Engineer Software
Resume:
Gregory J. Thompson
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Professional Summary
Over 20 years of experience in all aspects of business analysis, software design, software development, and systems
implementation. Ability to independently lead business and technical teams through the full SDLC lifecycle. Capable of
interacting with all levels of the organization and communicating effectively with technical and business personnel. Proven
history of leadership and unsupervised productivity.
Experience
Equinox Holdings, Inc, New York, NY October 2006 – Present
Director Financial Systems - Responsible for the Business Intelligence, Accounting and Planning back office systems.
System Implementation
• Implemented Hyperion System 9 to streamline the consolidation of financial and operational reporting as well as
budgeting, forecasting and business modeling.
• Designed a custom rules-based commission engine to compensate Equinox’s sales personnel.
Business Intelligence
• Led the effort to design and develop data marts and their associated ETL layer for the General Ledger, Payroll (ADP’s
Payroll and E-Time services), and major revenue-based service offerings (Sales, Personal Training, etc).
• Architected an enterprise star schema data model that combines the general ledger with the various sub-ledgers (Payroll,
Sales Commissions, Membership, etc).
• Provided the architectural guidance and managed the effort to develop OLAP models in Hyperion’s Essbase for the
Income Statement, Payroll, Balance Sheet, External Auditing, and other service offerings.
• Managed a team of developers to redesign the monthly consolidated Financial Reporting, Club P&Ls, and Board of
Directors reporting packages.
• Led the effort to develop standardized methods to define various Key Performance Indicators such as comparable club
sales, membership churn, and revenue per member.
Financial Planning and Analysis
• Managed the back office support for the annual budget and strategy plans, which includes project management, business
modeling and analysis.
• Provided the strategic guidance with the various business units to develop requirements for key revenue planning
capabilities for the annual budget. Guided management with the process workflow, reporting and presentation methods.
• Developed Hyperion Planning applications that utililze the Payroll, Income Statment and Statistical Essbase models
used for financial reporting.
Business Process Re-Engineering
• Performed detailed sub-ledger data reconcillation to properly align data and enforce a standard set of business rules and
processes to ensure that data is recorded to the GL in a consistent and auditable manner.
• Developed a process and architecture for recording earned and unearned revenue. This new process reduces the monthly
closing for management by one day and provides better internal control for revenue.
Sirius Satellite Radio, New York, NY August 2003 – September 2006
Manager Supply Chain Applications - Responsible for the daily business activities as well as the applications management
for Sirius’ Supply Chain systems.
• Managed the process and data flow analysis between the data exchange platform and other internal applications such as
our billing and CRM solutions.
• Responsible for the auditing/reporting on various financial exchanges with our automotive partners in the areas of
hardware subsidies and partner paid subscriptions. Subsidies are tracked to the receiver level and represent $80-$120
million dollars worth of exchanges per year.
• Served at the technical liaison with our automotive partners, which consist of Daimler Chrysler, Ford, Land Rover,
BMW, Nissan, Volkswagen, Audi, Mitsubishi and Porsche.
• Coordinated the review of all program contracts to ensure that Sirius can audit and verify partner commitments as well as
ensure a satisfactory client experience at our customer call centers.
• Provided the architectural guidance for the Business-To-Business (B2B) data exchange with our Retail and Automotive
partners.
PR Newswire, Jersey City, NJ July 1998 – July 2003
Manager, Core Systems Development - Directed activities for three software development groups. These groups maintain
and extend the news distribution systems, which represent 75 percent of the company’s revenue.
• Managed and directed the work activities and deliverables of vendors, consultants, and team members for all aspects of
the projects including project planning, communications, deployment planning, training, development and production
support planning.
• Managed multiple concurrent project teams consisting of 23 employees plus additional contractors and temps with an
operations budget of $7.9M and a capital budget of $3.5M.
Project Management Office, Sr. Program Manager - Provide Project Management expertise for software/system intensive
initiatives. Manage to company approved guidelines that are based on the Rational Unified Process for planning, budgeting,
staffing, executing, and monitoring projects. Deliverables included the Business Case, Software Development Plan, Risk
Management Plan, Change Management Plan and Deployment Plan.
PR Newswire.com Websites – Managed various web initiatives to enhance the company’s public facing websites. These
initiatives include a prnewswire.com redesign, and new feature extensions.
Investor Relations Websites – Assumed responsibilities for an outsourced project to replace an existing investor relations
website. Upon review of the architecture and project approach, I recommended cancellation of the project. This decision
saved the company approximately three million dollars.
Business Continuity Planning - Managed a major upgrade to our Philadelphia Disaster Recovery site. In addition to system
enhancements this project reworked all existing Disaster Recovery documentation such as fail over procedures, test drills, and
calling trees. Developed a Business Impact Analysis study to quantify probable consequences for various types of disruptions.
British Aerospace, Wayne, NJ October 1996 – June 1998
Software Engineer (Consultant) – Developed aircraft simulations used to test operational flight software.
Automatic Data Processing, Roseland, NJ January 1995 - October 1996
Lead Quality Engineer - Developed test plans and automated test suites in QA-Partner and C++.
Enviroplan, Roseland, NJ June 1994 - December 1994
Software Manager - Managed the development of a system to record gas emissions from fossil fuel sources.
Raytheon Corporation, Sudbury, MA January 1992-June 1994
Software Engineer
Milstar Satellite: Implemented communications algorithms for an avionics suite to communicate with the satellite.
NASA Radar: Generated aircraft simulation scenarios for real-time input into the ground based radar.
Northrop Corporation, Hawthorne, CA October 1986- December 1991
Software Engineer - Developed weapon delivery algorithms for a fire control avionics system. Algorithms included missile
launch envelopes, target prioritization, and attack steering vectors.
Raytheon Corporation, Long Beach, CA March 1986 – October 1986
Hardware Engineer
SKILLS
Software: SQLServer, Hyperion System 9 (Essbase, Financial Reporting, Planning, HAL, Analytic Integration
Services), Cognos, Perl, SQL, XML, UNIX, Ada, C++, Java, PL/SQL, Oracle, Visual Basic
Tools Rational Unified Process, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, Cadre Teamwork, Rational Rose
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL STUDY
Stevens Institute of Technology 5 graduate credits in Applied Mathematics (3.0 GPA)
California State University, Long Beach 21 graduate credits in Electrical Engineering (3.5 GPA).
Pennsylvania State University. 1985, BS Electrical Engineering.
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