Gregg Rodenhiser

acrn7l@r.postjobfree.com

603-***-****

Summary of Qualifications:

Experienced, skilled IT professional with solid leadership skills and a diverse background in both IT consulting and corporate systems management. Over 20 years of practical experience in IT consulting, corporate systems and business management, including over 15 years managing full life cycle Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP ERP business system integrations, implementations and upgrades. Has managed large business transformations, redesigned business processes, conducted business architecture process reviews, performed gap/fit analyses and recommended cost effective solutions to resolve business problems. Consistently recognized for ability to complete projects on time and under budget.

Project work experience has been global in nature and ranges from very large strategic projects to smaller more targeted tactical projects. Significant expertise in driving business transformations toward the desired results using best practices and delivering application standard functionality, limiting customizations utilized in traditional/legacy processes to maximize ROI on IT investments. Has expertise in a wide range of industries, including: Healthcare, Insurance, Retail, High Tech & Electronics Manufacturing, Banking & Financial Services and Consumer Products & Goods and Aerospace & Defense.

Skill Summary:

Projects:

Managed 7 Full Life Cycle Oracle R12 implementations/ upgrades

Approx. 30 Oracle 11i/10.x upgrade, implementation & integration projects

Average team size comprised of 10 -25 functional & technical resources

Managed 4 Oracle R12 Assessments/Solution Designs

Managed 5 PeopleSoft upgrade & implementation projects

Average project budget managed $5M - $10M (as large as $25M)

Applications:

Oracle R12: FIN, FAH, HR, Billing, OM/MFG, SCM, PO, Projects, OM/MFG, PIM/MDM, Agile/PLM, Hyperion Reporting/Analytics/BI, SOA/BAM

PeopleSoft FIN, EAM, HR, OM, Billing & SCM (versions 9.0 - 8.8, 8.4 - 8.0, 7.5)

Oracle Release 11i: FIN, HR, OM/MFG, SCM, PO, Project, Billing, BI, Service, Contracts, PIM/MDM, Agile/PLM

SAP FIN & Service Applications

IBM Optim TDM Discovery & Green Hat

Ariba applications

Industry Experience:

Healthcare

High Tech Manufacturing

Electronics Manufacturing

Retail

Insurance

Banking & Financial Services

Aerospace & Defense

Consumer Products & Goods

Methodologies & Tools:

Oracle OUM and AIM

Oracle UPK & Tutor

Clarity PM Toolset

Microsoft Project

HP PPM & Quality Center

IBM RTC Change Mgmt. Tools

Professional Experience and Projects Summary:

Independent

Contractor

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Program/Project Manager

Sep. ’14 – June ‘15

Fujitsu Americas, Inc., Consulting,

Oracle Practice

Program Manager

Feb ’13 –July ’14

Independent

Contractor

State Street Bank

Project Manager

Jul ’12 – Feb. 13

Hewlett Packard

Oracle Practice

Program Manager

Aug ’10 – Jun ‘12

Independent

Contractor

Project Manager

Aug ’09 –Aug ‘10

Infosys Consulting

Program/Project Manager

Nov. ‘ 07 – July ‘09

Independent

Contractor

Project Manager

Dec. ’05 – Nov. ‘07

Apr. ’03 – May ‘04

CSC Consulting

Practice/Program Director

May ’04 – Nov. ‘05

Concentra Inc.,

Sr. Director of Enterprise Applications

May ’98 – Mar. ‘03

CSC Consulting

Functional Lead/Consutlant

Mar ’96 – May ‘98

Corporate Financial Management/Analyst positions

1985 - 1993

Manage a large team of Project Managers, Solution Architects, Functional/Technical Leads and Developers in all phases of a full life cycle conversion and implementation of a new Bill Review system (Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.)

Develop project plans and cost estimates for all of the IT Applications included in the implementation (Program budget exceeds $5 million).

Manage the completion of Liberty Mutual’s program governance documents, policies and procedures across the program as it evolved from a small aspirational project into a full life cycle program.

Managed the project planning phase for an implementation and integration of Ariba Supplier Sourcing and Purchasing applications (in a Sass model) within an existing Oracle R12 applications environment (Smucker’s Co.)

Managed a team of Project Managers, Solution Architects, Functional/Technical Leads and Developers in the development of a new testing approach to reduce the amount of time and effort to produce the test environments. Project included using IBM's Optim TDM Discovery tool for data subsetting and Green Hat service simulation tool to deploy on a timelier basis and with better quality data. (BCBSNC – BCBS insurance provider in the South Atlantic region)

Managed a team of Project Managers, Solution Architects, Functional/Technical Leads and Developers in the development of a new testing approach to reduce the amount of time and effort to produce the test environments. Project included using IBM's Optim TDM Discovery tool for data subsetting and Green Hat service simulation tool to deploy on a timelier basis and with better quality data. (BCBSNC – BCBS insurance provider in the South Atlantic region)

Managed a team of Oracle Architects, Functional/Technical Leads, Developers and DBA’s in the upgrade of Oracle FIN 11.5.10 environment to Oracle R12. A full lifecycle upgrade including Business Requirements Definition, Solution Design with recommendations on how new Oracle functionality can be best leveraged to improve/streamline their operations, custom code remediation, testing and deployment of new R12 applications. (CareFirst – BCBS provider in the Mid-Atlantic)

Led a Finance Transformation project in which the team was responsble for providing a Solution Architecture/Blueprint with recommendations of how Oracle R12 Financials and other standard application functionality could be leveraged to reengineer business processes and replaced 23 mainframe/legacy business systems. Goals were to elminate manual/duplicate business processes, improve operating efficienciies and provide for a quicker time to market in the rapidly changing health insurance industry. (CareFirst – BCBS provider in the Mid-Atlantic)

Led the development of health insurance products with Oracle Corporation to fill gaps in Oracle’s product offerings within the health insurance industry.

Led a team of Oracle Architects, Functional and Business Leads performing a High Level Requirements Analysis and Global Redesign to replace an existing international Oracle FIN 11.5.10 environment with R12. Included leading workshops, managing 11i to R12 Map & Gap sessions, reviewing and making recommendations on how new Oracle functionality (Oracle Ledgers, Ledger Sets, OU, SLA, Financial Accounting Hub, MOAC, AGIS, I/C, E-Business Tax and Reporting/Analytical Tools) can be best leveraged to improve/streamline their operations, their closing process and reduce the time and effort required to manage their financial operations (State Street Bank)

Developed and managed project plans, issue, risk and migration strategies for the upgrade of global Oracle 11.5.10 FIN and Hyperion applications to Oracle R12. (State Street Bank).

Worked with HP EBS project team to provide project support (project planning, issue and risk tracking and migration) for an Oracle R12 upgrade project (Symantec).

Worked with HP’s Sales team to develop new and existing business, as well developing RFP’s.

Managed an Order to Cash SAP implementation to merge legacy applications to a single platform. Created project plans, issue, risk and migration strategies, readiness assessment and Production rollout schedules (internal HP project)

Worked with Sr. Mgmt. and our account management team to determine progress on program level goals, made and implemented recommendations to improve processes and meet the Infrastructure Outsourcing program goals of delivering on time and within budget (Genzyme)

Managed the analysis of all project requests across program phases, prioritized all projects with the client and account management team, created project plans, instance delivery schedules, instance acceptance criteria, weekly/monthly project dashboards and project status reports to communicate the status of all projects and insure that the client’s program and project goals were being achieved (Genzyme)

Managed the implementation of a new HP/OOD/Genzyme collaborative SharePoint site for the PMO program and project phases to improve communication, institute and document all program and account processes (Genzyme)

Worked to improve our system and instance refresh/clones processes reducing the time to create hardware environments and instance refreshes/clones by 40% (Genzyme)

Analyzed opportunities and made recommendations on how new Oracle R12 functionality (Shared Services, SOA, BAM, Ledger Set, MOAC, BPEL and OBIEE/Business Intelligence) could be leveraged to improve processes, productivity and reduce overall cost (Genzyme)

Performed an Oracle R12 Assessment including: analyzing existing business processes and the Oracle 11.5.9 applications, documenting business requirements and issues with the current systems, making recommendations on how Oracle R12 functionality and business process changes can be made to resolve inefficient processes, duplicate work and excessive manual rework due to disparate systems and processes and to meet future business requirements (Talbots)

Re-planned and managed the integration of legacy claim, billing and payment applications into an existing Oracle Financials AR and AP environment (11.5.10.2) and brought the project back on plan for a large dental insurance provider. Created new project plans, resources plans, budget estimates, an issue and risk tracking system with migration plans to meet a tightened implementation schedule (DentaQuest)

Re-planned and managed the upgrade of Oracle applications and databases to the latest patch levels (EBS 11.5.10 from RUP 2 to RUP 7 and DB from 9i to 11G R2), with external solution provider (DentaQuest)

Worked with Sr. Management to define and articulate future business strategy, define solutions to leverage Oracle and other applications to meet these long and short term strategies (C & S Wholesale)

Managed a team of 15 Oracle Functional and Technical Leads (onshore and offshore resources) in the High Level Analysis, Design and Build of an Oracle R12 Implementation of FIN, OM, SCM, Billing, HR and MDM/PIM applications at a large wholesale grocery firm. Developed project plans, project budgets, work shop schedules, phase deliverables and cost estimates, created issues, risk, migration strategies and weekly status reports to ensure that they met project timelines and budget estimates (C &S Wholesale)

Led a team of 40 Functional and Technical resources (onshore and offshore) in the Analysis and Design of an Oracle R12 Financials and Manufacturing applications upgrade at a large networking and router manufacturer. Managed the creation of current and future state requirement business process models, process flows, prototypes, the design of the new system and change control plans to ensure a smooth Production rollout and the achievement of expected efficiencies (Cisco).

Worked with management to articulate their future business strategy and define solutions to meet these requirements. Led the business requirements, solution design, configuration, testing and integration of Oracle 11.5.10 Service/Installed Base applications of an acquired company into the existing Oracle R12 Financial and Service applications at a large networking/router manufacture (Cisco)

Re-planned a worldwide SAP Financials, Service and Billing implementation at a Fortune 100 software company. Developed deployment readiness plans for the worldwide roll out of SAP’s Financial and Service applications. This included defining the required SOX Compliance controls, readiness criteria, project success criteria and measures of success and the overall roll-out plans to their US and Canadian offices (Microsoft)

Worked with the Sales team on developing new and existing business and managed the RFP process nationally and regionally

Managed the integration of 2 legacy Service applications and implementation of Oracle 11.5.10 Services application Implementations (TeleService, I-Support, Service Contacts, Quality, Installed Base, Field Service and Depot Repair modules) within an existing Oracle 11.5.10 FIN, HR, PO, and OM/SCM environment (Sycamore Networks)

Managed the implementation of Oracle 11.5.10 Agile and PLM applications within an Oracle 11.5.10 FIN, HR, and OM environment (Sycamore Networks)

Instituted Oracle AIM and other development methodologies into the planning and development process to ensure that Project milestones, timelines and budgets were met (Sycamore Networks)

Led the requirements analysis, design and configuration of an Oracle R12 Financials and Projects implementation for a mid-tier consulting firm. Worked heavily with Oracle’s Functional and Technical teams to resolve application, patch and setup issues (Protégé Consulting)

Managed the upgrade of Oracle’s 11.5.8 FIN, SCM, PO/I-Procurement and HR applications vers. 11.5.10 at a regional HMO (Fallon Health)

Managed the implementation of Oracle’s 11.5.10 OM, SCM and I-Procurement applications at a large hospital (MedCenter One)

Managed a team 15 (onshore and offshore resources) in the upgrade of PeopleSoft 8.4 to 8.9 FIN, OM, SCM and Billing applications at a large Electronics Mfg. firm, including the business process effort to eliminate 6,000 custom objects back to standard functionality (Rogers Electronics)

Managed the upgrade of PeopleSoft 8.0 to 8.9 FIN and HR applications, significantly redesigning business processes to utilize standard package functionality at a large Investment and Wealth Management firm (Berkshire Mgmt.)

Managed a PeopleSoft 8.9 HCM applications proof of concept (Base HR, Advanced Benefits and I-Recruitment) to highlight how standard functionality could replace a heavily customized version of PS 8.3 HR and legacy applications at a large Insurance company (One Beacon Insurance)

Performed independent project health checks, including analyzing project success factors, project progress against plan and making recommendations to resolve issues and bring the project back on plan (St. Joseph’s Hospital and Gypsum Corp.)

Developed Rapid Implementations approaches for upgrading and implementing Oracle and PeopleSoft applications to reduce the instance creation cycle time by 50%

Worked with Sr. Management to define and articulate future business strategy, define solutions to leverage Oracle and other applications to meet these long and short term strategies

Managed an 11.5.8 to 11.5.10 upgrade of Oracle’s Fin, HR, OM/MFG, PO, AVSC/DP/SCM, Projects Mfg/ Costing/Billing and Service applications at a large Power Supply manufacturer. Also included the integration of Oracle applications with Siebel CRM and modules (APC)

Prepared a global analysis, design and recommendations for how Oracle’s products and best practices could be leveraged more effectively on a worldwide basis for the above Power Supply manufacturer (APC)

Led an Analysis, Design and Business Process Re-Engineering project to leverage Oracle’s 11.5.10 FIN, OM, MFG, PO and SCM modules to replace Oracle 11.5.8 and legacy applications and customizations at a large global plastics manufacturer (Spartech Plastics)

Managed the turnaround of Oracle 11.5.10 implementation of FIN, MFG, Project Mfg., Costing and Billing applications of 4 divisions of a large Aerospace & Defense firm (General Dynamics)

Led the global re-design and integration of all GL applications at a large banking and Financial Services company (State Street Bank)

Managed the implementation of Oracle Financial Analyzer and Business Intelligence applications (State Street Bank)

Managed the redesign of business processes and implementation of Oracle FIN and Billing applications to leverage standard package functionality at a large Travel Services company (Cendant Group)

Managed the implementation and integration of an Oracle data warehouse and business intelligence tools with an existing Oracle 11.5.10 FIN, OM and LM/ PM environment at a large global leasing company (DeLage Leasing)

Developed industry solutions for the Financial Services, Manufacturing and Retail industries

Managed all facets of a large regional Oracle Practice (part of National Oracle Practice), including business development, recruiting, hiring, project staffing, project delivery, delivery assurance and account management

Led business development activities yielding more than $15M in net new business in the Northeast

Worked with Sr. Management to define and articulate future business strategy, define solutions to leverage Oracle and other applications to meet these long and short term strategies

Managed a team of 30 internal and consulting Project Leads, Business/Functional Analysts, Developers and Business Leads in all phases of a Re-Implementation of Oracle 10.7 Financials AP and GL to 11i for 4 Operating Divisions

Led requirements definition, solution design, map & gap analysis, development of functional/technical specifications, conversion and migration of legacy Fixed Assets to 11i Oracle Fixed Assets for 4 Operating Divisions

Managed the integration of client facing, internal operational, billing and financial systems resulting from an aggressive 5-year merger and acquisition strategy

Planned and directed all other Oracle project related development activities, including: creating project and resource plans, budgets, hiring staff and obtaining Senior Management approval for all financial projects

Managed the support and development of all Corporate ERP and Managed Care business applications

Reengineered and migrated client/server billing and case management applications into a 3-tier web based (COM+) architecture

Managed the integration of the divisional web sites into other Concentra divisional and corporate web sites

Led business requirements, performed gap analyses, developed functional specifications and solution designs. Defined and configured Oracle 10.7 SC GL chart of account structures, consolidation/allocation rules, cross validation rules, FSG and Reports 2.5 for multi-national software company (AspenTech)

Implemented Oracle Project Accounting (10.7) internally to provide project accounting, billing and analysis capabilities for all internal consulting projects (CSC Consulting)

Regression tested and resolved issues for an Oracle Financials 10.6 SC to 10.7 SC upgrade of AR, AP, GL and Fixed Asset modules for a multi-national clinical and medical device service provider (Parexel Int'l)

Corporate Financial Management and Analyst positions within High-Tech Manufacturing companies (Prime Computer, Computervision and Davox) and Financial Services (Avco Financial Services)

Education:

Education:

1995 M.S., Computer Information Systems, Bentley College, Waltham, MA

1991 M.B.A., Finance, University of Lowell, Lowell, MA

1985 B.S., Business Administration, Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA

Training:

Oracle University: Oracle Financials, Projects, OUM, AIM & Business Flow Accelerators (BFA) Methodologies

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