Brian Klein Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, California, Us

El Segundo, California, Us

• Strategically manage 3rd party onshore/offshore development staff of up to 20 resources for tactical and strategic projects in the Americas, Europe and Asia with budgets ranging from $30K to $600K. Responsible for all activities related to the planning, documenting, testing, problem resolution and implementation of work performed by my team, while monitoring their progress to ensure timely completion according to plan and budget. • Financially aware and demonstrate sound cost control with ability to anticipate and respond to changes in workload and resources and still deliver results on-time and on-budget. • Facilitate technical design sessions with cross-functional teams and provide implementation guidance for on-site and cloud based integrations. Approach is to break down project deliverables into manageable, understandable pieces for all team members allowing for the implementation of a most effective and timely solution.• Maintain valuable partnerships across the organization and influence senior management and peers through an inclusive style and recognition of their abilities and knowledge • Present precise, timely and accurate project statuses to IT Leadership Team/Senior Management in a manner consistent with the audience• Coordinate planning, recruiting and negotiation, of contracted resources to staff development, testing and production support activities for all work based on Statements of Work (SOWs)• Manage team of 11 onshore/offshore production support members and coordinate change management processes and procedures for corporate applications while maintaining SLA’s• Establish testing procedures for project and production support related changes for unit, user, regression and post production go-live testing• Influential member of Global IT High Performing Organization (HPO) driving change to simplify processes and improve productivity and communication through collaboration tools, optimizing distributed team interactions

El Segundo, California, Us

El Segundo, California, Us

• Led functional design sessions in Italy and Hong Kong for global implementation of 11i Oracle E-Business suite• As technical team lead, responsible for collecting and consolidating diverse workstream status’ and reporting to project/program management• Identified, tracked and mitigated system impact risks to ensure project deliverables were met on time• Crafted technical/functional design documents for variety of small and large projects• Successfully transitioned between Oracle and .NET technologies requiring the need to learn several new skills including SQL Server, .NET and new applications to effectively lead and complete several projects on time• Facilitated whiteboarding sessions with business partners to gather and document business requirements• Coordinated testing processes, change control and production releases across multiple projects and technologies

El Segundo, California, Us

• Designed and developed inbound/outbound interface processes and reports to support the Oracle Financials global implementation in Latin America and Europe• Developed various enhancements and resolved numerous defects for corporate financial application• Prepared technical documentation to support testing and usage of custom programs and processes integrated with Oracle Financials• Led key development activities while testing custom programs and providing support to DBA’s and UA’s during Oracle 11.5.10 upgrade and AIX conversion• Designed and engineered process to automate FedEx Ground shipping, helping to achieve an estimated savings of $1,2000k per year• Facilitated meetings as Scrum Master effectively leading daily status meetings while providing feedback and guidance to members of development team

El Segundo, California, Us

• Completed design and development of Common Inventory project helping to achieve a reduction in inventory handling and carrying costs of $635K• Created detail level design and developed export and import code for FedEx Stand Alone process helping to achieve an estimated savings of $2,000k• Coordinated and achieved FedEx label certification after completing lengthy, process of design, development and testing of shipping labels• Functioned in key development role testing and converting Oracle and SQR reports during Oracle 8 database upgrade

• Designed and developed stored procedures for database inquiries in Oracle Web Customers 2.1 and 3• Functioned as key member of implementation and transition team during upgrade from Oracle 10.7 NCA to 11.0.3• Designed custom order picking/shipping program for calculating inventory for shipment, reducing processing time to generate Pick Slips by 75 %