SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Infor/Lawson Financials Consultant with systems implementation, upgrade, support and staff augmentation experience in diverse industries, principally healthcare. I have over 25 - years hands-on expertise with the financials suite and have cross functional knowledge of Infor/Lawson Procurement as well as business-related understanding of Infor/Lawson Human Resources/Payroll suites in consultative, leadership, management consulting and strategy roles.
• Business Analysis and System Support
• System Implementation, Upgrade and Consolidation, and Program Management
• System Evaluation and Selection, ERP Implementation, Upgrade and Integration
• Business Process Design/Redesign (Finance, Human Resources, Payroll, Supply Chain)
• Change Management/Training and Development/Documentation
• Strategic Planning and Project Governance, Risk Identification and Mitigation
• Project scoping, budget management, resource staffing and management, project planning,

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, McDonough, GA

Principal Consultant/Financials Lead

• In this role I am responsible for hands on implementation, staff augmentation, and providing leadership to Wise’s accounting staff for CRP, SIT and UAT the deployment of Cloud Suite 10 General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Invoice Match, Activity Management, Accounts Receivable, Billing and Revenue, Cost Allocations, Asset Management and Cash Book. In addition, I provide functional leadership for the deployment of the Accounts Payable Invoice Approval Flow by administering actors, tasks and roles, implementation of the approval levels and work unit management, work with the technical staff to successfully deploy the Clinical Bridge for interfaces from the legacy MS4 system to Infor for Patient Revenue and Patient Refunds, and am responsible to guide the accounting team to update processes when improved functionality is deployed, to develop new procedures where none existed and to ensure the script library is comprehensive and complete.

Confidential

Principal Consultant/Program Manager

Provided consultative leadership for several initiatives related to this Cloud Suite 10 deployment of Infor/Lawson including: (hand-on) Implementation of Lawson’s Accounts Receivables and Billing modules, deployment of E-Requisitioning, fine tuning of IPA’s, Item Master cleanup, and deployment of the Contract Management module for Supply Contracts. As part of this effort I had responsibility for project planning, client facing, status reporting and project documentation, test planning, and leading an SCM Business Process Assessment, as well as with Accounts Payable/Invoice Match issues related to RNI and INR.

Confidential

Principal Financial Consultant - Lawson

As part of the overall Lawson optimization/implementation team for these clients I am charged with providing leadership, guidance, vision and functional expertise for the current version 9 deployment and for the planned upgrade and/or upgrade to Infor10, including training, configuration review and development, and guidance with supporting technologies for Accounts Payable, Invoice Match, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Activity Management, Lease Management and General Ledger using the phased approach of Business Process Analysis, Best Practice, Policy and Process recommendations, support for day-to-day “pain point” tasks, as well as supporting the optimization of the Procurement modules from requisition to payment.

Confidential

Principal Consultant/Project Manager - Lawson

I supported the newly centralized Accounts Payable department on this version 10.0.5 deployment of Lawson and provided consultative support to Finance, Procurement and Supply Chain departments with responsibility to resolve invoicing issues related to conversion, to ensure that AP and MA configuration were appropriate, for guiding the training and progress of 16 UPH employees and up to 6 temporary resources. I worked in tandem with the Centralized AP Manager, and Overall Project Manager to identify and correct system related issues, and was responsible for development and deployment of the AP security matrix, identification and testing of patches and other system fixes, ad-hoc reporting across the organization and analyzing GL, Activity and Asset Management postings though the invoice match and capital management programs. This was a fully hands-on support/analyst/leadership role in which I used my business and technical knowledge of the Lawson system in support of the client’s deployment and stabilization plans.

Confidential

Principal Consultant/Project Manager - Lawson

Responsible for providing consultative expertise, guidance, leadership and day-to-day support for Infor/Lawson General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Cash Ledger and Lease Management modules, as well as consultative support to the Procurement and Payroll functions at ARMC. I am partnering with the CFO, Controllers and Accounting Managers to refine the configuration of this implementation, as well as leading the effort for design of departmental policy and procedure, and leading a cross functional task force to clean up outstanding implementation issues and concerns. Additionally, I am providing training support to two ARMC functional IT Analysts, preparing scripts for functional users and teaming with accounting leadership to further deploy Lawson functionality and implement MHC for document imaging and Advanced Data Capture.

Confidential

Program Manager - Workday Enterprise Implementation Project

Implementation of Workday Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, HCM, Payroll for US, On-Boarding, Employee and Manager Self Service, Financial Accounting, Customer Accounts and Contracts, Supplier Accounts, and Banking and Settlement modules for a healthcare related organization with five unique locations (CCRC) offering a full continuum of retirement living, personal care, nursing services, a home for adults with developmental disabilities, a children's home, adult day care, home care, short-term rehabilitation, hospice and outreach services. Responsible to drive all efforts relative for discovery, design, configuration, vendor integrations, testing, parallel for payroll, training, change management and deployment across all five locations. Managing a 25+ member client team, as well as directing the efforts of and overseeing a 10-member consulting partner team, across HR, IT and Finance departments for functional and technical implementation and the Communications and Training departments for change management. I monitor weekly team progress through regular meetings and status reports, and I was also the first line for project reporting through summary status and other direct communication lines with the project Steering Committee.

Confidential

Program Director for Practice Consolidations and Managing Lawson Consultant

Served as executive-facing program leader for the consolidation of 18 physician practices with a total of 239 departments, and 15 dental practices from stand-alone to divisions of the School of Medicine and School of Dentistry of this leading medical, academic and research institution. Responsible for leading implementation efforts to move these practices from multiple disparate systems to Lawson version 9.1.x for the financial suite (GL, AC, AP, MA, GM, LM), human resources suite (BN, HR, PA, PR, EMSS), the supply chain suite (RQ, RQC, PO, WH, EDI, MSCM). Reported directly to the CFO and lead teams as large as 40 resources in these efforts and was responsible to create and manage multiple project plans. In addition, I lead and/or participated in efforts to restructure the Lawson IT organization, budget preparation for University Dentists, providing training to the consolidated resource community for GL, RQC and AC, mentoring

University Physicians accounting staff, and work teams dedicated to ensuring UMC specific processes were identified, properly accounted for, and rolled out in the consolidated environment.

Confidential

Overall Project Manager - Lawson Implementation Project

Successfully led the implementation of the Lawson 9.0 Application Suites for two locations of this hospital system including: Financials (GL, AP, AM, MA), Materials Management (RQ, PO, IC, WH), Human Resources (BN, HR, LP, PA, PR), Requisition Self Service (RSS), Manager Self Service (MSS), MSCM and LBI. Provided hands-on leadership throughout project and was responsible to implement and train MSS, develop and provide training for RSS. I successfully managed two client teams totaling 30 resources and 23 Consultants throughout this implementation.

Confidential

Principal Consultant and Interim Lawson Enterprise Manager

Serving as leader for the Back-Office Systems team I provided management, oversight, direction and support for all IT functionality related to the Finance, Materials Management, Nutrition and School-Based Services divisions. Provided hands on management to, and acted as liaison between, internal clients and the Lawson team to confirm all business and technical requirements, the design and documentation of system processes and procedures, development of test plans and scripts, and provided guidance and support in data mapping. I managed a team of 10 Business Analysts, Developers, Security and System Administrators as well as the Lawson Help Desk which used the HEAT ticketing system. Participated in the planning for the LSF9 and application upgrade and managed strategy related to the upgrade project

Practice Manager - Lawson

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Responsible for ensuring quality delivery for Lawson consulting engagements, hire to termination process for consulting staff, developing training programs for internal staff and client resources, and for marketing and sales support for the Lawson practice. Duties included serving as contact and single point of escalation for C-level and PMO client resources and thought leader for client implementation and upgrade projects.

Confidential

Computer Sciences Corporation, Orange, NJ

Led and developed concepts, solutions and frameworks for addressing core industry challenges and specific client needs. Worked to pro-actively analyze weakness in client processes and landscape and suggest alternate solutions. Provided thought leadership and strategic inputs for a client’s long-range plans and roadmap. Worked with sales staff on sales pursuit and define innovative solutions that meet client’s needs. Defined business processes across the different functions of the organization in the healthcare industry sub-segment and provide implementation solutions using Lawson functionality.

Director

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Provided executive, and day to day, leadership for staff and consulting engagements, serving as the single point of escalation for all C-level and PMO client resources and issues. I oversaw internal project leadership in taking projects from original concept through final delivery. Participated and provided leadership in project scoping and planning activities, managed project objectives as defined in project proposal.

Consulting Manager

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

In this role, I served as Leader for all Lawson implementation projects and consulting services. Responsible for the hire to terminate process for consulting staff, training and development for both client and internal resources, prepared RF(x) documentation and work with senior management to market the services of the organization. Was single point of management and escalation for all Lawson clients and projects.

Business Manager,

Confidential, Menlo Park, NJ

Provided financial leadership and managed general accounting, financial planning, analysis, and administration of all aspects of this specialty retail chain. Monitored accounting and identified and resolved problems as required. Ensured the proper administration of business activities within guidelines and worked with business owners to enact and enforce policy surrounding retail, day to day and financial operations. Created sales audit methodology and implemented the POS system to facilitate sales and audit.

Director

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

Lead, directed and oversaw all accounting functions for the organization. I was responsible to direct all general ledger, accounts payable, account receivable, billing and payroll activities. Had responsibility for the development and implementation of policy and procedure to ensure the quality control and security of corporate financial information and funds. Managed the reporting of monthly, quarterly and annual financial results, and made final recommendations to the CFO regarding the status of reserve accounts. Collaborated with the IT department to ensure the efficiency of financial, procurement and human resource/payroll systems, and implemented the Macola and Lawson systems for back office operations.