Tim is really dedicated to his work. He is always willing to help, even during the night. He is a fast worker and his work is very accurate. He is a great person to work with, easy going and is able to bridge cultural differences within an organization.

Scott Rohe
Entrepreneur

Tim brings extensive knowledge in marketing, business and audio with him to the table. Getting to know Tim has been great. He is prompt, strategic, reliable and most importantly helpful. When it comes to anything tech, he is very well-versed. He is always willing to share what he knows from first-hand experience in superior depth, making sure you have a great understanding of the subject at hand. Tim is one that you can learn something new from every day.

Eric Olson
Project Engineer

Tim is a dedicated and focused Marketing Automation Specialist who uses his IT and web knowledge skillset to quickly and efficiently generate a promotional pitch around a new idea or an AV product innovation. He truly cares about the details within the scope of his work, values the members of his project team, and has a passion for delivering a value-added solution to both his internal and external customers.

Maureen Ludowese
Manager, US Bank

I've known Tim for many years. He is extremely knowledgeable, articulate and personable. Highly passionate about marketing and, at the same time, is capable of quickly understanding different business models. I often consult with Tim when I encounter a problem. He willingly gives his time and can swiftly assess the situation to offer solutions to drive revenue while staying within budget. I have no hesitation in recommending Tim and know that he will always give his best in any endeavor.

Paul Esch
Business Development Manager

I've known and worked with Tim for many years on several projects. Tim is consistently reliable and a true team player. He is results-oriented and gets more done in a day than most folks. He wonderfully balances serious-mindedness with friendliness. He understands sales, marketing and is business savvy. Tim is one of the brightest and most creative out of the box thinkers I know. He is frequently ahead of the curve. I am very proud of the collaborations we have done together because he is so competent, service-oriented and customer-centric. I look forward to working with him in the future. 

John Hiiva, CPM
Senior Buyer

Tim has that special ability to take charge and make things happen. He has always been able to bring people together of various backgrounds and experiences to get things done. Tim has the energy and enthusiasm to generate excitement for the project or task at hand. Tim is a go-getter and has the integrity to do what he says he will do. I wish I had the same customer-focus that Tim shows every time he interacts with clients.

Mari Fellrath
Vice President BI & Technology, Great Clips

Thanks for taking us to the finish line!

Joel Hagen
Marketing

Tim is a pleasure to have on your team.  Personable, genuine, hard-working and generous with his wealth of applicable experience and skills.  I've enjoyed working alongside Tim to target communications to reach applicable customers with the information they can use.

CEO Challenge Award
Prototyping & Leadership

Led a team through rapid prototype, documentation & marketing systems.  Judged by the Milestone CEO and Executive Committee.

Corporate Engagement Award
Partnership

"We are so excited to share that we will be sending you $500 as a thank you for all you're doing, as well as helping out in other account management manners.  We are looking forward to continuing our partnership."