Douglas Kirk
Drive
Huntersville,
NC 28078
PH: 704-947-
0919
Email:
abikb1@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
The past 13 years of my career are indicative of my drive and capability at
exceeding expectations on any task that is presented to me. My history of
rapidly increasing responsibilities and roles within my current
organization is a direct result of my personal initiatives and ambitions.
The opportunities that I have earned have provided me with a broad and deep
functional background (manufacturing, customer service, procurement,
operational excellence) that accompany my technical aptitude to make me an
ideal resource for a wide range of IT Lead/Management positions.
EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS:
. MS Software Development and Management, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Dec 2005
. BS Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, May 1996
. Six Sigma Green Belt, July, 2001 (Six Sigma Qualtec)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
November 2002 - Present, IDEX Corporation
Manager, Business Intelligence (May 06 - Present)
Lead the Global Enterprise BI initiative; provide oversight on the Global
vision of shared services as it pertains to business intelligence; develop
and implement strategies for architecture and services to support
Commercial and Operational Excellence initiatives within the organization
. Architect data services and ETL processes to support various system
and process integration requirements;
. Manage the Enterprise Business Intelligence report development team;
. Responsible for management of additional hosted and consulting
services (budgeting, contract review, services agreements);
. Initiated organization of Business Intelligence Competency Center;
. Formalized Corporate standards for report development and
documentation processes;
. Provide technical and strategic expertise for various cross-
departmental projects, including:
o Corporate financial consolidation;
o Corporate strategic spend analysis;
o Developed various data integration strategies for Divisional
reporting.
. Lead infrastructure review with technical cross-departmental team to
provide continual improvement in services, up-time, and cost
reduction;
Manager, ERP System Development (Nov 2009 - Present)
Manage all Oracle EnterpriseOne development priorities; provide oversight
and technical review and support of process issues, data migration, data
integration services related to ERP systems; provide support and training
for ERP migration teams.
Application Development Lead (Nov 02 - May 06)
Provided management and development as part of the Global Information
Systems organization on projects related to Oracle EnterpriseOne and
associated third-party applications.
. Business Analyst/Project Manager for enterprise ERP Application
Integration projects (JAVA/XML/MQ Series);
. Project Manager/Developer for custom ERP applications
(Excess/Obsolete/Zero-moving (EOZ) inventory analysis, Auto cash
receipts processing, Sales bookings analysis, other custom
applications developed to improve user experience);
. Project/Implementation Manager of Crystal Reports/Crystal
Enterprise/Business Objects Enterprise XI;
. Led Enterprise report development, resource training, standards
development;
. Project Manager/Administrator/Developer for enterprise dashboard and
KPI development;
. Business Lead on Data warehouse/data mart design/implementation team;
. Managed outsourced development resources from several ERP consultants
and BI partners;
. Project Manager/Administrator/Lead Developer, Create!Form form
processing/document management
. Led cross-company technical and functional software evaluation for
Product Configuration software
. Project Manager/Administrator/Developer for secure customer-facing
extranet deployed over WebSphere
June 1996 - November 2002, PULSAFEEDER, A Unit of IDEX Corporation
Manager Technical Support and Customer Service (Feb 02 - Nov 02)
Departmental Manager for the Punta Gorda, FL operations. Responsibilities
included 4 technical support, 3 warranty and 4 customer service and 4 order
entry personnel;
. Implemented quotation management tracking and reporting system;
. Created and deployed FAQ sections for product support;
. Reduced freight back charge occurrence rate by $1500 per month through
implementation of address validation software integrated into ERP
system;
. Reduced warranty process turnaround time by 4 hours using Six Sigma
MUDA walk and Kaizen process improvements;
. Launched integrated order process capability
Product Configurator Project Manager (May 01 - Jan 03)
Project Leader for sales configuration module of Corporate e-Business suite
from concept to deployment.
. Developed and documented customer-facing Sales Configurator as a
member of corporate E-Business team.
. Assessed requirements from application engineering groups at various
companies and work with development team to meet those requirements
while managing budgetary, timing, and resource constraints.
. Conducted training sessions with related business units for
application engineers to populate data models.
. Developed web-based support applications for data management - saving
4 weeks of project time (over $16,000 in programming time saved).
Internet Marketing Specialist (Jan 00 - Feb 02)
Developed and implemented extranet applications to improve data access to
sales channels; Provided product sales and margin analysis, established
cost targets for new product, and reviewed technical manuals for Marketing
. Developed web-based applications for sales management teams and sales
channels (order status, component lists, pricing and availability,
spec data queries) - usage rate was 90% of domestic sales force,
reduced related incoming phone inquiries by over 75%;
. Managed company web site;
. Developed marketing and technical bulletins;
. Managed product development projects from a sales/marketing
perspective, including cost targets and sales opportunity forecasts.
Application Engineer (Jun 96 - Jan 00)
Provided product sales and support for manufactured equipment from purchase
specification review and proposal generation through post-sales technical
support
. Engineered product technical support for global sales channel (mixture
of manufacturer representatives and distribution channel) with
responsibility for European and Middle Eastern territories.
. Conducted technical product training seminars for international and
domestic customers/channels.
. Managed municipal project business, including project specification
review, consultation with design engineers, and on-site start-
up/troubleshooting services.
. Worked with engineering staff to modify existing product for various
special application needs.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
PeopleSoft Technical SIG, September 2003 to present
Southeast Crystal Reports User Group, February 2005 to present
SKILLS:
Application skills: Oracle EnterpriseOne (XE, 8.11, 9.0); Crystal Reports
9, 10, XI, 2008; Crystal Enterprise 10; Business Objects Enterprise XI
R2/XI 3.1; Business Objects Universe design, Web Intelligence report
development, WebSphere 4.05/5.0 and Tomcat 5.0/5.5 server administration;
MQ Series; Create!Form;
Database skills: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008: Data management, ETL (IBM
Change Data Capture, Oracle Data Integrator) and data replication, Data
Warehousing concepts, T-SQL programming
Platforms: Widows 2000/2003 Server, Windows 2003 Server, IIS, Unix, Apache,
WebSphere 4.05/5.0, Tomcat
Programming languages: ASP, Perl/CGI, HTML/DHTML, PHP, VB.NET, JAVA, SQL/T-
SQL, XML
REFERENCES:
Available upon request