 Manage a team supporting all Finance, Treasury, Financial Reporting and Accounting systems including Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets. Purchasing, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Account Reconciliation Module, Hyperion Close Manager, Trintech ReconNET, Trintech AssureNET Crystal Reporting, Sungard Quantum Treasury Workstation and Cognos Reporting.  Liaise between the business and Information Technology on projects acting as sponsor on systems related projects.  Upgraded Oracle ERP GL, AP, PO, FA and AR to 12.1.3. Implemented Hyperion HFM, ARM, FCM and upgraded Hyperion Essbase. Assist in managing implementations, upgrades, testing, project planning, requirements, change management and quality assurance for all Finance and Accounting related systems.  Support reporting on both Oracle and SQL Server databases as well as ad hoc SQL query needs.

One of 10 employees recognized nationally out of over 30,000 employees to receive the ICARE award (Integrity, Customer Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence)Developed dashboard, self-service and ad hoc reports using SQL Server 2005 solutions including SSRS, SSIS and SSASConverted very large volumes of data into Business Intelligence products delivering the appropriate knowledge using varieties of tools to the right customer at the right time in the appropriate medium for analytical, data mining or single purpose answers.Directed four managers and managed a department of 18 employees who wrote reports, developed automated solutions and conducted analysis for Finance, Accounting and Operations. Co-managed a Project Management Office with Process Improvement and Six Sigma resources, allocating resources from throughout our facility to develop and implement strategic automated solutions.Wrote and automated reporting for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Finance, Financial Planning and Analysis, Tax, Inventory Accounting and Warehouse Operations including GAAP, 10K, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Budget variance and operational financial reporting to customers.Liaise between Finance, Accounting and IT in an SAP shop to develop requirements and build automated solutions.Developed several applications and analytical tools using MS Access, Excel and SQL Server 2005. Extensive sales reporting to business including Legal Department, Sales Department, Audit, Finance and Accounting using MS Access and Excel solutions.The department used VB, VBA, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, SAP’s BEX Analyzer, MS Access, .NET, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reporting Services SQL Server Analytical Services and SQL Server Internet Services.

Companies included McKesson and AvnetManaged large, successful accounting software upgrade project for Fortune 500 company completing the project early and under budget.Worked closely with the managers and executives in the business/accounting groups to ensure all their requirements were met completely.Used versatility to accomplish whatever was necessary to pull the project together including writing MS Access reports, developing extensive Oracle SQL queries, general business analysis, writing Visual Basic programs and was on-call productions support.Led all facets of ERP project including: Project Plan, Change Management, Issue Resolution, Project Meetings, Executive Meetings.Analyzed business reporting needs and wrote reports for executives and users to help recuperate millions of dollars in collections using sophisticated Oracle SQL.

Managed ERP / Accounting / Finance Systems Department with over 10 employees for Telecommunications company that was growing on average 30% per month. Directed aggressive implementation using Dun & Bradstreet Software’s (now Geac) n-tier systems GL, AP, PO, FA Smartstream and Decision Support tool concurrently on-time and within budget running on Sybase. Directed implementation of PeopleSoft HR concurrently with a Resumix (resume scanning / OCR) implementation. Sized hardware and purchased HP UNIX machines. Managed development effort of Budget system and enhancements to GL and reporting functions ensuring that all of the business requirements were met.

Tailored James Martin’s generic methodology to fit client/server packaged software implementations to be used throughout the company facilitating the management and sales of software implementation projects.Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to help a small electricity distribution company analyze and improve their current business processes and systems. Helped develop ERP / accounting / finance system software package RFP’s to reflect of company’s business needs for Fortune 500 companies. Assisted in sales and pre-sales opportunities, responding to complex RFP’s leading to extensive, lucrative projects of ERP systems including Geac Smartstream, Oracle Financials and Peoplesoft.

Managed all facets of several successful software ERP implementations for Fortune 100 companies at client sites using varying methodologies (mainframe, LAN, n-tier and UNIX based platforms) making sure that the projects were on time and within budget. Millennium and Smartstream using Cognos. Facilitated JAD and Implementation workshops.