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Irvine, Ca, Us

Santa Barbara, California, Us

IT ERP manager responsible for implementing and supporting Kronos WFC and Oracle Cloud SaaS Fusion applications (Finance, Payroll, HCM and SCM) at Cottage Health Systems, Santa Barbara, CA.Oracle Cloud/Fusion ERP and Kronos WorkForce Central implementations. • 9 month, start-to-finish implementation. On time, in scope, under budget• Data migration from Legacy ERP system• HCM, Payroll, Finance, SCM (including RFSmart)• Coordinates governance & priorities with business divisions VPs and Executive Oversight Committee (COO, CIO, CFO, CHRO,.…)• On-going support, enhancements, quarterly upgrades.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

Accountable and responsible for the totality of the SDLC for Back Office applications in DLL’s US HQ (Key Stakeholders: Finance, Accounting, Operations). Leading a group of business analysts, DBA/Performance specialists, technical architects, contractors and 48 off-shore resources supporting DLL’s Oracle EBS projects, daily operations and system integrations, with notable focus on the financial modules. Waterfall and Agile SDLC methodologies.• US representative for the global DLL “Smart-Sourcing” (outsourcing) project, which resulted in a $2M annual saving in off-shore IT costs and better SLA definitions while improving support levels after contract negotiation.• Using Lean techniques, stabilized Oracle Apps Production performance and reliability - 200 net open tickets reduced to an average of 50.• Key leadership role in DLL’s 11i to R12 complex upgrade assessment (including TCO projections) for Oracle EBS. • Resource planning, business requirements thru design, development, test plan & execution, implementation & maintenance. Close coordination with QA team with a DevOps vision in mind.• Coordination of project activities with enterprise PMO group and worked in tandem with Enterprise Architecture.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

Led Applications Development and Web teams of 20+ internal developers, supplemented by 20+ off-shore resources.• Renegotiated with off-shore vendors (Java development) resulting in a year-over-year saving of 40% while increasing productivity and efficiency. • Responsible for Oracle Applications development group and Java development group dedicated to DLL’s ‘Beacon’ Project - a rejuvenation of DLL’s front and back office applications.• Developed plan for technical stack upgrade on home-grown Java application

Brea, California, Us

Led Applications Development and Web teams of 20+ internal developers and business analysts, supplemented by 30+ off-shore resources. Responsible for Oracle Applications (EBS) development group, Middleware group (TIBCO and Oracle SOA 11g) and the Web team (technical and business analysts). Fostered overall relationship and management of Beckman Coulter’s off-shore partners in India and improved cost-effectiveness.• Exposure to Oracle’s OBIEE BI platform• Provided contract negotiations with off-shore vendors ($5M/year). Reduced off-shore cost by 10% while increasing overall off-shore headcount and productivity. SLA performance management for off-shore vendors.• Oversaw and delegated the E-commerce corporate Web redesign project.• Initiated prioritization process with Oracle business analyst group; reduced wasted development effort by 40%.• Initiated Oracle EBS development tracking metrics – improved internal and off-shore developer productivity by 20-25%; simplified and standardized the SDLC process and kept compliance with SOX and FDA regulations.

Brea, California, Us

Led a team of 30+ Business Analysts (US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, India) across a spectrum of applications and services focusing on Oracle E-Business Suite (ERP) and CRM support, enhancements and major projects. Covered Financial, Quote to Cash, After-Sales Service, Warehousing, Transportation, Global Reporting and Data Management and web/ecommerce.Business Relationship Management: worked directly with multiple business unit VPs to advise and participate in IT resource investment to achieve corporate goals; championed and assisted business process change while simplifying overall IT environment by leveraging Oracle EBS. Managed Asia-Pacific IT Deskside support team.• Established SLAs for Oracle EBS worldwide availability, reported out to business on a monthly basis.• In collaboration with the VP of ‘Quote to Cash’, initiated and followed through on a series of efforts to standardize and ‘internationalize’ Q2C processes. • Kicked off an Oracle EBS ‘vanilla-ization’ initiative in conjunction with the business in order to replace custom-built extensions with out-of-the-box Oracle functionality.• Alongside the Sales VP, selected, negotiated, extended and implemented a new sales commission SaaS package that saved $500K/year in administration processes, improved accuracy of payouts and morale of sales force.

Brea, California, Us

Managed a team of 23 covering IT Application (Oracle EBS) and Infrastructure support and projects for Asia-Pacific region (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Taiwan). Planned and executed Business Process Change management in coordination with the implementation of Oracle Applications ERP across the Asia-Pacific subsidiaries.• Put together the Asia-Pacific Oracle EBS support/projects team with team members in Australia and Hong Kong.• Program managed the implementation of Oracle EBS in Asia-Pac subsidiaries.• ‘Professionalized’ the IT support structure in the China branch offices.• Instrumental in supporting the China’s growth through the setting up of new company branches.

Brea, California, Us

Responsibilities and Achievements:• Managing a team of 20-25 IT application developers, project managers and trainers. • Planning for and implementation of major in-house developed software in all international resale subsidiaries• Managing the CRM/Service Technical team on Beckman-Coulter’s Oracle Apps (11.5.5, 11.58, 11.5.10) rollout in Europe• Project Management Office representation for the company’s global Oracle EBS program

Brea, California, Us

Programmer, then Analyst, then Project Lead (5-8 people) of legacy Cobol applications used in Beckman Coulter's international subsidiaries.