Small Business IT Consultant, LobaTek Incorporated
Lansing, Michigan Area
- Current
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- IT & Financial Consultant at LobaTek Incorporated
- Owner at LobaTek Incorporated
- Past
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- Finance Manager at Vanguard USA, Inc.
- Education
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- West Virginia University
- West Liberty State College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Services
- Websites
Sharon Baller’s Summary
My goal is to expand my small business clients on www.lobatek.com and to continue finding meaningful contract work. -- SRB
Technical Summary
Oracle
SQL
Access
Crystal Reports
Great Plains
FRX
MS Office Suite
MS PowerPoint
MS Outlook
MS Project
MS Excel
Business Objects SRC
Quickbooks Pro
Web Development
XML
Adobe Photoshop
ASP.Net
Visio
Lotus Notes
Certifications:
US Dept. of Homeland Security, National Incident Management System – Federal Emergency Management Association Certifications Sept’07
Program Management
* Large scale (to $20,000,000) technical information systems & workforce training projects
* Delivered a "How to" book - "100 Insights on Virtual Team Management" - for the U.S. Dept. of Energy
Accounting, Budget & Finance
* Monthly financial statements & spreadsheets, including budget to actuals, using Business Objects SRC budget software
* Cash management
* Accrual and cash basis accounting
* Inventory management to $3M;
* General ledger account reconciliation and management, closings
* Accounting, multi-state payroll processing, HR, MIS, and administrative & staff management
* Directed a successful accounting & MIS systems conversion from DOS-based Great Plains to Great Plains Dynamics and e-Commerce
* Restructured the chart of accounts to map corporate re-organization into profit centers/divisions and modified FRX reports to produce financial statements reflective of bottom line division performance
Technical Writing/Web Content Development
* Webmaster for www.redbudfarms.com (MS FrontPage), internet storefront (10 years) and www.lobatek.com
* Expanded web presence w/SEO toolkit
* Designed traditional and web-based corporate training modules; wrote accounting end-user computing documentation and technical reports (15 years)
Sharon Baller’s Specialties:
•Budget & Accounting, MIS, and Human Resources
•Executive-level organization leadership & management
•Extensive experience in government regulatory contract compliance
•Design tools for staff and small business finance functions and learning solutions (i.e, forensic accounting analysis).
•12 years of experience in web development, e-commerce
•Broad scope organizational change, technical workforce training
•College-level instructor, Computer Information Systems with ten years experience.
Sharon Baller’s Experience
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IT & Financial Consultant
LobaTek Incorporated
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — Present (11 years 5 months)
• Budget, Finance & Accounting, MIS, and Human Resources & benefits management experience, including the use of SRC Business Objects Planning
• Executive-level organization leadership & management, commercial, government, and non-profit sectors.
• Extensive experience in government regulatory contract compliance
• Crystal Reports development and implementation.
• Design tools for staff and small business in support of the administrative, accounting, budget and finance functions and learning solutions (specialty: forensic accounting analysis).
• 12 years of experience in web development, e-commerce
• Broad scope organizational change, technical workforce training & information systems Program Management for federal & state government entities.
• Developed CD/web-based applications to train small firms operating in complex, government regulatory environments.
• College-level instructor, Computer Information Systems with ten years experience. -
Owner
LobaTek Incorporated
(Privately Held; Information Services industry)
December 1996 — Present (11 years 6 months)
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Finance Manager
Vanguard USA, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
May 2000 — February 2005 (4 years 10 months)
Sharon Baller’s Education
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West Virginia University
1985 — 1987
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West Liberty State College
B.S., Business Admin - Accounting, 1983 — 1985
Additional Information
Sharon Baller’s Websites:
Sharon Baller’s Interests:
Sharon Loves: Grandchildren, Family, building webs, e-commerce, little dogs, big Zinnias, reading bedtime stories, shopping, decorating, travel, Phytotherapy & Horticulture as therapy Heroes:My daughter Teachers: Jesus, Native American Indian life, my Ancestors, James Redfield, Clarissa Pincola Estes, Thomas Moore (soul man), Fairies & Angels Books: Anything by Redfield (Celestine Prophecy), Women Who Run with the Wolves (Clarissa Pincola Estes), CHAOS by James Gleick, anything by Thomas Moore (particularly The Reinchantment of Everyday Life), Horse Sense for People by Monty Roberts. Music: Enya, Kevin Kerns, Secret Gardens, hymns from the Lutheran Book of Worship, Bach, Mozart, Pachabel, oldies from the 50's - 80's. Movies: Nanny McPhee, One Flew Over the Coo-Coo's Nest, As Good As It Gets, Dream Team, The Awakening - essentially anything about mental health and evolution done with humor and sensitivity. Goals To become more intuitive & self-sufficient
Sharon Baller’s Groups:
Stockbridge Lions Club
Sharon Baller’s Honors:
Sharon serves as webmaster and content developer for their current events and small business website at http://www.lobatek.com and her online catalog business, Van Dyke Zinnias @ Redbud Farms, found today at http://www.redbudfarms.com/. From 1993-1996, Ms. Baller served as project manager of a consortium that worked to accelerate workforce learning through the use of multimedia, digital libraries, simulation, and Internet technologies. Her Passions are Poochies & Gardening. She proclaims herself a Zinnia Fanatic and Wildish Woman.
Sharon Baller’s Contact Settings
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- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
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