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Enterprise Applications Solution Consultant and Technical Architect with 30 years of experience providing leadership, creating value, and building solutions to solve complex business. Extensive experience in modernizing enterprise applications, breaking down challenging problems, managing technical teams, collaborating with business teams, and engaging with all levels of management.I specialize in adding value by creating solid solutions for businesses assistance in system modernization, process improvement, data cleanup/consolidation, system integrations, and data accurate analysis/reconciliation.

Irving, Texas, Us

Technical Architect> Lead a cross-functional team of business and technical resources to identify under-utilized software licensing and cyber security risks> Developed a prototype data archival solution to mitigate cyber and knowledge attrition risk by consolidating data into a central Oracle APEX solution. > Saved the company 60k annually in licensing fees by relocating audit required Payroll data to a centralized database and eliminated the end-of-life software and equipment

Irving, Texas, Us

Master Data Management Data Integration Lead for latest corporate acquisition> Lead a team of 7 cross-functional resources to integrate an acquisitions 160K customer base into the Oracle r12 EBS solution> Traveled to the new business site, learned the custom application, devised a solution to extract, transform, consolidate, and load the data leveraging the Oracle custom API's created in prior years> The data set included Raw Material Customers, Install Base, Pricing, and Lines of business supporting 16 manufacturing plants> Performed this activity while continuing to support the weekly ADP Global View Payroll activitiesNotable achievements:> Able to devise a methodology to collate the existing 200K record Oracle customer base with the new acquisitions 160K record customer base that minimized duplicate customer entries and AR/AP complications

Irving, Texas, Us

Technical Lead Consultant and Client Advocate for a multi-country (US/Canada) Payroll transition from Oracle EBS Payroll to ADP Global View> Lead a team of 5 internal and 7 external/offshore resources building the ADP Payroll solution> Lead a cross-functional team of Payroll, IT, and Finance to build the integrations and configure the system to support the 12k employees across the US and Canada> Overseeing the technical side of the ADP Global View payroll implementation. Also created a daily audit process to compare the results of the integration from Oracle HCM to ADP Global View and highlight errors prior to payroll processing> Coordinated and supported additional system upgrades in Kronos, ADP Workforce Ready, and transition of pay elements from Oracle EBS Payroll to Oracle HCM Cloud> The entire project was completed during COVID and remote over Microsoft Teams

Irving, Texas, Us

Technical Architect and Client Advocate counterparty to the implementation partner> Reviewed, assessed, and provided guidance on consolidating the international operations in Europe, China, and Australia into Oracle HCM Cloud> Traveled to Europe several times for onsite design sessions and requirements gathering> Slated to travel to China and other parts of Europe but COVID forced us to terminate those trips and pivot to an all-remote implementation methodology

Irving, Texas, Us

Oracle r12 Master Data Management MDM Technical Lead and Conversion Coordinator > Resumed by Lead role in the initiative to complete decommissioning the remaining Raw Material operations from Darlings Legacy ERP's into the Oracle r12 solution > Lead a team of 12 cross-functional business team members to prepare, map, merge, and integrate the old data sets with the existing Oracle r12 customer base.> Onboarded resources as work load dictated and built applications to work efficiently with millions of records of customer data> Worked with internal and external audit teams to verify and signoff on the final results accuracy

Dallas, Tx, Us

Solution Architect and Technical Lead for Oracle Cloud Financials, Payables, and HCM implementation> Lead team of 12 onshore and offshore developers> Client advocate sitting opposite the implementation partners to develop and deliver the solution.> Personally overseeing conversions for AP Vendor consolidation, AR Customers, General Ledger history> Build reconciliations tools to support conversions> Build MS Excel VB Script based GL mass loading tools to support budget loads> Coordinated, configured, and deployed external AP Banking integrations

Irving, Texas, Us

Oracle r12 Master Data Management MDM Technical Lead and Conversion Coordinator> Lead a team of 6 Informatica Power Center developers designing and developing a conversion solution for International Finished Goods and Raw Material, Pricing, Install Base, and Order Management data conversions> Coordinated with a cross functional team to map, cleanse, merge, and implement the data conversions for Canada and US operations> Re-designed the entire solution into custom PL/SQL API's> Eliminated the Informatica licensing and resource needs from 6 to 2 and saved the company approximately 100K per year in licensing> Built documentation and training materials supporting the ongoing efforts to assimilate the remaining 4 ERP systems

Irving, Texas, Us

Oracle r12 Technical Architect, Development Manager, and Applications Team Lead for the assessment and planning of the Oracle r12 application replacing 5 Legacy ERP's> Managed over 20 onshore/offshore technical resources> Responsible for business application ecosystem documentation, data conversion planning and execution, custom object development, solution development, implementation partner to client technical relations, and resource management. > Co-project managed offshore developers and guided implementation efforts.> Responsible for reviewing available resources and onboarding to fill needs> Oversaw conversions of GL, AR, OM, and Customers.> Turned over technical lead role to client after 15 months and was reassigned to lead the Master Data Management team

Plano, Texas, Us

Oracle r12 ERP and OBIEE implementation Technical Lead responsible for a double implementation of GENBAND USA and an $800M portion of Nortel, concurrently. > Project consolidated over 50 separate order-to-cash and procure-to-pay sub-systems from Nortel into Oracle, in eight months. > Managed 12 other on-site and off-site development team members, requirements gathering, solution design, development, documentation, data conversion, troubleshooting, process tuning, code delivery, and collaborating with multiple business and external consulting agencies on GTM, EDI, Salesforce, and OBIEE.> Turned around a complete redeployment of the existing r12 version of Oracle and the various components of the Nortel acquisition in 8 months. > One of the most risky and intensive implementations in my career.

Oracle r12 iProcurement, iSupplier, and OBIEE Lead implementation specialist > Responsible for data conversion, OBIEE installation, process tuning, training, documentation, administration manuals for this multi-billion dollar, international, government retail operation.> Independent consultant collaborating with onsite Oracle Professional Services. > Built and supported a solution consolidated all requisitioning, procurement and vendor collaboration activities> Deployed OBIEE and trained users and developers on utilizing its capabilities

Global Solution Design, Oracle r12 Technical Lead, and Functional Analyst for an r12 implementation assessment> Responsible for gathering requirements and delivering the technical component of an Oracle r12 implementation. > Managed six development resources and supplemented project management activities for a group of eight. > Worked with the client to gather requirements, document customizations, and prepare deliverables in excess of statement of work objectives. > The technical team excelled in customization requirements gathering, development estimates, future state design sessions, documentation, diagrams, and deliverable content.

Arlington, Va, Us

Technical Lead for a short term engagement assessing clients footprint and prepare the rest of the team for the full application deployment activities> Multi-site Oracle assessment to implement oracle r12. > Managed a team of eight developers and analysts performing customization documentation, conversion strategy development, external interface documentation, training schedule documentation, technical project plan development, system diagram development, coding standards development, AIM specifications templates design, and instance strategy documentation. > Configured the development tools database environment > SLA monitoring solutions> Provided guidance on possible solutions to functional issues and existing configurations.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Oracle r11.5.9 Implementation Consultant > Lead a cross-functional team and collaborated across the operations and Information Technology landscape to create, configure, deploy, and support an Oracle r11,5,9 ERP >Gathered requirements, designed, and implemented an advanced data conversion system to convert, validate, and reconcile conversion financial transactions for over 150 sites> Improved Oracle Order Entry processing with customizations in pricing, margin floor, holds, and reporting> Oracle EBS Production support lead for over 150 retail sites> Guided, facilitated, configured and executed dozens of customizations in multiple Oracle modules> Drastically improved native and custom code performance with database tuning.> Traveled to branch locations to collect requirements, train, and support the user baseNotable Accomplishments> Part of the team tasked with reviewing, redesigning, and re-implementing a failed Oracle 11.5.7. implementation. We went from onboarding to go-live exactly one year from the original implementation.> Converted legacy systems in waves over alternating weekends for a span of a year and a half and supported those sites afterwards

Full time role in the information systems department with multiple duties as an Accountant, Oracle Supply Chain Analyst/Developer, and Operations CRM> Lead analyst/developer and operations customer relations responsible for Oracle Supply Chain. > Mentor to two junior developers. > Business analyst and customer relations representative for all inventory related development projects.> Responsible for gathering new requirements, map and gap possible Oracle solutions, document, develop, and implement IT initiatives. Oracle release 10.7, 11.0.3, 11.5.7> Supported the accounting team in month-end close, inventory, WIP, BOM, and manufacturing issues> Worked extensively with Oracle Support on resolving database performance and tuning issuesNotable accomplishments:> Prepared and supported a $2B physical inventory initiative covering 9 sites across the USA and Mexico. Entire activity executed flawlessly over one 3-day weekend> Gathered requirements and re-designed a custom ABC and cycle counting process to facilitate more dynamic counting processes to support the company’s huge physical inventory initiatives

First full time professional employment as an Accountant for the Cost Accounting Department. The work began as a co-op student while still in school and worked alternating semesters while I finished my Information Systems degree. Moved over to the information systems department in 1997 and began my career as an information systems solution professional.> Designed and developed an automatic Inventory and WIP reconciliation process in MS Access. The new process reduced the Inventory and WIP reconciliation time from 30 days to 1 day and reduced the resource requirements from 3 to 1. Inventory and WIP reconciliation mechanical errors were also greatly reduced.

Bachelor'S Degree In Information Systems, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting