SUMMARY

• ERP consultant/project manager who brings strong application background coupled with broad technical skills.
• Invaluable experience honed by fully implementing Confidential Financial/Supply Chain/HCM/Learning Management and CRM modules for major organizations spanning automotive, banking, energy, services, manufacturing, government, and entertainment.
• Ability to work comfortably among business and technical resources allows me to operate effectively in a variety of settings and team configurations.
• Having successfully worked as a consultant, I bring my “A” game to every assignment including positive attitude and “hit the ground running” approach to my work

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Consulting related: Project Management Methodology, Project Planning, Analysis, Process Modeling, Requirements Gathering and Fit/Gap, Coding/development, Testing, Deploying, and Stabilization, Presenting to all audiences, Technical Writing, Issue Management, Risk Assessment s: PMP, Confidential financials, Confidential tools and Confidential Technology

Functional Module Experience: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Commitment accounting, Billing, Expenses, Front Office, General Ledger (with commitment control), HCM, Learning Management, Marketing, Order Management, Purchasing, ePro, Projects, Sales including Order Capture, Support, Mobile Sales

Integration Experience: SOAP, Confidential Enterprise Integration Points (EIP’s), Data Transformation Service (DTS), Confidential Workflow, Confidential Multi - channel, Confidential CTI, AAF, GP Integration Manager (IM), LDAP integration, Fluid, Talent Tech/Semantics and Oracle BI publisher.

Program languages: PeopleCode, Application Engine, Application packages, VBS, Visual Basic, SQL, SQR, PL-SQL, Cobol, JCL, some Java/Java scriptingDatabases Platforms: Windows, UNIX, AS/400, Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure/technical leadership and planning, starting with requirements definition thru delivery - heavy focus on protecting PII data, data security and IDM
• Solution architecture and technical design across HCM/payroll application suite
• Implementing new technology including SES and fluid
• Day to day development team management
• Project planning for technical project components and deployment
• Initially provided support for financial system merger of Kennesaw State and Southern Poly campuses and providing support for USG 9.2 upgrade.
• Major consolidation activities include vendor consolidation and integration of payroll data into finance.
• Major 9.2 upgrade issues involve resolving workflow issues and deployment/migration of the new work centers functionality.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements gathering sessions for over 30 departmental systems
• Designed comprehensive extract process to satisfy requirements using suite of flat file and web service offerings
• Oversaw development via offshore team
• Performed functional testing and working with campus departments in user acceptance testing
• Deployed to production using via Autosys scheduling tool
• Assumed responsibility for managing Confidential HR/Finance reporting team charged with satisfying all Confidential reporting requirements.
• Responsibilities included, Direct management of report team developers including mentoring on Confidential applications and reporting tool sets
• Lead requirements and reporting design/review sessions for major areas within Finance and HR applications
• Provided Confidential architecture/transaction SME knowledge to warehouse team charged with building custom SAS based warehouse that was backend for campus wide information portal

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Role focused on leading re-engineering initiative, for contractor facing learning management applications, using Confidential ELMS.
• Responsibilities include business process design, enhancement support (functional and technical), testing coordination and deployment
• Major project deliverables include deployment of contractor facing learning portal, web service based integration to DDS (Department of Driver services) and expansion of ELMS integration with Confidential data warehouse, and SCORM integration
• Also provided enhancement support for legacy Confidential applications integrating with state accounting financial applications

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Role focused on technical leadership in deploying tools upgrade for the front office application.
• Also provided design and development support for conversion and integration with Talent Tech resume search product, Monster job board integration, data purging initiatives and re-design of front office portal.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Role focused on technical and functional assistance in reconciling ADP to financial applications following outsourcing of payroll application to ADP.
• Provided adhoc-reporting support to address anticipated audit concerns including open payroll liability, benefit billings and integration to GL
• Designed and develop reconciliation portal to facilitate monthly reconciliations from ADP to GL going forward

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Role of project manager/SME for Confidential 9.0 Travel and Expense (T&E) implementation that originated with business case and proceeded through fit/gap, design and implementation phases. Project achieved substantial reduction in paper handling, better visibility to employee spending and systematic enforcement of Confidential travel policy, ultimately reducing support staff FTE’s.
• Lead redesign of T&E approval and secured senior management acceptance
• Lead design of receipts integration to Global 360 electronic imaging system
• I managed offshore implementation partner who was responsible for coding application customizations and integration with American Express
• I successfully worked with business to provide end-user via UPK, change management and Confidential communication for 18K + employees
• Provided technical guidance in other application initiatives
• Comprehensive archiving strategy for GL/AM/AP/PO and TE
• Worked with business team in evaluating GL account reconciliation vendor selection - chose Trintech software
• Purchasing/ePro vendor “ghost” cards implementation

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Multiple phase engagement involving initial financial/purchasing upgrade from Confidential release 7.5 to release 8.9 for 33 separate databases simultaneously.
• Later phase involved consolidation of 33 separate environments into single environment with future phases intending to sharing services across campuses.
• Redesigned and developed major T&E enhancements for consolidation
• Designed and implemented row level secured external access to Confidential database using Oracle VPD (Virtual private database) technology
• Worked closely with DBA team to design and implement independent reporting database synchronization using Oracle streams technology
• Lead integration team in designing/implementing messaging based integration from Confidential HR to finance and later integrated with ADP payroll application
• Designed and developed custom finance self-service portal seamlessly linked to existing HRMS portal using single sign-on technology, Confidential portal code and navigation collection configuration
• Technical development resource supporting upgrade of commitment control based financial/purchasing applications from 7.5 to 8.9 for all 33 Georgia state colleges simultaneously

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and implementation of conversion from Infinitium software to Confidential 9.0 AR. Conversion included fully automated reconciliation process
• Designed billing integration process to feed custom billing system data to Confidential AR 9.0 from custom billing systems

Consulting Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead order to cash integration fit gap and design for Green Mountain Coffee Finance/SCM 8.9 upgrade
• Provided CRM module enhancement support using Agile project management technique for Flagstar bank. Enhancements focused on access to loan/mortgage information through custom integration broker/java based service oriented architecture (SOA)
• Launched performance practice that included delivery of to internal consulting staff on use of Confidential performance monitoring tool and best practices for application development/performance
• Development and upgrade support for Jack Henry Banking software for Confidential CRM Sales/Mobile Sales modules implementation

Confidential Architect support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Navigated HRMS/Financial projects through Confidential architectural review boards.
• Responsible for implementing industrial strength Confidential change control/migration methodology that balanced strict audit requirements with flexibility to expedite emergency changes
• Mentored junior support staff in troubleshooting techniques for major Confidential integrations, including: data warehouse, Kronos and STMS/LDAP utilizing custom Java servlets

Integration Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for fit gap and design for major integration points from Confidential CRM to Moody applications including: Web portal, legacy reporting applications and Confidential financial/HR applications

Solutions architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engagement involved functional lead for CRM 8.8 support implementation including responsibility for overall solutions architecture for call center and dealership support applications.
• Project included deployment of multi-channel phone integration and CRM Support self-service module deployed to automotive dealerships.
• Direct responsibilities included…
• Extensive fit/gap analysis, design, development and implementation
• Designed customer conversion involved over 1 million customers
• Mentored entire Confidential consulting project team, that prior to project had no Confidential CRM experience

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior roll with startup ASP/consulting organization that required complete spectrum of consulting responsibilities from fit gap analysis through design/development, implementation and engagement management. Biggest challenge overcome was to provide high quality consulting services in low cost or fixed bid contract environment. Engagement highlights…
• CRM 8.8 sales/marketing and support implementation for Blackboard.
• Engagement included extensive Confidential front office to Great Plains back office integration using Confidential EIP’s, custom triggers and Great Plains IM tool.
• Integrations included product, pricing, order capture, order status, AR, installed products, and customer BORM related data
• Confidential finance/supply chain implementation for Confidential, including integration to PowerPlant data warehouse and asset management system Integrations development required custom application engine programs, triggers, stored procedures and Confidential application messaging
• Merger/acquisitions support for finance/supply chain 8.0 requiring restructure/reposting of General ledger
• Finance functional/technical implementation leadership for World Travel including design/development of GL conversion from Solomon

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed fixed fee upgrade of Confidential AR for Kemper Insurance - on time and on budget.
• Project responsibilities included extensive PeopleCode redesign of major cash application modifications.
• I worked closely with DB2 DBA in devising ways to tune upgrade process that struggled with large volume - 10 million item transactions.
• Provided technical and development leadership for the implementation of AP, GL and AR for Sonoco Confidential .
• Major included design and development of custom allocation process that allocated costs to the machine level.
• Process used 8000 multi-step allocations that processed in less than 30 minutes.
• Managed implementation of the Confidential AR and billing application for Medaphis.
• Responsibilities included developing and executing plan for a unique 6.0 upgrade from version 5.0 AR/version 3.0 Billing modules simultaneously. Development activities included major Peopletools/Peoplecode customization to manage contract administration and revenue recognition seamlessly integrated with Confidential billing and GL modules.
• Provided technical and function implementation leadership for Confidential AP/GL/AR/BI 5.0 for the Norrell Confidential .
• Projects responsible include application gap analysis, design of major Peoplecode customizations and integration with legacy payroll system.
• Responsible for implementing Confidential financials (AP, GL & AR) worldwide for Turner Broadcasting - 1st finance version 3.0 client to go live in the United Kingdom.

Financial Systems Director

Responsibilities:

• Directed special projects in the AS/400 division, including re-deploying mainframe based finance applications on AS/400 platform.
• Lead skunk works team in developing enhanced screen functionality and data analytics using Cognos software.