Chris Bradford Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Plano, Tx

Richardson, Tx

Providing business analysis, project management, and application design services for management information and decision support systems. Projects include database application development, custom ERP modifications, and enterprise system integration using Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and Visio.

* Streamlined production capacity project planning system. Structured resource levels to improve performance metrics by creating a repeatable process.* Integrated disparate project management systems (Access, SQL Server, Project) to create a cohesive planning system.* Initiated team member discussions to collect project data to develop work breakdown structures, PERT analysis, and resource plans* Developed project recovery plans to reduce financial penalties* Created initial Project Charter, Project Plan, and documented Project Findings and Recommendations to improve operations

* Daily operational oversight of 16-person IT department for 850 company employees * Revamped entire network infrastructure, which reduced system downtime and improved productivity from greater speed, reliability, and network stability. * P&L and budget responsibility * Managed multi-site operations, network integration of 7 satellite offices* Project management for multiple implementations including ERP upgrades and network migrations/upgrades * Supported 400% revenue growth and 300% staff growth by effectively maintaining and updating systems, tracking assets, upgrading software, and controlling employee turnover. * Planned/executed two Headquarters office relocations * Spearheaded teams, served on leadership committees, and managed software departmental initiatives. * Defined policies/procedures and developed disaster recovery strategies. * Conducted staff meetings with executive management and external personnel.

* Primary responsibility for ERP development and upgrades (Access/SQL custom solution)* Managed various reporting projects, revised network security for ERP, performed network maintenance/troubleshooting, desktop support, staff management, etc.* Development of software for auditing telecom central office equipment. An Access front-end connected to a SQL back-end facilitated the data maintenance and reporting. Client machines from field locations sent data via FTP to our Headquarters location where data was compiled, reported, and communicated to the client.

* Developed software to manage all of the land department’s holdings, including all wells, production information, well owners, operators, purchasers, and transporters of the oil and gas produced. This system also incorporated a document management system for legal agreements governing the arrangements existing between Five States and their partners and associates. A complete collection of reports was also included to help manage the information on the wells.* Developed software to allocate partnership assets, earnings, and expenses between partners in multiple and overlapping oil investment partnerships. Extensive reporting was utilized to generate partnership tax returns.* Worked closely with users on multiple projects to gather requirements and translate into usable automation.

Developed a multi-user reporting application to extend the capabilities of the General Ledger reporting system. The program receives a text download from the central accounting system and generates a customized collection of reports for analysis of each physician's, clinic's, and company's revenues and expenses, grouped by their associated hierarchical category. The reports are available as a static Access report, or they can be output to an Excel report using Automation from Access. The program could ultimately run a few hundred reports overnight, a process that used to require a full month's work for a single person.

* Served as a consultant to determine the most appropriate technological path for the company in its early growth stage for the South Texas region. Discussed and charted plans for asset tracking, property and lease management, and methods of managing data for the region.* Performed systems analysis for accounts payable invoice processing system to handle the queueing of capital and expense invoices and interface with the purchase requisition system.* Consulted with in-house programmers regarding current property management system and developed application plans for a multiuser real estate property/payment management program.

* Reengineered purchasing and billing procedures and systems in cellular equipment ordering department. Developed an integrated purchasing and A/P system and installed across multiple regions/divisions.* Lead programmer providing systems analysis and design for development of new enterprise-wide fixed asset tracking for cellular capital equipment. Designed process, program, and data flows. Developed specification reports and management presentations.* Developed a Lease Management Reporting System to track cellular real estate leases for multiple regions.