Brian Blanco Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Project Systems lead in 2 phases of implementing and integrating Smart Materials (Hexagon), a tool used to procure, receive, expedite, and manage plant materials. Critical in integrated Product Testing and User Acceptance Testing for Smart Materials.Lead in testing of EcoSys (project management) software enhancement implementation, and in training in the world-wide roll-out of the enhancements to the tool.Project Systems lead in data migrations for software implementations and legal entity implementations.Performed tasks as Business Process Expert for SAP Project Systems and the integrated systems and processes.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for cost control of Operational Expenditures for Production for an operated joint venture. Including consolidating and reporting information related to estimates, budgets, actuals and projections of company share of costs, as well as Common System & Partner percentage. Responsible for cost control of Non-Operated Oil & Gas investment projects in the Development Phase. Including consolidating and reporting information related to estimates, budgets, actuals and projections of company share of costs, as well as AFE costs reported by operating partners. Responsible as part of the cost control team for controlling costs related to 2 large operated (with partners) Oil & Gas investment projects in the Development Phase. Including consolidating and reporting information related to estimates, budgets, actuals and projections of Company share of costs, as well as AFE costs. Key User Leader in 2 year project to implement SAP R/3 Project Systems module. Including migrating of data, training of users, and supporting system after Go-Live. Integration with IM, AA, CO, FI, MM, PP and BW Modules. Key User Leader in on-going project to implement the use of Physical Progress and S-Curves within SAP.

Houston, Texas Area

Fully converted 2 years of historical G/L balances from JDE to PeopleSoft for approximately 100 subsidiaries worldwide. GL and Asset Management lead for PeopleSoft 8.8 implementation worldwide, as well as the Peoplesoft 8.9 Upgrade worldwide. GL and Asset Management lead for Peoplesoft 8.9 implementation in Brazil, and the lead for the integration of the Brazilian financial environment to the worldwide financial environment. Lead for the implementation of the Excel Import Template used to import journal entries as well as other data loads. Trained employees worldwide on G/L, Asset Management, Query, Query Authoring, N/Vision Reporting, and Excel Journal Importing. Developed and Implemented Allocation Functionality, Currency Translation/Revaluation process, and several reporting Trees within PeopleSoft. Instrumental in Regional and Corporate month-end close for 3 years.

Houston, Texas Area

A/R Department Supervisor (1/04 – 12/04) Supervised billing and collections department, including Billing Clerk and Senior Collections; and indirectly by 10 field accounting clerks for this Rental, Service and Manufacturing company. Implemented Oracle Contracts Database and Billing Module from a manual invoicing environment. Lead project to make more efficient and accurate accounting processes in the A/R department, Created a Credit department and approval process within A/R, and reduced Over 60 day o/s invoices from 38% to under 10%. Created, implemented and tested procedures to comply with Sarbanes Oxley 404.Senior Accountant (8/00 – 1/04) Responsible for accounting in the capacity of Regional Accounting Manager, weighted heavily on P/L review, Balance Sheet reconciliation and Cash Flow for internal management and corporate reporting. Responsible for month-end closing process and consolidating financial statements from 44 field offices using Infinium and Oracle Financials. Reported to directly by corporate staff accountants and indirectly by over 100 field accounting personnel. Created an internal audit program/team for accounting policies and procedures performed on each field location. (10%-25% travel) Created, implemented and tested procedures to comply with Sarbanes Oxley 404.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for all phases of accounting for U.S. division, including A/P, A/R, HR(payroll), Bank Recs, Fixed Assets, Sales & Use tax reporting, property tax reporting, and internal and corporate reporting. Implemented Fixed Asset Software (BEST) and managed fixed assets and related depreciation. Reconciled and cleaned-up balance sheet accounts that had previously been unreconciled 3 years subsequent to the parent company buy out.

Morgan City, Louisiana

Focus on budget and financial statement variances, and created marine vessel utilization schedules and management reports using Scala and Smart Stream software. Support creation of financial reports for SEC reporting. Responsible for managing prepaid and deferred balance sheet accounts, intercompany accounts, as well as, long-term notes payable and receivable using Smart Stream. Responsible for consolidation of foreign subsidiary financials .