SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an accomplished IT management professional with 15+ years of experience. He has an extensive and diverse IT and business background, including a deep understanding of the intersection between technology, business, and operational needs. He is a result oriented professional with broad experience in organization leadership, project management, business analysis, consulting, strategic planning, staffing and relationship management. Strong leadership skills and ability to solve complex problems have been his specialty, and in turn have benefited the organizations he has worked for. A management professional with engineering background, he possesses the “Project Management Professional” (PMP) from the prestigious Project Management Institute (PMI), and is actively involved in various activities conducted by PMI.
• Technology Needs Analysis
• Applications Development Methodology
• Team Building & Leadership
• Business Process Optimization
• Financial Analysis
• Strategic and Operational Planning
• Strong technical aptitude: ability to understand and communicate complex processes and relationships to non - technical users
• Strong ability to analyze system logic and recognize common problems to determine solutions efficiently and effectively
• Business process management skills including Total Quality Management, interactive skills, and problem solving
• Application development methodologies - Waterfall and Agile
• Business Consultant
• IT Leader
• Project Governance
• Business Process Modeling (BPM) and Process Re-engineering
• Business and Functional Requirement Definitions
• Project Management
• Technical Requirements Definitions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: /Methods: Methodologies SDLC Waterfall Basic Iterative BPM Lean Sigma / TQM Interactive Skills Problem Solving Platform AS400 Languages RPG/400 CL SQL Database DB2/400 Access Packages Microsoft Office Suit Microsoft SharePoint JD Edwards - World 7.33 SAP 6.0 SD and Basis (min) Infinium Payroll and HR Test Director Aldon / Robot GRS Industries: Retail Service Medical Device Finance: PMP - PMI,MN MBA - USD, SD BS - Huron University, SD BSIE - Mumbai, India Affiliations: PMI,MN BAPS Non Profit, MN IIBA, MN Senior Project Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Clinical Integration Project Management Team

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include creating project plans, charters, WBS, and risk monitoring plans, and facilitating meetings and gathering requirements.
• Confidential t per day Billing Project Manager: This was a $1.2M project that I lead for the technical team. I had 8 direct reports and 30+ indirect reports. Responsibilities included creating project charters and project plans, selecting the project team, assigning responsibilities to the project team, monitoring the project plan, conducting meetings, risk monitoring, and updating senior management via progress reports.
• Business Analyst Team Lead: Responsibilities included migrating the customer master files from there legacy system to JDE E1, analyzing requirements, implementing projects, creating specification/technical documents, interacting with customers and the business to identify gaps, problem solving, and moving projects to production.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility included data cleansing activities for migration of JDE manufacturing data to SAP.
• Facilitate workshops and process models.
• Function as team lead while collaborating with conversion team and PMO.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the integration and validation of 150 Guidant applications into the BSC SAP system.
• Work as a liaison between the application owners and SAP team to develop data mapping and FTP connectivity.
• Develop and manage the application testing plan for SAP integration.
• Manage defects related to the 150 interfacing applications after cutover.
• Develop and manage defect scorecard for upper management.
• Facilitate meetings and workshops remotely and in-person, while teaming with staff from around the world to define goals and manage issues and risks.
• Developed several processes, such as scorecards and cutover plans, to manage and track the Unity interfacing application’s integration.
• Serve as a liaison between user groups and technical team in the loan processing department.
• Define and document business requirements for ongoing system enhancement initiatives in the HAMP (Home affordability modification program) program in the loan modification group.
• Develop subject matter expertise in the areas of treasury and capital markets. Assist the business in the identification and adoption of operational best practices.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Infinium Payroll system, which is based on the AS/400 platform and utilizes RPG and RPGILE programming language.
• Develop and maintain standards, processes and procedures, and recommend tools needed to achieve it.
• Plan and manage operational and project work for team members and assign work accordingly.
• Provide technological recommendations to the Director of IT payroll infrastructure to ensure a cost effective and reliable system.
• Provide root cause analyses for issues with the payroll system and recommend solutions to resolve them.
• Successfully created and implemented a framework for the points system. This allows employees to redeem their points for products, stock or cash. The project was designed with future growth in mind.
• Worked as a key architect on the Self Service portal for U.S. payroll. This allows employees to update their personal benefit information over the internet. This system was designed as a tier system, which will enable us to build on the base in the future to expand the capabilities of the portal for manager support.
• Successfully completed the development of the Infinium ROBOT work scheduler report. This gives a clear view of the jobs running on the system, their start time and duration, and “react” jobs that are necessary to accomplish the task. This process gives a clear foot print of the Infinium nightly schedule.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Principal Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and managed small to medium size projects on the world’s largest single instance installation of SAP. Project duties included handling multiple project assignments, scheduling and tracking, facilitating meetings with all levels of the business community for requirements gathering, project development, design considerations, impact and risk analysis, and quality control of client acceptance testing.
• Partnered with multiple levels of management to establish effective solutions for a variety of company operations using SDVLC concept.
• Efficiently gathered design requirements from the client and provided conceptual, functional and technical designs.
• Created statements of work, ROI’s and business cases. Created change requests, verified defects and prioritized new requests.
• Prepared and executed detailed test plans and test cases.
• Worked as a project manager for the EDI interface to SAP SM distribution system from a COE perspective.
• Created and maintained COE WebPages and also maintained the change request matrix.

Confidential

Principal Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed all day to day activities of the SAP implementation process, such as coordinating the transport activities of objects from development to production.
• Managed data migration for legacy JDE system to SAP.
• Coordinated defect resolution using SAP solution manager and IBM’s Ascendant tool.
• Managed several concurrent projects, primarily those requiring coordination across functional lines.

Confidential

Project Manager / Senior Principal Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced and supported systems related to order processing, receiving/shipping, inventory management, invoicing, accounts payable, general ledger, and accounts receivable using RPG/400 and JDE World distribution/finance systems.
• Led, planned, designed and implemented changes to the existing JDE distribution/finance system to meet corporate strategies and objectives.
• Managed “the Atlas shutdown project” which involved migrating JDE based distribution/finance systems to the new SAP distribution system from an Atlas perspective. The Atlas distribution/finance system generated 40% of total Confidential revenue.
• Reduced Atlas’ defect list by 80% in one year. This list had become unmanageable under the old support system.
• Reduced the resolution time by 80%. Service requests were remaining open an average of 60-90 days. The resolution time was reduced to 2 weeks.
• Worked as a project manager on the JDE distribution systems shutdown project.
• Worked as a technical project manager on the Pickslip project. Project was successfully completed, saving customer service time and loss of revenue.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager / Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop reports for the marketing team. These reports were created in RPG and provided the marketing team with information on order trends and customer ps.
• Worked as a mentor and technical lead for designing, developing and implementing projects, establishing cross-functional systems and processes, standardizing procedures, providing/developing technical and coaching to identified groups.
• Maintained feeds from the manufacturing facilities.
• Implemented the weekly package build and deployment.
• Managed development of reports and applications in the JDE One World environment.
• Involved in converting One World as a member of the CSI CAPI project team.
• Led the MEMSI interface report project, which is the key interface between the supplier and Confidential distribution system. After successful implementation of these reports Confidential saved $700,000 in lost invoices.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Handled day-to-day finances and accounting.
• Managed inventory control functions such as sampling, inventory tracking, purchasing, and distribution.
• Handled customer service issues such as complaints and large/special order requests.
• Marketed the stores and its products.
• Managed human resources for a staff of sixteen employees.
• Owned and managed a successful retail chain with experience in the SBA loan process, expansion of existing business including M&A activities, and sale of the business.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced the existing Atlas process using RPG/400 and RPG IV, e.g. worked on the OEM supplier lot project as Co-Project Manager.
• Created statements of work, regulatory approval documents, requirement documents, design documents, and work breakdown structures (WBS).
• Supported defect resolution of the existing receiving/shipping, inventory management, invoicing and accounts receivable systems using RPG/400 and JDE.
• Created the FSC report which gave Confidential $14M in tax savings.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Data mapping, system interfaces design, technical liaison to functional teams, and custom modifications to the JD Edwards code for interfaces between the distribution systems and other applications using RPG/400, CL Query/400, and RPG IV.
• Worked as a technical project lead on the distributor resell project.
• Worked as a Co-Project Manager on the OEM supplier lot project on the Atlas system.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced and supported order processing, receiving/shipping, inventory management, invoicing and accounts receivable systems using RPG/400. Original system used panasophic software package
• Accomplished the Y2K modifications for Confidential distribution system.