SUMMARY:

I'm an IT Leader/Project Manager with experience helping companies deliver complex, client - facing, business transformation systems using Agile and Waterfall Methodology.. My industry exposure to-date includes manufacturing, banking, telecommunication, and brewery. I've worked extensively to coordinate projects with corporate resources and virtual teams via travel, phone, video conferencing, E-mail and Instant Messenger. I've driven changes requiring new technologies, methodologies and processes, and am skilled at translating complex information for non-technical audiences.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Muscatine, IA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead HRIS Project to integrate the acquired company to Confidential standards. This resulted in cost reduction as well as adding value for members with the use of many self service features.
• Assembled Project team, assigned individual responsibilities, developed project schedule, and was responsible for acquiring and co-coordinating the effort of the team to deliver project according to the plan.
• Build and leverage relationships with internal business partners, corporate enablers and external Vendors to deliver technology solutions.
• Experience interfacing with third party vendor product implementation and integration
• Assisted in review of vendor proposals and project plans and identified alternatives as necessary.
• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects.
• Assisted in creating the Audit reporting matrix from various sources
• Proactively managed changes in project scope, identified risks, constraints, assumptions, and devised contingency plans.
• Utilized various sources of data to analyze and make decision relevant to the process.
• Managed the development of testing strategies and plans with business owners, took active part in testing and validating business processes.
• Identified gaps in processes and executed continuous improvement of the solutions established.
• Conducted weekly meetings internally and with third party to ensure tasks are on track, provided Status reports to management.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and managed series of Project Initiatives from start to finish, using Confidential Project Management Methodology.
• Conducted interviews to expand the department.
• Responsible for defining the scope and objective of the project and oversaw the Quality control throughout the project Lifecycle.
• Managed all aspects of project management activities cost, budget, timelines, issues/risk management, deliverables, quality and change control.
• Accountable to provide project status updates to the Leadership Team and report project issues that require appropriate escalation to all management levels.
• Provided input into the planning, testing, and implementation of high quality changes for all EBS supported systems suite of application platforms.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Business Analyst

Technical Skills: Oracle EBS, Oracle Financials: Rel 11i. iProcurement, iExpense, Purchasing, Accounts Payables, Fixed Assets, Oracle Discoverer, MS. Project, Logical Apps(GRC), Kofax, Ariba, Data loader, Access 2003, SharePoint, Visio, Windows Server, Unix, Sql Server, EDI

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Functional design and Configuration document.
• Collaborated with Procurement team and suppliers to map Supplier trading partners through EDI.
• Completed moderately complex updates and maintenance activities to supported systems.
• Worked closely with various service providers, Oracle on Demand off shore, in-house and internal business Vendor to ensure that application runs properly in a production.
• Planned and Managed Production release testing with Operations team, Oracle on Demand. Familiar with Oracle on Demand, CEMLI, SR and RFC process.
• Assumed a key role in projects upgrades and initiatives interacted and collaborated with team members and other departments, as appropriate.
• Worked in mixed data center environments that include AIX and Windows based servers, networking, as well as mainframe equipment
• Identified opportunities, developed alternatives and made recommendations to the Team.
• Adhere to corporate policies and best practices to ensure internal and external audit and regulatory compliance in the areas of security, control and standards (including Privacy and confidentiality) Using Logical Apps (GRC).
• Planned and Participated in yearly Oracle production Disaster Recovery.
• Designed and developed Ad Hoc reports for the business using Oracle Discoverer.
• Developed Dataloader script for assisting various teams to load data using the tool and provided to end users to effectively use the tool.
• Provide guidance and coaching to other junior team members.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Technical Skills: Dot net Framework, ASP, Asp.net, VBA, Access 97,2000, 2003, Visual Basic 6, VB.net, Visio, MS. Project, MS Office, Crystal Report, Java, Jasper Report, IntelliJ, Tomcat, IntelliJ, Ant, ireport, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, VBScript, MTS, Websphere Application Server 5.1, Photoshop, Oracle Developer 2000, Flash, WinCVS, Homesite, TOAD, Macromedia Dreamweaver, SQL Server 7, 2000, Oracle 8i, 9g, PL/SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Investigated strategy to move Expense Management Application (E.M.A) from Tomcat 4.1 container to Websphere 5.1 Application Server; installed, configured, administered Websphere Application Server (W.A.S); successfully configured E.M.A to work on W.A.S. 19% ahead of schedule
• Automated batch process for information received from CCMI (Center for Communication Management Information); saved 75% of User’s time
• Experience interfacing with third party vendor product implementation and intregration
• Modified Rates and Tariffs download data application for customers across the globe; reduced download time by 50%
• Modified, Jasper reports for E.M.A to support multi currency within 18 days of 20 allocated days
• Designed, implemented and maintained stored procedures and DTS packages (Data Transformation Services) for a searchable database application
• Designed icons, graphics and Flash animation for Confidential Enterprise Application using tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash
• Developed style sheet using Interdev modified webpages to ensure that applications behaved consistently on various browsers and platforms completed within 8 of 10 allocated days
• Installed, configured and administered test and production Oracle 8i database instances of E.M.A
• Set up and maintained a Windows 2000 server, IIS 5.0, Sql Server 97/2000, Oracle server, Websphere Application Server 5.1
• Gathered, analyzed, defined and documented requirements, translated requirements into solutions, produced functional specifications, and provided related support to team members throughout project duration

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

Technical Skills: XML, VBA, Access 97, MS. Project, MS Office, Excel, Visual Basic 6.0, FTP

Responsibilities:

• Managed outsourced portion of development project; coordinated activities of software developers in India
• Wrote operations and troubleshooting guides, testing strategy, software enhancement requirements, and system modification to support implementation and administration

Confidential

Programmer / Analyst

Technical Skills: XML, Visual Basic 6.0, VBA, Access 2000, MS. Project, MS Office, Oracle 2000, Crystal Report

Responsibilities:

• Created interface to move monthly labour data to fiscal labour data, centralized HR information from various areas to one central payroll database, within 25 days of 30 allocated days
• Created ad hoc queries to upload mass payroll fiscal year end transactions within 4 of allocated 5 days
• Created and designed complex custom Crystal report for customer
• Modified existing application for analysis of material used in production, sales volume, production sales revenue and production cost within 20 of allocated 24 days
• Developed GUI application using Oracle 2000 to merge common information across diverse platforms; created report forecasting weekly, monthly, yearly sales