Ronald J. Fogaros

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Dahlonega, GA 30533 706-***-****

Objective:

Upon relocation to Dahlonega I am seeing an local organization which can

utilization my 30+ years of

comprehensive leadership and office procedure skills. Please consider my

vast knowledge of the following: web creation and maintenance, payroll

updates and maintenance, audit and procedure adherence, vast knowledge of

windows applications, relationship building skills, and policy and

procedure creation.

Summary of Qualifications:

Senior Project Manager with over 30 years experience. Have excellent

knowledge of office procedures and office management tools. Have

demonstrating exceptional leadership and project management skills. Have

shown ability to effectively plan, coordinate, and meet deadlines of

multiple concurrent projects. Exceptionally adept at developing technical

and functional specifications while serving as liaison between business

partners and technical resources. Have headed numerous enterprise wide

projects in major corporations. Have developed and implemented applications

on diverse hardware platforms and software disciplines. Have demonstrated

success in streamlining existing operations via numerous upgrades and

implementations. Have demonstrated exceptional technical and change

management skills. Has comprehensive experience in project planning,

budgeting and implementing effective cost controls.

Highlights of skill sets:

High-Profile Corporate Implementations: Have implemented Citigroup Billing

application on AIX platform, saving the corporation $500,000 in annual

operating costs incurred on VAX system. While at Citigroup installed

Oracle based Financial Reporting systems and implemented multiple reporting

options, such as Brio, Hyperion, and Discoverer. Consolidated Time Inc.

applications on enterprise software packages, while installing Accounts

Payable, Purchasing, Fixed Assets and General Ledger at the corporate

level. At Tropicana Products lead team in migrating from Burroughs to IBM.

As part of this effort was responsible for implementing Accounts Payable,

Purchasing, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger

applications. While serving as Director of financial software

implementations at Cap Gemini America, was responsible for installing

Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and General ledger applications in major

corporations in the southeast region. At Middle South Utilities lead team

in custom development and implementation of Property Accounting System that

was installed in 5 operating companies located in 3 states. At Pittsburgh

and Lake Erie Railroad I was lead financial programmer responsible for

developing and implementing custom payroll, tax and facility management

applications.

Staff Structuring and Relocations: Have demonstrated ability to build

staffs from ground up. Have built financial staffs in major corporations,

including Time, Inc. and Citigroup. Consolidated financial processing onto

common software and platform for Time, Inc. Corporation, moving Financial

IT support from New York to Tampa. Relocated System support staff for A/P,

Purchasing, Fixed Assets, General Ledger and Expense Management from New

York to Tampa for Citigroup. These relocations reduced combined operating

expenses for Time, Inc. and Citigroup by more than 20 million dollars.

Cost Containment Specialist: While at Citigroup lead initiative to reduce

General Ledger operating costs. Lead effort to migrate applications to more

cost efficient platforms and reduced redundant processes by 7.5 million

dollars over a 5-year period.

Recognized for Excellence in Field: Have received numerous awards for

dedicated service to employer. The awards include: Citigroup's - Dazzle

award (2000 and 2001); Time Customer Employee of the Quarter - 4th

Quarter/1993, 3rd Quarter/1994, and 1st Quarter/1992: Capgemini America -

Employee of the Quarter.

Technical Skills

Software/Hardware/Applications: Client Server, Mainframe, SQL Server, VAX,

Unix, CICS, MVS, OS/390, Windows, Oracle, DB2, COBOL, Websphere,

Discoverer, Hyperion, Essbase, Brio, SQL, HTML, Microsoft Office Suite,

SDLC technologies, PeopleSoft, Geac, Infor, Payroll, General Ledger,

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Fixed Assets, Taxes,

Cost Accounting, Billing, Payroll, Financial Reporting, Regulatory

Reporting, Bank Reconciliations

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2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Recent Endeavors: May, 2014 - Present

Volunteer

Community Helping Place

Dahlonega, GA

Volunteer at CHP Thrift Store. Duties include merchandising used clothing,

accepting and evaluating donations, maintaining store facilities, assisting

customers, cash register attendance. Have also served as distribution clerk

at CHP Food Bank which serves over 500 families. Most recently received

Community Helping Place Volunteer of the year award.

Sub Contractor November, 2014 - March, 2015

Liberty Tax Service

Registered and passed tax course. Was issued federal PTIN number. Setup

computer tax software and networking services. Contacted local electricians

for overhaul of building. Periodically completed tax returns.

Other:

Project Manager November, 2013 - February 28, 2014

VSoft Corporation

Duluth, GA

Severed as Project Manager, heading team of implementation experts.

Responsible for implementing payment processing software for major

financial institutions. As project manager was responsible for implementing

software that provide solutions that reduced costs and maximized

efficiency. As lead, was responsible for building delivery schedules,

developing project plans and tracking and resolving issues.

Consultant May, 2012 - June, 2013

Accenture

Atlanta, GA

Client: Bank of America

Project & Role Description

Served as Project Manager on Self-Identified Audit Issue Team. Responsible

for resolving internal and OCC identified audit issues within prescribed

timeframes.

As project manager reviewed internal and OCC related issues for possible

resolutions. Utilizing Bank of America policy and procedures defined issue,

identified stakeholders, performed root cause analysis, identified

remediation approach, built detail project plans, identified milestones,

crafted definitions of success, organized project meetings, led JAD

sessions, presented resolutions to audit and compliance and closed out

audit issues.

Client: JP Morgan Chase

Project & Role Description:

Served as Project Manager for major conversion project. Lead strategy

formation for Real Time Account Maintenance (RTAM) project focused on

migration from legacy IMS to DB2. The goal of the project was to modernize

the operational infrastructure and reduce cost of ownership.

Lead conversion effort that required planning around short timeframe. The

operation was 24/7 with an 8 hour conversion green zone. Planning involved

converting an excessive amount of data to the DB2 format. Some IMS data

presented challenge as it was in sequential format instead of hieratical

format. The conversion required setting up standard conversion tools and

staffing resources with required Ab Initio skills. As project manager

formatted recommendation to migrate achieved data ahead of actual real-time

data to minimize load/impact on conversion day. Produced plan to solve IMS

sequential data problem, produced plan to build proper IMS to DB2

associations. Highlighted gap conversion tools and skills required:

brought on Ab Initio resources. Delivered integrated conversion strategy

and plan which enabled the project team to follow a structured and seamless

approach to convert a key operational tool in a very short conversion

window.

Sr. Project Manager - Consultant June, 2011 - November, 2011

ASAP Consulting

Norcross, GA

Client: AT&T

Served as PMO Project Manager at AT&T in support of Small Business System

(SBS) implementation. Responsible for project plans, system design, SDLC

construction and issue resolution. Managed meetings and design discussions

for integration of billing components into SBS framework.

Successfully completed System Design documentation for 17 SBS applications

Completed testing procedures for billing components of SBS.

Completed integration planning and documentation for SBS applications.

Senior Project Manager May, 2000 - June, 2011

Citigroup, Inc.

Tampa, FL

Headed the largest financial support and development group within the

corporate Shared Service Unit structure, with a 40 million dollar budget.

Have assembled and built this organization from the ground up. Unit was

responsible for Retail Banking, CitiMortgage, Citibank, FSB, and Cards

divisions. The group was responsible for support and processing of over

70% of all General Ledger transactions. My organization managed the daily

bank close, provides month-end regulatory reporting, supported Bank

reconciliations, provided back-end support for billing systems, generated

MIS reporting, and supported Accounts Payable, Purchasing and Fixed Assets

Applications.

Supported Financial Applications across diverse platforms including,

Server, Mid-Range and Mainframe environments. Supported Peoplesoft, Oracle,

Infor (Geac) and custom software applications.

Responsible for implementation of Billing and Financial Reporting

applications. Upgraded Infor mainframe General Ledger, Purchasing, Fixed

Assets and Accounts Payable applications. Installed and upgraded Peoplesoft

General Ledger applications.

Relocated staff of 22 Financial IT support individuals from New York to

Tampa. This contributed in a $14 million reduction in operating expenses.

Responsible for migration and upgrade of Accounts Payable, Purchasing,

General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Bank Reconciliations, Financial Reporting,

and Bank Close applications, from New York to Tampa.

Responsible for build of Consumer front-end Web Process that allows more

efficient use of DB2 queries. This included the installation of Websphere.

This process reduced operating costs by $600,000 annually.

Responsible for development and maintenance of Learning and Development

systems, in support of Citigroup Financial Systems.

Managed numerous conversions, configurations and implementations of

financial systems, acquired via acquisitions, integrating them into the

Citigroup mainframe and server based environments.

Received Citigroup's Dazzle Award, in 4th quarter 2000 and 2nd quarter

2001.

Project Manager May, 1992 - May, 2000

Time Customer Service, Inc.

Tampa, FL

Responsible for relocation of Financial IT support staff for Time, Inc from

New York to Tampa. Built strong local organization that reduced IT support

costs by 6 million dollars. Financial IT team consisted of 20 individuals

support Accounts Payable. Purchasing, General Ledger, Billing and Fixed

Assets applications.

Consolidated Time Inc's financials into Shared Service Unit under one

platform and software package. Consolidation represented annual savings of

over $500,000 in software costs.

Lead team in implementation of Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Fixed Assets,

and General Ledger applications.

Managed successful Y2K program converting all of Time Inc's financial

systems, encompassing 9 major world-wide divisions.

Reduced production downtime by 90% using new quality and development

procedures.

Received Time Customer Service Employee of the Quarter Award in 4th Quarter

1993, 3rd Quarter 1994, and 1st Quarter 1996.

Director of Financial Software Support March, 1991 - May, 1992

Capgemini America

Tampa, FL

Lead Group in support of financial software implementations in Southeast

region. Major customers included Coca Cola (Purchasing and Accounts Payable

installs and enhancements), May Company (Purchasing enhancements), Disney

(General Ledger implementation), and Anchor Glass (Payroll implementation).

Headed group that had focus on installations of financial software in

southeast region.

Responsible for implementing General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing

and Payroll applications in major corporations in southeast region.

Award Employee of Year for 1st Quarter 1992

Project Manager May, 1987 - March, 1991

Tropicana Products, Inc.

Bradenton, FL

Managed staff of 12 individuals in support of MRP and Financial systems.

Headed conversion of systems from Burroughs to IBM. Responsible for

installing Geac E-series applications, (Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and

Financial Controller). Lead team in implementation of M-series applications

(Payroll and General Ledger). Responsible for implementation of AMAPS (Bill

of Materials and Cost Accounting modules).

Managed selection and implementation of Geac Financial Package to on-time

delivery.

Conducted Accounts Payable and Purchasing training for key members of

Business Team. Setup Training and Development regions and procedures for

key team members.

Reduced software downtime from 50% to less than 1%

Slashed manual processes by 60% with installation of new software packages.

Lead IBM conversion team that lead to retirement of Burroughs, reducing

annual operating costs by $750,000.

Project Leader March, 1983 - May, 1987

Middle South Utilities (Entergy)

New Orleans, LA

Initially joined Middle South Utilities as Consultant on 1 year assignment

as head of Deferred Tax development. As employee managed staff of 52

employees in the development of a 10 million dollar Property Accounting

System (PAMS). Installed PAMS software in 5 Operating Companies located in

3 states. Headed development of Deferred Tax System. Played key role in

formation of Middle South's Software Marketing Division, Electec, which

sold PAMS software. Through the efforts of Electec, the Pams initial 10

million dollar investment was recouped within 2 years.

Developed complex reunitization process which allowed Middle South

Utilities to annually capitalize 5.5 million dollars in additional charges

associated with facility construction.

Responsible for implementation of Tax and Deferred Tax applications.

Transitioned corporation to employ reusable object oriented programming

modules for applications development slashing time-to-delivery by 50%.

Established training procedures for key utility operating stakeholders.

Held training sessions at multiple operating divisions.

Successfully deployed Custom Deferred Tax module to 5 operating companies,

8 months ahead of schedule. This reduced project projected cost by

$450,000.

Programmer/Analyst March, 1977- March 1983

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad

Pittsburgh, PA

Served as lead financial programmer at P&LE R.R. Responsible for design,

programming and implementations of Payroll, Tax Depreciation, Billing, Cash

Management, Fixed Assets, General Ledger and Accounts Receivable

applications.

Within 9 months of graduation became primary programmer/analyst for Tax

Depreciation and Payroll systems.

Responsible for complete redesign, programming and implementation of custom

payroll application.

Responsible for rewrite of Tax Depreciation system to include ADR and ACRS

methods.

Education

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Robert Morris University Pittsburgh, PA

B.S. - Business Administration

Major - Management Minor - Accounting

ICM School of Business (Kaplan Institute)

Pittsburgh, PA

Associate Degree

Major - Computer Science

Graduated High Honors (3.6)

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