Gerry D. Mann Email & Phone Number

CORVAL offers IT services, specializing in the delivery of staffing, software, services, projects & support to industries including Airlines, Energy, Banking, Health Care, Telecom, Retail and Not-for-Profit.CORVAL Professional Development Services offers classes, coaching/mentoring & consulting customized to your organizational needs in Leadership Development for Independent Contributors, Supervisors, Managers & Leaders in topics ranging from communications to team building to leadership skills & beyond. Selected Clients: • American Airlines • Atmos Energy• Bank of America / MBNA• Baylor Health Care • Beacon Mobility• CHRISTUS Health• Dean Foods• Divergence Academy• Federation of State Medical Boards• Lucky Brands• MCI/Worldcom • New York Air Brake• Pam Schriver, CPA• Signet Jewelers • Southwest Airlines• Verizon• XPO Logistics• Zales JewelersSelected Services:• Scrum Master (Rally, Trello, Jira, Confluence)• Project Management (MS Project, Daptiv, Smartsheets)• Program Management (Clarity)• PMO Project Reporting• Six Sigma Consulting (DMAIC - Pareto, Bar, Line, Control, Histogram, Fishbone and more)• Business Analyst (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Visio, Sharepoint, Teams)• Business Requirements• Software Development (Requirements, Architecture, Design, Coding)• Test Management (Test Director, Quality Center, ALM)• Strategy Development• Revenue Accounting System selection• Gas Delivery Measurement• Content Management (Sitefinity)• Labor Tracking (Innotas)• Author of Software Test Methodology• Release Management• Software Development Manager• Software Installation• Database Development• JDA Cloud Services (EM/WFM)• Point of Sale (Xstore)• Support Center Management (LEVEL I, LEVEL II, LEVEL III)• Service Management (SAMANAGE/JIRA/ServiceNow)• Incident Tracking and Management• Web Development/Content Management (SITEFINITY,WordPress)• Active Directory Consolidation• Vendor Selection & Management

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Promoted from IT Manager to lead software development, maintenance, production support and project management of Great Plains General Ledger, Epicor Sales Audit, Hyperion and associated applications/cross-functional projects. Served as Agile Scrum Master for team. Manage the IT Delivery Training Budget for 350+ associates. Delivered Professional Development education. Steward the IT Delivery Mentoring Program. CSM, PMP.Upgraded Great Plains software to most recent release by supplementing existing staff with vendor resources.Led the requirements gathering and functional requirements document creation for the Tax Reporting project. Pulled data from a variety of datastores into the Cognos platform for reporting. Delivered eight new reports to facilitated Tax Reporting at the State and Federal Level.Improved Business Continuity for Epicor Sales Audit by installing the desktop software version to complement the Citrix version of Sales Audit for six Sales Audit analysts.Enhanced Financial Planning and Analysis team reporting capabilities, providing the first enterprise wide data views by implementing Sales Cube, Finance Cube and Planning Cube in the Hyperion environment.Recruited to lead software development, maintenance, production support, project management and quality assurance of domestic ERP systems. Legacy Environment: MS-DOS, Pervasive, QBASIC, VB6. Modern Environment: Windows, Sharepoint, SQL Server, C#, .NET, TFS, TDD. Served in Scrum Master and Product Owner roles. Provided professional development knowledge delivery, training, coaching and mentoring for more than 70 GameStop associates in over 1500 hours.Improved performance and reduced inventory system risk through six major software release implementations, converting the legacy technology stack to the modern C#, .NET, WPF, SQL Server technology stack, retiring or converting over 1,400 legacy modules and reports.

Chicago , Il , Us

Recruited to lead the Web Development Team responsible for Claims, Marketing, Actuary, Quotes and Content Management applications to support Commercial Lines. Directed, maintained, and planned the overall policies and goals for the development of web products. Worked closely with the Client Application Manager and the Project Management Office to drive the release strategy of web products. Evaluated emerging trends in technology.C#, .NET, CSS, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, IIS, Agile, Product Owner, WebTrends, Quality Center, MS Project, MS Project Server, MS Powerpoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio. Vendor Management (CSC).Added to business capabilities in Claims, Marketing, Actuary and Quotes as business product owner by developing and delivering content management software.Improved software development cycle times 25% and defect rates 20% by implementing Agile processes for the development team.Reduced enterprise software expentitures $12M by establishing and executing co-development partnership with our Vendor, CSC.Reduced operating expenses more than $10M in first year after delivering $6M web software to benefit Underwriting, Operations and Marketing.

Dallas, Us

Promoted to Director after rescuing a billing system implementation project. Managed staff of over 40 professionals to provide SDLC project management, business analysis, testing, software configuration management, training and documentation for mission critical software platforms. Directed capital and expense budgets in excess of $20 million for hardware, software and staff. FoxPro, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint. MS Visio, MS Outlook, MS Exchange, SQL Server, MS Project

Mclean, Va, Us

Managed staff of 30 professionals in supplier management, corporate communications, business analysis and documentation organizations. Provided internal security audits including PCI compliance audits. Trained cross-functional teams for business process improvement activities.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Led and managed groups in Applications, Operations, Network Services, Total Quality Management, Technical Services, and Information Resource Management organizations. Managed major product and infrastructure projects. Trained, facilitated, and led projects to implement an enterprise-wide quality improvement process, equivalent to Six Sigma Master Black Belt. IBM 370 Mainframe, COBOL, ADABAS, NATURAL, DB2, MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint