Quality Assurance Manager

JAMES L. HORN

478-***-**** (c) • *****.********@*****.***

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IT Manufacturing Management with ERP Implementation Experience

Technical leader with extensive experience facilitating corporate growth through effective alignment of

technologies and corporate goals. Proven ability to direct programs and projects, manage successful teams, and

lead technology development and deployment functions. Adept at enhancing and developing solutions to provide

Compliance. Excellent leadership, staff development, project management, process analysis, and technology

skills. Over 18 years experience with high volume manufacturing of consumer finished goods.

Application Development • Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance (SOX) • IT Remediation • COBIT • SOX Documentation

Internal/External Auditing • Resource Allocation • Internal Systems Control • Software Development Life Cycle

Structured Methodology • Materials Management, MRP • ERP Application (SAP) • Process Improvement

Strategic Planning • Business Solution Management • Budget & Cost Control • SLAs • Data Retention/Destruction

Productivity Improvement • Project Management • Technology Integration • System Enhancement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VF CORPORATION, Greensboro, North Carolina • 08/2005-12/2008

A 7B+ apparel powerhouse, with an incredibly diverse, international portfolio of brands and products.

Sr. Developer Analyst, IS Quality Assurance

Deliver excellence in SOX IT Compliance, control and testing procedures, SDLC processes, developing training

materials, educating staff, auditing/reviews, and policy definitions and development. Implement controls,

deliverable objectives, and remediate issues. Conduct audits to ensure compliance providing SOX Compliance.

Key Accomplishments:

• Championed issue resolution identified by external audit and leadership within a cohesive QA group.

• Instrumental in the re-engineering and streamlining of Software Development Life Cycle.

• Spearheaded database table structure change auditing for Informix, Oracle, SQL and DB2 databases.

• Delivered training and guidance on the SOX control processes and standard procedures for newly acquired

businesses and refresher courses to existing staff.

• Coordinated restricting access of development staff on the production environments for multiple platforms.

• Propelled and supported the installation and analysis of an in-house developed security application.

BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP. /RJR INC., Kentucky / Georgia • 1989-2005

B&W was the 3rd largest tobacco company with $4.5B in annual sales; purchased by RJR Tobacco. Rapidly

progressed through roles of increased authority due to excellence in programming/development, applications

configuration and design, and project management.

Sr. Manager, SAP Applications (06/2003-07/2005)

Spearheaded SAP application integration efforts at the manufacturing plant, facilitated conversions, testing, start-

up and issue resolution. Developed control narratives, and testing matrices to document and to install and obtain

SOX compliance. Coordinated business audits. Performed security reviews to validate continual compliance.

Key Accomplishments:

• Facilitated and bolstered a critical $42M SAP system installation; led numerous conversions.

• Spearheaded SOX Compliance initiatives including development of controls, security enhancements, control

narratives and testing activities.

• Aligned and coordinated changes to SAP Security Roles to establish segregation of duties as per SOX /

COBIT control guidelines.

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Manager, R&D Applications (05/2000-05/2003)

Directed support of applications supporting Research Services Laboratories and Quality Assurance.

Key Accomplishments:

• Managed strategy and execution of archival / deletion of data for 40+ mainframe applications; evaluating and

compiling retention requirements with business units, finance, and legal.

• Spearheaded the relocation of multiple applications to new platforms coordinating multiple application

support and IT operation groups.

• Synchronized material specifications across 3 different material systems and established on-going process to

keep information consistent.

• Developed functions to electronically store and allow easy retrieval of Experimental Leaf Blends.

• Facilitated wetting cylinder factory change across 5 applications, engineering, and functional users.

• Mentored junior staff in development of Non-Tobacco Material application that provides information used in

reporting to government agencies.

• Implemented complex material calculations to provide purchasing better forecasting of future material needs.

• Coordinated consolidation of servers and relocation of multiple applications.

• Deployed Chemical Inventory and Material Safety Data Sheet Applications within schedule and budget.

Manager, Leaf & Configuration Applications (10/1997-04/2000)

Directed a portfolio of 8+ manufacturing, inventory, procurement, and accounting applications. Elevated and

managed a specification system with $4.5B goods production with 9000+ changes. Introduced IT performance

improvement processes, including new project development methodology and staff development.

Key Accomplishments:

• Co-led effort to modify the product code to include versioning across multiple applications.

• Supported an inventory and accounting system managing $900M in materials.

• Performed a validation of 6 applications with 10,000+ programs; designed functions to analyze 40+

applications resulting in a 20% reduction of effort.

• Successfully coordinated delivery of critical information to support litigation cases under significant deadline

pressure.

• Created functions to provide Global Leaf Inventory system that allowed associated companies to share

inventories of tobacco leaf.

• Enhanced Drawback of Duty application to include new materials that supported reclaiming $4M annually.

Systems Engineer II – IV (02/1989-09/1997)

Supported development of MRP system by converting hierarchical specifications to relational format. Propelled

Inventory & Accounting System and supported a Manufacturing System. As programmer, spearheaded the

development of a Purchasing and Utilization system, supporting $300M in annual purchases.

Key Accomplishments:

• Co-led effort representing IT during the divestiture and closure of the Reidsville manufacturing plant, ensuring

Company’s proprietary information was protected. This involved data analysis, definition of retention

requirements, and the physical retention/destruction of data on PC’s, servers and in hardcopy form.

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Career Note: Early experience as a Contract Programmer for Computer Task Group/Independent Contractor

(1987-1989). Quality Assurance Analyst for Ford Aerospace (1984-1987).

B.S. Applied Mathematics & Computer Science 1984 University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

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