Summary

Over 20 years experience with a number of different ERP systems in a variety of capacities Director, Project Manager, Consultant, Product Manager, Office Manager, Lead Analyst, Sr. Systems Analyst, Applications Programmer, Industrial Engineer providing management, leadership, support, software hardware architecture design, pre-sales and programming. Primary industries supported were: Higher Education university , Manufacturing including Aerospace Defense, Electronics and Materials oil shale, agriculture .Note: I have not yet used Banner, PeopleSoft, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics or SAP ERP systems but based on my background supporting other ERP systems would be comfortable utilizing these popular systems.I am seeking a position fulltime or contract to use my skills to provideIT leadership, exceptional customer service, efficient and effective support to keep an organization competitive and successful. I am available immediately and am willing to relocate.

Featured Skills

As a director of information technology, software project manager and former owner of two consulting companies, I have in-depth experienceand skills necessary to manage information technology resources:

• Information Technology Management Large scale integrated ERP Software System
• Higher Education ERP for manufacturing
• Project Management Customer Service
• Software Integration cloud Vendor / contractor Management
• Website support internal and external Learning Management Systems LMS
• Lead cross-organizational teams Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
• Information Security Managing employees
• Lead, empower and nurture teams ERP make-to-order, electronics, aerospace defense
• MBA Software consulting / contracting operations
• PCI, HIPAA, FERPA Compliance

Experience

Confidential

Director of Information Systems Web included Instructional Technology

Over 12 years as an IT Director in a growing university with increasing responsibilitiessupporting ERP system software, satellite systems, websites and learning management system. This included providing leadership, budget preparation, vendor relationships and project management.

• Managed team of tenIT employees DBA's, SysAdmins, programmers, systems analysts, leads and additional contractors / vendors 30 .
• Supported the university administrative ERP information system Jenzabar, SunGard Bi-Tech, Ellucian for Intl Student Tracking, PeopleAdmin , document imaging Nolij / Perceptive Software , websites main website, student portal, etc. and learning management systems LMS: Blackboard .
• Project Manager for over 70 projects and 200 tasks. This included estimating, budgeting, prioritization, systems analysis, working with users for business cases,exploring options, requirements, design, code reviews, pilot testing, installation, evaluation, operational management and training.
• Supported software systems, vendors and hardware infrastructure for all departments on campus includingAdmissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, A/P, A/R, Payroll, Purchasing, Central Stores, Finance, HR, Instructional Technology, Campus Safety Security, Health Center, Student Success, International Programs, Athletics, Advising, Alumni Relations, Bookstore, Dining, ResLife, Facilities Scheduling, ID cards, library systems, Information Security, Provost / Dean's offices, Emergency Alert systems, student / faculty / staff portal, learning management system, Public Information, webcams, weather station and websites.
• Oversaw multi-platform software development environment consisted of utilizing SOA, SaaS, C, C , SQL, .Net, Java, HTML, Informix, MS SQL Server, VMware, blades, SAN, UNIX, IIS, Jboss, Perl, Cognos, numerous vendor software tools/products and a disaster recovery / business continuity site.
• Planned for the technology direction for the university based on new ideas from myself, users, industry and vendors annual plan, two-year plan or five-year plan .
• Supervising, training, coaching, annual appraisals and staffing ofall Information Systems staff and contractor relationships. Had very low turnover due to valuing employees.
• Departmental Budgeting
• Utilized a structured software development life cycle SDLC methodology in a multi-database environmentthat was documented commensurate with the risks / size of project including flowcharts and examples for ongoing support .
• Partnered with the user community to gettest plans and sign-offs for each environment test, production .Impact of software changes / patcheswere evaluated, planned and scheduled for all related servers, network, and interfaces to 3rd party software and customer availability / events i.e., open houses .
• Forecasting, designing, implementing and maintaining the hardware infrastructure for the ERP system, websites and learning management system. Some of the data resided off-site cloud based for Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity DR/BC or risk avoidance.
• Coordinated yearly user / vendor testing of the flexibleDR/BC Plan that focused on new / changed software. Systems were prioritized and appropriate technique used cold site, warm site, and hot site .
• Successfully led a large project team of over 70 staff to select and implement new ERP system with zero staff turnover due to the changes .
• Served as focal point for all university software involving the ERP system, websites, student portal and learning management system. Led monthly ERP Team meetings.

Confidential

• ERP consulting
• Executive recruiting
• Software programming
• Systems analysis services

Confidential

Sr. Systems Analyst. acting Manager of IT

• IT management
• Project Management
• Systems Analysis / programming
• ERP system support / admin Cincom
• ERP selection, implementation
• Oracle, UNIX hardware / software

Confidential

Owner / CEO

Provided consulting and programming on the ERP Production Management System PMS software that was developed and marketed originally by Boeing and was used at many Aerospace Defense Companies Hughes, Grumman, Harris, Raytheon, Boeing, CAE Link, Hercules, etc. . Owned, supported and marketed the Maintenance and Materials Management System MMS , used by oil companies, GE, Air Products, US Sugar Corp, etc.

Systems Analyst / programmer, Project manager, Product manager and Pre-sales support.

Supported the PMS ERP and MMS software systems see above . When ownership of the product was transferred, I went with the product.

Confidential

Industrial Engineer / Systems Analyst / Programmer

Developed software and processes for new airplane development and blue streak parts fabrication rush .