Darrell Barr Email & Phone Number

Dublin 2, Ie

Providing FP&A delivery leadership to drive client performance transformation. Combining high-value digital solutions with best practices to generate positive change empowering individuals and teams. Seasoned business leader specializing in financial planning and budgeting, consolidations, reporting and analysis. Strong experience with requirements gathering, project oversight and project delivery for FP&A organizations across multiple industries. Drives product innovation and helps client organizations to embrace technology to achieve positive change.

Worldwide, Oo

EPM Specialist Leader in Deloitte’s Finance & Enterprise Performance practice. Extensive background in multidimensional database design and optimization for financial applications. His substantial background in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Financial and Workforce Planning projects include requirements gathering, design, deployment and project management for both on-premise and cloud implementations. Darrell has deep technical skills in multidimensional database modeling with a specialty in complex financial allocations to generate P&Ls by division, brand, product and/or customer. When not helping companies with financial performance applications, he has taught virtually for online Deloitte University onboarding training and designs/produces panel discussion on topics like Microaggressions.

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

EPM practice leadership to pursue and deploy FP&A transformation solutions. Practice development and team building. Program management for strategic ERP carve-out and migration project in the oil and gas services sector. Project launch and program managements for cloud ERP project in the manufacturing sector with early design planning for Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting and Consolidations later phase implementations. Pre-sales leadership. Strong experience with requirements gathering, project assurance, program oversight, and project delivery including financial reporting for management reporting and statutory reporting with disclosures.

Hands-on EPM veteran with recent cloud implementation projects. Continuous consulting contract assignments in the FP&A area: budgeting, planning, analytics and financial consolidation and close applications. Deep OLAP and Planning involvement through all project life cycle phases. Core strengths in OLAP database (cube) design, complex calculations including allocations, and data integration with full automation. Broad FP&A project management experience delivering high impact, transformational results. Planning and budgeting experience includes multiple framework implementations with direct data integration to ERP and HCM cloud applications as well as flat file integration to other ERP systems with integration to sub-ledger reports. Proficient with application software configuration, customer designs and deployments, upgrades, migrations. On-premise to cloud migration assessments and roadmaps. Custom workshops and training development and delivery. Solid skills from back-end technology to front-end reporting and analytics.

Roswell, Ga - Georgia, Us

Senior leader for national Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) services practice. Strong reputation for service quality, implementation success, and collaborative partnering with attention to problem-solving, process improvement, and teamwork. Responsible for mixed shore team providing full-range BI/EPM delivery services including implementations, enhancements, training, and managed services. Full infrastructure support includes installation, upgrade, migration, maintenance, and optimization. Program manager. Project manager and functional lead. Direct P&L responsibility for BI/EPM Commercial and Public Sector services lines.

Plano, Texas, Us

Global lead for large mixed-shore team providing consulting services and industry-aligned analytics solutions. Practice focus of Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Provided leadership across entire business development cycle with focus on building strong client relationships and assuring quality service. Drives thought leadership in the BI, EPM, and Analytics arena. Represents company and practice at regional and national conventions. Strong reputation for problem-solving, process improvement, and teamwork. Program manager. Project manager and functional lead. Practice coverage includes custom implementations, pre-configured solution delivery, managed applications services, staffing, and infrastructure support. Experience leveraging CRM & HCM data to strengthen customer and employee relationships. Specialty in Profitability & Cost Management (PCM) leveraging Hyperion technology. Experience in team building and leading cross-functional teams for clients and also leading internal cross-practice efforts such as assessments and roadmap development. Strong public speaking experience through conferences, marketing events and training engagements.

New York, Ny, Us

National Practice Lead for Zanett Analytics. EPM and BI professional services. Responsibility for project planning, pre-sales, marketing, staff development, and services delivery. Drove massive practice growth in first year ramp-up period. Practice strengths include Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Consolidations, Close and Analytics with depth of experience across several key industry sectors including: Healthcare (aligning FP&A capability with EPIC implementations), Public Sector, Manufacturing (Discrete & Process), Utilities, Retail, Financial Services, Technology, and Commercial. Practice focus as Oracle Platinum Partner is providing analtyics surrounding Oracle ERP offerings in conjunction with Zanett's JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft practices. Supports entire business development cycle. Key client relationship development and project quality assurance responsibilities. Experience leveraging CRM & HCM data to strengthen customer and employee relationships. Specialty in Profitability & Cost Management (PCM) leveraging Hyperion technology. Program manager. Project manager and functional lead. Experience in team building and leading cross-functional teams for clients and also leading internal cross-practice efforts such as assessments and roadmap development. Strong public speaking experience through conferences, marketing events and training engagements.

Co-founder/VP of boutique consulting firm specializing in best-of-breed EPM solutions. Merged Landmark Solutions backlog and customer relationships to leverage this partnership. Significant hands-on consulting assignments including extended assignments a Hanes Intimates (leading effort for Essbase allocations and profitability modeling) and GMAC Insurance (as chief Hyperion architect driving manual financial process automation including weekly loss analysis and month end closing). Program manager. Project manager and functional lead. Frequent migration and upgrade work ranging from v6.x through to v11.x product. Two years in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Silicon Valley clients for Hyperion Planning OPEX, CAPEX, & WFP projects (Sunpower, Cypress, Avago, Juniper Networks along with other SF Bay Area clients. Repeat assignments and ongoing support arrangements with Ingram Books (LaVergne, TN), Allied Signal Aerospace/Honeywell (Tempe, AZ) and MISO Energy (Carmel, IN). Experience in team building and working with client cross-functional teams and leading internal cross-practice efforts such as assessments and roadmap development. Strong public speaking experience through conferences, marketing events and training engagements.

Custom delivery and facilitated application design workshops. Strong public speaking experience through conferences, marketing events and training engagements.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Long-term contract consulting position. Responsible for design, development and implementation of Hyperion Essbase finance and financial planning databases.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Adult outpatient treatment involvement for adult opioid addiction and alcoholism. Four nights per week working with outpatient adult addiction groups. Led/co-led group topics. Four 3-week rotations on the locked adult psych ward working with assigned psychiatrists and treatment team morning rounds. One 6-week rotation at Brenner's Children's Hospital working with addiction groups and daily rounds. Designed and taught one-day (Saturday weekly) court-ordered sex offender classes. Co-led twice-weekly Suboxone groups to monitor and administer mitigating doses of Naloxone combined with Buprenorphine (Suboxone) for adult opioid addicts in the program. This was a requirement for graduation in my MA program (graduated December 2009).

Co-founder, President and Principal Solutions Architect with lead implementation/project management responsibilities for major Fortune 500 client projects in textile/apparel, communications, pulp/paper/powders, direct marketing, insurance, re-insurance, banking and utilities. Strong reputation for successful engagements. Substantial experience in business development, responding successfully to RFIs/RFPs, and partnering with software vendors. Significant experience teaching Essbase and Essbase end user tools as subcontract instructor for FP&A Train and Hyperion (see additional section below). Extensive experience leading custom workshops. International training experience in Asia Pacific Rim, Europe, Canada and Bermuda. Strong experience in Essbase design for Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting and Reporting with complex calculations, performance tuning and optimization and complex dimension maintenance/data loading. Program manager. Project manager and functional lead. Experience in team building and working with client cross-functional teams and leading internal cross-practice efforts such as assessments and roadmap development. Strong public speaking experience through conferences, marketing events and training engagements.

** Short-term special engagements on contract from Landmark Solutions to FP& Train/Hyperion **Charter instructor and curriculum developer for FP&A Train, Inc. through its transition into Hyperion upon acquisition in 2000. Primary role was delivering the Essbase Bootcamp, Essbase Advanced Bootcamp, Essbase Excel Reporting, and Advanced Essbase Excel with VBA classes. Supported public classes in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York/Stamford, Dallas, San Mateo and Sunnyvale. Many custom on-site deliveries at Fortune 500 company locations throughout the world. Taught advanced Essbase calculation techniques to Hyperion consultants at Hyperion University in Stamford, CT. Special international assignments include IBM Pacific-Rim Lotus Essbase Reporting training deliveries (Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore & Sydney). Bootcamp delivery for Allied Signal (Yeovil, England). Repeat training assignments in Bermuda for Mutual Risk Management, Ltd. Developed significant portions of Bootcamp curriculum content for Essbase partitioning, EssCommand and MaxL batch automation, and the Excel VBA toolkit for non-programmers.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Director of IS R&D for Sara Lee Direct, Manager of Mexico/Latin America (807) Apparel Systems for Sara Lee/Hanes Knit Products and Business Analyst for Financial Planning at Sara Lee/Hanes Knit Products (SLKP). Broad middle-management experience in IT projects. Led development of first Essbase cube at SLKP for Gross Margin reporting. As one of three Information Services Directors at the time for Sara Lee Direct (Retail/Catalog Division), managed Decision Support System development and R&D including IBI Focus (mainframe and PC), Oracle database trials, LAN networking and the first client-server email implementation (Lotus Mail). Also managed all PC desktop application training and support. For Sara Lee Knit Products (Hanes Underwear/Hanes Printables), managed piecework payroll software application group for offshore operations and then transitioned to group focused on improved margin reporting and customer/product profitability leading to the first Sara Lee implementation of Arbor Essbase in 1994/1995. Shared project management responsibilities including management of multiple project managers as IT director.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Strong performance in pre-sales technical role demonstrating hardware and software solutions. Substantial experience responding to RFIs/RFPs. After two years of contract product development (telecommunications and printer product engineering), joined IBM marketing team in Winston-Salem. First assignments were Engineering/Scientific Specialist (CADAM, COPICS, MAPICS, etc.) followed by Systems Engineer (Unix, VM). Account Marketing Representative for overlay, mid-range and large account territories. Led the Sara Lee/Hanes large account team. Consistently made or exceeded all sales goals (3 Hundred Percent Clubs and 1 Golden Circle). Served as role-play sales call coach for 3 month internship at IBM Marketing Education in Atlanta, GA.

Ba, Speech Communication

Ma, Forensic Psychology

Phd, Psychology