Jonathan Turk

Email: abpi9s@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ******** *****

City: Frederick

State: MD

Zip: 21701

Country: USA

Phone: 240-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $130,000

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Jonathan Turk

1111 Pinewood Drive, Frederick, MD 21701

abpi9s@r.postjobfree.com, 240-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsturk

SUMMARY

* Seeking a hands-on role to improve process performance, customer service and profitability applying structured methodologies and situational best practices to resolve complex business and technical challenges. This will draw on my prior hands-on experience with IT Strategy, Full Life-Cycle Systems Implementation, IT Production Support, Organizational Change Management, Process Governance, Business Process Reengineering, Process Integration and Improvement, Data Management and Warehousing, Structured Analysis, Program Office and Project Management, Joint Application Design, Team Building and Consensus Building.

* Principal Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers` Financial Services Practice in NY City.

* Project Manager with IBM Global Services Business Strategy Practice in Atlanta, GA.

* Financial Services experience includes JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers Inc. and Cumberland Savings & Loan.

* Over 20 years of hands-on ERP strategy/implementation, production-support, process improvement, and business consulting experience.

* Project Manager for four PeopleSoft Financials implementations including 2 Fortune 100 companies.

* Director of Financial Systems for a ground transportation company operating worldwide.

* Master of Science in Accounting with extensive Big 4 work experience.

* International consulting and project experience in Latin America and Europe.

EXPERIENCE

6/2006 to 10/2012, Carey International, Inc., Frederick, MD

Director, Financial Systems & Reporting

* Managed the planning and execution of functional system testing and the UAT to upgrade PeopleTools to current version 8.49.

* Designed a robust custom-developed PeopleSoft application suite to enable profile-driven travel agency commissions and rebates.

* Stabilized the PeopleSoft Receivables month-end close procedures and production processing to increase collection performance.

* Defined the back-office interface requirements, reconciliation procedures, and user-acceptance tests to integrate the new supply chain suite into PeopleSoft Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger. This enabled the implementation and delivered improved controls and reports.

* Delivered hands-on configuration and maintenance of PeopleSoft AR, GL, Security Administration, PS Query and nVision reporting, as well as production support for the remediation of interface and transaction processing exceptions.

* Designed and implemented a creative interface solution to enable voucher accruals to pay partners at month end for unbilled jobs.

* Configured and implemented PeopleSoft's MultiCurrency Receivables processing and ACH Payments Processing.

* Designed, planned and managed a fiscal year-end conversion of the PeopleSoft Financials suite.

07/2005 to 10/2007, MorganFranklin Corporation, McLean, VA

Independent Subcontractor

* Performed ongoing Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) services for the US House of Representatives to review their systems integrator's PeopleSoft implementation deliverables.

* Performed a strategic IT analysis related to ManTech International Corporation`s acquisition of another company.

09/2005 to 06/2006, The Squires Group Inc., Annapolis, MD

Principal Consultant

* Provided PeopleSoft consulting services to Carey International to resolve a backlog of serious production issues.

* Provided Business Development assistance to The Squires Group to expand market share in the ERP space.

10/2004 to 06/2005, Optimos, Inc., Sterling, VA

Senior Project Manager

* Performed an IV&V project at the House of Representatives for the implementation of PeopleSoft Financials.

* Documented Program Specifications at the Federal Housing Administration for legacy interfacing to PeopleSoft Revenue Management and Payables, including ChartField mapping, Budget Checking, and exception handling.

* Developed the business case, implementation approach and project plans to implement PeopleSoft Financials and upgrade PeopleSoft HRMS for an Electric Utility in the Southwest.

9/2001 to 10/2004, Carey International, Inc., Washington, DC

Director, PeopleSoft Financial Systems

* Managed two professionals to support PeopleSoft AP, AR and GL, including Security, nVision and PSQuery for 120 users.

* Configured and implemented shared services collections and cash application on PeopleSoft AR.

* Configured and coordinated the centralization of Accounts Payable for 20 AP Business Units. Total volumes exceeded 75,000 vouchers per month. This enabled Carey to successfully manage cash and control spending.

* Managed the functional reconfiguration and UAT to upgrade PeopleSoft AR, GL and AP from version 7.5 to 8.4.

10/1997 - 1/2001, PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY

Principal Consultant, Financial Services Practice

* Managed a team of 18 to implement PeopleSoft GL, AP and AR at National Steel in South Bend, IN. According to National Steel's CFO, "This Project has been the smoothest implementation in National Steel's History".

* Managed a team of three to Design and Prototype PeopleSoft GL, AP, Project Costing and Asset Management at Rouge Steel, the primary tier 1 steel manufacturer and supplier to the Ford Motor Company.

* Led a team of two to design and build a prototype solution-set for the Capital Markets industry as part of a strategic consulting alliance among PwC, PeopleSoft and FTI, a vendor specializing in Securities/Broker-Dealer industry middleware accounting solutions. The prototype integrated FTI's Securities Industry middleware accounting suite with a highly innovative PeopleSoft General Ledger configuration. The solution provided automated accounting throughput, as well as a robust transaction repository linking operational data stores to summary accounting records in a manner that ensured relational integrity.

* Project Office Administrator for JP Morgan's Straight-Through Information (STI) project to reengineer the Global Finance Function across three theaters, the Americas, Europe and Asia. The strategic IT thrust of the project was to build accounting rules engines and related governance into middle-ware environments to achieve automated accounting throughput from the operational systems with summarization to the Corporate General Ledger systems. Data-warehousing projects were to be defined as necessary, building and extending beyond the accounting throughput repository to provide additional data marts in support of operational reporting and decision-making.

* Maintained the annual PeopleSoft Financial Services Practice Business Plan in NY City.

* Configured and demonstrated MultiCurrency GL processing at PeopleSoft's annual user convention.

09/1995 - 9/1997, IBM Global Services, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

* Managed a team of eight to implement PeopleSoft Project Costing and Asset Management for Host Marriott Corporation, with hotel property assets exceeding $8 Billion. Personally negotiated agreements with Marriott`s CIO to establish capital expenditure interfaces between Marriott Corporation`s hotel property systems and the new Host Marriott systems. The project also enabled the uploading of hotel construction expenditures directly from the construction companies into its new Project Costing application at Host Marriott. These implementations enabled Host Marriott to leverage its independent management and control over capital expenditures, maintenance and assets. The project achieved outstanding client satisfaction ratings based on an independent review, and was nominated by IBM for a national project excellence award.

EDUCATION

* Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany

* Master of Science in Accounting, State University of New York at Albany

OTHER

* PwC BreakPoint BPR Methodology

* Structured analysis and modeling

* Certified PeopleSoft FCM applications.

* Certified in SAP R3 FICO Modules

* Completed two-week SAP Federal Boot Camp

* PeopleSummit Implementation Methodology

* Listed in Global Register's Who's Who in Executives and Professionals for recognized success.

* Proficient with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, ABC Flow Charter, Lotus Notes

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