SUMMARY:

An effective and hands - on technology project manager with the ability and experience to successfully land any project; providing clear and effective technical vision, and leadership for the most complex environments while relentlessly driven to exceed the highest standards of performance and integrity. 25 years of leadership experience, 21 of which as a project manager, over a dozen successful projects (PMI, Six Sigma (Green Belt) and Agile/Scrum) as well as strong technology experience and skils, holding certifications including Oracle Education Master Database Administrator (v7.3), PeopleSoft 8 Certified Technical Consultant, Ariba Certified Engineer, and Tricentis Certified Professional.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technology Project Management: led numerous national and international projects for HR, Marketing and Corporate Affairs technology projects supporting larger mergers/acquisitions and Corporate Affairs for the legal and regulatory teams while working directly on database modeling and design, systems architecture and infrastructure, code development, testing and release management. Responsible for resource management of internal employees and several external vendors and consultant/contractor resources.
• International benefits integrations lead for the Workday implementation for Confidential and Confidential, as well as security configuration testing and work on both HCM and later, U.S. Confidential .
• Service Delivery: oversight of the portfolio of projects and resources including forecasting and vendor negotiations in addition to cross-department relationships with technology and business partners.
• Change Management: directly managing production of Six Sigma project deliverables for initiatives such as Declining and Not Permitted technologies and the Marketing Datamart Platform.
• Testing automation using Tricentis Tosca. Completely automated the Workday Core HR regression testing process using the Risk Based Approach to reduce the number of test scripts, lowering maintenance effort and costs while maximizing coverage of high-impact functionality.
• Oracle modeling and development for the Marketing Data Platform project, developed the data model (ERWin) and ETL code (PL/SQL and Informatica) for the Exadata platform to replace legacy SQLServer databases and .net applications. Required extensive reverse engineering the old systems due to lack of existing personnel familiar with them.
• Responsible for several projects supporting the Countrywide merger:
• Marketing Execution and Reporting: responsible for the project through the full SDLC and infrastructure design, implementation and roll-out; creating an end-state consisting of merged Countrywide and BoA processes, applications, and architecture/infrastructure for executing direct-marketing campaigns in Home Loans and Insurance. Included 36 SQLServer databases, mainframe and midrange servers with Teradata, SQLServer and Oracle databases, 14 .net applications, Siebel Marketing and Siebel Analytics, SAS and the SAS EDI tool, as well as interfaces to numerous external vendor-based platforms. responsible for the project through the full SDLC supporting the addition of Countrywide ecommerce processes and data for executing online marketing campaigns world-wide. Included Oracle databases, midrange servers, ePiphany, and integration with external vendor-based platforms.
• Also tasked with providing guidance and leadership across various other projects, including:
• Microsoft Dynamics AX AR/Billing - The project was created to replace PeopleSoft AR/Billing with Microsoft's platform. Responsibilities on this project were limited to business/strategic issue resolution as well as the design, construction and testing of the business continuity planning including disaster recovery and failover of all technical components.
• Direct Marketing Center of Excellence - coordination of strategic decisions and solutions for direct marketing channels' technologies to ensure long-term success after completion of Countrywide and Merrill transitions.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

IT Manager and Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the IT Department and all technology projects, as well as hands-on database administration:
• Global implementation of PeopleSoft Financials 9.0 (GL, Asset Management, AP, eProcurement, AR, Billing, Time & Expense, Project Management and Project Costing) for rollout spanning Europe, North and South America, Africa, Australia, and other Asia-Pacific countries.
• Upgrade of PeopleSoft HRMS and Confidential for North America from 8.8/Tools 8.46 to 8.9/Tools 8.48.
• Cross functional technology tasks to integrate PeopleSoft ELM, HRMS, Project Costing, and Resource Management.
• Responsible for management of all project activities for 1) the migration/implementation (“insourcing” of full environment from an external vendor) of PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 and subsequent upgrade from PeopleTools, 2) migration/implementation of Financials 7.5 (archive environment for reporting) and HR 8.0 (archive environment for reporting), all on an entirely new architecture and infrastructure, as well as integration with the PeopleSoft Expenses implementation.

Confidential

Senior Industrial Technology Strategy & Change Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project manager (utilizing Confidential ’s custom Component Business Model methodology) and technology strategist for two high profile clients.
• For Confidential, managed three global projects which created the five to ten year strategy for technology architecture and software platforms for 3 divisions: finance, procurement, and business and real estate services (BRES).
• For Confidential, performed the same role as at Confidential, creating five year technology strategies for HR and finance.