*** *** **. *** **, Deerfield, IL. ***** P: 847-***-**** *************@*****.*** www.LinkedIn.com/in/reneortquist
Project Management / Implementation Specialist / Application Development
Over 30 years of experience in Information Technology covering project management, application development, new system implementation, outsourcing liaison, and third party system interfacing. Passionately, employs collaborative skills, leads strategic planning initiatives, effectively allocates resources, identifies cost saving and performance boosting opportunities delivering reliable and scalable solutions supporting company goals.
SAP HCM, Payroll, FI, PP, PM, CRM, Success Factors
SAP Benefits, Tivoli, UNIX, and ABAP
Ceridian Payroll and Mercer Benefits
Waterfall and Agile Methodologies, SDLC
POS Kiosk Implementation across U.S.A.
Non-SAP: Payroll, AR, AP, GL, HR, and Mfg Systems
Time Entry and Internet Benefit Enrollment Systems
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
True Group, Oak Brook IL 2018 to Present
Information Technology Consulting Company Business Analyst Consultant
Implementation Consultant for POS Kiosk driven Systems for McDonald’s Corporation (15,000 stores)
Designed Macro and Visual Basic reports producing reasons behind Kiosk rescheduling issues for McDonald’s
Designed 5 different weekly/ monthly POS progress reports depicting: successes, issues, forecasting, and historical comparison
Kellogg Company, Oak Brook IL 2002 to 2017
Information Technology Senior Application Developer
Other titles held (oldest last) Senior Business Analyst, Member of Technical Services, Senior Programmer Analyst, Programmer Analyst
Project managed global consolidation, including go-live implementation and User Interfacing of SAP HCM modules
Took over troubled SAP job scheduling and documentation project in peril of due date noncompliance and delivered it on time
Project managed smooth offshore outsourcing of configuration and support for an already live SAP HCM module
Project managed 4 implementations of SAP HCM module globally for Abap, configuration.
Project managed outsourcing SAP benefit system for U.S. to Aon Hewitt and then from Aon Hewitt to Mercer
Project lead and Liaison between HR, IT, Payroll, and Finance Users and external vendors to configure and maintain SAP HCM module
Project lead and Liaison between Benefits, Payroll and external partners ensuring accurate data transfer and on-time payroll processing
Project managed rewrite and implementation of Compensation and Talent data subsystem feeding SAP Success Factors
Liaison between users and outside vendors for investigating and resolving data ownership caused by health care reform
Interviewed, hired and supervised consultants for annual benefit enrollment and compensation system re-write projects
Trained Users and IT staff in problem solving methodologies within the scope of programming design, development and support issues
Project Managed Yearly Annual Benefit Open Enrollment for 8 years, both SAP Internet Portal and SAP
Designed and implemented balancing methodology for yearly medical, dental and vision plan cost changes
Coded and configured SAP HR changes and then trained users in proper data entry
Analyzed, designed, coded and implemented ABAP programs for HCM, FI and MM modules.
Led coding and testing for numerous SAP upgrades
Brach Confections, Chicago IL 1981 to 2001 Information Technology Senior System Analyst
Other titles held (oldest last) Senior programmer Analyst, Programmer
Project managed implementation of SAP Security Profiles for the HCM Module.
SAP implementation team member FI (Finance), MM (Materials Management), PP (Production Planning) and PM (Plant Maintenance) Modules
Project Leader responsible for Payroll year-end and quarterly processing overseeing seven payrolls
Coded and implemented plant maintenance, union payroll, accounts payable, and 401(k) programs
Maintained order processing, sales, accounts receivable, and warehousing programs
EDUCATION
English Literature St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Professional Training and Certifications
C++ Certificate and Visual C++ College of DuPage
SAP: ABAP, HCM, Payroll, Finance, Plant Maintenance, Production Planning, BW, Data Base, Success Factors Cloud - Employee Central, Boomi
ITIL Certification and Training Program, Oak Brook Languages: COBOL, C++, ABAP, Visual C++, Visual Basic, SQL, Mantis
Excel: Pivot Tables, Visual Basic, Macros, Power Point Databases: ORACLE, DB2, and Sybase
Knowledgeable in: HTML, CSS and JavaScript and Inkling