SUMMARY

• Top - performing consultant with more than 20 years’ experience in Program and Project Management. Proven expertise in transforming companies, managing MM dollar budgets and driving quality assurance initiatives within high-profile organizations. Skilled in collaborating with all members of the organization to achieve business and financial objectives.
• Instrumental in streamlining and improving processes, enhancing productivity and implementing technology solutions. Technical proficiency across many applications and tools bringing best practice Program Management Office techniques.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Program Management Office
• Key Performance Metrics/ROI
• Business Process Engineering
• Enterprise Business Transformation
• Application Architecture
• Resource Management
• Waterfall, Agile & Blend Methodologies
• Cost/Benefit Analysis/Business Case
• Quality AssuranceSDLC/PDLC
• Business Optimization
• Business Analysis
• Cloud Strategy/Solutions
• Change Management
• Custom Development
• Product Management
• Sales Force
• Siebel CRM
• Oracle ERP - Supply Chain
• Workday
• SABA-LMS
• Peoplesoft - HCM
• Oracle Cloud
• EiS Reporting
• Lawson Financials
• Multiple ACD Apps
• Hospitality Apps
• JD Edwards
• Oracle ERP - HCM
• Great Plains and mor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud.
• Integrated with Peoplesoft Financials on premises.
• Acted in the role of solution architect since one was not available.
• Reported to “C” Level IT Steering Committee
• Delivered on time and on budget against a very aggressive budget and timeline.
• Head the stabilization of the Aclara product, Polaris and the effective rollout of the NCC platform to So Cal Gas.
• Improved positioning to meet future objectives by rewriting the Polaris product and realigning the Engineering Division to include Hardware and Software Engineering and Quality.
• Upgrade Oracle to R12 and moved solution to AWS.
• Led initiatives to integrate with Oracle with complete back office stabilization.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned, managed and evaluated the restructure of two Vista Companies.
• Drove initiatives by removing business units and combining units to create the new “Lanyon Solutions”.
• Implemented a large cloud based SAAS solution including Oracle EBS (In AWS), Sales Force, Cast Iron, Eloqua, three custom products and integrations with several other external applications like banks, etc.
• Provided education and training to increase the proficiencies of non-technical "knowledge holders."
• Improved business efforts by integrating 10 disparate businesses acquired by Blackboard through the M&A process.
• Directed scope of projects, measured milestones, pivoted the business from product to market segment, aligned teams and incorporated technology solutions.
• Consolidated 33 data centers, strategically selecting cloud vs. on site applications to best meet the needs of the business, reduce and/or control costs.
• Drove technology improvements with a cloud based SAAS solutions, Peoplesoft Financials, SalesForce, OBIEE and Concur replacing 55 other applications with appropriate integrations using near real time middle-ware.

Confidential

Program Director

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded a $70 million plus Enterprise Business Transformation program that streamlined the infrastructure applications and processes of a leading healthcare software development organization.
• Oversaw 30+ projects inside the Program, 400+ resources assigned with about 200 of them being consultants.
• Set up a PMO structure complete with tools, PPM and methodology.
• Achieved an 18-month cycle that merged two CRMs, Siebel on Demand and SFDC to SFDC for both the sales and support organizations, the addition of the Knowledge module, Chatter, GSA and a new Client Landing Page.
• Initiated a 50-module implementation of Oracle R12, Finance, HR, SCM, GRC and CDH as the backbone of the program.
• Deployed a new LMS, SABA and a new ACD using the new I3 technology.
• Created a custom Client Experience Portal with client facing applications for a better customer experience.
• Drove quality assurance and reduced averages costs for expected project.
• Capitalized on business process engineering to streamline and combine the best practices to a large complex cloud based SAAS solution (with Sales Force at the core) integrating back to the ERP applications in the data center.
• Applied patented the 4X Method and 4X BPR practices on the program.
• Drove adherence to timelines by managing all phases of project.
• Increased access to organizational information by overseeing an Enterprise Business Transformation project includes and Oracle R12 e Financials, HCM and SCM implementation, including PeopleSoft Pensions and Hyperion Budgeting.
• Implemented interfaces to many other county systems including Kronos for time capture and OBI for reporting needs along with a complex data warehouse.
• Headed the QA program, independent verification and validation processes including code written offshore and/or offsite.
• Acted as a Solution and Enterprise Architect designing both the functional and technical aspects of the program.

Confidential

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Early adopter of Oracle R12 HCM solution for 6th largest city in the country with 57 departments operating independently.
• Used change management techniques as part of Enterprise Business Transformation method to develop new business processes and align all 57 departments to adopt common process.
• Received recognition for being the first technology project in the City of Philadelphia to go live on time and under budget.
• Integrated Oracle HCM suite of applications with many independent departments across the city to support their data needs like Police, Fire, Water, etc.
• Integrated with legacy back office financial systems, FAMIS and AD PICS to support grants and funds accounting.
• Implemented EiS Reporting solution to meet the continuing needs of ad hoc reporting in a simple user friendly environment.
• Implemented 11i Oracle Financials & Supply Chain along with Siebel CRM in a very complex environment where parts and vehicle business operate separately but needed to exist cohesively inside one application environment.
• 24 Oracle modules were implemented across 2 phases.
• Complex Project Accounting design to capture detailed cost by VIN and then track in install base for 10 years.
• Completed large scale process re-engineering effort to take advantage of modern technologies.
• Re-architected application footprint to eliminate or streamline over 50 interfaces to other applications.

Confidential

Oracle Incentive Compensation

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new Oracle module, Incentive Compensation for ergonomic furniture manufacturer.
• Complex sales model that included employee sales staff and partner firms with over 50 different compensation plans.
• Streamlined plans to be criteria based
• Designed custom solution and integrations with outsourced payroll and human resource system.
• Implemented Oracle financials as part of Oracle/KPMG partner team.
• Integrated with 56 other existing applications using multiple interface techniques to meet the user requirements.
• Led Steering Committee and reported to Executive Staff assigned as oversight.
• Streamlined business processes using process engineering techniques to capture current and future state and change management techniques to drive acceptance.