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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL

Client Focused, Complex Application Development, Global Distribution Systems

Highly experienced member of business teams possessing extensive knowledge in developing

information technology applications for core business processes in a global automotive company.

Demonstrated ability to flex between team leadership and contributing member at all points in the system

life cycle. Strengths include ability to translate business requirements, business processes and problems

into workable solutions that decrease costs and improve business process functionality.

Core Competencies

• • Collaborative •

Gather and Synthesize Coordinate Complex

Requirements Projects

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Problem Analysis Deployment Project Planning

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Vehicle Distribution Design Development Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRELUDE SYSTEMS - GENERAL MOTORS ACCOUNT, Detroit, MI

August 2010 to May 2012

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Provide GM business knowledge to project teams to incorporate new business requirements of lean

inventory processes into existing order management applications.

Optimal Retail Inventory (ORI) (2010-2012)

Directed Hewlett Packard development team to alter the sales planning and allocation application to

provide twice monthly processing of the current monthly business processes to GM and its dealers.

• Obtained requirements from GM Vehicle Order Management (VOM) business organization to

incorporate the twice monthly functionality into the current application enabling dealers to

receive the vehicles required to accomplish their sales objectives.

• Developed project plans for the design, development, testing and implementation phases of the

project to enable General Motors, Capgemini and Hewlett Packard to successfully deploy the

ORI project.

• Created project deliverables for the GM System Delivery Process (SDP). Deliverables included

business requirements, system requirements, use cases, user inter-face design documents,

System Design Document (SDD), system test plans, deployment (implementation) plans and

test data for system and user acceptance testing.

• Executed test cases, test plan and batch cycle for system testing of the Sales Planning and

Allocation (SPA) application. Created and verified test data for the test plan of SPA as well as

for other vendors.

• Executed SPA batch cycle, created and verified data for GM User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Environment - Unix, Ingres, C/C++, Unix Utilities, Unix Shell scripts, Perl Scripts, SQL, Visual

Basic, Windows XP, VPN, Virtual Room, Quality Center, Borland Star Team, FTP

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ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS - GENERAL MOTORS ACCOUNT, Detroit, MI

January 1996 to April 2009

INFORMATION SPECIALIST SENIOR

Responsible for the development and implementation of General Motors (GM) applications which

successfully created common order processing functionality used by North American dealers.

Recognized as a subject matter expert for the North American vehicle order processing business processes

of General Motors.

Order WorkBench (OWB) (February 2003 – April 2009)

Led development teams for the development of a web based order processing application that

replaced the Vehicle Order Management application. Primarily responsible for the sales planning and

forecasting functional processes to provide dealers an accurate process to submit vehicle allocation

forecasts to GM

• Coordinated global development project activities with multiple organizations and vendors to

deliver projects successfully on schedule.

• Obtained requirements from GM business organizations, GM IT organizations, dealers and

vendors to develop effective business processes that improved customer quality and decreased

the amount of time for dealers to do business with GM.

• Developed project plans for the design, development, testing and implementation phases of

projects for migrating the GM of Canada, Saturn, Saab and North American International

Product Center organizations from legacy applications to the OWB application.

• Created deliverables for the project consisting of system requirements, user inter-face design

documents, technical design documents, system test plans, deployment (implementation) plans

and test data for system and user acceptance testing.

• Created and executed unit test cases for OWB development. Created unit test data for all vendors

on the project.

• Executed test cases, test plan and batch cycle for system testing for the OWB application.

Created and verified test data for the test plan of OWB for all vendors.

• Executed the SPA batch cycle, created and verified data for GM User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Environment - Unix, Oracle, Ingres, DB2, Perl Scripts, SQL, Java, Java Servlets, JSP, VPN,

Virtual Room, Quality Center, Borland Star Team, FTP

Vehicle Order Management (VOM) (January 1996 – January 2003)

Led development teams to create a client server based common vehicle order processing application

used by all GM North American dealers. VOM replaced the divisional legacy applications

significantly reducing the operational costs for order processing for GM by eliminating redundant

processing and improving quality.

• Developed the Sales Planning and Allocation (SPA) client server based application that

replaced the divisional applications.

• Developed the Reconsensus and Web Online Consensus (WOC) web based applications that

replaced manual processes to enabled dealers to enter information online reducing the

processing time from several days to a few minutes and greatly improving accuracy and user

satisfaction.

• Developed the startup and planning, staffing, project development and testing schedule, and

project plan.

• Managed team assignments and customer relation activities.

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• Created the business requirements, system requirements, user inter-face design documents,

technical design documents, system test plans, deployment (implementation) plans and test

data for system and user acceptance testing.

• Created and executed unit test cases for the SPA, WOC and Reconsensus applications. Created

unit test data for all applications of the project.

• Executed test cases, test plan and batch cycle for system testing for the SPA, WOC and

Reconsensus applications. Created and verified test data for the test plan of the SPA

application.

• Executed the SPA batch cycle, created and verified data for GM User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Environment - Unix, Oracle, Ingres, DB2, Perl Scripts, SQL, Java, Java Servlets, JSP, VPN,

Virtual Room, Quality Center, Borland Star Team, FTP, C/C++, Unix Utilities, Unix Shell

scripts, Perl Scripts, SQL, Visual Basic, Windows XP, Dreamweaver

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Science

Morehead State University, Morehead, KY

Associates of Applied Science in Computer Science

Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH

TRAINING

Client Server Skills Enhancement Development Program, EDS

Leader’s Internship Development Program, EDS

Java Program Development, Sun Educational Services

SKILLS

Programming Languages C, C++, Visual Basic, SQL

Web Java, Java Servlets, JSP, JDBC

Operating Systems Unix (Sun Solaris)

Databases DB2, Ingres, Oracle

Software Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft

Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft NetMeeting, DbVisualizer,

Hewlett Packard Virtual Room

Borland StarTeam, SharePoint, HP Quality Center

Source Configuration

Management Tools:

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Software Delivery Process 21 (SDP21), Waterfall, Software

Methodologies

Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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