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• Analyze business processes, determine business rules then create IT system functional requirements. Liaise among business experts and IT developers during system development and testing. Develop QlikView BI data models.
• MercuryGate TMS: Defined business requirements, worked with vendor on configuration, ETL of large data sets, tested with end users.
• Data Warehouse: Developed relationtional database requirements for storing XML data sources, advised off-shore developers, and coordinated testing.
• Document Management System: Reverse-engineered a legacy VB application, created functional requirements, advised developers, lead testing, trained users.
• QlikView BI: Developed dashboards to express new TMS data. Merged the new TMS data model with a legacy TMS data model.

• Analyzed growth, market share, profitability, and optimized logistics networks for truck and intermodal shipment modes. Improved visualization of complex data. Selected projects
• QlikView BI: Developed and implemented a self-service data dashboard that simplified and expanded access to company data.
• QlikView BI: Developed and implemented a dashboard for consuming external spreadsheets and presenting the data to improve capacity utilization.
• Sales Dashboard: Developed and implemented an Excel dashboard utilizing VBA and SQL to dynamically create charts and tables for customer presentations.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Directed sales and operation plan development for US facilities. Presented S&OP plans monthly to upper management. Managed a staff of up to 20 persons with a budget of $1.8 million. Selected projects
• S&OP Process: Implemented an optimizer, reduced plan development time 75%.
• Cash Flow: Improved cash flow by $8 million over 4 years by decreasing inventories 26% and rail fleet size 15% though analysis of data and rationalization.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Managed product life cycle process. Maintained product and pricing information. Resolved customer issues. Led two professional employees with a budget of $300,000. Developed management reports. Administered sales.
• SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer: Led design team.
• Pricing Errors: Reduced invoice errors 42% using automating pricing in SAP.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Webmaster for ArizonaChemical.com and primary Internet developer. Analyzed website use for Marketing. Developed electronic commerce applications. Supported SAP Production Planning implementation. Selected projects
• Implemented SAP Production Planning at 3 locations.
• Led a team designing and implementing the ArizonaChemical.com website.

Implemented SAP Production Planning at a specialty chemical company. Extracted and translated legacy quality management data for loading into SAP tables. Developed marketing collateral for SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Implemented SAP Production Planning at a paper manufacturer. SAP Production Planning design and configuration leader with responsibilities including project plan development, configuration, testing, automated test script development, training and start-up support.

Irving, Texas, US

Developed and presented sales and operations plans to Management. Managed paper chemical inventories. Managed by-product sales. Supervised contract manufacturers. Planned railcar shipments to Canadian locations. Supported production, and devised and implemented productivity improvements. Programmed process control computer systems.

St Paul, MN, US

Supported production, and devised and implemented productivity improvements. Programmed process control computer systems.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Masters, Business Administration