President at LobaTek Incorporated
Lansing, Michigan Area
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- IT & Business Intelligence Analyst at LobaTek Incorporated
- President at LobaTek Incorporated
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- Business Objects Administrator at Michigan Electric Transmission Company
- Finance Manager at Vanguard USA, Inc.
- Assistant to the President at ERIM - Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
- Education
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- U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security & FEMA
- West Virginia University
- West Liberty State College
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Sharon Baller’s Summary
Summary of Qualifications
• Exceptional technical and functional experience in MIS Accounting, Budgeting, HR & program management, SRC Business Objects Planning and Centerview Corda financial dashboards with data from Microsoft Great Plains accounting systems (7.5 years)
• Executive-level organization leadership & management, commercial, government, and non-profits
• Extensive experience in government regulatory compliance
• Finance and Accounting systems, analysis, upgrades, data migrations, reporting
• FRx Reports development
• Design tools in support of the administrative, accounting, and budget functions and learning solutions (specialty: forensic accounting)
• Web development, e-commerce promotion and tracking
• Broad scope organizational change, technical workforce training & information systems
• Developed CD/web-based applications to train small firms operating in complex, government regulatory environments
• College-level instructor, Computer Information Systems, ten years experience
Technical Summary
Centerview 3.1 Corda 7.0
Great Plains *
Oracle
SQL
Access
FRx vs. 6.7
MS Office Suite
MS PowerPoint
MS Outlook
MS Project
MS Excel
Business Objects SRC
Quickbooks Pro 2008
Accounting
Web Development
XML
Adobe Photoshop
Business Intelligence
Visio
Lotus Notes
Government Reporting
Sharepoint Server
Sharon Baller’s Specialties:
Large Scale Program Management ($20M)
*Microsoft Dynamics GP - Great Plains- and Business Intelligence-specific Projects
Sharon Baller’s Experience
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IT & Business Intelligence Analyst
LobaTek Incorporated
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — Present (12 years 7 months)
For ReCellular Incorporated, 10/2008 to 2/2009:
• Set up user requirements for an executive business intelligence dashboard using Great Plains 9.0, SQL 2000 data warehouse, and Centerview Corda for actual dashboard prototype build. Conducted the analysis of key top management users’ key performance indicators (KPIs) to include in the prototype dashboard. Designed a system’s approach for rollout of the enterprise-wide dashboards. Using FRx 6.7, worked with the CFO and Controller to build 2009 financial statements by Business Unit and Product Line. Utilized Sharepoint Server to log and store all doc sets for the project. -
President
LobaTek Incorporated
(Information Services industry)
December 1996 — Present (12 years 8 months)
• Special projects in accounting, income tax (individual or corporate), financial/technical contract and program management, grant writing, government regulatory compliance risk assessment and reporting, technical writing, web tech support for small businesses since 1996. Clients included Fasco Motors, Flagstar Bank, Equine Dentistry, Autism Society of Michigan, Excaliber Personnel, Lansing Community College, GO BREW, Redbud Farms, Brian Connally & Partners Advertising Agency.
• Worked 25 years w/IRS rules and regulations for accounting and individual and corporate income tax.
Software tools: MS FrontPage, SubmitWolf, StatCounter, RocketSales, Just Add Promotion software, Quickbooks Pro 2007 job costing (15 years)
Kendall Microtech Inc., Stockbridge, MI, 07/2007 - present. Accounting system set up for this small edm wireguide manufacturer. Monthly maintenance of the books, management of corporate income tax filings, payroll and federal and state tax reports. Technical and accounting training and troubleshooting. Software tools: QuickBooks Pro 2007. -
Business Objects Administrator
Michigan Electric Transmission Company
(Utilities industry)
May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)
For Michigan Electric Transmission Company:
• Maintenance of SRC, a Business Objects strategic planning database budgeting tool with an Excel front-end, utilized by METC to guide or manage construction work in progress, operations and maintenance, strategic planning, annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, performance evaluation (budget to actual monthly project costs) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reporting -
Finance Manager
Vanguard USA, Inc.
(Consumer Goods industry)
May 2000 — February 2005 (4 years 10 months)
• Directed a successful Great Plains accounting & MIS systems conversion from DOS-based Great Plains to MS Dynamics and MaxData Barcode Inventory system, reducing inventory shrinkage from 12 to 2% variance from the annual physical count.
• Worked with Vanguard’s CPA to move from an annual physical count to a weekly count and perpetually tracked inventory system valued at over $3,000,000. Variances decreased to under 2% with the new system processes.
• Working with strong support of the Chinese absentee owner, implemented Vanguard’s first sales and expense budgeting process.
• 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. Utilizing FRx, created new P&L reports for the three divisions -
Assistant to the President
ERIM - Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
(Defense & Space industry)
January 1987 — August 1994 (7 years 8 months)
• Provided executive-level computer and technical support and one-on-one training.
• Served as chief architect of the technical workforce training project CoNDUIT.
• Extensive experience in government regulatory contract compliance and dual-use technology or technology transfer
• Bid & Proposal compilation and resource planning.
• Worked on business development targeting workforce training grants offered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other departments of the federal government.
• Built a virtual enterprise of 26 organizations/subcontractors to bid a $20,000,000 Request for Proposal out of DARPA.
• The team won the proposal bid; however, the prime contractor had to be a manufacturing entity so moved to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to manage the overall program and project details of contract performance.
Software tools: ORACLE 7, SQL-Calc, proprietary Resource Planning System
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) Ann Arbor, MI, 01/87 - 07/93, Senior Systems Analyst & Accountant. Worked with the Assistant Controller on all aspects of defense contracts management.
• Served as interface between the Accounting and MIS Departments.
• Created and formalized ERIM’s first corporate-wide workforce training function.
• Designed traditional and web-based corporate training modules.
• Wrote accounting end-user computing documentation and technical reports.
Software tools: ORACLE 7, SQL-Calc SQL query builder, SQR reports, SQLforms and screen design, proprietary Resource Planning System for project planning, cost control and management, Microsoft Suite of tools, Lotus Notes, Coordinator office workflow system , Mass11 document management
Sharon Baller’s Education
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U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security & FEMA
Homeland Security 2007 — 2007
Training received 2007:
Training: Essentials of Zoning, Municipal Planning, and Site Review Creation and Evaluation
US Dept. of Homeland Security, National Incident Management System – Earned four Federal Emergency Management Association Certifications.
"IS-00800.A" entitled "National Response Plan (NRP), an Introduction, (ICS 00800.A) "
"IS-00200" entitled "ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents, (ICS 00200)"
"IS-00100" entitled "Introduction to the Incident Command System, (ICS 00100)"
“IS-00700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction, (ICS 00700)” -
West Virginia University
1985 — 1987
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West Liberty State College
B.S. , Business Admin - Accounting , 1983 — 1985
Additional Information
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Sharon Baller’s Interests:
Books: The Next 100 Years, by George Friedman (global current event and ecomonic analysis) Jawbreaker - The Hunt for Osama bin Laden, by Gary Berntsen (CIA special operations in Afghanistan after 9/11) Killer Elite by Michael Smith Making a Killing, by Captain James Ashcroft (hired gun in Iraq) Licensed to Kill, by Robert Young Pelton (hired guns in the war on terror) Inside Delta Force, by Eric Haney Out of the Ashes and Fire in the Ashes, 2 books by William W. Johnstone (what would happen in the event of a nuclear incident in the U.S.) Term Limits, by Vince Flynn (wo/men on a mission to set aside partisan politics and restore the power to the people, and no action is off limits) Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell (Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of Seal Team 10) Music: Nickelback, Guns & Roses, My Chemical Romance, Celtic Thunder, Enya, hymns from the Lutheran Book of Worship Movies: One Flew Over the Coo-Coo's Nest, As Good As It Gets, Dream Team, The Awakening
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.
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