EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Plymouth, MN

TECHNICAL FINANCIAL BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Capacity Management - Develop and Utilize Capacity Utilization and Demand Reports for Oracle, SQL, MySQL and Big Data (Hadoop, Splunk) builds. Prioritize and initiate the build process
• Project Management/PMO - Manage Oracle, SQL, MySQL and Big Data (Hadoop, Splunk) builds
• Purchasing/Vendor Manager for Operating Software for Database, Cloud and Software Engineering.
• Budgets - Develop and Justify quarterly and yearly expense, capital, headcount and professional services plan
• Product Costing/Rate Cards/ Chargebacks - Identify costs associate with products and services in order to charge internal and external customers. Ensure costs are properly charged (external) and/or charged back (internal)
• Business Case Development - Determine Total Cost of Ownership between two or more competing technologies
• Purchasing/Vendor Management - Negotiate software purchases, maintenance agreements and Scope of Work. Ensure conformance to contracts and SOW criteria
• Systems - Ariba, Concur, Essbase, PeopleSoft, Smart View, Oracle, Data Warehouse, Tableau, Datameer
• Business Process Management – Utilize Six Sigma methodologies to analyze and enhance cross-functional processes
• Change and Resource Management – Ensure proper resources scheduled for network change and release activities.

Legends Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Developed and utilized standardized Project Plans that reduced IT Project Management expenses by 20% utilizing the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Six Sigma.
• Perform analysis of project-related activities (timeline, expense and capital expenditure conformance).
• Project Management Plans developed utilizing MS Project, Clarity, Rally, Excel and proprietary templates
• Developed Product Costing Models which Marketing used to develop profitable Product Pricing models for the delivery of Accounting Systems and Services to Clients
• Developed and managed standardized Project Plans, requirement gathering questionnaires and standardized Costing/Pricing models for the delivery of Accounting Systems and outsourced Accounting functions to the Client. Functions included Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll and Reporting

Project Management (Systems Implementation and Hardware Deployment)

• Utilized Project Management Methodologies such as Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile.
• Launched Systems including SAP, Ariba, NetSuite, QuickBooks, GoFileRoom Document Management System, BNA Fixed Asset.

Financial Management

• Formulate, review and justify Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Business and Financial plans.
• Provide Financial Analysis, Business Analysis and Project Management support. Conduct Cost/Benefit Analysis and develop Business Cases
• Experienced with SAP, SAP Data Warehouse, Ariba, PeopleSoft Financials, Essbase, Smart View, Tableau, Datameer…

Process Engineering

• Developed Product Costing Models which Marketing used to develop profitable Product Pricing models for the delivery of Accounting Systems and Services to Clients
• Developed and managed standardized Project Plans, requirement gathering questionnaires and standardized Costing/Pricing models for the delivery of Accounting Systems and outsourced Accounting functions to the Client. Functions included Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll and Reporting

Data Analysis Database Analysis/Database Migrations

• Develop Financial and Operational reports utilizing Enterprise Data Stores
• Manage migration of SQL Server, Salesforce.com and MS Access based Customer Database, Workflow, Clinical and Loan Management Systems.
• Develop, manage and perform Data Mapping, Data Cleansing, Data Migration, Data Testing and Go-Live project plans utilizing Microsoft Project, Scope of Work….
• Extracted and processed data from Enterprise Data Warehouses including SAP, Ariba, and Company and Vendor proprietary systems

Entrepreneurship/Business Management

• Business Owner - Owned business that generated $300K revenue in first two years. Responsible for Startup, Accounting and Taxes, Advertising and Marketing Strategy, Sales, Hiring, Scheduling, Purchasing, Accounts Payable

Marketing/Sales Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Performed Market Analysis of a seven county area in order to develop a Business Plan for the opening of a Business.
• Analysis included consumer surveys, research into trade publications and the accumulation of publically available census data.
• Analyze sales and marketing data in order to concentrate advertising campaigns and determine pricing strategies based on certain criteria such as structure age, home builder, window manufacturer, structure compass directional orientation and consumer demographics.

South Brunswick, New Jersey

MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business Cases and projects that saved Confidential over $45M over a 5 year period
• Oversaw 6 Project Managers / Process Engineers / Business Analysts
• National and “Most of World” Network Operations Systems and Process Development Portfolio Management
• Operations Process – Confidential

Piscataway, New Jersey

QUALITY MANAGEMENT STAFF SPECIALIST

Responsibilities:

• Process Improvement Training and Implementation
• Formal classroom training of all personnel on Total Quality Management techniques including Customer Focused Management, Statistical Tools and Techniques, ISO 9000 Implementation, ISO 9000 Documentation, Six Sigma Developed ISO 9000 Implementation and ISO 9000 Documentation training courses
• ISO 9000 Implementation Specialist
• Led Quality Audits of Satellite Stations, Switching Stations, and Field Maintenance sites Developed nonconformance and corrective action tracking and reporting database utilizing MS Access and proprietary software Management Representative for divisional ISO 9000 quality management system implementation effort Web Administrator, Developed and maintained a Document Control system via the Intranet utilizing MS FrontPage

Perth Amboy, New Jersey

PRODUCTION/QUALITY FACILITATOR

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated a team environment with an emphasis on breaking down barriers that exist between Sales, R&D, Engineering, Quality, Scheduling, Maintenance, and Production personnel
• Directly responsible for four Production/Quality Chemists and indirectly responsible for twenty Union Production Personnel
• Participation in production scheduling and monthly expense budgeting/justification teams. Developed monthly, quarterly and yearly budgets in MS Access and Excel. Analyzed monthly actual vs. budget expenses, cash flow analysis and Profit/Loss
• Director and participant in quality/productivity projects and cross functional teams utilizing Total Quality Management principles including Statistical Process Control . Developed volume based product costing/productivity models
• Process Engineering, Development and Troubleshooting. Justification based on analysis including Return On Investment (ROE), Internal Rate of Return, safety and environmental concerns
• “Power User” for plant wide SAP and PRISM implementation