Developer Information Technology
Resume:
Lane A. Weiss
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Senior Technology Lead with over 15 years of diverse enterprise application expertise. Highly
skilled in interpreting the needs of business clients and end users. Experienced in leading
requirements gathering sessions and collaborating with users and technology teams to design
and implement software solutions. Possess the key ability to be productive in multiple capacities,
whether hands-on or in leading others in software design, development, testing, implementation,
and production support activities. Heavily focused on functional and technical knowledge,
solutions design, software development, and technology project management, including webbased
systems, enterprise application integration, and data migration activities. Exhibits strong
business analysis skills combined with the ability to design and develop innovative technology
solutions in additional to the aptitude for quickly learning new business processes and
technologies and implementing them effectively.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Freelance Web Application Developer January 2012 – Present
• Developed and enhanced web-based applications for small businesses in the Central NJ
area, including a corporate realty company, an industrial staffing company, a golf country
club, and a local non-profit organization.
• Started preparing for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), as I have a desire to
pursue a Master of Science in Software Engineering in the near future
Independent Contractor at Bank of America July 2010 – December 2011
Lead Ariba Software Development Consultant
• Lead full software development lifecycle activities for Ariba software development
activities in specific functional areas, including critical Requisition import functionalities,
Purchase Order processing, and Goods Receiving.
• Collaborated with three diverse Change Managers from the business areas to clarify and
detail requirements by leading design review sessions, researched technical
customizations, and provided necessary information to assist the business partners in
adding/removing/updating requirements as needed based on functional and technical
expertise.
• Performed formal technical system testing in the areas of Requisition Rules, Reporting,
and eForms. Detailed issues found, and ensured responsible developer was up to speed
on the matter.
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ January 1998 – July 2010
Information Technology Lead (February 2006 – July 2010)
2008 – 2010
• Technical project lead for 18-month long data migration activities from Ariba Buyer
indirect purchasing system, affiliate direct materials ERP systems (JDE, SAP, others),
and legacy mainframe Accounts Payable system onto SAP via various technologyfocused
methods – along with pre-load data quality analysis and post-load reconciliation
reporting for auditing purposes.
• Responsible for management of two Ernst & Young contractor resources, several other
contractor and employee resources, and collaboration with appropriate Accounts
Payable, Information Technology, and affiliate finance resources within corporate to
ensure project success.
• Leveraged lessons learned from previous rollouts to allow for more streamlined and
effective data migration and reconciliation activities.
• Designed and developed technical data interfaces to allow Global Supplier data to be
shared between procurement and payables systems.
2006 – 2007
• Technical Lead for all enhancements to Ariba Buyer and management over all
developers (employee and contractors), including design reviews, code reviews,
technical oversight, resource allocation, and production system issue resolution.
• Hands-on technical lead and project lead for J&J Totality implementation, which
integrated a new Health Care Compliance (HCC) system (Savvion) with the Ariba Buyer
application in order to standardize the request for, approval of, and payment to
Healthcare professionals and their service organizations.
• Assisted with migration of code from Ariba Buyer release 8.1 to 8.2 in areas where I had
previous experience (accounting model, ERP integration) and performed system testing
to validate that code was successfully migrated.
• Designed and developed ASP.NET application for Johnson & Johnson’s new Long Term
Incentive and Bonus Choice plans to enable eligible employees to choose their
allocations of stock options vs. restricted stock units and cash bonus vs. J&J stock.
Simultaneously learned technology and compensation business processes and rolled out
to executive compensation eligible employees throughout the U.S.
• Achieved Microsoft Certified Professional Developer certification as part of my ASP.NET
experience
Information Technology Senior Analyst (May 2001 – February 2006)
2004 -2005
• Performed System Architect lead role within the team for the upgrade of Ariba Buyer to
version 8.1
• Managed migration of code from 7.1 to 8.1, as well as overseeing developers (employees
and contractors) and assisting them with code migration activities across over 500 units
of code.
• Ensured that the extensive custom code that was written would remain effective in the
new version of Ariba and updated modules to take advantage of new API.
• Managed code merge efforts that involved a team of developers and large amounts of
code to merge two instances of Ariba systems that had been involved in parallel
development tasks for almost a full year (ERP system integration).
2003
• Designed and developed customizations to the Accounting object model within Ariba to
allow the application to correctly store financial accounting information for any current
and potential ERP system throughout the enterprise, allowing for real-time accounting
string validation, requisition budget checking, and final requisition via webMethods
middleware layer. Documented and trained other team members on the technical
aspects to ensure that future development would effectively leverage the major
customizations.
• Provided tier-3 production support to the tier 1 and 2 help desk personnel by researching
issues, providing them with the right direction to diagnose problems, and offering advice
on potential bug fixes and performance-related enhancements.
2001 – 2002
• Quickly established myself as the key employee developer on the Ariba Buyer Pilot and
initial Go-Live for Indirect Procurement at Johnson & Johnson in the U.S. and shortly
thereafter became an official Ariba Certified Application Developer.
• Developed a robust User Administration form in Ariba Buyer that allows quick updating of
User data and satisfies auditing requirements via approval flow.
• Designed, by incorporating current business processes along with the ideas of other
team members, and developed a Functional Audit electronic form and Business Rules
engine that significantly reduced base business time of technical staff. Demonstrated this
functionality to Ariba Corporation and presented this application to a workgroup made up
of Ariba clients for potential integration in future Ariba core offerings.
• Developed a Receipt Change eForm to enable end users to change the quantity
accepted on previously approved Receipts.
• Developed a Functional Audit eForm and custom approval rules to allow J&J affiliates to
add approvers/watchers to Requisitions based on vendor, commodity code, accounting
fields, etc.
Associate Analyst (May 1999 - March 2000)
• Provided support to all Corporate Information Management personnel in HTML
development, Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Visual InterDev, and ASP.
• Developed dynamically generated intranet sites using ASP with Oracle DB backend
• Load-tested intranet and Extranet web application with Mercury Interactive Load Runner.
• Documented Y2K Contingency plans and performed Y2K testing for highly visible
applications within the enterprise.
• Served as Web Administrator for the Corporate Headquarters intranet.
• Designed and developed web applications for conference information and online
registration, including TechWeb3 – Information Management’s annual Global
Conference.
Internship (January 1998 - May 1999)
• Developed enhancements to the J&J Corporate Headquarters intranet home page to
allow menu-based navigation of corporate intranet sites.
• Selected and configured a Java applet for scrolling stories on the home page. Created
an ASP application to allow automatic updates of these stories.
• Developed a web site for the Core Development Technologies team to allow browserbased
editing of current pages and easy addition of new pages.
RagingBull.com
Co-Founder and CTO
August 1997 - August 1998
• Co-founder of RagingBull.com, responsible for overall technical aspects of web site.
Researched and chose ISP to host the web site. Developed user interface for articles
and message board areas. Developed an administrative application for posting of
articles to the site by non-technical content owners. Implemented advertising application
for revenue generation. Learned HTML and Perl on-the-fly in order to create the static
and dynamic content of the site.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Technology & Electronic Commerce
Rutgers Business School, New Brunswick, NJ May 2004
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Minor in Economics
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ August 1999
Master of Science in Software Engineering – 12 Credits Completed – Currently on Hold
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