Project Oracle

Gurpreet Kaur

Transformational Executive

Leveraging technology as a strategic enabler for an organization to deliver business benefits

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Executive Summary:

Outstanding track record of implementing large scale, complex transformational enterprise change initiatives at Fortune 500 companies covering a wide range of solutions in ERP, IT Strategy and Operations, CRM, Customer Service and Business Development. Specific expertise lies in Oracle Financials implementations and business process reengineering for Finance organizations. With over 15-years of expertise in finance transformation, accounting, financial and management reporting, business process improvement, ERP integration and business analytics. Creates business solutions that bring together customer needs, employee skills, leading edge technology and leading global business practices. In addition, her skills lie in finance control, accounting standards, compliance and reporting, analytical reporting, road-mapping activities and IT strategy and planning. Highly skilled in mobilizing and leading a global Program Management Office to enforce the level of standardization needed to drive efficiencies and quality. A strategist and problem solver with the tenacity to deploy projects through to completion, and the ability to adapt to changing environments while remaining pragmatic and focused. Led global teams of all sizes and international experience includes managing projects and teams in United States, Canada, UK, Europe, China, Australia, and India.

Areas of expertise:

Complex Transformational

Change Global Program Management & Leadership

Business/IT Governance

Business Process Enablement

Certified Project Management

Professional Experience:

Accenture, Sr. Manager/ Director August 2005 – Present

Employed by a $16B global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm to help global clients in a wide variety of industries manage all aspects of successful business change by ensuring that people, processes, and technologies are aligned with business strategies. Expertise in planning and leading large, complex business transformational change programs at Fortune 500 companies like Cisco Systems, Qualcomm, Starbucks, United Healthcare to deliver business results.

Assisting large scale business with 5-10 year roadmap planning, strategic IT direction, and overall strategy and planning for operations to ensure the business is setup for the growth plans projected.

Managing mid-size to large scale programs to ensure ontime, onbudget delivery as per plan. Responsible for large scale delivery operations with onshore/offshore complexities. Responsible for establishing client relationships, proposal delivery, and account management across a region.

Responsible for Sales and Revenue targets, account management, RFP management process, and leadership development for the accounts managed.

IT Convergence, Sr. Principal Consultant February 2005 – August 2005

Held numerous training classes for various Oracle tools as an instructor through the ITC education department. Modified the existing training material for the department to better fit the training classes.

Held several detailed design sessions to evaluate the current state of various clients and made recommendations for future improvements.

AP and iExpense track lead for a leading boat manufacturing company. Responsible for current state assessment of AP and Expenses, finalizing the business requirements, functional design sessions, interface designs, setups and configurations of the two modules based on the defined business requirements.

Held several CRP and training sessions on Accounts Payables and iExpense modules.

Argonaut Insurance Company, Oracle Financials Analyst February 2004 – February 2005

Responsible for the efforts for Oracle Financials implementations to subsidiary companies.

Held several detailed design sessions of functional requirements. Held training sessions for overview of Oracle General Ledger, ADI, Discoverer and report requirement sessions. Designed and developed several custom interfaces to load external data into the Oracle General Ledger.

Guided the training sessions for the company DBAs in Oracle Database management as well as file formats and upload process for custom interfaces. Trained End Users on Oracle Financials functionality specifically on how to do their business process on a daily basis.

Oversaw the efforts for the design and development of Financial Statement Generators (FSG) to analyze their month end financial data.

Held several training sessions on various tools used with Oracle Financial Applications, i.e. Discoverer & Discoverer for the web, FSG, ADI, PL/SQL for the DBAs.

Global Logistics, Implementation Lead November 2003 – January 2004

Managed a team to migrate Peoplesoft Financials to Oracle Financials, primarily the General Ledger, Payables, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets modules.

Coordinated the detailed design sessions from the current Peoplesoft system to identify the new functional and technical requirements for the Oracle Financials.

Gave direction for end user training sessions to highlight the difference between one system to the next. In addition, the training session for the specific Oracle modules and tools for data manipulation.

Sygen International, Financials Project Lead May 2003 – October 2003

Lead the efforts for an upper management level report system from both the functional and technical aspects. Identified the functional and technical requirements. Configured the Oracle Express Database on a Unix environment.

Held several detailed design sessions of OFA requirements. Held training sessions for overview of OFA and OFA report requirement sessions. Developed several custom Unix scripts to load external data into the Oracle Express Database. Designed and developed data loader program to load external data into OFA. This data was also linked to the Oracle General Ledger that is designed for multiple sets of books with multiple currencies. Wrote multiple custom express programs to handle the complexities of the company’s requirements.

Trained company DBA in Oracle Express Database management as well as overall Express Multidimensional server structure. Trained End Users on OFA overall structure and the basics of Oracle Express functionality.

Handleman Corporation, OFA Expert & Business Analyst October 2002 – February 2003

Project lead for gathering functional and technical requirements for Budgeting and Forecasting business process. Implemented the Oracle Express Database on a Unix environment. Created several custom Unix scripts and PL/SQL procedures and packages to load external data into the Oracle Express Database. Designed and developed Budgeting and Forecasting for the company in Oracle Financial Analyzer. This data was also linked to the Oracle Applications 11i (General Ledger) that is designed for multiple sets of books with multiple currencies. Wrote multiple custom express programs to handle the complexities of the company’s requirements. Designed, developed, and implemented Oracle Sales Analyzer for analytical purposes. Trained company DBA in Oracle Express Database management as well as overall Express Multidimensional server structure. Trained End User on OFA/OSA overall structure and the basics of Oracle Express functionality.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Manager July 2000 - May 2002

Project Lead for gathering functional and technical requirements based on the Sales and operational data warehouse of a national restaurant company with over 500 restaurants. Performed current state assessment of the business processes and technologies used for these processes. Designed, developed, and implemented data warehouse from legacy systems. Created in Express Mulit-Dimensional Server in a Unix environment with Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) as the end user tool. Imported Oracle Applications (General Ledger) data via the GL Link into the Express Server through OFA. Created reports in OFA and Oracle Reports 6i against the Express Server for analysis purposes. Designed Oracle Portals to display business critical data from Oracle Express. This was designed through Unix scripting and Oracle Express custom programs.

Project Lead for designing, developing, and implementing Oracle Financial Anlayzer with Oracle Applications General Ledger for a leading plastics and building products international company.

Project Lead for the development team at one of the largest Telecommunications Company for the reporting segment of tracking local service for a long distance provider. Lead the project management efforts for reports that were written using PL/SQL as the backend and displayed through ASP pages through the Web.

Fellowship of Activists to Embrace Humanity (FATEH), Chandigarh, India

Human Development Volunteer January 1999 - June 2000

Developed educational programs for under-developed children in a local orphanage. This project was aimed at rehabilitating victims of violence.

Akal Academy Project Coordinator. Developed and implemented educational and administrative software for a local village boarding school that housed approx. 1,000 students. This project was charted such that the school will operate in a more efficient and effective manner. Developed three systems that randomly generate exams: Student Management Information, Inventory Control System, and QuestionBank.

FATEH Library Project Coordinator. Developed and implemented library and expense database systems for internal use of the organization. This project aimed at providing a platform to the local constituency to bring forth more awareness.

Youth Empowerment Camp Project Coordinator. This project aimed at empowering children and youth in igniting the "flame of spirit" within them.

Ernst & Young, Sr. Consultant August 1997 - January 1999

Project Management Lead for reporting efforts (v2.5) for the world's largest banking institutions' internet based maintenance and reporting system for a new corporate credit card offering.

Managed a team of four to provide the functional requirements and design for over 100 reports. Accomplished through significant facilitated sessions as well as work with key client executives. Developed primarily done in stored procedures written in PL/SQL for the back-end portion and front-end design in Crystal Info/Crystal Reports. Developed the reporting efforts (v2.0) for the world's largest banking institution. Developed reports in stored written PL/SQL for the back-end portion and front-end design in Crystal Info/Crystal Reports.

Developed the Enterprise Information System / Global Decision Support System for one of the largest consumer products companies. Designed system involving implementation of an Oracle DataWarehouse and Oracle OLAP Product Suite. Designed application in Oracle Express Objects going against the Express Multidimensional Server as well as Oracle Relational Server 7.3.

Team Lead for the recruiting efforts for Pennsylvania State University as well as counseling new employees.

Oracle Corporation, Technical Sales Consultant January 1997 - July 1997

Project Management lead for a data conversion and interface development on a package implementation of Oracle DataWarehousing and Oracle Analysis Tools (Express Products) for a final project. Converted data into a datawarehouse, implemented Express Server, developed an application with Express Objects, deployed briefings in Express Analyzer, and implemented Sales Analyzer and Financial Analyzer for analytical analysis.

Created a Prototype for Telecommunications Company. Analyzed the current system and future company requirements dealing with the merger. Designed a new Decision Support System based on the company needs using Oracle Express Server, Oracle Express Objects, and Oracle Express Analyzer.

Group Lead for a system conversion, development of user interface, and implementation of that system for the leasing company. Analyzed current system, design of new system in Oracle, implementation, and setting up system proposal for upper management for the project.

Education

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA August 1992 - August 1996

Bachelor of Science in Management Science and Information Systems

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