Project Manager

Colin Katz

** ******** ****

East Brunswick, NJ *8816

Phone 201-***-**** (C)

E-mail **********@*****.***

Summary of

Qualificat Project Management (PMO) ERP Implementations

ions Advisory Services Sales and Marketing Assistance

Business Consulting Design of Internal Controls

Employment Proactive and results-oriented project manager offering 11 years

Objective of experience in software development with 7 years focused on

project management. Comprehensive knowledge of wide array of

software development tools and techniques, combined with

outstanding managerial and problem solving skills.

Profession 2005 - Present KPMG LLP

al Manager Advisory Services

Experience Project Management

Works directly with stakeholders to understand project

initiatives.

Takes assigned project from original concept through final

implementation.

Defines project scope and objectives.

Creates and maintains project schedules by developing project

plans and specifications, estimating time requirements,

establishing deadlines, monitoring milestone completion, tracking

all phases of the project product/service lifecycle, providing

timely reporting of issues that impact project progress,

coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts. This includes

documenting, prioritizing and tracking requests (changes,

enhancements, etc.)

Conducts project meetings.

Meets with project team(s) regularly to review project

deliverables and deadlines.

Meets with appropriate personnel for periodic reviews of

prototypes and final products.

Provides single point of contact for assigned projects.

Coordinates interaction and communication among users and the

technologists.

Identifies and coordinates assignments of internal resources and

external contractors to meet project requirements.

Works with appropriate personnel to allocate personnel time to

project tasks and to track progress of their work.

Assesses and prepares to address the operational impacts,

workflow, training, etc. issues of a project.

Conduct timely and quality project PMO reviews according to

current project review processes, procedures and deliverables,

and review activities (Schedule, Conduct, Report, Follow Up and

Close).

Develop and market advisory services for Oracle (R12 & R11) and

PeopleSoft (9 & 8) client base, including Internal Controls

Transformation, Pre and Post Implementation (GL, AP, AR, AM, PO

Projects, T&E, Payroll etc.) Reviews, Project Monitoring, and

Quality Assurance.

Access and evaluate client's automated controls.

Develop QA test plans, strategies and organization.

Advise our clients how to standardize their implementations,

Devise a project delivery standard from the teachings of Martin,

DeMarco and SDLC methodologies, Six Sigma methodologies, just to

name a few of our sources.

Managed, advised and directed implementation and installation of

Oracle and / or PeopleSoft applications / modules (financials and

HRMS) at leading financial services companies.

Supervised, advised and administered implementation and

installation of PeopleSoft HRMS modules at a leading

pharmaceutical company.

Directed, advised and supervised implementation and installation

of PeopleSoft Financials modules at a major local state

government.

Advised on installation of PeopleSoft Financials to sink up with

PeopleSoft HRMS at a major local state government.

Managed a number of Information Technology process, control

documentation, and testing engagements.

Advise client senior management and end users on ERP operational

controls and security design at application, database, and

infrastructure levels.

2004 - 2005

BearingPoint.

Production / Implementation Manager

Manage a multi-talented team of PeopleSoft and Oracle

Applications in a three tiered support model to provide

application management services to client.

Provide Managed Services, PeopleSoft Applications, Oracle

Applications and Gelco technical and functional mentoring to

support personnel, and business advisory/analysis for client.

Co-ordinate the use of Microsoft products (Sharepoint, Word,

Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, MS.Net, Projects) and dashboarding, BI

and report analysis.

Ensure resolution of all trouble tickets, while managing to

maintain/exceed service level agreement metrics for client.

Analyze client's environments to find and implement improvements

to reduce trouble ticket volumes, resolve chronic problems,

maximize customer satisfaction, and move work/tasks to lower cost

resources.

Manage clients' applications landscape, ensuring the health of

the applications and databases meets service level metrics.

2000-2004 IMU

Consultant

Peoplesoft 8x financials implementation applications consultant

at an international insurance company. Evaluated, assess and

recommend the Billing and Receivable setup and customization.

Researched and resolved setup configuration and interface issues

between external inputs, Billing, Receivables and internal output

requirements. Documented the issues, provided customer data for

the product, received information from the customizations and

review payment information from the client's legacy system. Large

Insurance Company.

Oracle 11i financials and HRMS implementation project manger at

an international provider of travel and real estate services.

Full project life cycle while working closely with users. Manage,

plan and coordinate project team, assist with the financial and

technical management, provide budget input. Project delivered on

time and within budget. Manage, direct and educate 20+ team

members. Arrange for Oracle to conduct training on premises.

Send users for Oracle training at Oracle. Large Conglomerate.

Oracle 11i financials business analyst at an international

brokerage house. Develop functional specifications, communicate

with users, manage workstreams, comply with best practices and be

involved in quality assurance. Work closely with a

multidimensional teams (information specialist, RUP, business

managers, applications owners and developers). Liaison to

internal functional groups. Investment House.

Supply Chain Management analyst for a process flows consulting

organization. Evaluate process flows and analysis, finished

goods, BOM, component consumption and usage, route accuracy and

manufacturing process. Reset ERP system to utilize its full

capacity. Reduce environmental waste. Environment Group.

1996-2000 Oracle Corporation / PeopleSoft

Inc.

Consultant/Specialist

Evaluated, researched and recommended on Oracle General Ledger,

Payables, Purchasing, Inventory, Projects and Assets at RCN (long

distance and local Telecommunications Company). Part of an audit

team assembled by Coopers & Lybrand (Price Waterhouse Coopers) to

evaluate the installation and basic implementation of the Oracle

modules by a third party vendor, TSC. Evaluated, researched and

made recommendations solving business requirement issues.

Tailored, implemented and installed Oracle Purchasing at the FAA

and its national sites. Investigated, reviewed, and mapped the

Federal Aviation Administration's Statement of work,

customizations and interfaces to Oracle Purchasing. Researched,

mapped and designed the interfaces from the legacy accounting and

logistics systems to the Oracle Purchasing. Resolved integration

issues of the links to Oracle General Ledger, Payables and

Inventory modules. Planned for future additions of modules

currently not installed. Developed project plan using AIM.

Developed, wrote training course and advised development at HQ -

Center of Excellence, on Oracle EDI. Worked closely with EDI

Development to advised them on client needs and to assist in the

development of courseware on upcoming features. Explained

business and industry needs to development, so that they could

create a product that closer fit their requirements. Developed,

wrote and taught Oracle EDI Gateway course for consultants.

Evaluated, adjusted and streamlined the Peoplesoft GL and AR

setup for a global technology management services leader.

Researched & resolved setup configuration and interface issues

between AR and GL requirements. Documented the setup, provided

customer data to a 3rd party product, received billing

information from 3rd party product and received payment

information from the client's legacy system. Verified that the

interface feeds complied with PeopleSoft's Interface Requirements

and resolved interface issues. Knowledge of all aspects of

Peoplesoft AR and GL were essential for the success of the

project.

Defined, compiled and prepared business requirements for

PeopleSoft AR, Billing, GL and AP modules at a national

advertising company. Configured the clients system as a vanilla

implementation, tested it, helped client resolve conversion

issues related to the customer / client file, vendor file, COA

and historic records of both vendors and customers. Made security

and backup recommendations. Knowledge of all aspects of

Peoplesoft AR, Billing, GL & AP essential to the success of the

project. Assisted with project management

Installed, setup, implemented PeopleSoft Insurance Administration

and Billing modules for a leading Insurance Company. Supported

GL, AP and AR modules interfacing to IA. Research & resolution

setup, interface and customization conflicts. Verified and

implemented interface. Used Query, Crystal and PeopleTools to

write and add reports to IA. Customized and Documented IA.

Knowledge of all aspects of Peoplesoft Insurance Administration,

GL, AP and AR were essential for the success of the project.

1995 - 1996 Coopers &

Lybrand PLC

Management Consultant

Coordinating system testing and transition of ORACLE Financials

for a major printing inks manufacturer. Developed and

implemented data cleansing procedures to ensure successful

conversion clean data. Worked with client staff to ensure smooth

transition to new operating procedures.

Designing procedure framework for implementation and operation of

ORACLE Financials at large integrated Oil / Gas / Energy Company.

Coordinated procedural development work of 30-member project

team.

Developing "world-class" expertise in ORACLE Financials Inventory

module. Was responsible for quality review of all Inventory

related proposals, including interfacing with Electronic Commerce

infrastructure.

Customizing SUMMIT*D, C&L's proprietary methodology for use in

implementing ORACLE Financials.

Installing and maintaining ORACLE Financials and Database

software on in-house and client servers.

Profession 1993 - 1995 NYNEX Science

al & Technology

Experience Senior Business Analyst

Business Analyst at NYNEX Science & Technology to design,

customize and implement a custom Materials Management system.

Developed requirements for hand-held device to read bar codes

from inventory and download to central server via phone lines.

1991-1993 United

Parcel Service

EDI Manager

Responsible for the Full Life Cycle implementation of EDI for a

Materials Management System. Developed and reduced inventory

levels, storage levels and costs. Established user requirements,

and identified appropriate transaction sets.

1984-1991

Accountant

Certificat Project Management Leadership Group, Information Technology

ions and Certified Project Manager

Awards PeopleSoft Education, Application Certification.

Oracle University, Oracle Masters Certificate, Oracle Application

Implementations.

Bernard M. Baruch College, M.S. Computer Information Systems.

Bernard M. Baruch College, B.B.A. Public Accounting. Minors in

Mathematics and Statistics.

Technical Oracle: ORACLE Masters Certificate, ORACLE Financials (GL, ADI,

Skills AP, AR, FA, EDI, Projects, PO, Flexfields, System Administration,

Inv), Discoverer, AIM, HRMS.PeopleSoft - Functional.: Bootcamp &

GL, AR, BI, FA, AP, IA, INV, budgeting Projects; EPM- Enterprise

Warehouse, Analytical Applications for Fin Institutions; HRMS

Technical.: Bootcamp PeopleTools, PS/nVision, PeopleCode, SQR,

Query, Crystal, OLAP, Workflow, Essbase, WEBclient, Process

Scheduler and Config.

Other Software: Microsoft - (Windows, Projects, Office, Word,

Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Access) RUP, Lotus Notes, Lotus 1-2-3,

ACT, Gentran Plus (EDI), Trading Partner (EDI), Project

Workbench, WinFaxPro, Check It Pro, Ordernet, Q&A, Word Perfect,

Quick Books,

Programming: SQL*Plus, Cobol, Basic, Fortran, GPSS V, Pascal,

PL1, QicBasic

Hardware: Client Server, IBM PC's (Pentium), 3090, 4381, AMDAHL,

DEC - MicroVAX 3100; VAX 6210 Cluster, Apple Macintosh, Ethernet,

Silicon Graphic

Methodologies: SDLC, Six Sigma AIM, SUMMIT*D, DeMarco, James

Martin, SDS, JIT.

References Available upon request

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