Andy Groves

Current

• Receivables Solution Architect R12 at Al Habtoor Leighton Group

Past

• Oracle Applications Systems and Process analyst at CMA CGM
• Principal Solutions Architect at Dako
• Principal Management Consultant at Reed Elsevier

• Principal Management Consultant at CMA CGM
• Principal Architect at MTU Detroit Diesel
• Principal Functional Consultant at Medtronic
• Principal Functional Consultant at Hutchison 3G
• Principal Functional/Technical Consultant at Capital & Coast District Health Board
• Functional/Technical Consultant at GE Commercial Finance
• Functional/Technical Consultant at Coventry Group
• Functional/Technical Consultant at GE Commercial Finance
• Functional/Technical Consultant at GE Commercial Finance
• Functional/Technical Consultant at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
• Principal Functional Consultant at British Telecom
• Principal Functional Consultant at Synventive Molding Solutions
• Principal Functional Consultant/Project Manager at Eurostrada S.P.A
• Principal Functional Consultant at Interoute Telecommunications (UK) Ltd
• Principal Functional Consultant at RiboTargets (UK) Ltd
• Principal Functional Consultant at OmniSky
• Principal Functional Consultant at Bosnia I Herzegovina - Federal Government
• Principal Functional Consultant at Auckland Healthcare
• Principal Functional Consultant at Manpower Services Australia
• Principal Functional Consultant/Project Manager at Australian Hearing
• Principal Functional Consultant at Boral Construction Materials Group
• Principal Functional Consultant at South Sydney City Council
• Principal Consultant at Paambernam Waferfab Malaysia Sdn Bhd
• Principal Functional Consultant at Moyne Shire Council
• Functional Consultant at La Trobe Shire Council
• Functional Consultant at Ballarat City Council
• Functional Consultant at RSL Communications

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• Vaquita Australia

Andy Groves’s Summary

Oracle Applications and Management Consultant for 15 years

15 years experience at 29 Companies, through 11 Industries in 13 Countries.

Helpful, friendly and approachable. Willing to go the extra mile for my clients.

(Japanese/English)

Mechanical Engineer

Primary skills in;

Primary skills in Business Process Management, Asset Financial Management, Collections/Receipting and Cash Management, Supply, Material Management, Project based costing/cost management, Service Execution and Depot Repair, Core Accounting and Financials.

Project and team management of culturally and geographically diverse teams.

Oracle Skill Summary:
- Hands-on Functional and Technical Oracle Applications consultant
- Help my clients to reach their goals through the wise use of processes, systems and people
- Business systems improvement, processes recovery and correction experience
- Contract Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment experience
- Large Global Shared Service (LGSS) specialist with “Big 4” experience
- Multinational Project Management
- Extensive experience with Oracle Applications versions 10.7, 11.0.3, 11i and R12

Andy Groves’s Experience

• Receivables Solution Architect R12

  Al Habtoor Leighton Group

  (Privately Held; Construction industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Solutions Architect for Construction Industry client.
  Oracle Release 12
  
  Current Location: Sydney, Australia
  
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  Languages: Japanese/English
  
  Available Locations:
  - Japan
  - Australia
  - United Kingdom
  - Western Europe
  
  Availability Date: September 1st, 2009

• Oracle Applications Systems and Process analyst

  CMA CGM

  (Privately Held; Maritime industry)

  April 2009 — May 2009 (2 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Tokyo, Japan
  
  One year after their implementation of Oracle Applications, CMA-CGM needed an Oracle Receivables expert, familiar with the shipping industry to assist in the analysis and rectification of the unapplied cash.
  
  My role was to analyze historical unapplied cash, making suggestions to expedite the closure of open items and also to make process and system improvements that would ensure tight cash operations going forward.

• Principal Solutions Architect

  Dako

  (Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)

  September 2008 — March 2009 (7 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Tokyo, Japan
  
  As part of their multi-national, multi-year rollout of Oracle Applications including Finance, Manufacturing, Distribution and Inventory, Dako needed a Japanese speaking Oracle Applications Functional Consultant and change management expert to be on the ground in Tokyo as part of the rollout team.
  
  My role was to design and implement workable solutions so that the Japanese entity could join the global implementation.

• Principal Management Consultant

  Reed Elsevier

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; REL; Publishing industry)

  May 2008 — September 2008 (5 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Tokyo, Japan
  
  1 year into their global rollout of Oracle Applications, Elsevier needed a Japanese speaking Oracle Applications expert to act as both an applications expert in developing the Accounts Receivable/Fixed Assets solutions for Japan and also as a bridge between the other non-Japanese consultants and the Japanese client.
  
  My role was to develop solutions in alignment with Japanese fiscal regulations, the business needs and the user requirements.

• Principal Management Consultant

  CMA CGM

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Maritime industry)

  February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)

  Language: Japanese
  Location: Tokyo, Japan
  
  4 Years into their global rollout of Oracle Applications, CMA-CGM needed a Japanese speaking Oracle Applications expert to train their Japanese users in Japanese.
  
  My role was to train users in the use of Oracle Applications and the LARA booking and invoicing system.

• Principal Architect

  MTU Detroit Diesel

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Automotive industry)

  December 2007 — December 2007 (1 month)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  After 7 months of analysis in their complete ERP/MRP systems replacement implementation, MTU-DDA decided to hire an independent solutions architect in their core business area of Product Servicing Execution to examine solutions proposed by their implementation partner for usability, effectiveness and business goal alignment.
  
  My role was to analyse and create solutions in Release 12 of Oracle Depot Repair, Work in Process, Install Base and Knowledge Management. Key in the design was leverage of Oracle HVR and Bulk Receiving.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Medtronic

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MDT; Medical Devices industry)

  July 2007 — November 2007 (5 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Neuchatel, Switzerland
  
  Kyphon Inc, a global medical devices company decided to implement Oracle Applications in their global operations from their manufacturing plant in Neuchatel Switzerland.
  
  As part of the international team, my role was to;
  - implement Oracle Assets and International Cash handling operations for Europe
  - implement all Oracle Applications modules in Japan
  - derive a product taxation solution for all product flows in Europe

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Hutchison 3G

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2007 — June 2007 (3 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  During the implementation of the Product Servicing project, an initiative to use Oracle CRM to handle mobile phone service and repair, Hutchison were interested in hiring a contractor to undertake the training of the organization both via face-to-face and electronic programs.
  
  My role was toanalyze the solution and build training programs for 3000 personnel.
  
  As Hutchision had some critical requirements that were not easily built into the standard Oracle Applications functionality, Hutchison also asked me to perform a quality and review role of the project.

• Principal Functional/Technical Consultant

  Capital & Coast District Health Board

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Wellington, New Zealand
  
  Capital and Coast suffered some resourcing issues in their Materials Management stream and were looking for an experienced consultant to lead the Materials Management area for the implementation of the critical supply chain function.

• Functional/Technical Consultant

  GE Commercial Finance

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Financial Services industry)

  December 2005 — September 2006 (10 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Tokyo, Japan
  
  The GE businesses in Japan, as a result of the business analysis activities I conducted in 2004, decided to upgrade their existing Oracle Applications instance from 11.0.3 to 11.5.10.
  With the global move to a shared service model, the upgrade became a re-implementation. GE needed a multi-lingual consultant to be part of the Melbourne based implementation team permanently on the ground in Japan to assist the business in the technology and culture change to Oracle Applications. The main focus of this role was implementation of Fixed Assets for Japanese statutory compliance, using the Oracle Japan, Oracle Application Option Pack for production of the Japanese Shinkokusho and Beppyou16 reports.

• Functional/Technical Consultant

  Coventry Group

  (Automotive industry)

  July 2005 — December 2005 (6 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Perth, Australia
  
  Coventry’s, at the beginning of their multi-year rollout needed an experienced Oracle Applications expert to lead the software implementation for their Financials. With 170 branches around Australia, focused on local cost and margin management, Coventry Group Limited needed a management consultant to lead not only implementing Oracle but providing unique financial management solutions to a geographically diverse user and management base.

• Functional/Technical Consultant

  GE Commercial Finance

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Financial Services industry)

  February 2005 — April 2005 (3 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Toyko, Japan
  
  GE Consumer Finance Japan, in preparation for their 2005 Oracle Applications upgrade to 11i decided to gain some quick wins with the business by implementing Oracle Project Costing for cost tracking and capitalization. Being a multi-lingual company, the project required English/Japanese/Oracle skills to implement the global initiatives into the Japanese business.

• Functional/Technical Consultant

  GE Commercial Finance

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Financial Services industry)

  May 2004 — January 2005 (9 months)

  Language: Japanese/English
  Location: Tokyo, Japan
  
  GE Consumer Finance Japan, undergoing huge business expansion needed expert local Japanese speaking Oracle Applications support for their operations. At the same time, the “Global Simplification” project required English/Japanese/Oracle skills to implement the global initiatives into the Japanese business.

• Functional/Technical Consultant

  Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PFE; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  September 2003 — May 2004 (9 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Dublin, Ireland
  
  Pfizer Pharmaceuticals conducting their huge global rollout during 2003/2004, encountered a requirement for experience in handling huge volumes of conversion data. A functional-technical hybrid role was created for the purpose of defining/managing and testing of the conversion processes and the creation and management of a reconciliation process for the excessive volumes of data.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  British Telecom

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)

  Language: English
  Location: London, United Kingdom
  
  British Telecom commenced the global design and rollout of their 11i Oracle Applications solution in 2001. After a comprehensive design phase BT required additional trouble shooting expertise for their Project Accounting and Procure to Pay swim-lanes. My role is to provide multi-module design validation and quality, implement with the global team Oracle Project Accounting, to implement functionality changes using the new Oracle JRAD Personalization and to validate the end-to-end design. Huge volumes were a major factor in this implementation.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Synventive Molding Solutions

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Plastics industry)

  November 2002 — May 2003 (7 months)

  Language: German/English
  Location: Frankfurt, Germany
  
  Synventive Molding Solutions, after attempting to implement a Project Manufacturing solution for a year unsuccessfully, decided to hire independent contractor consultants with Industry experience to prove the full manufacturing and supply chain solution. My role was to implement Oracle Project Accounting (Costing and Billing) as the driver for project based manufacturing integrating to Oracle Project Manufacturing, Oracle Work in Progress, Oracle Sales and Oracle Order Management. Project Accounting was used for cost collection and inter-company billing and as a custom planning solution for workload management across the engineering organizations. Synventive is a multi-national manufacturer of injection molding equipment.

• Principal Functional Consultant/Project Manager

  Eurostrada S.P.A

  (Telecommunications industry)

  January 2002 — November 2002 (11 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Rome, Italy
  
  Interoute Telecommunications, after implementing Oracle Applications in 9 countries during the latter half of 2001, needed specialist advice and Oracle expertise in rolling out their implementation to the Italian subsidiary for the complexities of Italian Accounting and business process. My role was to implement Oracle Financials for both the procure-to-pay process for goods and services management and the order-to-cash process.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Interoute Telecommunications (UK) Ltd

  (Telecommunications industry)

  July 2001 — January 2002 (7 months)

  Language: English
  Location: London, United Kingdom
  
  Interoute Telecommunications chose Oracle Applications in January 2001 to meet their needs in Western Europe for their primarily asset construction business and global financial consolidation. During the latter 6 months of 2001, my role was to implement Oracle Financials asset management and project based costing for the organization to ensure the correct management of the work-in-progress and asset capitalisations.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  RiboTargets (UK) Ltd

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  September 2001 — September 2001 (1 month)

  Language: English
  Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
  
  RiboTargets, a small Cambridge based Biotech company required a short review of their 1999 Oracle Applications implementation, some report writing and an estimate for business process re-engineering and system change to keep pace with their changing business.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  OmniSky

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; OMNY; Wireless industry)

  January 2001 — July 2001 (7 months)

  Language: English
  Location: London, United Kingdom
  
  This small telecommunications start-up provided connectivity services for hand-held wireless devices such as Palm and Compaq PIMS. With a small amount of inventory and offices across the major countries in Western Europe and Japan, my role was to implement the Oracle Financials procure-to-pay process, the order-to-cash process, and full management/fiscal accounting as the only functional consultant.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Bosnia I Herzegovina - Federal Government

  (Government Administration industry)

  April 2001 — April 2001 (1 month)

  Language: English
  Location: Banja Luka, Boznia I Herzegovina
  
  The United States Government organization, USAID sponsored by the US Treasury, and the UN, implemented Oracle Applications for financial control and audit-ability in Bosnia I Herzegovina at the state and federal level. My role was to advise the US Department of Treasury on converting domestic and foreign monetary policy into technology solutions. This included the Oracle Supply Chain suite for full national and state purchasing and inventory management.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Auckland Healthcare

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  June 2000 — December 2000 (7 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Auckland, New Zealand
  
  Auckland HealthCare is a semi-autonomous government authority in New Zealand managing all health product and service delivery in the Kiwi capital. With 7 hospitals and 100 theatres, 8000 requisitioning staff, 400 Inventory locations, 9 Docks and 2 Warehouses, a full Procure to Pay solution was my responsibility during this role.
  
  Due to the criticality of a successful material management process, public, ministerial and community review was part of this implementation.
  
  I was required to develop with the doctors, nurses, purchasing team and the cost management group, a flaw free technology solution to major supply chain material costs and logistics inefficiencies and conflicts. Oracle Internet Procurement, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Bills of Material and Oracle Order Management, Bar Coding and automated inventory replenishment were implemented and integrated via EDI to suppliers and customers for a total solution.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Manpower Services Australia

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MAN; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 2000 — June 2000 (6 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  Manpower, an international recruitment agent, successful in the Australian market and part of a large international organization, needed a better system for the management of their finances. My role was to implement the basic procurement and project costing solution while also managing the overall technical delivery of the project for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

• Principal Functional Consultant/Project Manager

  Australian Hearing

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — February 2000 (2 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  AHS, a semi-autonomous government authority, this Sydney based Hearing Services organization required a review of their 1999 Oracle Applications implementation and an estimate for business process re-engineering and system changes for budget management. My role was to propose a technical solution for the rollout of Oracle Financial Analyzer and business process re-engineering in the 65 retail locations around Sydney which was later delivered by their implementation partners.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Boral Construction Materials Group

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Building Materials industry)

  December 1999 — December 1999 (1 month)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  Boral, one of Australia’s largest companies, conducts retail operations across the whole country, accepting credit card transactions, cash and personal cheques for the delivery of construction materials.
  
  The receivables operation was not coping with the volume and variety of credit extended to customers and the Oracle solution for Treasury was not being used successfully. My role was to conduct a full review and implement approved changes into the Oracle environment for streamlining the business and technology for dealing with Customer Debt.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  South Sydney City Council

  (Government Administration industry)

  August 1999 — December 1999 (5 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  The last in the series of Local Government Implementations, my role was to implement Oracle technical solutions for the management and control of capital and operational expenditure along with a Project based costing solution SSCC chose the Oracle Supply Chain suite for this.
  Severe organisational rejection of their previous system required a confident team to implement a successful first time solution and sell the solution internally to the organisation.

• Principal Consultant

  Paambernam Waferfab Malaysia Sdn Bhd

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1999 — November 1999 (2 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Penang, Malaysia
  
  A new manufacturing company in Malaysia, Paambernam chose Oracle Applications for the management of their Procurement and Financials. My role was to review the implementation, quality, conduct user training and acceptance of the system.

• Principal Functional Consultant

  Moyne Shire Council

  (Government Administration industry)

  July 1999 — August 1999 (2 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Victoria, Australia
  
  Third in the series of Local Government Implementations, my role was to oversee and advise the implementation team implementing the Oracle technical solutions at Moyne Shire Council while implementing Oracle Applications at LaTrobe Shire Council. The solution was for the management and control of capital and operational expenditure along with a project based costing solution. SSCC chose the Oracle Applications suite for this.

• Functional Consultant

  La Trobe Shire Council

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)

  May 1999 — July 1999 (3 months)

  Second in the series of Local Government Implementations, my role was to implement Oracle Applications and to oversee and advise the implementation team implementing the Oracle technical solutions. The solution was for the management and control of capital and operational expenditure along with a project based costing solution.

• Functional Consultant

  Ballarat City Council

  (Government Administration industry)

  January 1999 — April 1999 (4 months)

  Language: English
  Location: Ballarat, Australia
  
  First in the series of Local Government Implementations, my role was to implement Oracle Applications. The solution was for the management and control of capital and operational expenditure along with a project based costing solution.

• Functional Consultant

  RSL Communications

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  December 1998 — December 1998 (1 month)

  Language: English
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  
  A small to medium sized Australian Telecommunications company, RSLCOM primarily sold air-time to other companies, household users and phone cards in a retail environment. My role was to implement Oracle Discoverer as the technology platform for the management of organizational KPIs. Taking Oracle system data and merging with sales and air-time data from disparate systems a KPI matrix was formed and used as the basis for bonus and employee incentives.

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