Dallas Pesola

Current

• Founder/Owner at NYpickup.com
• Videographer/Shooter at Freelance

Past

• Implementation Consultant at Worldchain
• Associate Product Manager at Converge
• Project Manager at IBM

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Education

• Northern Michigan University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Dallas Pesola’s Summary

Jack of all...a "go to" guy who spent years working in various flavors of enterprise level B2B, supplychain and eCommerce software development as a project manager, business process analyst and product development management.

Dallas Pesola’s Specialties:

project management, business system and process analysis, requirements gathering, implementation, training and support.

Dallas Pesola’s Experience

• Implementation Consultant

  Worldchain

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  October 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 4 months)

  Contracted by WorldChain, Inc. to assist with the implementation of their Network Inventory and Order Management solution.
  
  * Facilitated customer requirements gathering and business process decomposition
  * Documented process flow as related to business requirements and system interactions.
  * Managed supplier readiness communications, issues and training
  * Project Team liaison between Product Management, Product Development, Data Center and Customer
  * Documented Quality Assurance test cases
  * Managed Quality Assurance testing and User Acceptance Testing
  * Conducted “super user” training sessions

• Associate Product Manager

  Converge

  (Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Co-managed the definition, design and development of a multi-enterprise order management solution that enables procurement organizations to electronically transact and collaborate with their supply chain on a full suite of business documents, from purchase orders through invoicing.
  
  * Supervised the documentation of functional specifications, use cases and process flows
  * Accountable for decisions on product features, functionally, XML data mapping and user interface design
  * Produced product prototype for customer demonstrations and internal education sessions
  * Key contributor to the creation of marketing collateral, sales materials, and product demonstrations
  * Evaluated potential software providers and participated in contract reviews and negotiations
  * Managed relationship with software partner, ensuring adherence to statement of work and contract terms
  * Conducted solution overview and Q&A sessions with sales and support organizations
  * Supervised quality assurance test case creation and execution
  * Defined enabling process for web based small to mid-size supply chain partners

• Project Manager

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1994 — October 2000 (6 years 5 months)

  Development Project Manager (1998-2000)
  
  Responsible for managing the implementation of and enhancements to the Forms Exchange Web-EDI solution for IBM Global Procurement in support of their worldwide e-Procurement strategic initiative.
  
  * Conducted requirements gathering and design review sessions with business and technical representatives from North America, Latin America, Europe and Australia
  * Directed team resources involved in the sizing, design and coding of the solution
  * Prioritized enhancement change requests to deliver maximum results with the most efficient utilization of resources
  * Project managed global teams through successful testing and production implementation of enhancements
  
  Enabling Project Manager (1997-1999)
  
  Managed supplier and customer EDI enablement programs for corporations whose industries included apparel, manufacturing, automotive, retail, banking, communications, electronics and information technology
  
  * Achieved milestone of enabling 12,000+ IBM e-Procurement suppliers globally by contributing to over half of the worldwide goal
  * Increased enabling productivity while maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction
  * Managed business partner relationships for solution support
  * Coordinated helpdesk resources to provide solution support for Latin American customers
  * Received patent for joint development of enabling process and tool
  
  Enabling Team Leader (1994-1997)
  
  Assisted IBM Global Service’s customers with the implementation of electronic commerce programs by providing technical enabling support.
  
  * Managed methodology and workload of multiple concurrent enabling programs
  * Re-engineered processes to improve team efficiency and reduce cycle time
  * Participated in the development of integrated sales and enabling CRM solutions
  * Conducted EDI connectivity testing between customers on IBM’s EDI VAN and trading partners on various VANs

Dallas Pesola’s Education

• Northern Michigan University

  B.S. , Business and Computer Information Systems , 1987 — 1992