Meepani Lynch

Orlando, FL ***** 321-***-**** ac3esz@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Talented Information Technology Professional - Enterprise Leadership and Delivery

Strategic Business Transformation: Act as a change agent, orchestrate transformative business strategy. Partner with business leaders to drive outcomes meeting or exceeding business goals and customer focused success.

Team Leadership: Lead diverse technical and business teams onsite and offsite. Recruit/hire top talent and select contactor resources; exceptional skill in building and maintaining partnerships with vendors. Mentor analysts and project managers.

First-rate Project Delivery: Direct complex projects, programs and initiatives in Agile or traditional methods with emphasis in development and implementation of technology systems such as cloud applications, ERP, upgrades, reporting, integrations and system conversions.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Engineering Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement Vision, Strategy and Delivery Enterprise Software Deployment Data Integration, Monitoring, Analysis Cloud Computing, SAAS, IAAS & PAAS Agile Methods & ‘Best Practices’ Vendor Management Resource Plans / Budgeting / Forecasting / Roadmaps

TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

ORANGE LAKE RESORTS/HOLIDAY INN CLUB VACATIONS, Orlando, FL 2008 to Present Orange Lake Resorts, a leader in the vacation ownership industry with 26 resorts around the country with close to 5000 associates and over 200,000 owners.

Senior Director of Product & Portfolio Management

Managed the enterprise application project portfolio ($7M) and budget ($2M annually), led up to 60 internal and vendor developers, scrum masters, program managers to deliver IT projects and business initiatives. Managed all vendor relationships for the Business Innovations Team.

Portfolio Vision / Strategy / Direction: Created technical vision and strategy for portfolio, directed organization technology direction including planning and implementation of best practices. Ensured the implementation of application governance framework including policies and procedures.

Business Partner: Collaborate with executive and senior leadership to enhance business operations. Managed project budgets, stakeholder communication and technology budget.

Vendor Management: Researched and negotiated software contracts for all enterprise software and managed all vendor relationships.

IT Roadmap / Business Continuity / Systems Security: Designed application architecture and developed strategy roadmap ensuring systems security and business continuity.

Enterprise wide Credit

Card Implementation / $2M – Managed 30 people to implement new enterprise credit card gateway and processor and added new EMV (chip) technology all point-of-sale systems (POS) PCI compliant. Enable the funding to be available in the bank in 2 days and saved $300K annually.

Cloud-Based Solution / Workplace P2P Implementation / $2.7M – Implemented and oversaw maintenance of General Ledger, Payables, Fixed Assets, Projects modules in AX with the first cloud hosted solution. Integrated MS Dynamics AX Financial with Workplace Procure-to-Pay, ebanking reconciliation with Sandler-Khane, and Wolters- Kluwer Tax modules allowing finance and accounting departments to be able to better streamline their integrations and reconciliations.

Ultipro HRMS/ $500K – Deployed SAAS HRMS in 5 months which included HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, On-boarding, Manager and employee Self Service modules resulting in improved user experience and reduced headcount by 1Full Time Employee (FTE).

Kronos Upgrade/$450K – Upgraded Kronos timekeeper and scheduler modules to latest version and migrated application from on-premise to the Kronos Cloud. Managed transition of bio-metric clocks across the US. Enabled mobile access and automated PTO requests resulting in increased efficiencies, reduced paper and labor fraud.

Oracle Procure-to-Pay / $500K – Rolled out over 50 team members to deploy Oracle e-business Procure-to-Pay modules for the enterprise while ensuring change management, communication, training and support which resulted in cost savi ngs to the business with stream lined vendor contracts via punch outs and automated paper processes.

Oracle Recruitment / $300K – Implemented Oracle e-business iRecruitment module and affectively managed the process changes to enable an automated application tracking, on-boarding and recruiting for the enterprise which greatly simplified Human Resource recordkeeping and allowing company to increase efficiencies on hiring.

HD SUPPLY/FORMERLY HUGHES SUPPLY, Orlando, FL 2003 to 2008 Wholesale distribution company with nearly 1,000 locations in North America, and more than 24,000 associates.

Senior Project Manager

Supervised 20 team members across 5 IT areas to manage information technology projects and business initiatives. Assisted with leading the Project Management Office (PMO).

PMO Summit: Organized Project Management Summit, a 3-day gathering of all project managers in the company, focusing on training and sharing best practices.

PMO Policies & Procedures: Instrumental in establishing policies and procedures and developed standardized document templates for the PMO.

PMO Training: Mentored project managers and project coordinators; represented PMO at inter-departmental meetings; organized team-building events; planned/coordinated training for new hires and project managers. Oracle Financials / $7M – Managed 30 team members to deploy Oracle Financials Payables, iExpense, and Credit Management modules. Implemented iExpense enabling 3000 additional associates to enter expenses electronically – greatly simplifying expense tracking and saving Accounting $300K annually. Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) / Business Intelligence / $2 M – Implemented EDW, consolidated customer, vendor and product information into single platform for first time. EDW provided the critical data needed to launch first-ever Hughes Supply rewards program.

Infrastructure Integration / $1M – Led the 90-day infrastructure integration activities immediately following the Home Depot acquisition of Hughes Supply. Managed the integration of email platforms, network structures, telecommunications, data communications and data centers.

DELOITTE Pittsburgh, PA 1999 - 2003

Consultant, Technology Integration Services

Managed custom application development projects for public sector accounts. Strategized with Global BI partner and project partners; hired and managed project development teams, developed contractual project phase documents, provided client project status updates, and managed change requests.

Served as a functional expert during development and testing. Architected app design and data models.

Consistently met or exceeded project goals on time, with a proven track record of developing systems that resulted in growing business and increasing client satisfaction. eCAPS / $4M – Implemented the first web-based client and provider system which enabled the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) of Allegheny County to work as one integrated unit. Enabled Allegheny County to effectively monitor contracts with service providers and subcontractors as well as track all clients and services offered by DHHS. Constructed detailed design specifications for all modules. eCAPS Data Warehouse / $1M – Introduced data warehouse for the Allegheny County Health & Human Services Department allowing them to easily obtain statistics and geographic information on clients served so that the department can qualify for federal and state grants. New HEIGHTS Data Mart / $1.5M– Rolled out welfare reporting for the State of New Hampshire, Division of Family Assistance. High quality reports now allow the client to accurately and effectively measure caseworker productivity and case complexity. Assisted in business development efforts for future phases. Financial Institution Data Match (FIDM) / $7M – Deployed the FIDM system for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. The system improves the lives of children through child support enforcement. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Science in Computer Science - University of Pittsburgh, 1999

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering - Florida Atlantic University, 1997

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified scrum master (CSM)

Certified product owner (CPO)

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