Sherman David Southerland, MBA, DBA (ABD)

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Mobile: 423-***-****

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Summary of Qualifications

Multi-Faceted professional with exceptional working knowledge of industry best practices, group dynamics, team supervision, and project management.

Personally responsible for numerous time- and money-saving system implementations within several organizations.

Academic and professional training in industrial/organizational psychology, crisis management and intervention, personality assessments, and developer/IT personnel management.

Time- and project-proven collaborative skills.

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, both within internal development staff and among inter-departmental upper management.

MBA recipient with emphasis in international business practices, strategic analysis, and project management.

DBA candidate with extensive training in Information Systems Management (ABD: All But Dissertation. Expected graduation: November 2019).

Work Experience

Consultant: Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst, Lawson Integration Team, Atlanta Public Schools (APS)

Apex Systems

Dates: December 2018 to March 2019

1 Concourse Parkway, Suite 628

Atlanta, Georgia 30346

Telephone: 770-***-****

Supervisors: Natalie Mason, Recruiter, Apex Systems; David Lis, Technical Implementation Manager, Information Technology, Atlanta Public Schools; Tameka Barber, Director, IT Enterprise Applications, Information Technology, Atlanta Public Schools

Current duties include migration oversite, reporting and data analysis, technical and user documentation, Oracle SQL reporting (via Crystal and Lawson Business Intelligence/LBI), 4GL COBOL customizations, and 3rd-party data import/export for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public school system (Atlanta Public Schools) with an annual $1billion US budget.

Implementation and upgrade SME for Infor Lawson migration to V10 cloud deployment from V9 on premise (AIX RS-6000) system.

Responsible for script conversions from Oracle SQL to MS SQL (2012 R2).

Oversite of Infor Process Automation (IPA) conversion from V9 to V10 (cloud deployment).

Technical resource, budgeting, and human capital management for V10 upgrade project.

Information technology team liaison for APS internal resources (HR, financial, payroll, and benefits), as well as liaison for 3rd-party consulting services.

Project lead, co-project manager, and senior business analyst in charge of project deadlines and end-user expectations, IT-team technical responsibilities for project success, and end-user signoff for conversion/upgrade finalization.

Responsible for leading project-related presentations to senior management staff, including department directors and members of the C-suite (CIO, CFO, COO).

Consultant: Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) Report Writer

LRS Consulting Services

Dates: July to November 2018

9300 West 110th Street, Suite 435

Overland Park, Kansas 66210

Telephone: 913-***-****

Supervisors: Megan Hackett, Associate Recruiter, Consulting Services, LRS Consulting; Robert Kagenski, Director of Business Applications, Information Technology, Kirkland’s, Inc.

Business Intelligence (BI) report writer for Kirkland’s, Inc., corporate office in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Operations and database support analyst, including Infor Process Design (IPD) and Infor Process Automation (IPA) process flow definitions and updates.

Systems Administrator and data integration SME for 3rd-party applications interfacing with Infor Lawson Landmark and S3 applications.

SME for major Infor Lawson application suites including HR, Payroll, and Finance.

IT Programmer Analyst III

The Jackson Laboratory

Dates: July 2016 to July 2018

600 Main Street

Bar Harbor, Maine 04609

Telephone: 207-***-****

Supervisors: Ann Burns, Manager, IT Applications; Joseph Carfagno, Supervisor, IT Applications ERP

Project Lead, Analyst, and Developer for Financial (AP, AR, GL) and Human Resources/Global HR through Infor Lawson 11.1.

Systems Administrator and Developer/Integrations SME for multiple 3rd-part applications, including Host Analytics financial management, OnSite Environmental Health and Safety Assistant (EHSA), and iCIMS Talent Acquisition and Employee Onboarding solutions.

Extensive experience with Oracle SQL and MS SQL (2012R2) queries for data export and LBI reports through Crystal and SSRS.

Project Lead, Developer, and Analyst for Infor Lawson 11.1 upgrade through hosted services.

Project, human capital, and financial budgeting management for multiple projects.

Technical Business Analyst II

Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS)

Dates: November 2015 to April 2016

Information Technology Services

1405 Jesse Jewell Parkway

Gainesville, Georgia 37320-3480

Telephone: 770-***-****

Supervisor: Mary Huffine, Business Analyst Team Lead

IT liaison and advisor for the NGHS Financial Team and Project Management consultants during the Infor Lawson 10.x upgrade.

Project Lead for Financial (AP, GL, AR) applications during Infor Lawson 10.x upgrade.

Oversaw database conversions from McKesson Financials suite to SQL Server 2012.

Conversion and Upgrade project included changeover from Oracle 11gR2 to SQL 2012, as well is integration of existing McKesson Paragon data to SQL 2012.

Infor Lawson 10.x conversion included migration from Infor Lawson 9.0.1.9 running on an IBM AIX platform to Cloud services hosted by Amazon. Infor Lawson 10.x and SQL 2012 are both hosted on Amazon’s Cloud Services (AWS).

Extensive training in Infor Business Intelligence (IBI), Infor Process Designer (IPD), Infor Process Automation (IPA), and Crystal Reports Designer 2011 for Lawson data.

Programmer Analyst II

Life Care Centers of America (LCCA)

Dates: November 1998 to July 2015

Information Technology

3001 Keith Street NW, PO Box 3480

Cleveland, Tennessee 37320-3480

Telephone: 423-***-****

Supervisor: Mark Gooch, MBA, Vice President, Business Intelligence (BI)

Personally oversaw the largest hardware and software updates to our Infor Lawson corporate financial system since its inception. This upgrade included: a) database update from Oracle 11g to MS SQL 11.0 (on premise); b) hardware upgrade from IBM RS-6000 AIX platform to Dell servers running Windows Server 2012 (on premise); c) complete script conversion from AIX to Perl; d) user interface update from Lawson Interface Desktop (LID – command line interface) to Infor Portal (GUI interface); e) reporting updates from 4GL COBOL custom reports to SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) running in the Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) environment; and f) converting Lawson automated processes from a combination of recurring jobs and Windows automation to Infor Process Automation (IPA)

Developed, tested and deployed hundreds of custom Lawson applications for use by Life Care corporate and facility personnel. These custom applications included internal reports, database imports and exports for third-party vendors, and process improvement, automation, and streamlining.

Worked with multiple professional groups of developers, business analysts, systems analysts, and 3rd-party consultants for enterprise projects and troubleshooting. Project oversite included both remote and on-site project management, with additional off-shore support for

Project Lead/Project Manager and acting Business Analyst on high-level projects including IT Asset Management, Corporate Learning Management Systems (LMS), and Windows 7/8 and 8/10 conversions.

Member of Life Care’s Information Technology Disaster Recovery Team, responsible ensuring automated processes and data transfers to and from 3rd-party vendors complete following a system-wide incident.

Primary developer and support analyst for entire corporate financial department of a multi-billion dollar healthcare firm.

Ongoing corporate training in Business Analysis and Project Management tactics.

Project Manager and Senior Business analyst on the development and deployment of a custom learning management system (LMS), recognized as the largest enterprise-wide application at the time (over 40,000 employees).

Personally planned, organized, budgeted and directed an inter-departmental video presentation to introduce Information Technology teams, supervisors and personnel to the entire LCCA corporate body. This included an overview of team responsibilities, IT structure, and support efforts for corporate, facility, and field employees.

Professional Affiliations

International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA)

Tennessee Lawson User Group (TNLUG)

Georgia-Alabama Lawson User Group

Southeast Lawson Mega User Group

Education

Doctor of Business Administration, Walden School of Management, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota (In progress. Expected graduation: November 2019).

Master of Business Administration, Michael J. Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia.

Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Tennessee.

Associate of Science, Computer Science, Chattanooga College, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Associate of Arts, Psychology, Dalton State College, Dalton, Georgia.

Associate of Arts, Philosophy, Oxford College or Emory University, Oxford, Georgia.

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