SUMMARY

• Excellent ability to engage with customer/client to ensure delivery of quality information technology solutions that meet the business goals
• Exceptional organization and communication skills
• Experience engaging with senior management on strategic direction, business risk and current status of information technology projects
• Confident with 3rd party vendor management
• Development and conformance to systems development life cycle methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM (AS/400), Tandem O/S and Utilities, UNIX - based systems
• SQL, Visual Basic, C++, HTML, Cobol/Cobol85, RPG III
• Sybase, Oracle, DB2
• Oracle RMS, Reflexis, Island Pacific IPMS, RetailPRO, Retail Ovation, FreightMatrix
• Cognos, Crystal Reports, Eureka

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Texas

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led project team responsible for implementation of Oracle SIM application
• Led project teams responsible for testing and implementation of Oracle MOM suite (RMS, RPM)
• Led project team responsible for implementation of the Daptiv Project Portfolio Management system for IT.
• Led functional project team for completion of functional analysis and design phases of Oracle RMS implementation project (ERP)
• Led project team responsible for implementation of a Task Management system for Store Operations on time and $300K under budget with minimal impact to business operations
• Implemented a reporting solution for ecommerce targeted around operations management.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reduced overhead costs by completing the orderly transition of function and shutdown of a legacy system
• Led project team responsible for initial contact, RFP, analysis and selection of Transportation Management System.
• Managed a team of developers in the analysis, development and implementation of an internally-developed application to provide a custom front-end interface to the ASP (application service provider) selected above.
• Reduced overhead costs by facilitating move of all Aaron Brothers systems support from California headquarters to the MSI corporate headquarters in Texas.
• Managed teams responsible for support of two additional business entities: Recollections and STAR Decorator’s Wholesale.
• Led implementation of a new back-office and POS system for the STAR chain to improve business processes and synergize application use through the companies.
• Implemented R/F receiving system resulting in a 50% labor savings for the receiving function at STAR.
• Project Leader for $1.7M project to implement upgraded POS system and equipment for the Aaron Brothers chain in order to provide for PCI compliance.
• Led project to implement a new rolling cycle count process in the Aaron Brothers warehouse saving the company real labor hours and potential business impact hours.