Experienced in managing financial transactions, processing payments, and ensuring accurate records across multiple systems. Skilled in overseeing accounts payable and receivable, purchase order management, and invoice reconciliation. Adept at maintaining vendor relationships, ensuring timely payments, and generating detailed financial reports. Proven ability to troubleshoot issues, process school payments, and handle customer inquiries efficiently.Key Responsibilities:Transaction Management: Track and record outstanding debts and obligations, ensuring timely payments and accurate account balances.Purchase Order & Invoice Processing: Review, approve, and match purchase orders with invoices and delivery receipts to ensure accurate payment processing.Payments & Reconciliation: Oversee timely payments to vendors, manage check printing, and reconcile activity accounts with bank statements monthly.MySchoolBucks System Management: Administer system settings, oversee payment processing for school meals and activities, and resolve customer service issues related to the platform.Reporting & Auditing: Generate financial reports, reconcile transactions with school records, and assist with account audits to identify discrepancies.

• Provide secondary support for kindergarten students in the areas of phonemic awareness, guided reading, enrichment reading and number recognition and counting.• Provide accurate instruction and support one-on-one and for groups of 18-25 students at a time in reading/language arts, and math resulting in the consistency and continuity of each student’s education.During Pandemic Year 2020-2021:• Produced creative daily instructional videos for the kindergarten grade level in support of the math curriculum for the school year.• Provided remote secondary support. • Contributed on numerous District Teams in developing and implementing plans on remote learning and how and when to safely re-open schools adapting to changing priorities under state guidelines.

Managed a Business Impact Analysis for critical business areas to determine what systems/applications were mission critical within 24 hours of an outage resulting in the creation of a $3M contract for recovery services.Developed disaster recovery test objectives and a test metric system for minor and major computer systems. Analyzed existing application recovery plans across 6 business locations, resulting in a $5M consulting contract for 6 data center recovery plans to support necessary applications.Secured a $4M contract extension to provide consultation services and develop a strategy of internalized disaster recovery services. Co-teamed with Sales, as an SME, to present service offerings and drive new business opportunities for the company.

Performed an application impact analysis to determine the impact of reduced processing flow for a large insurance company, resulting in a contract for disaster recovery and business continuity consulting services.Performed a business impact analysis of a data center shutdown for 15 business and 10 technical departments for a large agriculture organization, resulting in a contract for disaster recovery and business continuity consulting services. Trained 4 junior consultants on business practices resulting in consistent delivery services and delivery to the client.

Managed data migration risk assessment to best match the mode of replication to the application’s recovery time objective, boosting performance while maintaining recoverability and lessening downtime for the financial markets.Activated a secondary data center that replaced the contracted disaster recovery site, resulting in improved recoverability, managed change control and revenue savings.Managed development and testing of failover procedures from primary data center to secondary data center, instructing personnel how to react quickly and efficiently to problems decreasing processing downtime.

Managed data storage activities at the primary data center/disaster recovery site for production and development systems.Implemented a Storage Area Network at the primary data center/disaster recovery site establishing recovery of open system applications with the use of remote data mirroring.Planned, tested and implemented a data migration strategy from the primary data center to a new data center via DWDM, with no impact to production systems and maintaining data integrity at all sites during test and implementation phases.Leveraged the addition of the company’s alternate work area recovery site to increase the number of tests from 1 per quarter to 8-12 test per year, thus raising the level of awareness of disaster recovery through department participation/improved test results.

Managed all contract upgrades and changes with the disaster recovery vendor and environment, completing all quarterly test exercises, expanding test objectives to include departmental participation improving test methods, and successfully coordinating site takeover for company’s subsidiary to meet SEC request to activate and process from DR site.Co-teamed a proof of concept for long distance data replication (SRDF) which included six months of internal testing including measured application performance with increased mileage distance. The POC supported implementation of SRDF in a parallel mode with other methods of data replication for a true performance test.

Managed staff of 4 Data Center operations and 1st shift data center operations for production, test and disaster recovery environments; environment consisted of large and midrange systems, numerous open systems, internal/external communication network which supported the financial markets.Coordinated installs and negotiated upgrades of data center equipment with vendors (IBM, EMC2) minimizing downtime to internal and external clients.Coordinated Y2K test activities and Y2K staffing at the DR site, including managing the RFP process for a new disaster recovery contract with recovery vendors, activating and staffing multiple DR sites as a precaution, mitigating potential risk, and directed the implementation of SRDF as the primary data replication mode for disaster recovery

Restructured 15 departmental business interruption plans, developing an overall technical business interruption plan, planning and passing all internal and external audits, and supervising 3 technical specialists to conduct an application change control from test to production environment.