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Business / Financial Systems Analyst

Broad IT experience performing System Engineering and Project Management on Financial applications including a Financial Data Warehouse, a General Ledger and Costing & Billing systems. Technical training includes Project Management graduate certificates for Software development in preparation for PMI certification and some SAP/ERP software training. Solid experience with MS Office applications, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access and MS Project.

Professional Experience

IT Business Manager, Marketing & Sales Applications Development Department

Created and managed 25+ million dollar annual budget by monitoring and reconciling the monthly and quarterly expense reporting. Reconciliation included payments made to various vendors and service contractors based on people and performance of contracted work. Supported our finance organization partner by providing internal expense projections based on headcount and vendor/service contract expense outlook projections.

Business Solutions Manager, Service Provider Network Unit -CFOs

Managed the implementation of the Material Only Costing initiative in the costing and billing legacy applications by Project Managing the development changes and software releases for the affected applications.

Supported the international reporting issues for the Finance and Project Accounting organizations for applications deployed outside the US by reviewing, analyzing and prioritizing the Customer Requests. Oversaw the Deployments and Releases of an internally developed internationally used G/L package as non-US countries were brought on-line.

Supported Cash Management initiatives by assuring the development of an international billing application enhancements, EDI Invoicing through the Internet and a new international A/R visibility tool.

System Engineer and Project Managment - Financial Data Warehouse

Developed the system requirements with customers and development staff to build an integrated suite of financial reporting tools in Powerbuilder environment from JAD participation sessions. Negotiated all of the data feeds for this platform by specifying data element and formats requirements as well as Service Level agreements for their delivery.

Negotiated with customers to develop and manage project plan and detail timelines. These details was maintained in a Maintenance Release MR priority listing that was created in Access. Supported the release of these changes by coordinating User Acceptance Testing on end to end basis which included developing test plans, scripts and performing system testing.

Interfaced with other applications on the same platform, DBA group, management, other internal suppliers of information to the financial data warehouse to support the release of data feeds to downstream recipients.

Consultant - Analyst
Analysis and Design Team - General Ledger

Supported corporate accounting requirements and Business Units requests for two major releases of data element code conversions by developing requirement specifications using text, report layout and screen design. Supported the implementation of these changes by conducting user training of all new functionality and providing on-going support after their implementation with users nationwide

Supported the implementation and release of an improved security sub-system and prepared the system user guide. Implemenation required gathering screen access requirements, establishing security profiles and providing training to coordinators. Following implementation, requirements were gathered for the development of enhancements on this sub-sytem.

Special assignments included acting as the system representative to the Data Conversion referenced above team working committee and assignment to the task force for generating the original/initial cost estimates for an internally developed distributed General Ledger package.

MBA - Management
Fairleigh Dickinson University

BA - Business Administration
Grove City College

Masters Certificate - Program for High Potential Managers
Georgia Institute of Technology

Masters Certificate - Project Management for Software Leadership
Masters Certificate - Professional Program Management
Stevens Insitute