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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States

Businesses across the consumer products, life sciences and retail industries partner with Clarkston Consulting to enhance strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiencies, implement new technologies, and promote business growth and market diversification. Leveraging deep functional and industry expertise, our people discover, design, and deliver solutions that fit your business, your goals, and your future. At Clarkston, your purpose is our purpose.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Abbott Laboratories, IT Project Manager from Feb '16 to Dec '16The Wendy's Company, Sr. BSA - Restaurant Solutions from Feb '15 to Feb '16

Columbus, Ohio Area

Abbott Laboratories in Columbus Ohio. Specializing in Life Sciences and working with R&D business area.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Primary liaison between IT and various business areas. I work directly with the business to gather user requirements and translate them into functional requirements. Projects include: Business Intelligence, Off-Shore Resource Management, HEOR Website (project coordinator), maintain hardware/software budget, Phase 0 for Controlled Documents project.Projects Included:• Business Intelligence: Facilitated multiple requirements interviews with various business areas to better understand the analytic needs from multiple R&D systems.• Offshore Resource Management: Managed offshore SharePoint team to ensure timely delivery of projects. Gathered user requirements from business and delivered functional requirements to team. Prioritized assignments.• Controlled Documents Phase 0: Prepared proposal, solution alternatives, solution recommendation, and approximate cost estimate to replace current Lotus Notes applications. • HEOR Website: Tasked with documenting user requirements, translating user requirements to functional requirements, and recommending solution delivery platform. • Compusense @Hand (SaaS): Worked closely with R&D Sensory (U.S., Zwolle, Singapore, China) to implement Compusense @Hand to replace existing Compusense Five software.• Hardware/Software Budget: Managed capital and expense dollars for hardware and software RCE. • POMSnet (COTS MES software): Served as technical lead and BSA. Gathered and documented requirements, server creation/configuration and maintenance, as well as POMSnet software installation and configuration. Developed and executed test scripts. Created SLC documentation (Validated system.). • Product Development Request System redesigns (.Net): Served as technical lead. Gathered and documented requirements and created and executed test scripts as well as assisted with database design. Provided support and ongoing maintenance for application.• Developed Change Control Process.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Developed and maintained a multitude of executive, financial, and operational reports for various business units. Projects Included:• SharePoint: Created and supported multiple SharePoint portals/collaboration sites for marketing, finance, payroll, operations, and executives. • PerformancePoint/Business Intelligence: Using Microsoft SQL Server (BIDS), created data cubes used to create dynamic, drillable sales reports for executives. Delivered reports, using SharePoint/Performance Point. • Reports Development: Using Crystal Reports, developed multiple canned reports, including happy hour sales, promotional sales, MTD/YTD sales, and appetizer sales. • Mobile Communications: Held responsibility for mobile communications, including ordering and activating mobile devices, BlackBerry Server installation/configuration and management, and BlackBerry device policies. Pushed multiple third-party BlackBerry applications to company-issued devices.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Developed and maintained Intranet web applications.• E-File Intranet Application Development and Support (J2EE): Created document-caching objects that cache policy images and documents (tiffs, jpgs, Word, Excel) to Cisco cache devices that reside in remote service centers for rapid retrieval by customers. Supported E-File Phase 2 web application and nightly batch support. Designed, developed, tested, and implemented E-File enhancements, including Web GUI front-end maintenance (JavaScript, JSP), batch development (VB 6.0), Database Tier (Oracle PL/SQL), and FileNet Imaging Services. • Web GUI Development: Created multiple front-end web interfaces for E-File application, using DHTML, HTML, web forms, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, JSP, and style sheets (CSS). • Consultant Leader: Assisted in interviewing process of Crystal consultants for large Crystals Reports project. Recommended hiring of two Crystal consultants for duration of project. Trained and mentored Crystal consultants on E-File application and worked closely with consultants in Crystal Reports design requirements, development, and implementation phases of project. • Business Objects Crystal Reports XIr2 Design and Development and Implementation: Held responsibility for requirements interpretation, design, development, testing, unit test plans, and implementation of multiple complex Crystal Reports. Developed reports, using Business Objects Crystal Reports XIr2, Business View Manager (Cascading Dynamic Prompts), PL/SQL, Materialized Views creation and maintenance (Oracle), and Universes with formulas to calculate dates, averages, and totals into useful information for business partners and service center customers. Served in all phases of project management life cycle for E-File Crystal Reports. • Crystal Enterprise 10 Support and Migration: Designed and developed reports, using Crystal Enterprise 10. Created, implemented, and scheduled reports, using Crystal 10 Enterprise.