Joel Vander Weele

Performance Advisor at Parson Consulting

Greater Chicago Area

Current
Past
  • Senior Manager - Corporate Performance Management at WHITTMANHART, INC
  • Principal Consultant at Cognos Corporation
  • Senior System Consultant at Brio Software, Inc.
Education
  • Loyola University of Chicago
  • Calvin College
Connections
123 connections
Industry
Management Consulting
Websites

Joel Vander Weele’s Summary

A creative consulting professional with 15 years of experience assessing business requirements, managing business change, and designing innovative technology solutions.

Experienced Project Manager, Performance Management Systems Architect, and Consulting Practice Manager.

Joel Vander Weele’s Specialties:

Accounting, Business Intelligence, Brio, Cognos, Balanced Scorecard, Performance Management, CPA, CMA, ERP, Project Management, MBA

Consulting Practice Management and Solution offering design


Joel Vander Weele’s Experience

  • Performance Advisor

    Parson Consulting

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MCG; Management Consulting industry)

    July 2008Present (5 months)

  • Senior Manager - Corporate Performance Management

    WHITTMANHART, INC

    (Management Consulting industry)

    June 2005June 2008 (3 years 1 month)

  • Principal Consultant

    Cognos Corporation

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COGN; Management Consulting industry)

    July 2002June 2005 (3 years)

    Led implementations of Cognos Software, including financial reporting/consolidation, enterprise planning, scorecarding and business intelligence software for over 35 clients across North America.

    Participated in sales process for software and services, including client presentations, initial project plans, service cost estimates, and system design overviews.

    Prepared targeted demonstrations and training activities in ERP integration, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for internal Cognos audiences and Partners.

  • Senior System Consultant

    Brio Software, Inc.

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    20002002 (2 years)

    Brio Software was acquired by Hyperion in 2003.

    Successfully managed the technical sales process for 5 to15 active accounts simultaneously for a business intelligence and performance software vendor.

    Organized and Facilitated special customer support and knowledge transfer initiatives for strategic accounts, including Accenture, United Airlines, IBM and Motorola.

    Provided assistance and guidance to business partners and other regions regarding PeopleSoft and SAP implementations as a Financial Applications, Performance Management, and ERP sales specialist.

    Completed Proof of Concept Projects for clients in the hospitality, airline, manufacturing, professional services, financial services, utility, retail and higher education industries, across all major business processes and functions.

  • Consultant

    CSC

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

    19982000 (2 years)

    Spearheaded the design of an intranet based compensation planning application used successfully by 6,000 bank executives nationwide to make compensation recommendations for their direct reports.

    Designed and built databases, data Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) routines, and reports to support system integration, compensation analysis and data validation.

    Designed Intranet application to map the employee reporting relationships ensuring the proper collection and distribution of extremely confidential compensation information.

    Coordinated the efforts of 20 client procurement professionals on Year 2000 Vendor Certification Project for a large printing firm.

    Assessed the year 2000 readiness of over 130 mission critical suppliers through interviews and project reviews.

    Built Vendor Scorecard database to Communicate Supplier Readiness to Corporate Decision Makers.

    Developed Contingency Plans to deal with Supply Chain and Production Disruptions.

  • Consultant/Instructor

    Baan USA, Inc.

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    19971998 (1 year)

  • Senior Consultant

    Geo. S. Olive and Co, LLC

    (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Accounting industry)

    April 1996October 1997 (1 year 7 months)

  • Consultant/Partner

    Great Plains Software

    (Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

    19941997 (3 years)


Joel Vander Weele’s Education

  • Loyola University of Chicago

    MBA, Operations,Management, Ecommerce, IT, 19952003

  • Calvin College

    B.S., Accountancy, 19871993


Additional Information

Joel Vander Weele’s Websites:

Joel Vander Weele’s Groups:

AICPA, Institute of Management Accountants, APICS, Red Herring

  •    EPM - Business Intelligence
  •    Certified Management Accountant
  •    Business Intelligence Professionals
  •    ex-BaaN
  •    Business Analytics
  •    Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
  •    Calvin College Alumni and Friends
  •    Institute of Management Accountants (IMA®) Official Site
  •    Balanced Scorecard Practitioners Global Network
  •    Cognos Alumni
  •    IBM Cognos Planning Users
  •    Cognos Finance Professionals
  •    IMA - Chicago Chapter

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