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Buda, Texas

Position responsibilities:1. Locating, acquiring, and managing the resale of unique, rare, high-end firearms as individual pieces or entire collections that required specialized knowledge for recognition of authenticity and value.2. Managing a staff of 6 to 9 specialists in rare firearms retail, internet sales, and event display.3. Preparation of a weekly employee work schedule involving a 7 day, 3 shift time-frame.4. Direct inventory transfers to other store locations within the 70-store, Cabela's retail chain. 5. Evaluating and reporting to corporate management the departmental sales, profitability, market trends, departmental budget status, and future specialty product requirements.6. Analyze requirements and develop systems and procedures to control the security of high-value inventory items meeting both corporate needs and federal law requirements.

Austin, Texas Area

HID Global (ASSA ABALOY), Business Analyst/ Functional LeadApril 2014 - November 2014 (Austin, TX)Position responsibilities:1. Managed software upgrade of Oracle v11.5.10 to R12.1.6 for General Ledger, Receivables, and Projects Costing and Billing modules, 2. Leadership in systems requirements definition and process derivation for large, multi-national firm manufacturing, selling and managing access security systems for government and private entities,3. Planned and delivered “proof of concept” of systems design at U.S. and European locations,4. Coordinated off-shore development activities for OTC and customized business processes,5.Managed chart of accounts redesign team to accommodate multiple European governmental accounting requirements.

Clovis, Nm

Plateau Telecommunications, Business Analyst (Employer: Cedar Crestone Consulting, Inc.)March 2013 – September 2013 (Clovis, NM)Position responsibilities:1. Managed software upgrade project for Oracle R12.1.3 from version 11.5.10 for General Ledger, Receivables, and Projects Costing modules,2. Gathered business requirements for matching the new applications functionality,3. Configured modules for enhanced capabilities,4. Conducted systems and user acceptance testing new module capability and trained staff.

Greater San Diego Area

Accelrys, Functional Lead (Employer: Solution Beacon, LLC)April 2012 – December 2012 (San Diego, CA)Position responsibilities:Oracle R12.1.3 Fixed Assets Software re- implementation from legacy assets system,1. Managed assembly of client conversion requirements and configuration of Fixed Assets module for eight operating units requiring 16 corporate and 4 tax books,2. Developed systems test scenarios for application procedures and data conversion validation,3. Presented conference room pilots, system integration, user acceptance testing, and production transition, 4. Leadership of development group for mid-year calendar conversion and validation.

Parkersburg, Wv

U.S. Treasury Bureau Public Debt, Business Analyst (Employer: Solution Beacon, LLC)October 2011 – April 2012 (Parkersburg, WV)Position responsibilities:1. Managed implementation project for Oracle R12.1.3 Project Costing, Project Billing software,2. testing between Oracle Projects, Receivables, Purchasing, and General Ledger,3. Designed and managed the build of Projects Sub-Ledger Accounting (SLA) matrix documenting customized SLA definitions, 4. Assisted accounts receivable and accounts payable groups with mapping of posting logic for their Oracle Projects-related SLA customizations,5. Participated in design sessions with Oracle corporate SLA teams to define accounting processes required for completion of the newly federalized Oracle Projects SLA elements.Verified Oracle R12 Project Costing and Billing module configuration with detail systems integration

Plano, Tx

Nascent Consulting, LP (Employer), Business AnalystJune 2011 – September 2011 (Plano, TX)Position responsibilities:1. Production support for Oracle R12.1.3 Project Costing and Fixed Assets software,2. Provided post go live support and problem resolution associated with Project Costing module generation of capital asset data, 3. Delivered systems process training for new users, 4. Report reconciliation for Projects and Asset modules.

Austin, Texas

1. Oracle Financials: 11i Delivered software module modifications and R12 upgrades,2. Managed multiple, fixed priced, enhancement and technical upgrade projects for Oracle 11i and R12 retainer fee based customers.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Oracle 11.5.10 Financials and business process re-engineering: Provided financial analysis, and process improvement of the client’s existing Oracle 11 General Ledger, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Receivables, and Payables with a focus on streamlining, improving, and automating current practices

Oakland, Ca

1 .Functional lead responsible for a full lifecycle implementation of Oracle R12 Project Costing and Grants software,2. Conducted requirements gathering workshops,3. Leader of business analysis effort related to separating accounting procedures for private and public construction grants, 4. Configured software module setups, 5. Presented CRP/ UAT testing to validate data conversions.

Calgary, Ablerta, Canada

Smart Technologies, Systems Support Project Manager (Employer: OSI Consulting, Inc)November 2008 – July 2009 (Calgary, CA)Position responsibilities:1. Systems support for Oracle R12 General Ledger, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Receivables, Payables and Purchasing production software,2. Provided post-go-live support, patch research, patch application, and documented migration of problem solutions to production environment of newly released R12 software, 3. Monitored multiple Oracle Sev-1 service requests on an on-going basis requiring coordinated data-fixes and systems patching

Vienna, Va

Arctic Slope Regional Communications Corporation, (Employer: Lentech Corporation)October 2006 – October 2008 (Vienna, VA)Position responsibilities: • Deputy Project Implementation Manager,• Business Solution Architect,• Chart of Accounts designer• Applications Lead:o General Ledgero Project Accounting - Costing and BillingPosition Duties:1. Managed teams for each software module of Oracle 11i Financials and Project Costing Suites: • Cash Management, • Fixed Assets, • Payables, • Purchasing, • Human Resources and Payroll modules, 2. Personally responsible for General ledger and Project Costing design and implementation. 3. Designed an architecture integrating standardized Projects WBS with Financials accounting flex-field (COA) to ensure multi-dimensional reporting from both financial and job cost perspectives using standard Oracle reporting tools.

Los Alamos, Nm

Los Alamos National Labs, Business Analyst/ Functional Lead (Employers: Softech/ Univ. of Calif)April 2002 – October 2006 (Los Alamos, NM)Position responsibilities:1. Conducted extensive business re-engineering exercise to align laboratory business processes with new software process flows with the goal of facilitating organizational movement toward a project centric environment based on Oracle Project Costing.2. Conference Room Pilot presentation of proposed new systems software implementations.3. Gather solution requirements and verified a match to reporting needs. 4. Designed Oracle Projects module configuration consistent with re-engineered process flows and COA .5. Designed project costing data conversion process transporting from former COA to new . 6. Reconcile data conversion to source material and present validation to stakeholders. 7. Leader of Charts of Accounts (COA) redesign team tasked with reducing account identifier segments to achieve the strategic goal of closer alignment of lab reporting with DOE/ MARS reporting system.8. Manage Oracle 11.5 Project Costing and Receivables software implementation. 9. Design systems and user acceptance test scenarios executed in conjunction with user training.10. Developed requirements for and designed interface between Oracle Receivables and existing Reimbursable Work System (RWS). This customization separated RWS transactions from the mainstream receivable activity allowing re-format, re-calculation, and billing via the unique RWS requirements.

Sacramento, California Area

Oracle 11.5 General Ledger, Fixed Assets, and Receivables implementation; Managed and executed a full lifecycle implementation including requirements gathering, module configuration, data conversion, and UAT testing.

Santa Ana, Ca

Oracle 11 Project Costing and Receivables implementation; Led the full lifecycle implementation. Designed interfaces for Oracle Projects from PeopleSoft Human Resources facilitating the transfer of employee identification, and job assignment information to Oracle Project/task level; Reconciled Oracle General Ledger and Projects after years of growing imbalance.

Denver, Co

Oracle 10.7 Fixed Assets implementation; Led the full lifecycle implementation converting legacy asset data into Oracle using ADI load spreadsheets and mapping templates for extracted files; responsible for configuration, conversion, and UAT testing.

Dallas, Tx

PeopleSoft General Ledger and Accounts Receivables; Led the full lifecycle implementation converting from manual legacy system; responsible for configuration, CRP, conversion, and UAT testing.

Dallas, Tx

Oracle 10.7 Fixed Assets and Payables implementation and production support. Designed and managed the off-shore development of an Oracle Forms-driven system that dynamically generated the required SQL to select promotional sales transactions and calculate sales associate incentive bonuses within constantly changing environment of multiple market promotions from multiple jewelry suppliers; Managed an in-house mentoring program for junior systems/business analyst.

Dallas, Tx

Oracle 10.7 Project Costing and General Ledger implementation and production support; Led the process re-engineering to align business procedures with Oracle functionality followed by implementation of Oracle 10.7 Projects. Planned and executed data conversion from legacy project tracking system and facilitated go live; Conducted extensive analysis for General Ledger encumbrance balance reconciliation with purchasing history.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Oracle 10.5 Project Costing and Project Billing implementation;. Led an implementation requiring the coordination of combined US/Mexican resource team regarding responsibilities, duties, communications, schedules, configuration, testing activities, and go live.

Coatzacoalcos Area, Mexico

Oracle 9.3 Financials implementation (GL, AR, AP, Assets) - Reported weekly status and milestones to senior Pemex and Coopers-Lybrand corporate stakeholders and interfaced with management at each of the nine Mexican refinery implementation sights to ensure system accuracy, schedule adherence, resource availability, and security; Managed an international cadre of functional and technical consultants, and the client’s local DBA and programming staff at central development site. Promoted from the initial role as project systems test coordinator for all of the Financials functional teams; Managed test scenario design, script preparation, and execution for full suite of Oracle Financials modules.

Denver Co And Houston Tx

Forest Oil Corporation - Oil & Gas - Denver, COLead designer, developer, and implementator of oil property lease record management system for 25,000 drilling leases in 6 state area. Mountain Bell - Communications - Denver, COLead Design Analyst for a system created to select and re-price telephone transactions for a 30 million customer billing system based upon subscription plan type; designed a large, table-driven process to allow billing statement format changes via table update as opposed to program modification.Anschutz Oil, Inc - Oil & Gas - Denver, COLead Design Analyst for a Ingres database to allocate and re-allocate oil / gas revenues between multiple reservoir owners over life of an oil field; delivered a system that maintained accounts for each owner’s share of production as a percentage of total reservoir production; created management tracking of each owner’s production balances for constantly enhanced reservoir definition.Petro-Lewis Oil Corporation - Oil & Gas - Denver, CO1) Lead Design Analyst for architecting and implementing oil well operational expense allocation and account analysis for Joint Interest Accounting.2) Designed and implemented a system to allocate oil and gas production from point of sale back to well zone level based on engineering studies. Lewis & Coker Supermarkets - Retail grocery chain - Houston, TXData Center Manager for a local supermarket chain. Also, designed and the implemented a flexible G&A budget system with variance analysis, consolidation capabilities, and executive reporting for 33 locations.Alpha Building Corp - Construction services - NASA - Houston, TX1) Controller - Startup, staffed and managed all accounting and data processing functions of a construction contract supporting NASA Space Center. Designed, programmed, and implemented a fully burdened, daily job costing system.2) CFO - Assumed full corporate financial control and responsibility for firm during an extended period of owner absence.