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Lawrence, Massachusetts, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Brevard, North Carolina, Us

Director of Application Development leading all software application development, implementation, and optimization within the organization. Leading the Application Development team, including IT project managers, and functions as co-leader for the overall IT Team. • Co-leads the IT Team including team meetings, strategies, and overall IT direction and resources• Leads the Application Development Team, hiring and developing a strong, collaborative team of application development experts and project managers. Ensuring their ongoing professional growth and organizational contributions• Prioritizes and manages organizational needs for applications development, ensuring resources and needs remain aligned• Ensures that the App Dev team approaches each project with similar methodology: conducts requirements gathering, provides accurate estimates, manages project timelines, resources, risks, communication according to standards set forth by the Project Management Office (PMO)• Manages departmental budge each month, and takes corrective action as needed. Creates new Applications budget each year with the CFO and Director of IT Infrastructure to reflect a cohesive IT budget• Creates project timelines and forecasts, responding to new business needs in application development with solution-oriented approaches• Manages a portfolio of complex IT initiatives, both directly and through team leadership• Ensures the App Dev team delivers full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery includes full implementation for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously• Leads App Dev team to manage all aspects of multiple related projects, ensuring the overall program directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives• Conceptualizes solutions in collaboration with the IT team and project teams• Leads applications development, system/functional architecture analysis and drives solution identification and implementation

Brevard, North Carolina, Us

• Member of the IT Software Application team leading software application projects in various functional areas, including, Finance, Purchasing, and Manufacturing.• Responsible for working with the project sponsors and application team to define project scope, timelines and budgets.• Track and report on project progress against schedules/budget, as well as ensure that projects adhere to scope.• Responsible for gathering requirements and creating functional documentation.• Collaborate with the Director of IT to resource project phases and conceptualize solutions based on the business requirements.• Responsible for working with the business to create training materials and execute user training for new applications and enhancements to existing applications.• Responsible for coordinating and running user acceptance testing, including writing test cases.• Responsible for the creation and monitoring of risk and change management plans.• Responsible for the request for proposal process when enlisted outside vendors, including all documentation and coordination.• Collaborated with the Director of IT to develop standard project management practices throughout the organization while building a cross functional Project Management Office.• Application owner of the Sage 300 system inclusive of Purchasing, Inventory and Finance.

Chicago, Il, Us

IT Senior Business Analyst• Member of the Oracle Applications team specializing in Finance (Accounts Payable, iExpense, General Ledger and Planning) Senior business analyst on projects responsible for gathering requirements and creating functional documents.• Responsible for working with the business to create training plans and user guides as needed for new applications and enhancements to existing applications.• Responsible on projects for coordinating and running user acceptance testing, including working with the QA team to write test cases.• Work with the business during the stabilization period of new/changed applications to ensure smooth transition to production support mode.IT Systems Designer• Member of the Oracle Applications team specializing in Finance (Accounts Payable, iExpense, General Ledger) and Human Resources (Payroll, Benefits and Compensation Workbench)• Technical lead on projects responsible for creating design and design documents and doing the technical development as needed.• Responsible for remediating several custom reports for the upgrade from Oracle 11i to R12.• Member of the stabilization team for post Oracle R12 Go-Live responsible for troubleshooting issue and coordinating development of solutions.• Design, develop and support solution for HR Employee and Manager Self Service Workflows• Responsible for payroll check printing processes using custom Oracle packages in combination with Formscape software• Responsible for support and development of BI Publisher templates for AP check printing • Production support. Trouble-shooting/debugging, PL/SQL code changes, Oracle R12 Application testing

Chicago, Il, Us

• Member of the Oracle Applications team specializing in Finance (Accounts Payable, iExpense, General Ledger) and Human Resources (Payroll, Benefits and Compensation Workbench)• Technical lead on projects responsible for creating design and design documents and doing the technical development as needed.• Responsible for remediating several custom reports for the upgrade from Oracle 11i to R12.• Member of the stabilization team for post Oracle R12 Go-Live responsible for troubleshooting issue and coordinating development of solutions.• Design, develop and support solution for HR Employee and Manager Self Service Workflows• Responsible for payroll check printing processes using custom Oracle packages in combination with Formscape software• Responsible for support and development of BI Publisher templates for AP check printing • Production support. Trouble-shooting/debugging, PL/SQL code changes, Oracle R12 Application testing

Software company specializing in data mining, predictive analytics, and statistics software development and distribution.; Part of the core team for testing and troubleshooting the Oracle upgrade to 11.5.10. Concentrating in the area of WorkFlow changes and reporting and Order Management and Receivables.Design and build reports for Order Management, Inventory and Finance Departments using Reports Designer 6i, PL/SQL and BI PublisherBI Publisher Administrator responsible for the design of any new reports as well as changes and maintenance of existing reports.Responsible for the Vertex tax integration and maintenance for Order Management and ReceivablesManaged several Oracle releases into the Production system, overseeing changes and user testing Design, code, and support for international deployments of Oracle 11i in European offices.Tune programs to reduce amount of database resources a program uses, to decrease response time for users, and to lower the need for new capital equipment.Technical lead on projects responsible for creating design and design documents in order to give to development team. Production support. Trouble-shooting/debugging, PL/SQL code changes, Oracle 11i Application testing

On-line E-tailer partnered with Ace Hardware offering 50,000 products and over 5,000 nationwide service providersOracle DeveloperManage production support. Trouble-shooting/debugging, PL/SQLchanges, Oracle Application testing.Mentor/assist fellow team members in areas of production support and PL/SQL codingDesign and build reports for marketing, finance, operations, and customer care departments using Reports Designer 2.5, PL/SQL.Manage forms and customer e-mail design using Optio Special Projects:Developer for Integration Project - Oracle Applications Order EntryDesigned, coded, and tested sales order download from Ourhouse's Oracle Order Entry to outbound file for warehouse fulfillment system.Designed, coded, and tested ship confirm upload from warehouse's inbound file into Oracle Order Entry's deliveries interface tables for Ship Confirmation.Technical Lead for Optio ImplementationDesigned and created forms in Optio Design Studio for purchase orders, invoices, billing statements and packing slips.Designed, coded, and tested reports in Reports Designer 2.5 to be filtered through the Optio Design Studio forms. (PL/SQL, Oracle Applications Order Entry)

Implemented Customer Care training process and authored the Customer Care Training manual. Detailed instructions on the functional use of Oracle Applications Order Entry and Receivables.Trained new Customer Care Reps on the use of Oracle Applications Order Entry and Receivables, our Proprietary Website Administration tool, Website Use, and Order Fulfillment process.Communicated process changes and improvements for ongoing projects and website changes to Customer Care Reps. Trained employees on any functional changes to the Oracle Applications Order Entry and Receivables.

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