Joel Vander Weele

Current

Performance Advisor at Parson Consulting

Past

Senior Manager - Corporate Performance Management at WHITTMANHART, INC
Principal Consultant at Cognos Corporation
Senior System Consultant at Brio Software, Inc.

Consultant at CSC
Consultant/Instructor at Baan USA, Inc.
Senior Consultant at Geo. S. Olive and Co, LLC
Consultant/Partner at Great Plains Software

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Education

Loyola University of Chicago
Calvin College

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Management Consulting

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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 2008 — Present (5 months)
Senior Manager - Corporate Performance Management

WHITTMANHART, INC

(Management Consulting industry)

June 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Principal Consultant

Cognos Corporation

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

July 2002 — June 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)

2000 — 2002 (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)

1998 — 2000 (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)

1997 — 1998 (1 year)
Senior Consultant

Geo. S. Olive and Co, LLC

(Partnership; 201-500 employees; Accounting industry)

April 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 7 months)
Consultant/Partner

Great Plains Software

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years)