IT Systems Projects
- Project Accounting & Control System Development. Project manager for development of a project accounting and control system, used by Engineering and IS for tracking and financial reporting of company capital projects. Designed the entire system. (Bose)
- Global Product Coding System. Led a President sponsored project for the planning and implementation of a worldwide product coding and manufacturing part numbering system. Project Manager. Reduced from 12 different global coding systems to 1 code for sales and distribution integrated and cross-referenced to a finished goods manufacturing part numbering system.
- Global Bar Coding System. Led a worldwide project implementing a bar code labeling and distribution system in six manufacturing plants and four distribution centers. Project Manager. (Bose)
- Banking Systems Development Mega Project. Designed 25% of a commercial loan servicing system for a large West Coast bank. Led a 15-person sub-team on a 2 yr+ 150 person consulting engagement. Designed purchased packages and all past due processing. Also defined and set up the project’s Systems Testing environment. (Far West Federal Bank)
- Systems Implementation Crisis Recovery Project . Managed the successful recovery of a large ” runaway” ERP systems development project for an East Coast beverage distributor. Cognos Sales & Distribution System. Assigned to the project after the customer threatened legal action. Project Manager. (Accenture /United Liquors)
- SAP Systems Change Management and Process Engineering. Project Manager for a large SAP ERP Implementation across the 3 largest U.S. divisions of the company. Served as the process reengineering ‘guru’ providing leadership and process expertise to reengineering teams while also leading the organization design/ change management team and sitting on the Executive Steering Committee. Received a President’s Award in 1996 for efforts in leading a large multi-year SAP implementation across three of Bose largest U.S. divisions.
- Insurance Process Engineering and Change Management. Harvard RMF/CRICO systems upgrade project. Process Engineering and Change Management Director for a 4 year project to upgrade all major business systems in the company. Strategic planning alignment, executive surveys, Organizational Change Management Education, Current state process decomposition, requirements identification, make vs buy analysis, underwriting software search. (Harvard Risk Management Foundation / Controlled Risk Insurance Company)
- IT Function Start Up-Tokyo. Planned and Initiated an I/S Dept for a Japanese sales, marketing & distribution subsidiary in Tokyo. Project Manager. Planned data center and systems, hardware negotiations and acquisition, software business requirements and implementation partner selection, IT personnel. 10 months in Tokyo. Became conversational in Japanese. (Bose)
- Subsidiaries Computer Systems Upgrade Project. Project manager for the purchase and implementation of replacement computer hardware in 8 European countries. (Bose)
IT Planning Projects
- Apparel Designer Technology Plan. Created a comprehensive technology plan for a large retailer and multinational producer of fashion apparel operating in MA and Singapore. Focused on Integrating design and production between MA and Singapore. Project Manager. (MAST Industries, The Limited Group)
- New Company Technology Plan. Planned the I/S function for a Fortune 500 divestiture (new company start up) with multinational operations. Scope included a new HQ & business operations center, 4 manufacturing plants, 2 data centers & migration of data from GTE’s main data center. (Challenger Electrical Equipment Corporation)
- IT Strategic Planning & Budgeting. Project manager and facilitator for annual IT strategic planning with corporate IT whereby vision, mission and purpose were defined as well as strategic plans over a multi-year horizon with annual plans for the current budget cycle. The same business units repeated the planning cycle in subsequent years. (Bose)
- Subsidiaries IT Strategic Planning & Budgeting. Project manager and international coordinator for annual IT strategic planning including capital and expense budget preparation with European and Asia Pac subsidiaries. The same business units repeated the planning cycle in subsequent years. (Bose)
- ERP Software Cost benefit analysis. Assisted a high tech engineering and manufacturing company with an ERP software system cost benefit analysis. Worked for the President and CFO. Project Manager. (Dover Instruments)
Other IT Projects
While there is often overlap, such as when organizational change and process consulting are all part of one effort, the following were all IT projects.
- Oracle Sales Business Development. Oracle Exadata Project (Database machine). Business Pre-sales lead for Oracle’s only N. American Exadata Task Force. Business role in Development of marketing plan, detailed value proposition, go to market presentations, customer sales conferences and initial pre-sales engagements to the Capital Markets. Developed bake off technical and financial comparisons with competitive products including Neteeza, IBM and Teradata.
- Oracle Sales Business Development. Developer of Oracle’s Financial Master Calculator. An ROI financial tool used by Oracle N. America to develop business case financial models in support of multi year licensing agreements and negotiations. Developed significant new versions of Master Calculator, taught use of the tool and proved the value of the tool in increasing sales revenue and communicating ROI value effectively with C Level decision makers. Integrated the tool with Crystal Ball for ‘Monte Carlo’ simulations.
- Oracle Sales Business Development. Developer of Oracle’s Unlimited Licensing Agreement Value Assessment Calculator. A financial tool that quantified value received from an existing Oracle agreement. The tool provided customers with an assessment of how much $ value they were receiving from their Oracle license vs expectations, the products adoption rate vs deployment norms and recommendations for improving value received. Developed the calculator, the engagement process and value proposal for marketing to CIOs. This product was a win-win for both Oracle and their customers.
- Oracle Sales Business Development. “Next Generation Oracle Solution Architect Toolbox” Project. Led a project to analyse and evaluate 147 technology and financial tools used by Solution Architects and Insight Program Directors in Oracle’s North American Technology Organization during the Pre-Sales process. Scope included all of Oracle’s database and middleware products. The project included identification of missing tool gaps, tool ratings and recommendations for upgrades and end of life decisions.
- Banking Systems Improvement. Worked with numerous banks including Douglas National, New Hampshire Savings and Bank of Newport to conduct IT planning, operations audits and resolve operations and process issues.
- Bar Coding, Product Coding & Product Tracking Manual. Wrote a comprehensive Bar Code Manual, primarily for use in Europe, explaining product codes, bar code labels, how to correctly read serial numbers and set up product tracking systems. (Bose)
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