SUMMARY

Highly motivated IT Business professional experienced with all phases of project life cycle, business analysis, and problem resolutions. Experienced supporting and implementing ERP systems, business process modeling and developing technical and business process documentation. Excellent oral and written communications skills. Strong business acumen and able to use expertise to influence to produce win/win outcomes.. Excellent data analysis, project management, and problem solving skills. Expert in MS Suite Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Outlook and software development. Strong EDI expertise

SKILLS

Business Solutions Development Team Building Leadership Development Project Management Budget Management Requirements Gathering Business Systems Analysis Business Process Reengineering Workflow Development Business Technical Writing ERP Systems installation Support Software QA Testing EDI Management Organization Skills BPCS ERP Systems MAPCS ERP Systems Lawson Financial Solutions CCore Shop Floor Execution Systems

Work Experience

Business Analyst

Confidential

• Gather business requirements to create recommend and teach business process improvement tools and techniques with a goal to streamline and transform, business processes and SOPs.
• Create, deliver and manage tailored project plans using MS Project, Develop and provide onsite training for warehouse, office, production floor and management personnel on ERP software.
• Present, train, and deploy custom software solutions that meet unique business requirements related to demand, inventory management, and shop floor activities.
• Establish KPIs and manage software implementation and development schedules.
• Present project status, review risks and budget overrun to stake holders
• Develop and deliver EDI mapping using IBM Forms and Mapper and Gentran Director

Senior Programming/Business Analyst

Confidential

• International Profit Association
• Analyzed small to medium sized businesses to identify opportunity costs. Used analysis to recommend operational improvements and sell consulting service to increase cash flow, minimize expense, and improve cycle time and P L position.
• Showa Aluminum Corporation 08/08 02/09
• Modified forecast and demand planning reporting though system automation generating a savings of 60 man-hours per month.

Business Analyst/Team Leader

Confidential

• Managed software development for ERP systems that include MRP, MPS, Forecast and Warehouse management, and financials.
• Project Leader for EDI installation to automate invoice payment and three way match and reduce manual processing of 1800 daily invoices. Directed meetings with stakeholder, executive team, developers and vendors. Designed use cases, managed budget, created documentation and conducted training. Result invoices, purchase orders, and payments became no-touch processing. Transactions became auditable providing visibility to overpayments, non-shipments, and vendor mismanagement.
• Analyzed spreadsheet and SQL databases to developed business requirements to automate transfer, sell, and receipt of inventory over the intranet in support of the company's mobile sales model. Created business workflow maps, use cases, charter, resource requirements, time table, test plan, and mock-up reports. Results: Annual payroll expense reduction of 40,000 and 30 improved transaction efficiency.
• Led installation of international bar-coding solution UK, US to track time and attendance, job costing, and product routing and reporting to a centralized location. Organized meeting to discuss milestones and mitigation strategies for challenges. Regularly analyzed requirements against progress to mange scope creep, tollgate and time line. Developed KPIs, report mock-ups and presented regularly to subject matter experts, business process owners, sponsors, and executives.
• Managed the creation of a centralized Accounts Payable solution intended to reduce the number of systems A/P interacted with from six to one. Met weekly with all divisions and stake holders and created data definitions for system interfacing, Conducted regression testing, created functional requirements, use cases, and project plan, managed scope and budget, and developed UAT.
• PM centralized Accounts Payable solution to reduce head count and consolidate A/P systems from six to one. Collected business requirements, developing functional requirements, managed scope, developed UAT, performed RPG Analysis and coding and managed deployment to production.,

.AS400 Senior Programming Analyst

Confidential

• Created and supported in-house order processing software for inventory control, purchasing, shipping, receiving, and management reporting using RPGILE and SQL.
• Engineered Y2K solution involving BPCS Manufacturing systems, Lawson 5.X Financials, in-house customer service software solutions, warehouse management, and inventory control systems.
• Business Analyst and software solutions expert for Lawson Financials 5.X , Customer Service, PACS Inventory Management, and BPCS Manufacturing. Collected requirements, developed software solutions and trained users on new functionality.
• Sterling Software
• Technology support for J. D. Edward platform improvement project of converting an AS400 software solution to in-house visual basic software package.

AS400 Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Led business and systems analysis teams, programming, version upgrades, and end user support for Lawson Financial Software RPG and Menu-Flex Inventory Tracking System COBOL . Installed patches and updated software per requests of the business and vendor.