Senior Technical Specialist,The Revere Group
Greater Nashville Area
Senior Technical Specialist,The Revere Group
Greater Nashville Area
MIS Executive
- Planned and directed all aspects of management information systems. Researched, evaluated, tested and selected the necessary hardware and software needed to achieve the goals of the organizations. Demonstrated expertise in a variety of industries. Possess deep functional and technical experience, knowledge, and skills. PMP Certified.
• Over 11 years’ leadership experience in ERP systems.
• Solid understanding of technology platforms, budgets and vendor management.
• Directed the application of IT for Financial, HR, Payroll and Supply Chain systems.
• Demonstrated ability to implement effective solutions to business problems.
• Effectively communicate complex messages to audiences at all organization levels
• PMP Certified
• IBM Certified Specialist AIX
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 2003 — January 2008 (4 years 8 months)
Help develop the corporate IT strategic plan. Provide planning, consultation and advisory services on system development to other departments. Research, evaluate, and lead proposals that require high level of specific technical expertise. Prepare forecast for IT spending and annual budget. Keep abreast of new developments in ERP computing. Direct the continual upgrading of the applications and systems. Lawson, Kronos, API, MHC. Tivoli Storage Manager. Websphere.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CHS; Apparel & Fashion industry)
March 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 4 months)
Enhance the functionality of ERP packages and their business application to designated division. Initiate & execute research, scope definition, feasibility studies and documentation of alternative solutions to complex business problems. Establish and maintain open and continuous communications between user departments and MIS. Lawson, STS, NSB, Manhattan, PKMS.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
January 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for providing technical leadership to the Lawson application development team. Prepare program specifications and use cases. Provide project management expertise. Prepare and submit project artifacts - budgets, statements of work, project plans and status reports. Mentor application development team. Serve as Upgrade Project Manager. Applications include 7.2.x, 8.0.x Financials, HR/Payroll, Procurement and Distribution Suites. SEA Portal Oracle UNIX
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; MPS; Management Consulting industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Responsible for installing, upgrading and maintaining ERP software. Lawson, Peoplesoft, Oracle. Provide custom programming per client needs. Develop use case documents. Provide project management functions as needed. Prepare status reports and executive summaries. Lawson, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Ceridian, ADP, Siebel.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DCEL; Telecommunications industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Responsible for all aspects of Lawson software implementation including acquisitions of hardware, third party software, staffing the project, reporting progress to the executive team and training the project team. Lawson, ADP.
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
Responsible for leading technical team supporting the infrastructure on a Lawson software implementation. UNIX, Oracle, Sun. Shell scripting
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CHKR; Restaurants industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Responsible for programming Micro-Focus Cobol. System administration Lawson Software, HP-UX, Sybase. Shell Scripting. Supporting automated payroll processes producing 10,000 plus payroll checks per week. Cyborg.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NGC; Mining & Metals industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
Programmer for Lawson Software. Assisted with project planning for Lawson 5.x to 6.1 upgrade. Served as primary support person for HR/PR programming needs which were extensive due to union contracts.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years)
Responsible for recruiting and staffing. Submitting all personnel change paperwork to corporate. Implementation of KRONOS time clock system. Investigation of sexual harassment complaints. Liaison with state employment agencies and unemployment compensation dispositions.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Human Resources industry)
1978 — 1993 (15 years)
Human Resource Manager. Personnel Administrator. Career Guidance Classifier - 2612. Career Counselor. Navy Achievement Medal (2) Good Conduct Medal (3) Navy Expeditionary Medal (2) Expert Marksman. Surface Warfare Qualified. Aviation Warfare Qualified.
BS, MIS/Business Administration, 1991 — 1993
CERTIFICATE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, Millard Fillmore College, Buffalo, New York 1993
AS, Industiral Management Technology, 1990 — 1991
Participated in Vision 2000 Leadership Planning conference as a student representative.
Security Professional Skills Boot Camp, Formal, 2/05
General Ledger and Attribute Matrix, Formal, 4/02
Accounts Payable, Formal, 4/02
Cash Ledger, Formal, 4/02
General Ledger Report Writer, Formal, 5/02
Cost Allocations, Formal, 5/02
Flexible Budgeting, Formal, 5/02
Invoice Matching, Formal, 5/02
Purchase Order, Requisitions and Inventory Control, Formal, 5/02
Accounts Receivable, Formal, 5/02
Billing, Formal, 5/02
Strategic Ledger, Formal, 6/02
Enterprise Budgeting, Formal, 6/02
eScorecard, Formal, 6/02
Analytics, Formal, 6/02
Hyperion Pillar/Enterprise Budgeting, Formal, 12/02
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Human Resources Setup, Formal, 4/98
Personnel Administration, Formal, 4/98
Benefits Processing, Formal, 5/98
Payroll Processing, Formal, 5/98
Advanced Payroll and Time Accrual, Formal, 5/98
Human Resource Suite Functional Reporting, Formal, 8/98, 6/02
Uploading Personnel Actions, WBT, 5/05
Web-Based Self-Service, Webinar, 6/05
Employee and Manager Self-Service Troubleshooting, WBT, 8/05
Implementing Employee & Manager Self-Service, Formal, 8/05
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Universe Administration for UNIX, Formal, 8/96
Case Tool, Formal, 9/96
4GL Tool, Formal, 8/97
Application Development Workbench Tools, Formal, 9/97
Design Studio, Formal, 6/98, 1/03
Process Flow Professional, Formal, 10/02
Enterprise Reporting, Formal, 6/02
Add-Ins for Microsoft Office Tips, WBT, 2/04
Introduction to Human Resources Conversions, WBT, 2/04
Unix/NT Application Upgrade 7-8.X , Formal, 3/04
Introduction to Reporting Suite, WBT, 8/04
Introduction to OLAP, WBT, 8/04
Introduction to Portal 3.0 Administration, WBT, 8/04
Advanced Portal Administration, WBT, 5/05
Landmark: Vision for Simplicity, Webinar, 6/05
Life Cycle Management, Webinar, 7/05
Technology Maintenance Tools, Webinar, 9/05
8.1.0 Technology Implementation, Webinar, 9/05
UNIX Technical Foundations, 9.0, Formal, 1/07
Lawson Admin for UNIX LSF 9.0, Formal, 1/07
Laswson LSF9.0 Installation and Migration, Formal, 4/08
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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, Formal 9/98
Oracle Database Fundamentals, Formal 10/98
Oracle Backup and Recovery, Formal 10/98
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Sed, Grep and Awk, Formal, 10/97
Korn Shell Programming, Formal, 10/97
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HR Services Delivery Forum, San Diego, 2003
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The Disney Approach to People Management, 2/94
Lawson versions 5.x, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0. Lawson HR/Payroll, Financials, Procurement and Distribution modules. Employee/Manager Self-Service, Requisition Self-Service, Business Component Integrator (BCI), Mercator. Design Studio. BSI Tax Factory. Upgrade, implementation, conversion, migration. Custom programming, 4GL, MS Add-ins. Websphere, iPlanet, Netscape, Apache, Tomkat, IIS, UNIX, Korn, Borne and C Shell Scripting, ORACLE, Sybase, LADB, Informix, dBase, Access, SQL, PL/SQL, Toad. LDAP, Kronos, API and TC-1 time and attendance systems. API Time and Attendance Software. MHC Check/Form printing software. Process Flow, Enterprise Reporting, MS Add-Ins. NSB Sales Audit Software. STS Connected Retailer merchandising software. Cyborg, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Ceridian, ADP. HPUX. AIX. PMP Certified.
Software Contractors' Guild
PMI
PMP Certified.
IBM Certified Specialist AIX.
Lawson Certified: Lawson Systems Foundation (LSF 9.0) Administration, UNIX
Lawson Certified: Lawson Systems Foundation (LSF 9.0) Installation, UNIX
Lawson Certified: Lawson Systems Foundation (LSF 9.0) Migration, UNIX