Project Manager Management

JON LEUTHOLD

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Powell, OH 43065 Email: ********@********.**.***

Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jon-leuthold/1/443/323

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

> IT Management professional with over 25 years experience leading high

performance project teams.

> Excellent planning and visionary skills. Supervised hundreds of IT

application projects each ranging in scale from $50,000 to $2 million.

Completed projects on time or early, and at or below budget.

> Recipient of numerous Golden Achievements and Vice President awards.

> Member of IT committees that define software development life cycle

standards, programming standards, reduction of software defects, and

defining audit security procedures.

> Proven track record of introducing systems that reduce expenses, improve

productivity, and increase profits.

> Development of Quality Plans and Quality Risk Mitigation Plans ensuring

SDLC and policies compliance.

> Implemented projects in Financial, Supply Chain/Manufacturing, Sales

/Marketing and HR functional areas.

KEY WORD SUMMARY

Strategic/Tactical Planning Performance Management Financial Systems

Supply Chain Applications Applications

SDLC Best Practices/Quality

Project Management PMO Management

Software Procedures Team Metrics Budget Forecasting

Call Center Management Off Shore Management Mentoring/Supervision

Quality Assurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cardinal Health Columbus, Ohio

Mar 2008 - June 2010

Project Manager Advisor (IT QA Engineer)

Responsible to provide mentoring to Project leaders and Solution Owner

Directors for an unbiased view of project quality on assigned projects.

Author customized project quality plans and quality risk plans. Develop

mitigation strategies against key quality characteristics and track

periodic project status. Act as liaison between project team plans with

Quality Control, Performance Engineering, Disaster Recovery, Risk

Management, Security and FDA Compliance teams. Ensure compliance to

Cardinal Health's SDP (System Development Process/SDLC). Prepare Quality

Risk reports for Project Gate Reviews.

Key Accomplishments:

> Received Award for Project Green - Cardinal Health / Carefusion

Financials Separation project.

> Provided Project Leadership Mentoring and Tracking to ensure quality

implementations via development of Quality Plans and Quality Risk

Mitigation Strategies. Key projects included Project Omega systems

upgrade to new platform; XiPay Upgrade (PCI compliance credit card to

token translation); Contracts & Pricing - New Customer setup ; ORwell

Call Center (COTS package, FDA compliance), DJIT Upgrade to new

platform, European Customs package and Presource Lean Manufacturing

project (which used a iterative Agile multiple release approach).

Majority of projects were implemented with a Waterfall SDLC

methodology.

> Documented Medical Item Taxonomy Process end to end process flow.

> Received outstanding customer feedback rating on Presource Lean and

Project Green- check printing projects.

> Training on Six Sigma White & Yellow Belt, Risk Management and

Operational Excellence courses.

Sarcom Lewis Center, Ohio

Director, Business Applications

Feb - Oct 2007

Directed application group of 17 associates including SQL Development, E-

commerce (SarcomDirect), EDI, Progress SX.e ERP / Sartrac ticketing

development teams. Reported to CIO. Supported internal and external Sarcom

customers. Conducted employee reviews and hiring.

Key Accomplishments:

> Formed SDLC internal team that reviewed and improved procedures for

project tracking and production change notification procedures.

Created and implemented Sarcom's Software development methodology via

new word templates for user requirements document, technical design,

testing plans, testing scripts, IT user guide checklist, user

training guide, pre-go live checklist.

> Developed a consolidated MS project plan that tracked progress for

assigned applications development and infrastructure teams on Blue

Martini E-commerce upgrade, SX upgrade project and other key

projects.

> Oversaw development and testing of Redeployment Inventory Perpetual

Inventory report for JPMC client.

> Developed Project Risk document outlining the project risks for Blue

Martini and SX upgrade.

> Developed formalized ranking process for IT projects and conducted bi-

weekly project reviews on project status to President, VP, CIO, and

Director of Inside Sales and Director of Service departments.

USI (US Internetworking) Inc. Columbus, Ohio

Nov 2005 - Sept 2006

Manager, ERP Financials Support

Managed call center production support team of Peoplesoft and Oracle

Financial Applications modules for external clients of USi who used USi's

outsourcing services. Provided Project Leadership in Direct Management of

team of 17 associates (local, regionalized and off shore team based in

Bangalore, India). Coordinated client status call meetings & weekly staff

meetings. Tracked Oracle Discoverer monthly case metrics (14,000+ cases

/yr), aging %, SLA's, time utilization %'s. Conducted annual and mid year

performance staff reviews.

Key Accomplishments:

> Increased team productivity for closed cases by 25% vs prior year.

> Identified company cost avoidance savings of 500K via on-line

Oracle/Peoplesoft training courses vs off site.

> Team received 4 Core Value awards nominations, one of highest

performance teams within the company.

Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Labs, Columbus, OH

Nov 1997 - Oct 2005

Associate Director, IT Applications Support

May 2000 - Oct 2005

Direct management of Supply Chain Software Development resources for SAP,

Oracle, Web Based projects. Ensure up-to-date tracking of resources,

projects and timelines. Coordinate implementation of regional and

corporate initiatives. Compliance with Program Management Office (PMO)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and cGMP CSV procedures. Develop

and monitor $1.2 million cost center budget. Align resources for local,

regional, and international initiatives. Conduct monthly review meeting on

projects to Vice Presidents. Supervise and conduct annual reviews on 10

associates.

Key Accomplishments:

> Managed a team who has received over 100 Golden Achievement awards.

> Golden Achievement awards: APO Implementation; SAP Manager Desktop

Training; Opportunity for Improvement System Implementation; SDLC

Methodology rollout; Changepoint Project training.

> Coordinated project resources for Reno DC implementation of Advanced Ship

Notice (ASN) to avoid fees by Wal-Mart/Target. Received Team Spirit

Award at annual awards banquet.

> Decreased project defects from 25 percent to 2 percent by defining

baseline application metrics and measuring each occurrence of defect.

> Achievements of Team Metrics - 118% Customer Satisfaction Surveys,

Applications System availability 99.9%.

> Coordinated and managed a $1.7 million APO project budget. Completed

project on-time and saved company $50,000 by project completion.

> Established Service Level Agreements; Business Continuity Plans; Process

Mapping.

IT Local Account Executive - Project Manager

Nov 1997 - May 2000

Business Analyst and Project Leader of manufacturing and programming

applications. Ensured local system projects met regional and local goals

for North American Region. Supervised programming of Annual Physical

Inventory in Mapics. Recruited and interviewed System Consultant

candidates.

Key Accomplishments:

> Vice President's Golden Achievement: Management of Y2K Copics to Mapics

conversion.

> Defined functional specifications including forecasting input to Mapics

MRP ERP.

> Implemented VMI applications with Manugustics using EDI on Mapics and

BPCS ERP platforms.

GE Superabrasives, Worthington, OH

August 1984 - Oct 1997

IT Project Manager, Information Management Operation, Financial

Systems/CMMS Jan 1996 - Oct 1997

Managed system projects conversion to Client Server Oracle platforms.

Key Accomplishments:

> Project Management of CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).

Project Budget: $1 million.

> Interface leader for Gemms ERP Application.

> Analyzed requirements for a Finance Inventory Data Warehouse.

Substantially improved finance reporting.

Manager, Information Management Operation, Customer Support

Jan 1994 - Dec 1995

> Managed customer service help desk day to day applications production

support for mainframe, AS/400 and PC applications. Tracked each system

issue in a project tracking system. Managed 10 associates. Recruited

and interviewed programmers for full-time positions.

Key Accomplishments:

> Presented and published monthly measurements/charts on system response

time and project completion

versus commitment date.

> Forecasted and maintained a $500,000 applications budget.

Additional Achievements:

> Coordinated/implemented an international accounts receivable software

application in five European countries.

> Project team leader of seven contractors assigned to define, program, and

implement conversion of key production master files into BPCS AS/400

package and interfaces to existing legacy systems in mainframe.

> Project leader of Pricing Agreement System which allowed for increased

visibility of complex net price agreements with customers.

> Database Design and programming of complex Cost Accounting programs

feeding into G/L.

> Coordinated Finance consolidations into GEP Plastics USA Corporate and

International offices.

Additional GE Work History: Project Leader

(1992 -1993)

Senior Systems Designer

(1989 -1991)

Systems Designer

(1984 -1988)

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

B.S. in Business Administration, Major: Accounting

Continuing Education: coursework in COBOL/PI/1

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

APPLICATION/SOFTWARE

FINANCE

> General Ledger

> Accounts Receivable

> Accounts Payable

> Cost Accounting

> Budget

> Standard Costs

> Cost of Sales

> Hyperion

> Purchasing

> Peoplesoft Financials

> Oracle Financials

HR

> Payroll

MARKETING/ Distribution

> E-commerce / EDI

> Progress ERP

> Pricing Agreements

> OSB (order/ship/bill)

> Sales History

> BPCS

MANUFACTURING

> VMI

> MRP

> Warehouse Management

> Physical Inventory

> CMMS (TSW Empac)

> GEMMS

> SAP

> APO

> Manugistics

> Mapics

> MES

> RFID

OTHER

> SQL

> Changepoint

> Cobol II

> SAS

> IDMS ADSO

> ODBC

> Data Base Design

OPERATING SYSTEMS

IBM Mainframe

MVS

VM/CMS

TSO/ISPF

VSAM

AS/400 (CL, Query 400)

DB2

Oracle

Robot Scheduler

CA/7 Scheduler

Client Server

PC / Other SOFTWARE

Mindmanager Mindjet 6.0 / 7.0

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Powerpoint

MS Access

MS Outlook

MS Project

MS Viseo

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