Senior Project Manager

Kyle Lambert…

Atlanta, GA • 817-***-**** ****.*******@***.*** • http://www.linkedin.com/in/kylelambert

Passionate, driven Information Solutions Leader who solves problems both domestically and internationally, through corporate-level strategic and operational planning, technology portfolio management, and program and staff development. Visionary trailblazer, adept at directing complex organizational-wide technology and systems resource operations. Implements processes that provide successful, innovative solutions ensuring security, integrity, and productivity of information resources. Generates significant cost savings, increases profitability and improves access to key business information by identifying critical drivers for strategic technology deployment. Consummate communicator, respected by peers, employees, clients and corporate stakeholders for technological expertise, analytical ability and motivational leadership style, leading teams to be competitively among the best.

Catapulted Growth: Fueled AZZ Inc.’s revenue from $200M to $850M growing from 12 domestic to 50 international and domestic locations, without Information System staff growth.

Infrastructure Upgrade: Partnered with Arby’s Restaurant Group and directed the upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite from R11.5.10 to R12.1.3, generating $1.7M in revenue over 12 months on time/budget upgrading information infrastructure preparing Arby’s for explosive revenue and location growth.

Award-Winning Innovation: Recognized as ComputerWorld Laureate in 2003 for pioneering the use of SaaS and Cloud Services.

Slashed Costs: Reduced total costs of IS administration 53% while boosting performance by outsourcing company’s ERP system to Oracle On-Demand.

Leadership: Coached, mentored, trained and developed employees, from newly on-boarded to managers and peers, forming many high-functioning and achieving teams.

Capabilities that Align People, Processes, and Technology

Project Portfolio Management

Business Process Optimization

System Design Implementation

Network Management

Budgeting Cost Controls

Staff Team Cultivation

Organizational Development

Application Integrations

Outsourcing Liaison

Business Intelligence Analytics

Resource Planning

Opportunity Generation

Client Relations Partnering

Infrastructure Security

Strategy Creation Execution

Vendor Contract Negotiations

Software Development

Partner Collaboration

Solving Corporate Problems with Pragmatic, Leading-Edge Solutions

EiS Technologies, Inc., Atlanta, GA 2014 – February 2017

Privately held, Oracle Platinum Partner, offering Business Intelligence and professional services solutions for the Oracle marketplace.

SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOLUTIONS

Brought on to develop professional services practices in Oracle Cloud Services and Systems Integration. Served as a trusted advisor for multiple clients both in government and private sector. Directed 20+ employees, consultants and outsourced resources. Focused on resource utilization, services delivery, project management and business process improvement for both internal and EiS’s clients’ needs. Held multiple Fusion certifications.

Government Partnership: Directed the first Oracle HCM Federal Government Cloud Services implementation for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, generating $2.2M in revenue over 20 months.

Partnered with Oracle’s Senior Management to assure project’s success, including initial FEDRAMP security provisioning certification and developing issue support processes for FEDRAMP environments.

Implemented the Oracle HCM Cloud Service modules Performance Management, Goal Management, Talent Review, Compensation Management and Learn (formerly Taleo Learn) along with associate analytics for each module.

Deployment involved configuration, personalization and branding, as well as bi-directional integration with PeopleSoft.

Infrastructure Upgrade: Partnered with Arby’s Restaurant Group and directed the upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite from R11.5.10 to R12.1.3k, generating $1.7M in revenue over 12 months on time/budget upgrading Arby’s information infrastructure preparing Arby’s for explosive revenue and location growth.

Simultaneously directed Reconfiguration of General Ledger Chart Of Accounts; re-implementation of Accounts Receivable module; creation of a franchisee portal; upgraded the Oracle database, sales tax/payroll tax systems to supported versions; and restructured processes for operational efficiency.

Oracle Thought Leader: Developed EiS’s Oracle Fusion Certification program ensuring EiS employees are Fusion certified and that EiS earns its Oracle Fusion Specializations.

Promoted 25% of domestic employees certification across 133 Oracle service categories.

Developed EiS’s “Integration as a Solution” practice that is focused on a tool agnostic approach to Cloud and On-Premise application integrations. The integration tools on which the practice currently focuses are Oracle Integration Cloud Service, Jitterbit, MuleSoft and SplashBI.

AZZ Incorporated, Fort Worth, TX 2006 – 2014

Public, $820M specialty electrical equipment manufacturer/provider of highly engineered services to global power generation, industrial, transmission and distribution markets.

DIRECTOR, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Recruited to salvage a failing Oracle E-Business Suite implementation by creating a help desk, introducing training programs, developing staff, and supporting aggressive M&A corporate initiatives. Oversaw 20+ employees, consultants and outsourced resources. Managed Oracle E-Business Suite portfolio including: Quotes, Order Management, Incentive Compensation, Configurator, Advanced Pricing for Order Management, Inventory Management, Bills of Material, Engineering, Discrete Manufacturing, and Manufacturing Scheduling. Portfolio also encompassed Cost Management, Purchasing, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Management, General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Report Manager, Human Resources, Payroll, Time and Labor, and Self-Service Applications.

Business Revenue & Savings Generator

Catapulted Growth: Fueled revenue from $200M to $850M by leading Oracle E-Business Suite implementation for 34 domestic/4 international acquisition facilities, supporting 2 languages, without commensurate growth in cost, while allowing acquired facilities to utilize centralized infrastructure, creating operational efficiencies.

Revenue Driver: Implemented Oracle CRM On Demand for 43 facilities with integration into Oracle E-Business Suite using web services increasing revenue by $12.5M, or 5%, while also increasing visibility into opportunities and eliminating inter-company competition for same opportunities and duplicate data entry.

Savings Generator: Implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Configurator for Bills of Material Configuration Modeling, cutting 30 hours of engineering per quote, totaling $300K annually per operation with 5 operations booked.

Implemented biometric time collection that integrated to Oracle E-Business Suite Time and Labor at 40 operations saving $500K annually by eliminating fraudulent clock-ins/outs, and cutting data entry errors.

Slashed Costs & Time: Reduced Oracle E-Business Suite implementation costs 90% and time 70% per acquisition by implementing standardized models.

Implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Incentive Compensation, cutting 240 hours of duplicate data entry and incorrect sales commission payments and improving 404 controls expanding to 8 facilities.

Technology Thought Leader, Efficiency Driver and Productivity Expert

Productivity Gains: Implemented continual improvements in business process standardization, improving system usage consistency, reducing personnel training time by 40 hours per new hire with an estimated boost to productivity and error reduction of $150K per year.

Quality Expertise: Reduced business application regression testing; improved quality by automating test scripts eliminating 1K hours annually of manual testing and countless hours of production system downtime.

Integration Expert: Led critical phase to integrate applications with web services integrated Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle CRM On Demand, and Oracle Agile PLM using Oracle SOA Suite, and Oracle Application Integration Architecture. Streamlined processes across application suites, reducing duplicate data entry, errors, and processing time.

Efficiencies: Implemented Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), with integration into Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, and Oracle E- Business Suite, using web services for 2 facilities slashing duplicate data entry, raw material inventory levels, manufacturing rework, and warranty labor with an 18 month ROI.

Analytics & Reporting Expert: Created enterprise wide reporting system for executive dashboards, ad hoc analytics/reports integrating data from Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle Agile PLM and Oracle Primavera EPPM, using Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation, Noetix Business Intelligence Generator and EiS Technology eXpress Reporting.

Call Center Results: Introduced Oracle Siebel Call Center to serve as Help Desk and Knowledge Management systems reducing call volumes 60% and decreasing mean time to problem resolution by 80%.

John I. Haas, Inc., Yakima, WA 1997 – 2006

Privately held, world’s largest producer of hop products, serving world’s largest breweries, ethanol fuel and the nutriceutical industries.

VICE PRESIDENT, INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, 2001 – 2006

Promoted from Director of Information Solutions (1997-2001) for successfully replacing legacy system and implementing core systems and infrastructure to support the corporate consolidation and growth.

Utilizing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and managing employees/consultants, aligned business operations with corporate objectives through implementation of measurement systems such as Oracle Balanced Scorecard, Business Dashboard and KPI based on Oracle Middleware technologies. Led multi-national IS consolidation for company and its affiliated corporations.

Slashed Costs: Reduced total costs of IS administration 53% while boosting performance by outsourcing company’s ERP system to Oracle On-Demand, resulting in ComputerWorld Laureate Award in 2003.

Strategic Planning: Developed, managed, monitored and facilitated corporate strategic planning processes increasing profitability, ROS and ROE, and asset utilization.

Business Technologist: Improved corporate margin, cost and expense forecasting by developing business modeling applications based on Oracle Financial Analyzer, utilizing multi-dimensional databases and web-enabled analytical tools.

Customer-Focused: Improved information access for vendors, customers, and affiliate corporations by implementing Internet/Intranet technologies while minimizing exposure to internal/external security threats.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD:

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER, Sentrol (Acquired by GE Security Products) 1994 – 1997

Education

BS, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Awards

ComputerWorld Laureate (2003)

Professional Associations

Oracle Customer Advisory Boards: Fusion Services (2011 - 2014)

Oracle Customer Advisory Boards: Business Intelligence and Analysis (2003 – 2006)

Oracle Customer Advisory Boards: On-Demand Services (2002 – 2005)

Certifications & Security Clearance

Oracle Fusion HCM PreSales and Sales Specialist Oracle Fusion Financials PreSales and Sales Specialist

Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service PreSales and Sales Specialist

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud Specialization – Presales and Sales

Oracle Integration Cloud Service Presales Consultant and Sales Person

Oracle Social Relationship Management PreSales and Sales Specialist

Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Specialist

Secret Security Clearance, (Expired)

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