SUMMARY

Senior Project Manager with ** years of IT experience in systems development, implementation, Sarbanes Oxley compliance and financial analysis. My skills and project experience include:

On Time, On Budget Project Delivery

Capital Budgeting

Advanced Financial & IT Solutions

Project Planning and Best Practices

Clarity, MS Project & Oracle Primavera

Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Compliance

Full Cycle Implementations of Oracle eBusiness Suite R12 and JD Edwards

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES, Doral, Florida (Consulting Position) SEP 2014 – DEC 2015

Project Manager – Global Financial Technology Services

Enterprise Project Manager for BlackLine (Financial Close and Account Reconciliation Management) re-implementation for eight global operating companies.

-Designed in-house migration path, plan and import templates to migrate from Oracle 11i/BlackLine data and account structures for use with Oracle R12.

-Managed both onshore and offshore technical resources along with Operating Company project leads.

-Negotiated 3 year contract renewal resulting in a saving of over 20% (year over year)

Global Project Manager for Oracle R12 Training content development

-Managed a 10-member project team to develop global Oracle eBusiness Suite Module R12 training content and capture of business process workflows.

-Successfully created interactive eLearning courses and content with both demo and interactive simulations.

-Oracle eBusiness Suite modules included Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, iProcurement, iExpense, Cash Management and Fixed Assets. Content was also developed for OBIEE End User training including Advanced Class.

-Decreased training time for new Oracle eBusiness Suite users by up to 50%.

BAYVIEW FINANCIAL, Coral Gables, Florida SEP 2011 – AUG 2014

Senior Project Manager – IT Project Management Office

Full project lifecycle management of the Oracle Applications Upgrade to version R12.1 eBusiness Suite including modules for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, General Ledger and Web ADI.

-Expanded FSG reporting along with Discover and Noetix views design.

-Managed internal and remote (onshore/offshore) technical and functional resources.

Initiated a corporate-wide implementation of ADP HR/Payroll while adhering to all milestone deliverables, scope, budget and converting all modules without business interruption.

-Managed a team of accounting, human resources, payroll, information technology and key business stakeholders.

Acquired a behind schedule/over budget project initiative for migrating all desktops/laptops to Microsoft Windows 7. Instituted rigorous testing of corporate applications that included test cases/scripts and associated IT remediation with results cataloged in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

-Project was delivered within the promised 12-month delivery timeframe.

Oversaw the management of all corporate Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity testing which is reviewed throughout the year by internal audit, IT compliance and over 20 outside federal, state and local regulatory auditors / third party affiliates.

-The program designed for this effort enabled clean audits for the past 2 years.

AVMED HEALTH PLANS, Miami, Florida FEB 2010 – AUG 2011

Senior Manager – Corporate Applications

Managed technical and business staff in designing, implementing and supporting Healthcare IS Corporate Applications including custom developed and packaged applications.

Areas of responsibility include corporate financial applications including e-Procurement (Epicor), sales incentive compensation (Callidus), business process management (EXP Macess), HR/Payroll (Mangrove) and corporate-wide business process improvement initiatives.

Ensured adherence to PMO based best practices, techniques and methodologies. Developed key performance metrics and cost/benefit analyses to drive measurable business value/return-on-investment (ROI) calculations.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT APR 2006 – JAN 2010

Senior Project Manager

Client: Royal Caribbean International. Miami, Florida Mar 2008 – Jan 2010

Development manager for a phased approach initiative to incorporate the new Azamara brand into the existing Royal Caribbean Siebel applications. All integration points were analyzed to propose a code solution that allows these components to dynamically handle additional new Royal Caribbean brands in the future. This $750k project was completed on schedule and 10% below budget.

Client: Burger King Corporation. Miami, Florida Apr 2007 – Mar 2008

Managed the development of a global Supplier Specification and Management System (SSMS). This $3.5M+ project is comprised of nearly 50 team members including an offshore development team.

Phase 2 of this project was completed under budget and on-time and was the keynote presentation at the annual Burger King Global Supplier Conference. The project was awarded the annual Burger King Golden Crown award for outstanding achievement.

Responsibilities include Project Management Office (PMO) structured oversight along with Mercury Interactive Quality Center based testing, user training and user signoff on critical releases.

Client: Ryder System, Inc., Miami, Florida Apr 2006 – Feb 2007

Responsible for the development of a new proprietary CIM system developed under the Microsoft .net platform. This $2.5M, multi-phased program used web services under a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to integrate legacy systems residing on disparate technology platforms including IBM Mainframe, AS400, ASP.net, Lotus Notes and Java2 (J2EE).

TERREMARK WORLDWIDE, Miami, Florida 2004- APR 2006

Project Manager - Systems Integration & SOX Compliance (IT and Finance)

Managed a very successful upgrade of various Great Plains Financial applications to version 8.0.

Directed and was responsible for obtaining a SAS 70 certification for our Network Operations area.

Designated Project Manager for Sarbanes Oxley compliance initiatives for Finance and IT.

Oversaw the successful implementation of Microsoft Customer Relationship Module (CRM).

ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, Miami, Florida 2001- 2003

Project Manager/Senior Project Engineer

Project Manager for the Miami World Gateway expansion project at Miami International Airport.

Managed and designed over 25 data and voice infrastructure sub-projects.

Incorporated approximately 40+ American Airline tenant relocations into master plan.

Managed project risk assessment/scorecard to insure 36 gates were operational at all times.

ARTECH CONSULTING GROUP, INC. Miami, Florida 1999 - 2000

Director of Internet Consulting Services

Management of Oracle and Java project development teams to insure overall project success.

Developed and closed 3 client projects totaling approximately $500,000.

Implementation technologies included ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) products that utilized Oracle database structures.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS 1993 - 1999

Project Manager

Client: Aviation Sales Distribution Company Jan 1999 – Aug 1999

Project Manager for design efforts and strategic direction of a proprietary international e-commerce solution for the aircraft parts redistribution industry.

Provided a global solution to streamlining the sales process, allowed access to real-time inventory quotations, tracing of purchase orders and dramatically increased operating efficiencies in the inventory sales fulfillment process. Fulfillment order process was reduced by 3 days.

Implemented JD Edwards with a 20+ person project team.

Client: Burger King Corporation Oct 1997 – Nov 1998

Project Manager for the mainframe exit initiative to a client server based environment.

-Project budget was approximately $60 Million with a 90+ people project team that deployed state-of-the-art technology for restaurant data collection along with streamlining field operations and corporate accounting business processes.

-Main components included SAP financial and human resource modules, Visual Basic custom applications, and an Oracle based Data Warehouse.

Transitioned to Year 2000 Project Manager for Internal Compliance.

-Y2K testing and remediation concentrated on client server based applications, desktop applications, and satellite/branch office operations.

-No material breaches of system functionality impacted business operations during or after Y2K.

Client: Royal Caribbean International Aug 1993 – Oct 1997

Enterprise 2000 Project Manager for the redesign of financial reporting interfaces to allow worldwide multiple currencies, multiple office passenger reservation processing.

-Financial applications were redesigned and system tested to ensure proper accounting treatment and compliance with internal auditing standards.

-Worked with users to draft over 50 functional specifications for developing applications.

-Developed transaction standardization module for consolidated financial entries.

My second engagement involved project oversight of a $5 Million Master Strategic Plan to re-engineer worldwide Marine Operations.

-Team effort involved the definition of business drivers, cost/benefit analysis and a 6 month implementation project plan.

Client: Ryder System Inc. May 1994 – Jul 1995

Project Administrator for $9 Million Onboard Computer project.

Maintained optimum project workplan performance.

Departmental charge backs posting period reduced by 30%.

Budget for project phases versus actual expenditure performance maintained at less than 10%.

Managed a 30+ team responsible for development, testing and implementation.

Vehicle management system installed in over 2,100 vehicles.

Systems process redesign provided annual benefits of over $6M.

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science

Florida State University, School of Business – Accounting & Computer Science

APPLICATION & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Outlook, Access,

Visio, Lotus Notes, MS Project, Primavera,

Visual Basic under SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, ADP HR/Payroll,

Great Plains, Microsoft CRM, Data Warehouse, JD Edwards, SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3, BlackLine, Lawson, Remedy, ADP Payroll, Oracle’s CRM Product Suite, Triactive Ticketing, THQ Time Capture, Emdeon, and Acuity.

Epicor - Enterprise Financial Management

Panviva/Support Point - Business Process Guidance

EXP Macess - Business Process Management

Callidus - Sales Performance Management

Epilogue – Automated Content Capture of Application Workflows

Articulate – Interactive eLearning Tool for courses and content

Halogen - Employee Performance Management

Pivotal - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Amisys Advance - Managed Care System

Novell Identity Management & Role Based Provisioning

ICD-9 and ICD-10 Compliance with mandated Health Care Reform

Compliance 360 - Compliance, Policies & Procedures

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