Heidi Locker-Scheer Email & Phone Number

Bonita Springs, FL, US

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Member of Grant Thornton's Enterprise Transformation's Vendor & Asset Management team, playing a key role in the oversight of the firm's centralized research subscriptions, from budget to metrics. Serve as liaison to our External Research Council, overseeing the firm's portfolio of research and data subscriptions. Work closely with Procurement in managing.

Chicago, IL

Managed Quality Assurance aspects of PwC’s “Global Best Practices” and “Transform” websites, the website authoring tool and other related applications. Involved in preparation of requirement specifications, development of test scripts using HP’s Quality Center 10.0, and coordinating integration and regression testing. Developed the specifications for a new.

Chicago, IL

Liaison between multiple business units and the IT department on behalf of the strategic business organization. Projects included requirements gathering and testing for a corporate-wide portal, evaluation of business continuity risk following 9/11, and recommendations regarding corporate-wide calendaring. Contracted position.

Greater Chicago Area

Primary client project at Arthur Andersen as the Quality Assurance Manager overseeing the testing of their “Global Best Practices” website, conducting training and developing specifications (duration: 18 months). Note: This site was purchased by PricewaterhouseCoopers, where I continued these efforts. Other client projects ranged from technical writing to.

Chicago, IL Office (2.5 years) And New York, NY Office (3 years)

• Involved in numerous client projects in the advisory arms of the Consumer Products and IT Strategic Services (ISS) groups, including:
• Participant on strategic evaluations of IS departments, involving review of projects / technology in relation to corporate goals, competitive positioning, Best Practices, vendor software/hardware evaluations and.
• Team Leader of a Customer & Promotions system for project at Solo Cup ($5 million project / duration: 21 months) which ported legacy mainframe applications to client/server environment (full lifecycle development).
• Lead analyst for the Business Area Analysis of the Rental Agreement for Budget Rent-A-Car, using Texas Instrument's IEF CASE tool. Responsible for modeling the Rental Agreement, identifying the interface requirements.

Greater Chicago Area

• Subsidiary of United Airlines and five other airline partners that provided technical support to the partners and owned the Apollo reservation system.
• Project Coordinator for the development of a prototype airport environment (project budget - $3.6 million), involving the installation and coordination of airport products. Prototype manager for the Magnetic Reader.
• Prototype Leader for the Magnetic Reader hardware, firmware and software.
• Project Coordinator for the development of Windows-based applications for United Airlines and Apollo travel agencies, front-ending the Apollo reservation system using Visual Basic.

Glenview, IL

End User Computing Coordinator for departmental LAN installations (Novell) at corporate headquarters, involving needs analysis with department heads, coordinating purchases (totaling approximately $800K), installation and training, as well as compiling corporate-wide LAN administration standards. Primary contact for three corporate departments, responsible.

Toledo, Ohio Area

Coordinator responsible for the Marketing Communications Department, involving the selection and installation of an electronic publishing system, PC installation and training, feasibility study of all positions in the department and maintenance of existing FOCUS-based applications. Projects included analysis of order processing, development of FOCUS data.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Grew up in the family retail floral business, supplying the greater Milwaukee area with floral arrangements and plants, with motto "Milwaukee's Foremost Florist". At one point, we had 7 locations and over 100 employees. Involved in all aspects of the business from early ages. Attended the American Floral Art School in Chicago. During high school years.

Mba, Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Member of the School of Business Student Council and Graduate Women in Business Club.Degree: MBA in Management.

International Business, European Aspects Of International Business

International Business Program through Indiana University Graduate School of Business. University of Tilburg is located in the Netherlands.

Bba, Double Major: Marketing & Administrative Management

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Theta (Vice President-Administration), Administrative Management Society (President)Bachelor of.