SUMMARY:

• Performance - focused IT resource with expertise in development and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance information technology applications for large enterprises.
• Strong understanding and experience with ERP systems (Oracle Financials & Manufacturing - GL/AP/AR/PO/FA/INV/OM/iExpenses), Datawarehouses (Financial and CRM), Contact Management (Salesforce), Business Intelligence (Business Objects/Oracle OBIEE/Cognos/Hyperion/Crystal Reports), ETL (Informatica), Custom Development/Web
• Knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM)
• Knowledge of Finance processes, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash
• Extensive experience leading teams and managing offshore resources during development and production-support phases.
• Solid understanding of Accounting procedures with background and experience in Finance/Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/PMO

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered business processes for the Wealth Management COO team.
• Included Resource Management and Financial Management processes.
• As part of the Global Banking Technology PMO team, served as Project Manager responsible for portfolio of over 25 technology driven projects.
• Included End-of-Life, Hygiene and Risk initiatives. Role also included gathering project statuses for monthly reporting to senior executives.

Confidential

Consultant - Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the upgrade of Oracle EBS Financials from the version 11.5.9 (11i) to Oracle EBS Release 12.2
• Documented RFP, project charter, project scope, assisted with vendor selection and managed project execution from initiation to closure (full lifecycle). The project includes utilization of an integration vendor ( Confidential ) to assist with the upgrade, as well as, remediation of customizations. Also included is an upgrade of Oracle Discoverer as well as, remediation of Financials Datawarehouse utilizing OBIEE (remediation of Informatica ETL processes).
• Modules include Oracle General Ledger/Purchasing/Fixed Assets/Accounts Payable/Grants.
• Led project team through standard functionality testing, integration testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and QA testing.
• Project went live April 2016, on schedule and under budget

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, coordinating and managing projects for the Data Management group.
• Included management of several projects including archiving data from Oracle/Sybase instances, migrating/converting data from SQL Server to Oracle.
• Developed project plan for data management group through fiscal 2015.

Confidential

Consultant - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, coordinating and managing projects for the Global Operations team. Leading all aspects of projects from start to finish including project team resource identification, stakeholder interfacing, project planning, requirements gathering, technical & functional documentation, issue tracking & resolution and formalized project closure. Involved interfacing with Technology, Marketing and Client Services groups.
• As member of PMO team, assisted with evolution of PMO including creating and implementing new processes, and influencing the adoption of those processes.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead Project Manager for customer implementations of Confidential ’ Governance/Risk/Compliance tools. Managing team of 5 associates.
• Involves project planning, scope and schedule management, resource/schedule management, reporting project status/milestones to customer’s senior management.
• Assisted customer’s Compliance departments to design effective strategies to protect and monitor sensitive data.
• Implemented Project Management standards and document templates in accordance with PMI best practices.
• Collaborated with marketing on product strategy/placement and identifying opportunities for cross-selling Confidential ’ tools based on strategic evaluation of customer’s IT strategy.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for upgrade of Oracle E-Business Suite from 11.5.10 to Release 12 (General Ledger/Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable/Fixed Assets/Collections/Purchasing/iProcurement/Project Accounting/OTL/OM/Service Contracts/Telesales/iSupport/iExpense). Included documentation of business case, presentation to senior executives including CIO, preparation of budget, vendor selection/evaluation, documentation of project charter/scope/project plan. Led project team through conference room pilots (CRPs), integration testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) and QA testing. Managed project team of over 20 associates.
• Program manager responsible for implementation of CRM data warehouse and Portal (for Marketing and Sales Team). Project involved standardization of Client/Product/Contract data building out company-wide repository for all contracts, and CRM Portal (Dashboard/Scorecards/KPIs) allowing 360 degree view of client information (revenue/pipeline/contracts/opportunities/client requests etc.), Implemented policies/procedures/processes and data governance for Customer/Product/Contract data (Master Data Management - MDM) across various IT systems (Oracle/Salesforce/Remedy/MS Access). Integration with Dun & Bradstreet for cleansing of client master data. Managed project team of over 70 associates. Interfaced with stakeholders from various departments including Finance/Billing/Legal/Production Support/Client Services/Contract Management/Account Management/Sales/Tax/Security.
• Member of PMO, responsible for project governance and process (Project Management Life Cycle - PMLC and Systems Development Life Cycle - SDLC), providing oversight for programs/projects and implementing project management standards. Documented PMO handbook of policies/procedures. Led implementation of PMO Dashboard offering snapshot of project portfolio and resource utilization.

Confidential

Advisor - Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Advisor to CFO/VP of Accounting on global implementation of Oracle Financials Release 12 for 18 companies through Americas (includes Latin America and Canada) with strategic objective of establishing a 1-day Accounting close. Includes implementing Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Accounts Payable, Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Internet Expenses.
• Led project to re-design Chart of Accounts for Confidential Americas. Draft of revised COA presented to global finance leadership team.
• Worked with Global IT on business alignment and improving processes to ensure enhancements and system issues are tracked, monitored, resolved and communicated in timely fashion. Worked with E&Y to streamline month-end close process.
• Worked on Global Management Reporting strategy and solution for Confidential Americas (18 companies) as part of Oracle Release 12 implementation. Involved designing strategy around usage of Hyperion Financial Reporting and Hyperion Essbase Analytics.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant - Director of Development

Responsibilities:

• As key member of Management Team, drove strategic business objectives leveraging Confidential ’s IT capability. Includes assessment of marketplace and product placement/positioning.
• Responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning, development, customer support and implementation worldwide as an integral component of business plan.
• Managed global relationships with key vendors and partners, including Oracle and Hewlett Packard.
• Managed largest group within Confidential - 16 resources.
• Hired and managed geographically dispersed staff and weaved them into teams while fostering productivity, quality and initiative.
• Implemented standards-based approach to product development. Leveraged Agile methodology for software development.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Member of team tasked with transforming Global IT into strategic business partner (Shared Services) to provide global colleagues with consistent, high-quality and cost-effective service.
• Project manager for Oracle based data warehouse/financial reporting solution (General Ledger/Accounts Payable data) used in 19 European countries. Data warehouse leveraged Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) with integration to Oracle E-Business Suite financials.
• Assisted with integration of financials datawarehouse utilizing Business Objects/Informatica (ETL) with custom in-house Oracle database supporting Contracts team. Worked with BAs to document business requirements, functional and technical specification.
• Project Manager for archiving data from Oracle 11.5.10 Financials environment. Utilized 3rd party archiving tool (Applimcation/Informatica)
• Assisted with release management of existing Oracle 11.5.10 Financials environment

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed upgrade of Oracle E-Business Suite from version 11.5.8 to 11.5.10, included implementing iExpense, Cash Management, and integrating Oracle Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Oracle Fixed Assets with roll-out of Oracle Order Management, Oracle Inventory and Oracle iProcurement. Included managing functional and technical teams from third-party vendors.
• Managed production support for Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.8 including supporting month-end reporting and close.
• Managed upgrade of legacy sales recording system database from Oracle 7.3 to Oracle 9i.
• Designed and developed custom interfaces and extensions to Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.8.
• Developed, implemented and managed custom reporting solutions for Corporate division. Included converting legacy programs from Unix/C to Oracle technology stack.

Confidential, New York, NY

Implementation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivery, installation and implementation of Confidential ’s software solutions
• Developed and managed client implementation project plans
• Identified, resolved and managed customer implementation issues.
• Maintained positive customer relationships, including tracking project status, conducting weekly status meetings and cross-selling products to existing customers.
• Used customer facing roles to determine market needs to drive product direction.
• Primary driver for new product features and metadata quality.
• Oversaw metadata development team for on-time delivery of new metadata releases.
• Developed and performed technical sales presentations for prospective customers.

Confidential, New York, NY

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis of current business processes, documentation of business requirements and the mapping of business requirements to application functionality - application gap (fit) analysis.
• Recommended transformations of current business processes and advised client on future system solutions based on best practices approach.
• Technical Lead on 4 Oracle Implementations.
• Designed, enhanced, tuned logical/physical data models.
• Designed custom software solutions to suit business needs using Oracle tools.
• Modified and extended Oracle ERP modules to suit business needs.
• Involved in data migration and conversion from legacy systems to Oracle ERP.
• Trained end users on Oracle ERP application standards and custom functionality.
• Performed unit and integration testing of Oracle ERP modules.
• Modules implemented/customized include Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Accounts Payable, Oracle Accounts Receivable, Oracle Fixed Assets, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Order Management, Oracle Inventory, Oracle iProcurement, Oracle Bill of Materials, Oracle iExpenses, Oracle Customer Service, Oracle Installed Base, Oracle Field Service.