Mr. Wheat is a Senior Manager in BearingPoints Higher Education Practice. He currently leads BearingPoints Higher Education practice in the state of Texas, and is a member of BearingPoints Academic Medical Center and Higher Education teams. Mr. Wheat has over twenty-five years of experience working in enterprise-wide Information Technology planning, development, deployment, and operations in research universities. He has led a wide range of institutional initiatives ranging from ERP deployments and upgrades to implementations of eCommerce platforms, Web services tools, portals, and CRM systems. Mr. Wheat is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).