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• Senior Project ManagerChangeover and Acquisition Management for the Auto Parts Group of Genuine Parts Company
• Responsible for the facilitation and management of the changes of ownership of independent NAPA store owners, the acquisition of company owned NAPA stores from independent owners, the relocation of existing NAPA.
• Implementing and training a system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology for application development including introduction of time reporting and project management using Clarity, development and maintenance of.
• Management of the Clarity PPM tool administrative and functional support and the development of reporting capabilities from Clarity. Responsible for the training of the IT organization on the Clarity PPM tool.
• Developing and managing a portfolio of projects representing the project roadmap for support of the NAPA distribution centers and the accounts receivable and accounts payable center.
• Training of resource management for resource allocation and utilization to determine capacity for portfolio planning.

Greater Atlanta Area

• o Managing the contract and vendor that maintained the database and systems that supported a sales referral program.o Defining the business and process requirements for system applications.o Implementing, training and.
• Strategic Program Manager for corporate process improvement and strategic planning initiatives producing cost savings of over $400 million for BellSouth. Responsibilities included:o Identifying strategic cost reduction.
• Implementing project management and creating a project management office (PMO) in a “start-up” IT organization.
• Managing five project managers on IT projects and consolidating project status reporting for executive management reporting.
• Designing, developing and maintaining an automated project tracking system that provided management reporting, time entry and tracking for allocating costs.
• Managing $100M+ annual budgets for “lights on” and project delivery within IT and providing project accounting roll-up capability to corporate PMO and finance organizations.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managing a staff of 72 analysts and software engineers responsible for the planning, design, development, and implementation of financial distributed application systems for Contract Management, Air Travel Plan.
• Managing a staff of 56 analysts and three project leaders responsible for design, development, and implementation of a re-engineered purchasing, general ledger, accounts payable, stock system interface, Electronic Data.
• Managing the integration of Pan Am European financial systems with Delta corporate financials systems as a result of the Delta buyout of Pan Am European operations. Required nine months duty in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Providing customer account manager support for the Finance and Procurement Divisions while developing detailed customer requirements and assisting in planning, design, and implementation of a customized Walker.
• Managing the re-engineered development of the DATAFAX travel agency back office accounting systems on an IBM AS400 mini-mainframe. The effort required coordination with Price Waterhouse Consulting and managing a staff.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting

Activities and Societies: Georgia Southern University Accounting Association

Associate Of Business Administraion (Aba), Accounting