Principal Consultant Resume
SUMMARY:
- Offering 20 years of experience in Business Systems and Process Analysis and Design, 17 years of experience implementing and supporting Oracle Applications, enhanced by operational experience in accounting and finance; a leader and a team player possessing integrity and creativity
- A lifetime of experience seeking excellence and wisdom—asking questions, planting ideas, learning, teaching, analyzing, designing, collaborating, and improving
- Experience analyzing complex data models and turning data into information
- Proven ability to elicit business users’ needs and translate those needs into clear requirements
- Consulting experience encompassing a broad range of clients— Confidential 100 global companies; small companies, State, County, and City agencies; and high - tech leading edge internet companies
- Project Management and Team Lead experience on solo projects as well as very large and complex projects
SKILLS SUMMARY:
Versions 6 through 11g, SQL*Plus, TOAD, SQL Developer, XML Publisher E-Business Suite, Releases 10.6 through 12, Global, Multi-Org, Multi-Currency Order to Cash (Order Management, Inventory, Receivables, TCA, EB Tax, Advanced Collections, Cash Management, Advanced Pricing) Traditional waterfall SDLC, Oracle AIM, Agile, Scrum MS Office - Project, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint, Visio, HP
PROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE:
Confidential
Principal Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Configured, tested and implemented consolidated Accounts Payable in R11i for 7 countries as part of a simplification and consolidation project
- As a last-minute addition to the implementation team, assisted a large transportation company with a successful consolidation from multiple ledgers to a single ledger in R12
- Diagnosed and resolved issues preventing automatic bank reconciliations in Cash Management, enabling two employees to manage daily reconciliations for more than one hundred bank accounts
- Designed an enhancement for unusual Withholding Tax requirements for 3 Asian Countries
- With the Compliance Manager, eliminated issues with the client’s PO Approvals and provided clear, consistent templates for future changes
- SME for localizations and tax reporting in Oracle Financials for a worldwide transportation company
- Provided recommendations to Regional team leads and project management whether or not to implement multiple language support, language patches, financials product localizations and specific country add-on localizations.
- Assessed the complexity of implementing Oracle Financials in 60 countries for senior management
- Analyzed complexities, similarities and differences to group countries into three deployment models
- Implemented a B2B order management solution for a major B2C enterprise
- Gathered and analyzed requirements to expand OM, AR and INV into EU and other countries, created functional specifications for related development and wrote user documentation for new processes
- Tested development deliverables, conducted UAT, and deployed solution
- Develop and demonstrate an Order to Cash proof of concept to be applied to multiple complex business models for a major internet company
- Perform gap analysis for order management, payments, receivables and advanced collections
Confidential, Redwood Shores, CA
Principal Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Played an instrumental role enabling a highly visible R12 project to meet the Go-Live by stepping in at the last minute to drive Financials testing and to implement Cash Management and Payables
- Financials lead upgrading a highly customized process manufacturing customer; also trained Collections staff in the best practices for Advanced Collections
- Performed R12 Financials setups, including EB Tax, working remotely for a worldwide implementation
- Wrote functional specifications for Order Management interfaces, conversions and customizations for a major Internet retailer implementing Oracle Release 12 financials
- Using Agile methodology, performed analysis, solution design, testing and implementation of customizations to Oracle Order Management and related applications for a high-tech manufacturer
Confidential
Contract Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Performed an upgrade assessment and developed a single instance consolidation plan for an automotive parts manufacturer
Confidential, Olympia, WA
Business Systems Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Project Manager of a highly complex implementation of Advanced Collections for the VCS division
- Olympia office team lead for upgrade from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10 in an Oracle applications environment with 1200+ customizations and extensions
- Provided day-to-day support and problem resolution for users of AR, Credit Management & Advanced Collections
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Oracle ERP Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Lead for AR, Inventory, Costing and Order Management in a full lifecycle implementation of Oracle Financials integrating with PeopleSoft HRMS and legacy systems
- Public Sector Budgeting Lead for a full lifecycle implementation of Oracle Financials and HRMS
- Developed conversion and interface specifications, system configuration and test scripts to implement PSB with Financials and before HRMS
- Order Management and Advanced Pricing Lead for the Analysis and Design phases of a very large multicompany, multi-currency, international Oracle Supply Chain Management project
- AR Team Lead on a project-centric full lifecycle implementation of Oracle Financials for a Confidential 500 transportation company, with multi-million record data conversions
- Inventory and Order Management Lead for Phase 2 and Public Sector Budgeting Lead for Phase 3 of a full lifecycle implementation of Oracle Financials, Grants and HRMS