IT Management Consultant/Project Executive

Project Manager

Precision-oriented and bottom line focused IT Management Consultant/Project Executive offering 20 years of innovative, people-centered leadership that produces results. Specialize in assuming leadership of complex Information Technology projects, collaborating with project staff and key stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Expertise in leading large PeopleSoft ERP implementation and upgrade projects PeopleSoft Financials HCM , including corresponding business process re-engineering to produce best practice solutions that optimize system and process capabilities. Experience leading technology-focused organizations, including organizational design, staffing, budgeting and Strategic Planning.

PROFESSIONAL STENGTHS EXPERTISE

• Executive Mgt./Leadership Project Mgt. PMI-PMP ERP Program Leadership
• Organizational Analysis/Design Risk/Change Management PeopleSoft Financials/HCM
• Process Re-engineering Team-Building Consensus Building

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS HIGHLIGHTS

Confidential

• Served as Executive Director contracted for the New York Statewide Financial System SFS for 15 months during critical post-implementation and stabilization period. Lead the organization of 130 NYS employees and 70 contractors while the organization was transformed from an implementation program to an operating entity, at which time the SFS Joint Governance Board executed the Search for a permanent NYS employed Executive Director. SFS is New York State's accounting and financial management system and is the currently the largest state government implementation of Oracle/PeopleSoft Financials in the US, through which over 125 Billion in payments are made to over 100,000 payees annually.
• Managed all aspects of project to upgrade from PeopleSoft Payroll version 8.3 to version 8.9., which is utilized to pay over 250,000 employees of New York State each pay period.

Confidential

• Led application development team during the initial implementation of a web-based customer settlements financial data reporting application assisting all market participants in the New York State Energy Market to understand the billing determinants comprising their daily bills and/or payments.
• Delivered a robust data warehouse reporting system for an Oracle Financials implementation at the SUNY Research Foundation, utilizing Oracle Discoverer and Noetix Views, to provide management with a flexible and timely source of information to augment the standard Oracle Financials reports.

Confidential

• Led the creation of a Global Procurement Data Warehouse to provide purchasing professionals at all GE Plastics sites the ability to access key strategic data for negotiating new vendor contracts.
• Led the analysis and design of the technical solution to support reengineered sourcing processes to be standardized on a single system of globally applied processes and procurement procedures.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Contracted act as the SFS Executive Director for 15 months, with overall responsibility for managing the day-to-day activities of all 130 NYS SFS staff and 70 contractors, supporting over 90 NYS agencies and public authorities. Held this position as the SFS Joint Governance Board executed search for permanent NYS-employed Executive Director.
• Upon hiring of permanent NYS-employed Executive Director in December 2013, contracted to build and manage an Internal Project Management Organization PMO and Enterprise Architecture Team at SFS, as well as act as Project Manager for EE1 Project, which includes the first major upgrade of the PeopleSoft Financials System upgrade to version 9.2 and re-engineering of key process areas.
• NYS SFS is New York State government's accounting and financial management system, and is the largest public-sector implementation of Oracle/PeopleSoft Financials Suite in the US.

QA, Testing

• Led creation of detailed project plan for User Acceptance Testing and created program-wide cutover and conversion plan, integrating all areas of the SFS program and NYS agencies.
• Coordinated and executed all activities related to cutover, including statewide dress rehearsals and the statewide cutover from the previous NYS Central Accounting System, which had been in use since 1982.

Project Manager

• Managed all aspects of project to upgrade from PeopleSoft Payroll version 8.3 to version 8.9., which is utilized to pay over 250,000 employees of New York State each pay period.

Project Manager

• Managing all aspects of one-year project to implement Performance Measures reporting for each Business Unit of the Division of Regulatory Affairs.
• Successfully delivered Phase One of the project in March 2008, which included the refinement and customer validation of the Conceptual Design for all business units, planning for all phases of the project, development and execution of the communications and risk management plans, and delivery of reports for several of the key business units within the division.
• Developed and validated standard WBS for future use by other teams, which will serve as a framework for planning and executing other performance measures initiatives throughout The Board .

Project Manager

• Led the creation of an independent fund mandated by legislation in June, 2008 to provide Workers' Compensation benefits for serious injuries and crimes committed against drivers dispatched by qualifying independent livery bases licensed in Westchester County, Nassau County and New York City .
• Coordinated activities between a wide range of stakeholders, including The Workers' Compensations Board's Compliance Division, the Taxi and Limousine Commissions for NYC, Westchester and Nassau County, the NY State Governors Office, the ILDBF Board and the State Insurance Fund.

Project Manager

• As part of the Bureau of Payroll Services' Reorganization/Transition efforts, developed and implemented a standard project methodology for Implementing System and Business Process Changes within the Bureau of State Payroll Services. The developed methodology includes processes, procedures and standard documentation requirements related to the identification of improvement opportunities, project prioritization, requirements gathering, analysis, obtaining a solution consensus among team members, and implementation standards for the targeted system enhancements and/or business process improvements.
• Ensured the developed methodology was based on private and public sector best-practice project management standards, tools, approaches and methods, including The Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK , Six Sigma Project Methodology, OSC's Smart Project Methodology , and NYS Office for Technology's Project Management Guidebook .

Project Manager/Consultant

• Conducted various as-is business process discovery and documentation efforts.
• Facilitated creation of to-be recommendation to the Bureau Director and facilitated planning session to communicate and implement the organizational changes.
• Led the team charged with the creation of the specific staffing recommendations for the entire Earnings Section, including a multi-step plan for transitioning from the existing structure to the to-be organizational model, which was designed to maximize efficiency, break down organizational barriers and ensure operational continuity succession planning . Presented the plan to the Bureau Director and the Deputy Comptroller for Payroll and Revenue Services.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Continued

Project Manager

Spearheaded team of OSC personnel functional and technical , external agency staff and external consultants in comprehensive process improvement and automation project which replaced the existing Payroll Data Capture Program with an improved, standardized and automated process that significantly reduced errors and eliminated burden of double entry payroll of payroll transactions for state agencies. Successfully migrated all 11 of the former data capture agencies to the new automated interface. To date, over 22 agencies have successfully implemented the Automated Interface.

• Lead team analyzing process requirements and business rule discovery, mapping as-is data capture processes at OSC and its agencies, baselining technical environments, re-engineered new business and then identifying technical requirements. Led team through development, testing and implementation at OSC and worked directly with each of 11 agencies to monitor progress and provide whatever information and expertise that was needed to implement according to the project timeline.

Confidential

• Led technical team's implementation of Business Objects 5i as NYISO's primary Business Intelligence Tool.
• Coordinated development of the Technical Specification.
• Directed team's development of Business Objects Universes to support energy settlements process including settlement data for load serving entities, power generators and bilateral energy transactions.
• Defined/Implemented NYISO's DSS Portal Access Strategy for internal users and external market participants through customer interviews and by applying NYISO's corporate policies and procedures.

Confidential

• Coordinated internal NYISO staff to convene Enterprise Requirements sessions with 15 different functional areas.
• Facilitated Enterprise Requirements sessions while developing comprehensive Data Warehouse/DSS Enterprise Requirements document and Conceptual Enterprise Data Model, while contributing to the functional requirements specification developed for initial data mart.

Confidential

• Mapped existing Consumer Management Process, including Mental Retardation, Mental Health and Early Intervention units.
• Created comprehensive functional requirements specification for the development of a new Field Reporting and Consumer Information System.
• Standardized and automated firm's processes.
• Gathered data prior to developing process to improve consumer management, service delivery and state/federal reporting.

Confidential

• Led review process for gathering/inputting changes to New York State employee payroll information into the OSC PaySR payroll system.
• Developed formal work plan outlining timing, costs and resource requirements for the recommended re-engineering of the automated interface to the OSC PaySR system process.
• Conducted business requirements gathering and analysis process to evaluate appropriate software tool for viewing on-line payroll reports at OSC and other New York State agencies a recommendation eventually accepted and implemented according to plan.
• Generated an objective data-driven recommendation for appropriate software tool by interviewing key stakeholders, formally documenting functional requirements and performing software fit-and-gap analysis on four software packages.
• Created financial business case to develop integrated data warehouse of payroll and financial data for the State Comptroller's office by documenting functional requirements, quantifying expected benefits and costs and by developing a risk-based financial return model.

Confidential

• Led functional requirement definition project to develop integrated dimensional data warehouse.
• Conducted/Documented individual interviews with over 20 internal departments and external agencies to quantify and prioritize functional data requirements.

Confidential

• Extracted functional reporting requirements and baselined technical infrastructure environment.
• Created data warehouse development/delivery strategy for various application-specific Data Marts.
• Formulated all required documentation utilizing Oracle's AIM Methodology.
• Created Oracle Discoverer business areas accessed by end-users by coding required data extraction and transformation programs, performing necessary data modeling and incorporating Noetix Views Solution.
• Leveraged application security administration allowing users to use common passwords and logins by designing/developing a warehouse security strategy incorporating security customizations developed for Oracle Applications.

Confidential

Senior Application Integration Project Manager

• Delivered Customer Data Mart software application suite, an Internet-based, customer-centered relationship marketing solution.
• Presided over all project management for customer implementation efforts.
• Performed extensive data analysis on customer source data.
• Recommended database design changes based on customer analysis requirements.
• Configured software suite to customer specifications.

Confidential

IT Project Leader

• Acted as IT lead on global Design for Six Sigma project. Designed technical solution to support reengineered sourcing processes to be standardized on a single system of globally applied processes and procurement procedures.
• Executed fit-and gap analysis on several software packages that selected Oracle Purchasing/AP 11.0 as the best fit for supporting the identified functional requirement and developed best strategies for developing a global, standardized CTQ-driven data warehouse to facilitate analysis of procurement-related information for strategic decision-making.
• Represented GE Plastics on the GE Corporate Strategic Sourcing Data Warehouse Team, which consolidated the purchasing information for key, common purchased items to leverage the large overall volume across all GE businesses into lower costs for these items.

IT Project Leader

• Provided ongoing development/training for existing Accounts Payable and Purchasing systems.
• Managed development/implementation of new procurement-related systems and analytical tools, including GE Plastics' Global Sourcing Data Warehouse.
• Coordinated MIS support for General Electric's Plastics Global Sourcing Organization and developed Global sourcing Systems Strategies.
• Maintained Global Sourcing data warehouse and GUI reporting tools.

Confidential

• Coordinated special projects in close association with senior management, stockholders and stock transfer agent.
• Provided specialized project support to the Chairman/CEO.
• Administrative Officer
• Ensured seamless mesh between corporate technology plans and corporate strategic plans by maintaining constant communication with senior management, department managers and end users.
• Developed/Implemented the corporate IT strategy and vision.
• Coordinated payment of quarterly stock dividends.
• Facilitated stockholder problem resolution.

Systems Analyst

• Assisted in study and improvement of existing computer systems and creation and implementation of new systems, including bank LANs.
• Provided support for various PC and mainframe software packages.
• Specialized in database programming and information analysis and presentation.