Management Power Plant

Jerome Powell

******.******@*****.*** I http://iamjeromepowell.com

+1-954-***-**** (mobile)

executive summary

Certified Scrum Product Owner with 12+ years experience managing enterprise performance reporting &

analytics, financial management systems implementation & management in the USA, Germany, and South

Africa, currently seeking PM, BA, & QA opportunities

Experience

12/14 – Present Aplicor Boca Raton, FL

Software Test Engineer I

Utilized JIRA & Zephyr to design and execute test cases for complex multi dimensional ERP, CRM, and

ECOM all in one cloud based application in an agile environment

Employed Keynote & KITE to develop webapp test scripts for automated load & platform testing

Drafted product requirements specs and designed mockups for key product enhancements including; drop

ship, shipping integration with FedEx & UPS

Provided deep dive demos of new features to Support, Sales, and Integration teams

Led our after deployment production testing, our weekly triage meeting in US & Denmark, and SME in our

design meetings

StartUp Institute NY,

6/14 – 9/14

NY

Product & Design

Mastered User Experience & design best practices working with projects for companies such as;

Airbnb (‘list my space’ redesigned from 9 steps/pages to 6),

Kloof (designed new mobile app that included ‘Kloof Koins’ gamification & loyalty platform)

Scrum master & PM leading morning standups, liaison between our team & project owners, managed

resource allocation & tracking burn down, & leading sprints & retrospectives

Prepared wireframes, solution specification documents, clickable prototypes, information architecture

presentations

juwi Renewable Energy & SanVal Energy, CC Cape Town, South Africa

8/09 – 12/12

Co Founder, Head of Solar, Management Consultant

Co founded and managed professional services consultancy delivering business investment analytics to

international renewable energy power plant developers

Leveraged data mining expertise and project coordination experience to identify, acquire, and market viable

solar power plant development sites and projects with valuations in excess of $100M

Managed entire cross functional project development process, including site assessment & layout, planning

and permitting, as well as construction and commissioning while managing local economic, political,

administrative, environmental, contractual, and technical considerations

Leveraged project management workflow expertise to prepare detailed, procurement, financing, and

construction project management flowcharts, progress and exception reports, & various ad hoc requests

Successfully managed often contradictory expectations of investors, operational development partners and

senior executives at national South African banks

Deutsche Post DHL GmbH Bonn, Germany

2/04 – 7/09

Global Business Finance Manager

Hyperion Financial Management Systems Rollout Management ;

Sales Finance subject matter expert and project manager liaison to Ranzal consultants

Partnered with Ranzal to define and build the planning model, develop forms and calculations, define

process flow and control, validate organizational hierarchies, define naming convention, etc.

Business Case Investment Management;

Prepared business case analyses for any project with >€2M total Cap Ex commitment, leveraging Excel

based detailed investment analysis tool. Tool remains in place as de facto Deutsche Post DHL investment

analysis scorecard.

Ensured alignment of local business cases to corporate strategic planning, negotiating amicable

solutions and aligning projects to corporate cash flow and liquidity parameters and KPIs

Financial Reporting Management;

Provided U.S. Management Board (USMB) a concise yet functional overview of monthly financial

performance using a consistent framework that assesses performance by product revenue, functional

spend and cost category through the Monthly Management Report (MMR)

Developed reporting data validation exception reports ensuring completeness and accuracy

Finance Planning and Analysis;

Developed financial models encompassing revenue forecasting, pricing, cost benchmarking, and

sensitivity analysis for various strategic projects within the organization including; Telesales Expansion,

Freight Filler, Retail Franchise, and Fast Track projects

Created ‘National Sales’ Account Managers performance dashboard believed to still be utilized today

including incorporation of Hyperion Reporting tools to develop individual Budget vs. Actual reporting

package utilized by all VP’s within Commercial Sales along with newly developed VP annual review

scorecards

Kellstrom Industries Miramar, FL United States

11/01 – 1/04

Senior Financial Analyst

Liaised with IT department to form ‘in house’ consultant team developing proprietary SG&A Budget

reporting and analysis tool

Formalized and consolidated numerous company reporting dashboards of individual VPs and CFO to

provide consistent reporting and performance evaluation framework

Developed inventory reporting package utilized by Board providing a high level dashboard focusing on

an ‘internal’ SWOT analysis

Ernst & Young LLP West Palm Beach, FL United States

10/00 – 10/01

Assurance and Advisory Business Services Staff

Vouched and traced cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, prepaids, and fixed assets to ensure

reasonable financial statement accuracy of public clients; Citrix Software, The Sports Authority, & Dyno Corp

Supervised cost accounting due diligence project in regards to Discrete Power business unit divestiture on

behalf of Intersil Corporation

Through metrics analysis and audit of procedural adherence, provided sound assurance of the stability and

collectability to individual stakeholders relating to the retirement plans of Weitnauer America, MetLife, & The

Sports Authority

qualifications

Corporate & project finance management, business intelligence & resource allocation,

Technical: JIRA, Zephyr, Keynote, KITE, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 3, Sublime, Visio, Axure, Github,

MS Office suite

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Education

May ‘06 Nova Southeastern University Davie, FL MBA (3.43

GPA)

Aug ‘00 Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL BS Accounting (3.33

GPA)

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