Application Production Support Manager
• Responsible for production support of Ariba supply chain software with annual purchase rate of $750M in pharmaceutical, capital, start-up leasing and office supply purchases, resulting near 100% uptime, enabling Kaiser to transact successfully with 100 catalog suppliers• Managed teams of up to 10 full-time employees and 6 offshore contractors with 100% retention of subordinate team members• Acknowledged by team members for mentoring and helpful performance reviews • Achieved the 5/5 exceptional level and numerous above-average performance reviews• Responsibility expanded to include management and production support of general ledger and interactive voice-response systems• Authored, reviewed, approved and implemented technical change requests to accurately implement changes in the complex application environment per change management policies and procedures resulting in 100% business continuity• Coordinated activities across multiple functional teams to resolve issues in systems and interfaces, provide upgrades, produce audit or activity reports• Exceeded target completion date by one month for successfully decommissioning Ariba and 4 other supply chain and e-procurement systems made obsolete by KP's move to PeopleSoft