Skills

Management, IT Management, Project Management, Business Process Analysis. Excellent writing and presentation skills. IT skills in Oracle, Business Objects, Crystal Reports (Certified), SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, Lotus Notes, C++, and Java.

University of Maine System
Assistant Director for Advancement Technology Bangor, ME
December 2009 to present

Responsible for statewide implementation and support of the ‘Advance’ fundraising software from SunGard Corporation. The University of Maine System has six independent colleges and universities. All campuses went live with Advance nearly simultaneously.

Achievements:

• Initial Implementation: Team leadership for all aspects of the Advance implementation planning, installation, data conversion, report development, custom interfaces, and training. The implementation for all campuses was completed on time and under budget.
• Upgrade to multi-campus technology: Newly available multi-campus technology allowed us to consolidate all campuses to a single database. The consolidation yielded significant savings in licensing fees, administrative costs, and hardware. This project was completed on time and under budget.
• Report Development: Led a team of developers for reporting for all campuses. Personally responsible for training developers, needs analysis, specifications, standards, and quality control.
• Interfaces: Team leadership for interfaces to the university enterprise software and to other systems that provide gift and donor info.
• Leadership: The University of Maine has six very different colleges and universities. Achieving system-wide co-operation on priorities, schedules and future plans is a challenge.

Confidential,
Senior Software Consultant,Waltham, MA
Nov 2007 December 2009
Sungard is the market leader for fundraising software for major universities. The product is Oracle based with a Web user interface. Clients include Arizona State University, Southern Illinois University, UC Berkeley, Princeton University, University of New Mexico, and others. Responsible for the following services:

• Client presentations and needs analysis.
• Data conversion for new clients.
• Advanced reporting with SQL and Crystal XI.
• Custom application development in PL/SQL

Confidential,
Resident Consultant,Hartford, Connecticut
Feb 2007 Nov 2007

• Report development for the HR department. Reporting in SQL, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports XI and Business Objects.
• Workflow development. Developing business process workflows using Oracle as the back-end and XML enabled web forms as the front end.

Confidential, Resident Consultant
Scottsdale, Arizona
2005 2007

• Chief developer for migration software from a legacy system to an Oracle based ERP system.
• Analysis of existing data through Crystal 8.5 and direct SQL queries. Achieved certification in Crystal XI.
• Led workshops with end users on gap-analysis, migration rules, and data conflicts
• Primary responsibility for detailed and extensive design and test documentation.
• Primary responsibility for testing program.
• Developed Oracle migration packages. The legacy system required complex translation through PL/SQL procedures. Separate packages were created for inventory, purchasing, maintenance, logging and error handling. Personally wrote 80% of code.
• Project executed in November-December 2007 on-schedule and with no migration issues.

• Project manager for installing and upgrading the business software for a semiconductor factory. The software is an Oracle based, 600 seat ERP system that manages equipment maintenance, costing, inventory, and purchasing.
• Led core team workshops for gap analysis and software acceptance
• Wrote specifications for software modifications
• Organized end-user training
• Responsible for budget, schedule, and vendor relations.
• Supervised data migration team.
• Project executed on time and 20% under $800,000 budget.
• Principal Report Developer for ERP system
• Designed and developed Business Objects universes
• Trained business analysts in Business Objects
• Personally developed complex Business Objects reports. (Version 6)
• Personally developed hundreds of reports with SQL and PL/SQL
• Project manager for a business process automation team. Led a team to develop custom applications to streamline and automate business processes. Projects successfully completed include:
• An inventory receiving process that enabled a 60% reduction in clerical positions. This was created in .NET using Visual Basic on a ‘front end’ handheld computer which interacted with custom PL/SQL packages that called API’s in a vendor supplied ERP system. Responsible for 30% of direct coding.
• A purchase requisition routing system. Implemented in Lotus Notes. 100% responsible for design and coding.
• A document management system to manage mission critical engineering documents. 100% responsible for design and coding.

Confidential,New Orleans, LA
Information Systems Manager
1992-1999

• Managed the Information Systems department (9 employees). Responsible for hiring, evaluations, management reporting and project schedules and budgets.
• Project manager for the installation of an enterprise-wide purchasing, inventory, and financial system. The system is installed on a wide area network in multiple states and is used by 300 employees. Installation of this system was the department focus for the two year project. Responsibilities included
• User training
• Key stakeholder training and acceptance
• Report development (Business Objects 6)
• Vendor relations

Confidential,New Orleans, LA
Research Manager
1989 1992
Led a research team that developed an artificial vision system for the quality grading of rare coins. Awarded two patents for the system.

Education: Confidential