Project Manager

Arlene S. Buaron, PMP

** ********** **** ( Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852

************@***.*** ( 848-***-****

Professional Profile

. Experienced business transformation professional with demonstrated

track record implementing successful solutions across multiple

Oracle ERP enabled implementations.

. Highly-skilled in all areas of Oracle E-Business Suites (EBS)

including project management, business analysis, development,

testing and user support.

. Possesses solid knowledge of both Functional and Technical aspects

of Oracle E-Business Financial Suites of applications including AP,

PO, iProcurement, GL, AR, FA, and Projects.

. Outstanding analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills.

. Technical proficiency in SQL, PL*SQL, Forms, Report, Workflow,

Discoverer, AME, APIs, AOL, and XML Gateway.

. Outstanding Project Management skills.

. Dedicated and driven team player, a natural leader and motivator.

Software and Hardware Skills

Oracle E-Business Suites of Applications Portfolio

Payables (AP), Purchasing (PO), iProcurement, General Ledger (GL)

Accounts Receivables (AR), Fixed Assets (FA), Project Accounting (PA)

Incentive Compensation (OIC), Inventory (INV), Human Resources (HRMS)

XML Gateway, e-Commerce Gateway, System Administration

Application Object Library (AOL),

Other Applications

170 Markview, Ariba Sourcing and Contract Management Solutions

Hardware and Operating Systems

UNIX, WINDOWS, HP-UX, AIX, SUN SOLARIS

Programming Tools and Languages

Oracle 10g, SQL, PL*SQL, Unix Shell, SQL*Loader, AME, XML,

Dataload, Workflow Builder, Toad, Forms 10g/6i/4.5/2.3, Reports

10g/6i/2.5,

Forms 10g/6i/4.5/2.3, Reports 10g/6i/2.5, Discoverer, Java, Pro*C

Summary of Experience

Univision

Finance Applications Manager

Teaneck, NJ

Sept-2007 to Present

. Project Manager, Business Systems Analyst and Support for the

company's Finance Shared Service Organization (SSO).

. Collaborates with Finance stakeholders in identifying systems

problems and recommends solutions.

. Liaison between the Finance and IT departments.

. Provides enhancements and supports Finance department use of Oracle

ERP and reporting applications.

. Subject Matter Expert in AP, PO, iProcurement, GL, FA, Project

Accounting, AR, GL and 170 Markview applications.

. Manages the maintenance of the entire Procure-to-Pay applications

including 170 Markview.

. Oversee Oracle Financials project activities from initiation to

implementation phase. Responsible for creating and maintaining

Project Plans, manage the deliverables and tasks assigned to each

project members.

. Responsible for gathering business requirements and provide

functional specification documents to developers when implementing

new features and enhancements.

. Responsible for analyzing and resolving issues related to

application usage.

. Hands-on participation in the design and development of interfaces,

reports, workflow and other technical work with the members of the

Development Team.

. Supervise and lead a team on project members including junior

analysts, users and developers.

. Manages relationship with vendors and consultants.

. Expert in SQL*Plus, Toad, PL*SQL, Forms, Reports.

Vonage

Oracle Applications Project Lead

Holmdel, NJ

Apr-2005 to Sept-2007

. Lead and supervise the Oracle Financials Application 11.5.9 team of 3

developers and 1 analyst.

. Responsible for the support and maintenance of GL, AP, AR, PO, FA, INV

and iProcurement applications. Support functions include set of books,

multi-org, responsibility or user setup; troubleshooting issues;

functional enhancement requests; development or modification of new or

standard reports using Reports 10g, Oracle Discover or SQL*Plus; building

and executing ad-hoc queries to provide data not available through

standard reports and providing solutions based on Oracle's best practice.

. Liaison between the user and technical community.

. Manage relationship with the outsourcing company that is hosting the

application and database servers.

. Manage and lead the project development processes starting from

requirements gathering, development, testing, user training and

deployment.

. Wrote functional (MD50) and technical (MD70) design documents to support

application enhancements, extensions and customizations.

. Work with management in creating processes and implementing changes to

Oracle applications to support the business practice.

. Implemented the iProcurement application.

. Customized Workflow to comply with company's approval policy.

. Created process documents and training manuals.

. Responsible for prioritizing projects and Service Request Tickets and

assigning them to developers.

. Implement changes to the applications to support company's internal

controls as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

. Work with internal and external auditors to review system configuration

and access controls to ensure compliance.

. Utilize SQL, Toad, PL*SQL, Forms, Reports, Crystal Report, Java Framework

in troubleshooting production problems and in developing new reports and

ad-hoc requests.

Easylink Services Corporation

System Engineer III - Lead Developer/Analyst

Piscataway, NJ

Nov-2001 to Apr-2005

Upgrade Project

. Lead and supervised 1 DBA Consultant and 2 developers on the execution of

the application upgrade steps.

. Managed the 11.5.5 to 11.5.9 Oracle Application upgrade of GL, AP, AR,

FA, CN and ADI applications.

. Worked with other departments and Oracle Corp. to resolve issues related

to the upgrade.

Incentive Compensation Project

. Implemented EasyLink sales force's Compensation plan using Oracle

Incentive Compensation.

. Configured Oracle Incentive Compensation to define the organization

rollups, salesrep roles, compensation plans, revenue classification,

formulas, rate tables and payment schedules.

. Created a form using Forms 6i for the maintenance of sales person's

account assignments.

. Customized revenue collection and mapping process from AR to Incentive

Compensation.

. Responsible for the monthly collection and loading process of revenues

from Oracle AR and legacy system to Oracle Incentive Compensation and for

running the calculations, printing the logs, figure validation and

creation of payment worksheet.

. Created process documents and training manuals.

Billing Migration Project

. Project leader supervising 2 developers.

. Responsible for the migration of the IMS/GMS legacy billing system to

Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Receivables.

. Configured AR and GL responsibilities based on the requirements.

. Converted the customers and invoice files from the legacy system to

Oracle.

. Created the process and all the programs related to the customer and

invoice interface using Customer and Invoice Interface APIs, respectively.

. Designed and developed lockbox payments interface between Harris Bank and

Oracle using Lockbox Interface API.

. Created the credit card payments interface between a POS system and

Oracle using Receipts Interface API.

. Constructed a credit memo detail feed to the Biller System for tax

calculation purposes.

. Built the invoice activity feed from Oracle to the Billing System.

. Customized Invoice Aging Report to calculate aging based on period days

instead of calendar days.

. Created process documents and training manuals.

Training and Support

. Trained users on the use of the application

. Provided training on the use of Discoverer 10g;

. Responsible for creating the business area and end-user layer.

. Supported all modules in the production environment.

. Worked closely with Oracle support in resolving issues entered in

Metalink.

Jabtech, Inc.

Piscataway, NJ

Aug-1998 to Nov-2001

Consultant at Merrill Lynch

. Designed and developed the Tax Engine process.

. Created feeds from HR and BSMS systems to Oracle GL.

. Extracted data from GL 11i to feed the Express database which supports

Oracle Sales Analyzer (OSA) and Financial Analyzer (OFA).

Consultant at AT&T

Latin America 11i implementation Project

. Responsible for the conversion of vendors, items, categories, employees,

salaries and employee assignments.

. Worked on the PO Interface and Project Supplier Invoice Workflow

customization

. Customized various reports using Reports 6i.

. Implemented the Colombian Third Party Localization in AP.

. Collaborated with users from Chile, Argentina, Peru, Columbia and

Venezuela on getting requirements and implementing solutions

. Converted employees database into Oracle HRMS

. Worked on AP, PO and GL modules

AT&T International Apps 10.7 to 11i Upgrade Project

. Evaluated the upgrade impact to custom programs.

. Mapped 10.7 tables to 11i.

. Acted as both functional and technical consultant on interfacing AP

Invoices from CIS to Oracle 11i.

. Worked on the AR interface to process customers and invoices using

Customer Interface, AutoInvoice, AutoLockbox and Receipt APIs.

. Converted various forms written in Forms 2.3 to Forms 6i.

. Re-wrote a number SQL*Plus reports to Reports 6i.

. Developed FSG reports.

. Built production installation scripts using UNIX shell.

. Created AIM technical design documents.

. Worked with users from UK/EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America regions in

resolving application issues.

. Worked on AP, PO, AR, GL and HRMS modules.

Oracle Corporation

Senior Consultant

Iselin, NJ

Aug-1996 to Aug-1998

. Technical consultant on the Oracle 10.7 GL implementation for

Merrill Lynch.

. Involved in the AP 10.7 implementation for Merrill Lynch.

. Designed and developed program interfaces for invoices, vendors,

and feeds between Oracle and legacy systems.

. Implemented the creation of journal import programs, flex values,

account combination and reports.

. Built Autosys scripts to run jobs on schedule;

. Wrote Module Technical Design documents using AIM 2.0.

. Customized the Order Entry standard form for Checkpoint Security

Systems using reports 2.3.

. Provided production support and modified custom reports and forms

for Hartz Mountain.

. Designed and developed new reports for Graphics Control

. Created a document for a client on custom application and program

registration.

. Worked on the AP invoices and vendor conversion from 10.6 to 10.7

for Wakefern Food Corp.

RCG Information Technology

Senior Consultant at AT&T

Iselin, NJ

Feb-1993 to Aug-1996

. Lead Technical and Functional Consultant for the Oracle 9.4.2 GL, AR and

Sales Compensation implementation.

. Responsible for the application set up and configuration of the

application

. Designed and developed the customer and invoice process from the Billing

System to Oracle

. Created various reports as requested by users

. Provided daily production support

Education

Bachelor of Science in Statistics (1989)

University of the Philippines

Professional Affiliation

Project Management Professionals (PMP)

Professional Training

2005 11i iProcurement Fundamentals

2004 oracle ids: discoverer for administrator

2004 oracle ids: discoverer for end-user

2002 11i implement and user incentive Compensation

2000 java programming

1999 project accounting fundamentals

1997 forms 4.5

1997 reports 2.5

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