SUMMARY:

• A seasoned career spanning different functional areas of business including the past seventeen years in Oracle Projects, Grants and Financials.
• Successfully completed several full - lifecycle implementationsof Oracle Projects(Costing, Billing and Capital Projects) in addition toparticipatingin a fewlarge implementations and supporting it at afew clients. (Clients include Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential Commandof Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential Inc, Confidential and Broadridge Financials, Bob Evans).
• Hasa focused skill-setin implementingOracle Projects, beinghis "specialty" for thepastfifteen years - workingfor Oracle Consulting, Bearing Pointas well as doing independent contracts.
• Has an in-depth understanding of the integration requirements for Oracle Projects Suite (Costing, Billing, Project Management and Resource Mgmt).
• Worked with Projects suite of applications from Rel 10.7 through 11i and through R12.2.4.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Independent Contractor

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Oracle Projects (Costing/Capital Projects) in Rel 12.2.4 (the latest R12 version) for a Confidential client (Bob Evans) in the Restaurant/Hospitality industry. The implementation entails Project Costing and Capitalization and integrates with iProcurement/PO/AP/iExpense/Fixed Assets and General Ledger.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle Projects (Costing) in Rel 12.1.3.
• Implementation entailed design/development of interfaces to create projects/budgets in MS Project Server and interfacing them to Oracle Projects. The project also had extensions for Labor Costing/Burdening and Budgets.
• The project has integration with AP/PO/iProcurement and Account Generator configuration to accomplish the same. Integrated with Markview/Kofax for AP/iExpense.
• Did all relevant documentation including BR.030, RD.050, MD.050, and BR.100.

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle Projects (Costing and Capital) in Rel 12.1.3.
• Implementation entailed integration with Oracle Assets, AP/PO and Account Generator

Confidential, Berwyn, PA

Responsibilities:

• Supported Oracle Projects Suite (including Costing/Billing, Project Mgmt and Resource Mgmt) as well as OTL and iExpense in Rel 11.5.10.2. Successfully led the upgrade efforts to upgrade the application to R12.1.3. This Oracle Projects implementation include many customizations and extensions including Labor Costing, Billing, Transaction Controls, Tax Calculation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Helped Confidential resolve some of the persistent problems with Projects/Grants Accounting as well as Encumbrance Accounting. Also, helped resolve reconciliation between Oracle Projects/Grants and General Ledger.

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Strategic Finance Program - Restructuring Chart of Accounts, Expediting the Month-End Close Process, Assessing the client’s business requirements to efficiently use the existing Oracle Applications and Evaluating additional Oracle Modules to streamline business processes.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle Projects, iExpense and OTL in Version 11.5.9. Tasks included Business Requirements Gathering, Requirements Mapping, Fit/Gap Analysis, Configuring the application, Testing, Liaison with Oracle Support for Issues Resolution, and Documentation. Provided Functional/Technical specifications for designing Custom Reports, Conversions and Interfaces. Used Mercury Test Director/Quality Center for testing purposes.

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the Oracle Applications Manager for Oracle Financials Version 11.5.9 (Family Pack L same as in 11.5.10). Duties included managing a team of resources supporting/maintaining the Oracle Financial system. Provided hands on support for Oracle Grants/Project Accounting and integration to Primavera. Also managed the upgrade from Version 11.5.8 to 11.5.9.

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Supported the entire suite of Oracle Applications (11.5.9) including Financials, Projects, iProcurement, iExpense and OTL. Tasks included ongoing Maintenance/Support of the applications, Issues Resolution with Oracle Support, Assisting management with Period Closing, Financial Reporting etc.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an upgrade effort from 11.5.8 to 11.5.9 for the entire suite of Financials including iProcurement, Projects and iExpense. Implemented new features from Projects, iExpense. Conducted Discovery sessions with users to make iProcurement forms/processes more user-friendly and worked with developers to make it happen with customization where needed.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the Lead Business Analyst for the entire suite of Oracle Financial applications (including GL/AP/AR/CM/FA/PO/Projects/iProcurement/OTL and iExpense) implementation in Rel 11i (11.5.9) with Multi-Org and multiple Sets of Books. Implemented the iExpense module hands-on for the Expense Reimbursement processing at AICPA.

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Oracle Projects (Project Accounting)-Costing/Billing and Capital Projects and Financials Rel 11i (11.5.7) upgrade from Rel 11.0.3 for a division of the U.S. Navy. The project had many different Billing solutions and several interfaces to third party legacy systems.
• Participated in the Oracle Projects (Rel 11i - 11.5.6) implementation for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The implementation entailed integration with several third party legacy systems and hence designing multiple interfaces. The implementation also entailed integration with Primavera project management system using OP3.

Confidential, New York, NY

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle Projects Rel 11i (11.5.5) including iTime (Self Service Time) and iExpense for About.com, the internet division of Confidential - the second largest magazine publishing company in the U.S. Tasks included business requirements definition, business requirements mapping, fit/gap analysis, solution design, documentation, configuration, unit and system testing. Provided the functional specifications to implement Labor Costing Extension to meet specific client requirements.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Projects in 11i ( 11.5.3) at Confidential (a REIT). Responsibilities included business requirements definition, business requirements mapping, fit/gap analysis, solution design, documentation and configuration.
• Performed business analysis and made recommendations for business process improvements during the upgrade evaluation to Rel 11i for Projects - Costing and Billing at Confidential

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the implementation team of Oracle Projects (capital and indirect) for Confidential for its Plant Engineering. Department (with a capital budget of 6 billion dollars). Provided leadership and direction that was missing and completed project in time. Helped create the interface to the Legacy Fixed Assets system to extract data from Oracle Fixed Assets. Provided the functional specifications for integrating Projects with iProcurement (with heavy customization). Provided the functional specifications for the Invoice Import Program to accommodate external systems feeding the Oracle Payables with Projects related invoices. Implemented Account Generator using WorkFlow Builder.

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle Project Accounting for Marvel Publishing in a multi-org environment.
• Implemented Oracle Projects within budget and in time. The full life cycle of Project Accounting (PA) implementation included business requirements definition, business requirements mapping, fit/gap analysis, solution design, documentation, set up/implementation, unit/system testing, user and successfully going live. Defined Users, Responsibilities, Custom Menus and Report Groups using System Administrator. Created a variety of custom reports using Discoverer 2000 to address client’s specific business needs.
• Involved in the business requirements gathering, solution design. Configured the Application inculding setting up of Suppliers, Banks, Payments, Employees. Defined and documented business processes. Developed Unit/System Test Scripts. Provided post implementation user support and . Assisted client personnel in resolving problems and documenting Technical Assistance Requests with Oracle Support.
• Implemented Oracle Project Accounting - Costing and Billing for Int’l Schools Services.
• Was involved from start to finish of the project implementation including business requirements gathering, business requirements mapping, fit/gap analysis, solution design, data conversion, interfaces and customization, set up/implementation, unit/system testing and user . Integrated the PA module with GL, AP, Purchasing and AR for seamless functioning.

Confidential, Fort Lee, NJ

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Conversion Team in the Benefits Administration Consulting Division, analyzed in-coming data from the clients for data mapping and reconciliation. Used Sybase, SQL, Access and Unix to perform various day-to-day tasks.

Confidential, New York, NY

Export Price Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed global price movements of pharmaceuticals for strategic management decision-making. Ensured compliance with prevailing market prices to prevent capital flight from clients.

Confidential, Hicksville, NY

Marketing Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained existing customer base, increased sales by developing new markets and also helped in improving client relationship.

Confidential

Export Manager

Responsibilities:

• Increased revenue by formulating and implementing new marketing strategies according to the needs and strengths of clients, in the pharmaceutical industry. Performed budgeting, standard costing, overheads analysis, variance analysis and also forecasting. Managed projects with a budget of about $2.5 Million and 15 people who worked for the projects.