Manager Management

Bernie X. Blanchard

Huntington Station, NY *****

Home: 631-***-****/Cell: 631-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Summary

Technology professional with a proven track record in implementing and supporting COTS/ERP Human Resource and Financial applications. Ability to work across organizations and levels, from executives to functional teams and IT. Possess excellent leadership, and communication skills, with strong emphasis on motivating project team resources and building strong business relationships. Strong project management skills, understanding of implementation methodology, ability to identify project risks and determine, negotiate and implement risk mitigation plans to ensure delivery of solutions on time and within budget.

Software

Oracle EBS r12.1.3 & r12.2.4(Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Project Accounting, Order Management, Cash Management, E-Tax) Hyperion & Smartview 11.1.2.3, HP Load Runner (Performance testing),STAT, Workday, OBIEE, Discoverer Reporting, UNIX,Red Hat Linux Ver 6 PL/SQL, SQL, Win 2013, Microsoft Office, Clarity Time, Microsoft Project, OS/MVS XA, OS JCL, VSAM, IDCAMS, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, Syncsort; IBM CICS, COBOL; Cyborg English Language, Law Manager, Document Manager, Cyborg Solution v6.6

Hardware

Dedicated Blade Linux OS Physical Server, Linux Virtual Machine, P/C; IBM RISC/6000-AIX, IBM 3090, 3083, 4341

Experience

HOME BOX OFFICE, 1100 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 100**-****-**** - 2015

Director: EBS FINesse/HR/Corporate Systems

Director, Technical team of Finance and Corporate Systems Jan, 2009 - Aug, 2015

Directed and oversee budgeted and unplanned projects as assigned within the team collaborating with managers to foster client relationships, coordinate, prioritize and assign project tasks with available technical resources.

Responsible for communication with management, program teams, and vendors; including serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization with the goal of providing technical solutions to meet business strategic goals. Created and maintained project plans using both, Microsoft Project and Excel. Used Excel to track, report and communicate status to business line and executive management.

Develop and/or review estimates and estimating assumptions for the schedule, effort, and cost of Internal Oracle E-Bus projects leveraging established estimating models, best practices, program defined processes and past experience.

Coordinated and managed upgrade Oracle EBS Financials from version 12.0.03 to EBS 12.1.3 across the enterprise. Planned, evolved, developed and oversaw our technical architecture 3 tier (DB, Application and Client) and lead client and server-side development required to support existing clients as well as our new platforms & devices. Presently conducting internal impact analysis on upgrading to EBS r12.2.4 for Finance.

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Solid background in project managing mid to large-scale projects involving custom development or packaged updates/implementations. Build and mentored a team of 15 DBA and software technical developers onshore, and offshore, with a variety of skill sets. Managed and executed software design, development and implementation of 100 plus interfaces running on a nightly basis and integrating with other applications within HBO. Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring technical project staff to ensure consistent, successful project delivery.

Define team member roles and expectations, and ensure timely feedback. Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations. Support day-to-day program activities which includes, but is not limited to work plan & dependency management, issue & risk management, scope & requirements management.

Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to implement solutions on time and within budget. Directed yearly application of Oracle security tech stack updates ‘Application, DB, GRID, OBIEE and Discoverer’ and Recommended Patch Collection (RPC) patches on EBS application. The EBSDBAs applied patches after conducting a ‘patch analysis’.

Establish and carry out program governance and review continuous Process Improvement looking for inefficiencies.

Manager, Technical Team of Corporate Systems May, 2000- Jan, 2009

Managed Cyborg HR/Payroll and Corporate Application development teams. Worked closely with Human Resource and Payroll business clients in remediating functional and technical issues pertaining to Cyborg Payroll System paying various employee types. Provided oversight on the coordination of multiple HRIS systems. Projects included Law Manager Implementation, Tuition Reimbursement Rewrite, and day-to-day support and responsibility of Axs-One and Cyborg HR Systems.

Upgraded HBO to Cyborg 4.5.3 from v3.0 utilizing upgrade reporting tools and re-applying customizations after Fit-Gap analysis was performed. Utilized Microsoft project to prepare and executed project plan to include requirements and requests from Clients that had been opened for more than 2 years.

Developed UNIX scripts and MENU system via PERL to update HR Repository used to feed multiple systems within Time Warner Corporate.

Provide technical and functional support to Legal users for Law/Document Manager application

Proficiency in SDLC, development techniques, modeling, functional design, requirements analysis

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Fiserv, Inc., HRIS Service Provider, Melville, NY April, 1995 - May, 2000

Manager, HR/Payroll System Application Development

Responsible for the technical management and administration, development, implementation and maintenance of PR/HR Systems for multiple client accounts utilizing Cyborg Systems

Planned, organized and executed Y2K implementation of Cyborg Century Compliant code for all 7 client systems

Supervision of staff consisting of 5 employees and 10 consultants. Duties included: defining and directing all programming tasks, and preparation/deliverance of six-month performance appraisals.

Utilized Microsoft project to estimate 1999 Employee and Consultant IT Budget for Y2K feasibility

Administered Cyborg semi-annual Publication of Tax and System updates

Synergy Gas Corporation Farmingdale, Long Island N.Y. Jan, 1993 - April, 1995

Cyborg Technical Administrator responsible for the management and maintenance of Batch PR/HR System utilizing Cyborg System Software in a 2-tier UNIX-client/server domain.

Loral Fairchild Systems, Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. Oct, 1991 - Jan, 1993

Senior Systems Analyst / Programmer Analyst

North Atlantic Life Insurance, Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. Mar, 1989 - Oct, 1991

Programmer Analyst

Education: PMP Certification

Presently attending classes at night with local PMI Group 2016

SUNY Farmingdale 1990

Associates in Business Administration

Bachelors in Business Management (currently attending 4th year at night) 2017

Grumman Data Systems Institute 1988

Training/Professional Development in Programming

Oracle University:

SQL PL/SQL Programming 2003

R12 Oracle Workflow 2007

R12 Oracle System Admin 2007

R12 Oracle Financials Migration 2007

Management Training:

In-House Project Management Training, Leadership and Teambuilding,

AMA –Project Management, Leadership Skills and Team Development for IT and Technical Professionals

PMI- LIC Chapter Director of Logistics (Volunteer) Presently Serving since 2015

Military: United States Marine (Enlisted Rank Corporal) Served 1981-1986

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