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Project Manager Quality Assurance

Location:
Westminster, CO, 80031
Posted:
June 14, 2010

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Connie L Anders

**** * ***** *** #***

Westminster, CO 80031

303-***-****

abmmx3@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Overview:

Ms. Anders is a functional consultant with over thirty years of experience

working with retail, service, financial and warehouse management systems in

a variety of industries. This experience includes implementation,

development and on-going support of the systems. Through her experience,

Connie has developed a strong familiarity and practice in business

operating planning, processes, and strategies, and the translation of these

areas into technical information systems.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Change Management

Business Process Re-engineering

System Design

Project Management

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

Oracle Inventory

Oracle Cost Management

Oracle Bills of Material

Oracle Purchasing

Oracle Service (Field, Depot Repair, Mobile Field)

Oracle CRM

Retail.net

Catalyst WMS

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SQL/SQL*Plus

Mercury Test Director

Toad

EDUCATION:

Colorado State University, 2 years general curriculum

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

June 2007 - October 2009

Consultant - IR Database Technologist, Oracle Applications 11i

Worked in the Services Division to Perform Setup, Configuration and Support

for Service and CRM Modules.

. Responsible for Services Team User, Resource and Profile setups.

Mapping of CRM in-module setups related to Employee's Job Role.

. Map, document and train on changes to User, Resource and Profile

setups as required for new business processes being implemented.

. Perform functional setups as new business process changes were

implemented.

. Worked with Oracle Consultants to perform/update BR100's

. Performed SAT testing of Service/CRM modules.

. Test and document VPD (Virtual Private Database) policy and code

changes used to filter data availability to partners.

. Assisted Data Management Team in Service Contracts Cleanup

Major Accomplishments:

. Played key role in Services Go-Live User Support for 10,000+ users:

. Trained and directed all Tier 3 support staff.

. Created documentation and Performed additional WebEx training

sessions to assist in handing off simple setup changes to a

limited group of field staff.

. Documented and maintained troubleshooting guide.

EchoStar Satellite L.L.C.

July 2006-March 2007

Consultant - Testing and Quality Assurance Manager

Overseeing the Testing and Quality Assurance Team responsible for all

Oracle ERP Modules, Clarify and extensive integration between applications.

. Managed team of 4 testers on-site and team of 3 off-shore testers.

Ensuring that critical software is quality tested, meets all business

requirements and is measured for the ability to sustain stressful

transaction volumes with acceptable performance prior to being placed

into production.

. Developed and maintain capacity plan of testing resources to help

determine project delivery dates to the business and resource

constraints.

. Project management of multiple projects simultaneously. Working to

assure:

. Test Plans are completed

. Code migration occurs on schedule

. Test execution is on schedule

. Defects are logged, prioritized, managed and reported.

. Test Summary and Defect Reporting is distributed throughout the

test cycle including any risks identified.

. Responsible for the migration of code, setups, patches and refreshes

of the testing environments.

Major Projects:

. Oracle iRecruitment implementation

. Oracle 11.5.10 partial upgrade - included all foundation and workflow

patches and HR application upgrade. This was a requirement in order

to implement iRecruitment.

. Serial Number control at 150 + Service Sites for receiving and

shipping. Included Oracle Inventory Module, Clarify and all

integration flows.

. Was responsible for planning, executing and analyzing metrics in a

successful pilot program utilizing Fujitsu Offshore Testing Resources.

Ultimate Electronics Corporate Offices-Thornton Colorado

IT Applications Development and Support

2003-April 2006

Responsible for directing the development and tier 3 support of Oracle ERP

Suite, Retail.net POS, ADP and Catalyst WMS. Oracle applications focusing

on Financials, Purchasing, Inventory, H/R, Incentive Compensation and

Service modules.

. Identified system inefficiencies and issues, provided updates to

executive management of timeline to issue resolution and

implementation.

. Coordinated and performed requirements gathering, design/development,

unit testing, user acceptance testing and implementation of new

requirements for all systems applications/modules.

. Performed lead Purchasing/Inventory Business System Analyst duties.

Supported Oracle Purchasing and Inventory modules, customizations and

integration to WMS and POS systems.

. Primary contact for hosted Oracle DBA support and Ultimate IT

Department. Coordinating patching, upgrades and planned maintenance

and serving as primary contact for unplanned outages.

. Documented Business Processes to assure SOX compliancy and auditing.

. Followed best practices in the Software Development Life Cycle.

Major Projects:

Oracle/Retail.net Implementation - This project began in April 2001 and a

"Big Bang" rollout occurred in September 2003. It included a migration of

all POS, Purchasing, Inventory, Incentive Compensation and Service modules

across the enterprise.

. Project lead for all legacy data conversions including Customers,

Inventory SKU's, Inventory On/hand Balances, A/R Balances, Employees,

Service Requests and Sales Orders

. Served as subject matter expert for Retail POS, Inventory, Purchasing,

Incentive Compensation, and Service

. Member of the infrastructure team. Was involved in all phases

including hardware and data network. From the requirements gathering

through to the Installation of a fractional T1 frame-relay network.

Oracle Financials Implementation - Implemented in November of 2000. Again

as IT project lead, I was responsible for all configurations, set-ups,

integration development, end-user training, testing and post go-live

support.

Manager of Information Technology February

1996-December 2002

Responsible for all areas of IT including applications, servers, voice and

data networks, telephony and call center.

. Direct Reports included 1 Network Manager, 1 Telecom/Helpdesk Manager

and 3 programmer/analysts. Total IT staff of 14 employees.

. Managed programmer/analysts in development and tier 3 support of

enterprise applications and integration. Utilizing Tyler Retail

Systems for all Sales, Inventory and Financial Applications and

Catalyst for the Warehouse Management System.

. Served as Team Lead on all upgrades. Directing all department leads

in the testing, documentation, training and post implementation

support.

. Responsible for the data network, including bandwidth requirements,

contract negotiations, turn up of circuits and support.

. Led Network manager and his staff on all desktop application support

and administration, server support and administration and desktop

support

. Led Telecom manager in negotiations for the voice network and

telephony systems across the company.

. Led Telecom manager in the training of the call center in applications

support. Also involved in the implementation of Remedy for call

center tracking.

Major Projects:

Catalyst WMS Implementation - Implemented in August 2001. As IT project

lead, I was responsible for all configurations, set-ups, integration

development, and end end-user training, testing and post go-live support.

Marketworks CRM Implementation - 2000 - Project manager responsible for

integration, development and testing.

Electronic Data Interchange - 1999 - Project manager responsible for

requirements gathering, development, setup and testing.

Corporate Acquisition of Audio King - 1998 - As IT project lead I was

responsible for: 1. Migration of all pertinent data from Audio King's

information systems into Ultimate Electronics information systems. This

included G/L, A/R, A/P, Purchasing, Inventory, Sales Orders, Service Work

Orders and Customers. 2. Assessing hardware gaps and implementing server

upgrades and additional PC Desktop requirements as necessary. 3. Merging

two 56k existing point-to-point data networks into one.

Corporate Relocation - 1993 - Responsible for the coordination of the

following:

. All voice and data cabling of the new facility.

. Data network cutover.

. Physical teardown and set up of all hardware including routers, switches

and servers

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SKILLS

Windows 2000, NT, XP, MS Office Suite, Mercury Test Director, Catalyst WMS,

Tyler Retail Systems, Retail.net, Toad Schema Browser, Oracle Inventory,

Purchasing and Service modules, and SQL Programming.

EDUCATION

Colorado State University, 2 years in general curriculum

Red Rocks Community College - SQL 2000



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