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Richmond, Virginia Area

Beach Consulting LLC aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of client operations by integrating and streamlining business processes, systems, and data.

Richmond, Va

Responsible for technical design and implementation of a new COTS product installation at a Fortune 100 company. Designed and developed a custom forecasting module which provided spending transparency and real time budget planning capabilities for sales force users managing multi-million-dollar accounts. Technologies: CAS, .Net, SQL Server 2014, MS Project, SSRS

North Carolina

As part of a trade promotion system upgrade for a Fortune 50 consumer goods giant, provided in depth performance analysis and system optimization recommendations. Also provided technical designs for future system enhancements. Technologies: CAS, .Net, VMWare, SQL Server 2014, ANTS Performance Profiler.

New Bern, Nc

Worked as Secretary and Technology Officer on the founding Board of Directors at New Bern Cooperative Preschool. We created a new preschool in New Bern, NC which implements the play based approach to early childhood education and relies on its parents to run and maintain the school.

Chicago, Il

Assisted in Trade Promotion Management system integration and optimization for a large food production company. Included performance tuning and optimization of interfaces, reports, server processes. Technologies: VB.Net, SQL Server.

Various

COTS product implementation including an ROI Workbench. Used .Net to write custom functions and server processes that the COTS did not inherently support. Assisted with the design of the reporting database and report creation in SSRS. Technologies: CAS, .Net, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS

An associate at Booz & Company with focus in designing, developing, and implementing integrated Trade Promotion solutions for consumer goods companies throughout the U.S. *Reconfigured all master data modules and used .Net to write custom functions and server processes that the COTS did not inherently support. Provided oversight for all inbound data interfaces by authoring interface standards documentation, training other developers, and assisting with Informatica interface development. *Conducted detailed performance analysis and provided system optimization recommendations for a previously configured COTS product, saving time for the users and making job relevant data more available. Developed new financial reports for GL and Balance sheet reconciliation, and assisted in the creation and configuration of new modules within the COTS product. *Conducted interviews, documented processes, created detailed process flows in Visio, gleaned high level pain points, and identified opportunities to improve their processes moving forward. Developed functional and reporting requirements, and RACI diagrams based on the process interview results. *Analyzed Call Center business processes and provided recommendations for improvement. Designed and developed a Dashboard to support call center managers, providing a wholistic view of call center performance indicators across business areas. *Technologies: CAS CPWerx, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, SQL Server, Rational Rose, Visio, MS Project, MS Access

Mclean, Va

On the 36 million-dollar FBI SMIS project, performed Business Process Redesign for the FBI’s personnel security system. Became a recognized SME in the personnel investigations and clearance processing processes. Led a high visibility system development effort to create an interim clearance processing system in MS Access while assisting in the design of a more robust web-based solution. She managed a team of system developers, data migration specialists, and testers while working within tight deadlines and navigating political issues to ensure all project deliverables and system installations were up to standard and successful. Was responsible for developer onboarding and maintaining the system infrastructure. Technologies: Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Reports, MS Access, MS ProjectDesigned, developed, implemented, and tested ETL processes within Informatica for both in and out bound interfaces between a legacy financial planning system and a new TPM system. Designed and developed the reporting database and OLAP cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services. Redesigned the TPM reporting system using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Technologies: Oracle 9i, Informatica, SSRS, SSAS

Arlington, Va

Acted as Technical Lead on design, development, and deployment of a web-based emergency preparedness/action item tracking and reporting system. This was a .NET web solution with a SQL Server 2000 database that tracked critical action item data, enabling remote access and dynamic report generation. She originally developed a prototype in MS Access, which upon presentation to the client, resulted in additional work and the development of the web based system.Played several roles at the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security including gathering requirements, and composing the recommended processes and procedures for the Cyber Interagency Incident Management Group (Cyber IIMG). She also designed, developed, implemented, and tested the US-CERT Human Resources system to track and report employee, contractor, and applicant information, automating many fundamental HR processes.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management Information Systems, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi, NSCS

Master Of Technology - Mtech