SUMMARY:

Over 20 years experience with expertise in Vendor Selection, Vendor Management, Leadership for Full - Cycle Implementation, Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, Business Transformation, Organizational Change, Governance & Controls, Stakeholder Management, Process Redesign, Solution Testing and Validation, Data Governance and Off shore/On Shore and Post Support/Hyper Care services.

FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Workday Cloud Enterprise Financial Management, HCM, Reporting and Integration
• Oracle Ebusiness Financials, Order Management, Supply Chain, Reporting and Analytics
• Oracle Financials PeopleSoft and HCM
• SAP FI/CO, SAP Concur( Expense and Billing) and Microsoft Great Plains
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Financial Training and Certification in MB-900 Fundamentals
• Hyperion EPM Planning Cloud, Hyperion HFM, Hyperion Essbase including Smartview, and FDMEE for Integrations.
• SAP BPC Budgeting Planning and Consolidation.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) and Data Visualization.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition(OBIEE)and Oracle Business Intelligence Analytic Applications(OBIA) with ODI ETLAdapters for Ebusiness and PeopleSoft - Financials, HR, Supply Chain,Order Management and Procurement. PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification and Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt .
• Soft Skills - Negiotation finding win/win, Communications, Conflict Resolution, Collaboration, Trust/Approachable, Leadership and Building Commitment to the Team.
• Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project,MicrosoftTeams, Jira, Smartsheets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Senior Manager- Architect

Responsibilities:

• Established National Practice Lead for Business Intelligence and Analytic Applications
• Confidential IT Leadership increased my responsibilities from Project Manager for 1 project to Program Manager for 3 highly complex projects: 1) resolving financial material weaknesses obtaining an unqualified audit opinion, 2) Assessment, vendor selection, and implementation of new time tracking, absence, attestation, and accrual to mitigate against lawsuits and lack of compliance for state wage and hour laws.
• Received Global Program Recognition from Confidential Program Global Sponsor for comprehensive testing plan for Workday Day Global Financials and Tax Rollouts
• Implementation of OBIEE/OBIA was instrumental in identifying and resolving critical issues with their sales order to cash process in newly implemented Oracle EBS R12.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Workday HCM Post Production Support Hyper Care team of 9 external contractors to support and resolve critical and high issues regarding HR Core, Time, Absence, Benefits, On-boarding, Compensation, and Integration for Employee Demographic files, GL transactions, Learning - Training Certifications, and Payroll files to/from ADP.
• Led Assessment and Transformation of Workday HCM Implementation with Workday partner Mercer and managed a team of 50 cross-functional resources across the organization, external consultants, and trucking terminal personnel.
• Managed Reimplementation of Workday HR Core, Benefits, On-boarding, Time and Absence, and Integrations.
• Resolved Material Weaknesses in working with Deloitte and Internal Audit team by leading the implementation of SAP BPC for Budgeting, Planning, Consolidations and 3 Tier support model using Service Now.
• Hands on Senior Project Manager, Integration Architect and SME for Kronos Work Force Ready (WFR) Implementation. Defined business requirements, design, configuration, multiple parallel testing cycles, training and phased deployment including Pilot and Rollouts to over 20 service centers/trucking terminals resolving legal compliance, time and accrual calculations to support policies, and hours/cost reporting. In scope modules: HR Core, TLM, Absence/Attendance, Accruals, Scheduling, Kronos Clocks, Attestation. Payroll, and Integration feeds between Workday and Kronos.

Confidential

Workday Finance Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Workday Intercompany Company Finance Testing for Global Implementation of Phase 1 and Phase 2 for 26 countries and 400+ legal entities on Workday Financials from PeopleSoft ERP on premise.

Confidential

Project Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 40 resources including 3rd party vendors and offshore for North America implementation of Oracle R12 EBS for Financials, Project Costing, Order Management, EDI Interfaces, Data Conversion, Supply Chain, Reporting and Analytics.

Confidential

Project Manager & Business Architect/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 20 cross functional resources, external consultants and offshore support in a phased Implementation of Oracle Business Intelligence Analytics Applications including customizations for Procurement, Order Management/ Supply Chain, and Financials
• Advised client leadership on BI Strategy and Roadmap.
• Gathered Requirements including customizations, conducted GAP Analysis on business and data requirements, configuration, instance management, migration, change control, prototype’s, data validation, testing and training.
• Developed a Proof of Concept/Prototype using Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud (BICS) and Visualization for Oracle R12 ERP Subject Areas and non ERP Sources for Business Insights.

Confidential

Project Manager/ BI Lead & Business Architect/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Hands on full cycle implementation of Oracle Business Intelligence Analytic Applications for Procurement, Order Management/Supply Chain and Financials with Oracle EBS R12 as the primary data source including on shore/offshore technical resources and part-time client resources and add on customizations.

Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky

Contract Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall management of three cross-functional projects, financial management plan, assortment planning, and forecasting and replenishment. Matrix staff of 15 plus and 10 vendor consultants.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Director for $2M implementation of a complex automated cash flow model and reporting project at Confidential, Technology and Outsourcing company) using different versions of SAP R3 general ledger and non SAP sources.
• Managed project progress including project status reporting, issues and risks, established data governance and IT controls, monitored and analyzed budget for several work streams.
• This project resulted in significantly reducing the number of days in the cash flow statement generation process.
• Conducted post implementation reviews with Internal Audit teams and assisted External Audit teams to draft recommendation documents regarding risk and mitigating actions for ERP, Hyperion Financial Management, Data Quality Management, Workspace, Smart View, Data Warehouses and Reporting at Confidential -Hewitt, Navistar, and Cengage.
• Exceeded yearly sales targets of and utilization.