2002 - Present Ceridian Corporation (Broadview Hts, OH)
’02 District Vice President – Operations Manager
’03 Development Manager
Joined as Operations Manager for $7 million division of Ceridian Employer Services providing employee self-service applications. Corporate re-alignment eliminated the position, however, I was able to obtain a position as a development manager. I am currently seeking a position more aligned with my experience and skills.
As Operations Manager, I was responsible for:
· Development, Implementation and Support for Employee Self Service product
· Consulting practices for the organization.
· Business relationships with thirty separate district offices.
· Business process and development for implementation group
1999 – 2002 INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SERVICE, INC. (Cleveland, OH)
’01 Vice President of Technology
’99 VP, Chief Technology Officer – Benefit Management Group Division
Recruited to lead technology efforts of IISERVE’s $10M VC backed Automated Benefits Election business. I was responsible for strategic planning, system operations, building organizational and employee capabilities, and facilitating change. The position reported to the President and led a function of 18 IT professionals until the business was divested in Q2 2001. Major initiatives linked to the business strategy included:
· In the first 60 days we manifested a Corporate Change Control action team to monitor all system and application changes to all test and production environments.
· Procedure and policy development including: Security, Operations, Planning and Testing, and Developmental methodologies.
· Led production deployment of application including system hardware specification, procurement, delivery, setup and implementation within 90 days. Reduced project time by 18%; saving $75,000
· Implemented successful automated testing software facility for functional, regression and load testing. Decreased software testing time by 24%.
· Amended existing development model to incorporate scalable architecture to support a 60% increase in system utilization with no additional expenditures.
· Reduced system failures on production environments by 43%, resulting in a 7% increase in billable revenue over a 90-day period.
· Implemented an enterprise data model that instituted automated data feeds from 4 transactional systems to A/R; decreasing the cash cycle by 48%.
Upon the successful divestiture of the Benefit Management Group, I was asked to lead the overall IT group that provides ASP and Telephony candidate screening services to Fortune 1000 companies, processing over 10,000,000 qualified candidates annually. During divestiture discussions of the Benefits business, IISERVE had expressed an interest in divesting the remaining business and recommended that the COO I be given the challenge of positioning the remaining company for an exit strategy.
ORACLE CORPORATION, Raleigh, NC 01/99 to 10/99
Senior Consultant, State and Local Government
Provided consulting services to assist state and local government clients in the implementation of Oracle Financial Applications. Analyze client requirements and translate them into application specifications. Used Oracle's AIM methodology for applications implementations. Led participation in the analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of Oracle-based solutions. Key results included:
· Technical lead for the financials implementation team on the first worldwide implementation of Oracle Payroll on an OS/390 mainframe. Resolved 2 critical application issues returning the project to an on-time status.
· Responsible for quality of project deliverables as well as delivery (on-time and budget).
· Prepared and review project bids/proposals.
· Managed cost center expenses.
· Responsible for technical and functional staff development, including hiring, training and mentoring.
· Responsible for managing team members on client engagements as well as communication of project status to client executives.
BRANCH BANKING & TRUST, Wilson NC 6/97 to 6/98
Assistant Vice President – Client Server Solutions 11/97 to 6/98
Promoted to a developmental assignment as a chief technology advisor for new business strategies in the client server division. Provided consulting services to all bank Lines of Business regarding client server technology needs and requirements. Key accomplishments included:
· Functional lead on bank wide initiative for creating a data-warehouse for Customer banking activity. This application housed all customer activity throughout the bank. Realized a first quarter increase in cross-selling activity of 11.2%.
· Implemented a cost-reducing wire transfer system; $750,000 first year savings.
Technical Manager – Client Server Solutions 6/97 to 11/97
Recruited to create and manage a client server database services department during the organizations migration into Client Server Technologies. Responsible for staffing and overall technical/systems operation for this growing department. Key projects included:
· Developed a Client Server Database Services Department; grew department from 1 to 12 personnel supporting all bank activities during periods of high acquisition growth.
· Developed / Implemented Enterprise Wide Client/Server Database Standards, providing repeatable methods for integrating diverse systems into existing infrastructure.
STERIS CORPORATION, Mentor, OH 05/94 to 06/97
Oracle DBA 11/95 to 06/97
Led the corporate consolidation into a centralized Financials Package. Developed, tested and implemented new business solutions to enhance business efficiency. Project manager for conversion from legacy business systems. Enterprise-wide responsibility for Oracle Financials. Key accomplishments:
· Strong project management skills in creating an enterprise wide technical task force for transforming legacy systems into a successful ERP implementation process across four companies.
· Developed customized electronic solution import into Oracle A/R, reducing system conversion time by 5 weeks.
· Directed a comprehensive Data Warehouse/Data Mining initiative to leverage content in existing corporate databases and resulting in a field service department decrease in inventory management costs by 10%.
Applications Analyst 05/94 to 11/95
· Designed and implemented an application to allow international sales offices to track Customer invoicing and account activity supporting a growth in sales by 57% with no additional back-office staff requirements.
· Migrated a FoxPro based call management/engineer dispatching package to an Oracle based purchase solution (OpenUPTIMEä by Metrix, Inc). Tested, modified, and implemented direct interfaces to Oracle Financials, reducing engineer inventory overhead by 17.2% and increasing dispatch efficiency by 12.6%.
U.S. NAVY, Various Locations 09/82 to 03/93
Began my career in the U.S. Navy. As an Instructor (’86), taught naval personnel fundamental electronic theory as well as system troubleshooting. Promoted to Line Division Manager (’88) to lead 4 direct reports and 205 junior personnel in flight-line operations of the largest aircraft training squadron in the US Navy. I was accountable for all safety-of-flight inspections, servicing, and scheduling of flight activities. Mentored junior service members (avg. tenure < 15 months) into military life, operations, and professional development. As a senior military member for NAVAIR team in 1991,responsible for implementation, configuration of Naval Air Logistics Command Management Information System (NALCOMIS). This application provided workflow, supply chain, and related aircraft maintenance management for all scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on Naval aircraft.
Case Western Reserve University, Master of Business Administration, Cum Laude.
Mt. Olive College, Bachelor of Science, Management & Organizational Development, Summa Cum Laude.
Technical Summary
RDBMS: Oracle 6.x,7.x, 8.x, 9i, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5,7.0, 2000, Sybase
ERP: Oracle Financials, Metrix
Web: HTML, JavaScript, Perl, Oracle Application Server, Apache Webserver, Microsoft IIS
Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, LU6.2
Servers: SUN Enterprise 4500, IBM RS6000, HP9000, IBM S/390, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS 2000 |
