Ceil Kessler Email & Phone Number

United States

Greensburg, Pa

• Develop sales, marketing, product management, procurement reporting for Kennametal, Inc.• Use Cognos 7 BI software for ETL, OLAP report design, flat reports. Impromptu, Transformer, PPES and Access Admin.• QuickBooks Desktop to manage accounting, local and federal business filings, and payroll.• Work with DBA's to develop tables / joins• Marketing and operations consulting for small businesses.

Cognos 10.2 Report Studio, Framework, Event Studio, Query Studio; Cognos System Administrator. Tableau Administrator, Tableau Server, Tableau Desktop. SAS Administrator (Management Console, Environment Manager), SAS Enterprise Guide. SQL Developer. SQL Management Studio.

Greensburg, Pa

• 1st place, Ligonier Valley Writers Annual Flash Fiction Contest 2011• 3rd place, Ligonier Valley Writers Annual Flash Fiction Contest 2013• Published on National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood, 2015• Compiled short fiction and other works on http://ceilk.wordpress.com• Blogger at MagnificentNose.com, FlashFictionStories.net, smallscreenscoop.com, TwoMomsAndAHouse.com• Other works in progress

Homewood, Pennsylvania

Cognos Impromptu for HR reporting at a large restaurant and food service company.

Latrobe, Pa

• Develop BI Solutions from end user request to finished product, using Cognos 7.3 in conjunction with SAP BW. • Worked with teams from various departments and all management levels to satisfy reporting needs.• Concentration on Cognos Transformer, Impromptu, PPES and Access Admin. • Set up security in Access Administration and Upfront. • Develop macros for ETL and cube update. • Responsible for all version upgrades and successful implementation. • End User training and documentation development. • BW table design. Work with object data stores and star-schemas.

Latrobe, Pa

• Responsible for tracking all promotion and catalog performance using SAP EIS. • Perform all global Marketing Sales reporting. • Responsible for operational implementation of all promotions across sales teams and customer service centers. • Promotion module design in SAP, working with ABAP Programmers. • Update of company website using HTML and Flash. • Creation of all customer mailing lists globally. • Design of mailing list generation program in SAP, working with ABAP programmers. • Design of trade show lead capture system. • Design and implementation of trade show tracking system, working with Experient, Inc and Lotus Notes Programmers. • Created same-day turnaround for lead literature fulfillment. • Responsible for all trade show reporting. • Point person on all trade show data in North America. • Design of all fax promotions; responsible for executing all fax promotions in North America.

Latrobe, Pa

• Responsible for set up and maintenance of all global EDI customers. • Used ANSI Standards and proprietary file formats. • Used Sterling / GE VAN and IBM VAN. • Worked with IT resources to design / configure SAP Consignment system for two different types of consignment. • Responsible for design, implementation and support of proprietary KANBAN EDI system working with VB programmers. • Wrote three different software manuals for proprietary EDI systems and consignment systems. • Trained internal Customer Service Reps on consignment system during SAP implementation. • Consignment warehouse set up in SAP configuration during SAP implementation.

Durham, Nc

• Responsible for operations of five ~3K sq. ft stores and five warehouse-concept stores ~25K sq feet. • Responsible for 300 total employees. • Duties included ongoing training, store operations reviews, merchandising, store communications, POS operations, sales operations, staff needs analysis, back room operations. • Assisted CFO, Payroll, Purchasing, Marketing, Training departments on corporate decisions. • Point of contact for all stores. Explained, implemented business objectives to all stores.