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Trexlertown, Pa

• Product Manager for operations and implementations for 3 critical IT software products.• Manage $650,000 contract with EDI vendor, including contract negotiations, business and IT requirements gathering, new implementations, and production operations in support of Banking, HR, Customer, and Vendor trading partners.• Improved efficiencies of 2 major IT in-house developed software products by 50%.• Subject Matter Expert for over 10 M&A activities for areas of responsibility.• Subject Matter Expert for 2 major Divestiture events (Versum Materials, Evonik) for areas of responsibility.• Execute root cause analysis and implement system development lifecycle changes to improve data quality, system controls, and interface and business processes.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Managed Cash Processing internal corporate lockbox operation, processing 800,000 check payments per month.• Managed Team of 3 business analysts (Treasury Controls Group) to ensure effective controls and fraud prevention for all cash related transactions of the Treasury Department. • Lead Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system development lifecycle for Financial transactions - Customer direct debits, Vendor payments, and Treasury investment transactions.• Security administrator for various Financial software packages.• Project Lead for Financial Department Records Management initiatives, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance (SOX), and Business Continuity Planning.• Project Lead for Accounts Receivable image conversion into single platform, implemented within project plan schedule and under budget. • Experienced in purchased software implementation and integration including PeopleSoft HRPR and Financial Systems, Kofax, Opex, Wausau, Filenet, Wall Street Systems, TRECS.

• As a Graduate Assistant Business Analyst, facilitated 20 engagement meetings with local entrepreneurs to discuss innovative ideas and guide them through the creation of a Business Plan. • Interviewed 4 small businesses to create a comprehensive competitive analysis report.

Allentown, Pennsylvania

• Managed team of 5 System Analysts from US and Singapore for global HR/Payroll Oracle 11i application software implementation including 40 customizations and 60 vendor interfaces. • Major focus of team included business and technical documentation, project and resource planning, integrated, automated, and regression testing, and cutover project management. • Consistently achieved 4 times the results of any System Analyst team in the department due to project and resource planning efforts, team motivation and cohesiveness, and clear focus of each person’s role. Leveraged individual’s skill set and career goals to assign project work across US and Singapore team.• Directed a team of 25 IT and business personnel during implementation cutover activities. • Evaluated risk and mitigated issues across technical and business teams. • Reduced procurement data conversion process from 3 weeks to 4 days by managing unique implementation solution using testing software for production conversion.• Managed the global testing effort across test teams located in the US, Singapore, Bangkok, United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany. • Managed global Oracle ERP implementation testing for the spinoff of Agere Systems from Lucent Technologies. • Directed over 30 global analysts during application testing phase for implementation of $5B business into Oracle Finance, Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, and Supply Chain modules. • Major deliverables included project planning, test case development, issue tracking, and review and approval of testing results, reporting to Management.• Collaborated with over 10 team members - business analysts, application development team, database administrators, consultants, and third party vendors in implementation of Oracle ERP solution-Product Costing module.• Designed standard technical documentation process which increased efficiency of project team.

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Resident Assistant; Student Counsellor

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