Manager Management
Resume:
Samuel J Palumbo
Email: abo7zb@r.postjobfree.com
Address:
City: Andover
State: NJ
Zip: 07821
Country: USA
Phone: 973-***-****
Skill Level: Any
Salary Range:
Primary Skills/Experience:
Over 25 years of experience as an IT Professional encompassing project management, application design / development / implementation, production support, logical access, SDLC / SOX compliance, change management and internal / external SOX audit. I am committed to maintaining cutting edge technical skills and up-to-date industry knowledge. Current responsibilities include the comprehensive management of application release / change management, SDLC/ SOX compliance, business continuity planning and internal / external SOX audit management. Additionally I am an experienced Business Analyst with diverse industry expertise in finance, insurance and hospitality. Over 2 year current retail experience as Purchasing Manager / Inventory Control manager. I
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from Kean College, Union NJ 1/2001 to 9/1981 (Business)
High School Dipolma from, Union NJ 1/2001 to 10/2012
Job History / Details:
Profile
Over 25 years of experience as an IT professional encompassing project management, application design/ development, production support, logical access, SDLC/SOX compliance, change management and internal / external SOX audit. I am committed to maintaining cutting edge technical skills and up-to-date industry knowledge. Current responsibilities include the comprehensive management of application release, SDLC/ SOX compliance, business continuity planning and internal / external SOX audit. Additionally I am an experienced business analyst with diverse industry expertise in finance, insurance and hospitality.
Over 2 years of experience as a purchasing / inventory control manager including vendor management and negotiations, buying, trending, industry research, process improvement, management reporting and interacting with accounting to insure accurate financial reporting.
Core Qualifications
2 years of Purchasing and inventory control experience
2 years of Radiant Systems Counterpoint
10 years of Change management experience
10 years of Application Logical Access experience
10 years of SOX and SDLC Compliance
10 years of Internal / external SOX audit
10 years of application release management
10 years of user acceptance and integration/ regression testing
Team building/leadership
Excellent problem-solving abilities
Vendor/Client relations
Software (PSO) experience
Hands-on and proactive
Comfortable with change
Ability to work well within teams and foster teamwork
Solid understanding of software and hardware architecture
Enterprise-Wide solutions
Extensive experience with PPM and PVCS development and ongoing support
Patch management
Information security
Strong project management skills
Strong collaborative skills
Application Design and testing
Customer needs assessment
Strong analytical skills
Document management
Technical Skills
Skills Experience Total Years Last Used
Radiant Systems Counterpoint (PSO) Functional Super User 2 Current
PPM Change Management Tool Implemented, Developed, and Support 4 Current
PVCS Version Control Tool Implemented, Developed, and Support 4 Current
Axios Assyst Chance Management Tool Admin 1 07/2009
Oracle Finance Logical Access Admin Logical Access Admin 9 07/2009
Oracle Human Logical Access Admin Logical Access Admin 9 05/2009
Kronos Logical Access Admin Logical Access Admin 5 05/2009
Professional Experience
October 2011 to Current
Griffin & Howe Inc. Bernardsville, NJ
Purchasing / Inventory Manager
Current responsibilities include interacting with senior management and sales staff to ensure our the best of the best product availability position in the marketplace is maintained. Working with our manufacturing partners and vendors to ensure product availability, quality and cost effectiveness. Manage inventory levels for 3 retail locations and one manufacturing location. Also evaluate potential new vendors, managing a two person staff, ensuring proper purchasing control procedures are in place and followed, address & resolve delivery/pricing/quality variances with vendors, preparing required management reports and weekly sale reports.
Review products for potential new inventory
Work with vendors to ensure best possible negotiated pricing & terms, vendor support, on-time delivery, POS support and website integration
Achieve monthly inventory goals through effective ordering practices and assisting in the process of identifying & resolving overstock situations, aged and discontinued inventory
Responsible for retail location issues as it relates to inventory flow by providing a bi-weekly analysis of merchandise in all 3 retail locations and 1 manufacturing location.
Transfers inventory as needed
Establish monthly inventory analysis goals for each location and perform against actual
Update processing of all inventory items in POS system and in the on-line store as new catalogs/price lists are received from vendors.
Design & implement Sales Programs on selected products
Handle special orders on a daily basis
Prepare and analyze pre-order sales and inventory-on-hand reports.
Prepare purchase orders
Working with accounting department to verify integrity of inventory
Receive all new merchandise into inventory through POS system and allocate to four locations
July 2007 to May 2011
Wyndham Worldwide Corporation Parsippany, NJ
Senior Compliance System Administrator
Responsibilities include enterprise application change control, application logical access, SDLC/ SOX compliance, and quality assurance. System Administrator for the automated HP PPM and PVCS Version Tool sets. Manage application releases including user acceptance / integration and regression testing, application controls, and data protection. Manage both internal and external CSIT SOX audits.
Review requirements and functional design documents to determines SDLC and SOX compliance gaps
Responsibility for quarterly CSIT SOX audit
Conduct periodic review to ensure SDLC, SOX, change control, and application logical access policies and procedures are enforces
Application upgrades
Business continuity planning
Back up and recover
May 2004 to July 2007
Cendant / Wyndham Worldwide Corporation Parsippany, NJ
Manager Enterprise Application - Oracle production support
Managed the ongoing development and production support for the Oracle application suite including applications security and logical access requests
Application support for business unit user groups
Enhancement design, development, and production implementation
Patch/ Bug fix implementation
Application upgrade implementation
Manage the financial applications daily, monthly and year end calendars
Maintenance and production support for all production financial applications reporting
Financial applications configuration support and maintenance
Manage, development and maintenance the financial applications logical access process
Production support for the financial applications hardware
July 2002 to May 2004
Cendant Corporation Parsippany, NJ
Application / System Specialist - Oracle Application Implementation Team
Subject matter expert for the GEAC Millennium Series Financial Applications for the Oracle Suite Implementation
Application design, development, and implementation
Developed the financial applications daily, monthly and year end calendars
Development of all production financial applications reporting
Development of Financial applications configurations
Manage, development and maintenance the financial applications logical access process
Participated in the designed Oracle applications hardware and software architecture
Managed the Business Unit user acceptance and integration/ regression testing
Review requirements and functional design documents to determines SDLC and SOX compliance gaps
Responsibility for quarterly CSIT SOX audit
Application upgrades
March 1998 to July 2002
Cendant Corporation Parsippany, NY
Application / System Specialist
Subject matter expert for the GEAC Millennium Series Financial Applications G/L, F/A and Security / Logical access Y2K upgrade. Additional Y2K upgrade responsibilities included Best Software FAS Encore, ADP Direct Deposit, Lawson A/P and application logic access policies and procedures.
Application support for business unit user groups
System design, development, and production support for upgrade
Develop new financial applications daily, monthly and year end calendars
Development and maintenance of all production financial applications reporting
Financial applications master and control file maintenance
Manage, development and maintenance the financial applications Logical access process
Participated in designing the new applications software and hardware software architecture
Education
1981 Kean College Union, NJ
BA Business Economics/computer science /accounting
Professional Development:
McCormack and Dodge Advanced Studies for General Ledger
American Management Assoc. Management training
Uccel Corporation Financial Controls Workshop,
Certifications:
PMLG Certified Project Manager
PMLS Certified Program Management Master
ITIIL Certified Foundations
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