Resume
Proven IT management and system integration experience spanning 15 years with software vendors and Big 5 consulting firms. Special skills in the following areas:
|
|
WORK EXPERIENCE:
HyperRoll, Inc. Mountain View, CA. January 2004 - January 2005
On Assignment, Inc. Calabasas, CA. Project Manager (consulting engagement) May 2003 - January 2004
Managed PeopleSoft implementation of Financials (Billing/AR, Projects, Contracts, GL, and AP), HR (core, Payroll, and Time & Labor) and Staffing Front Office. Responsible for project scope and budget (over $1M), requirement gathering, gap analysis, delivery, testing, and deployment to production. Managed business and technical teams of 15 people, as well as coordinated the implementation with the vendor and third-party hosting company. The system is a tightly integrated ERP implementation where Front Office module feeds Time & Labor and Payroll, and these in turn, provide information for Billing. Lead technical implementation of Integration Broker and application messaging. Hands-on management of Front Office integration with company Internet web site.
WellPoint. Thousand Oaks, CA. Technical Expert January 2002 - May 2003
Advised Financial team on all aspects of Financial Systems implementation. Helped in designing General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, IT architecture, deployment and operations. Designed hardware sizing and budget proposal. Installed and administered PeopleSoft Financials and Hyperion suite of applications (Essbase OLAP, Planning, Analyzer). Managed the design and development of PeopleSoft components and interface programs. Hands-on management and mentoring of the technical team. Worked with users and system integrators to review customization requests and suggest alternatives. Managed the relationship with vendors, outsourcing organizations and independent contractors.
Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group.Los Angeles, CA. 1995 - 2001
Responsible for delivery of large system integration projects for major Fortune 500 clients as well as leading Deloitte's EAI practice within Western region.
| Senior Manager | 1999 - 2001 |
| Manager | 1997 - 1999 |
| Senior Consultant | 1995 - 1997 |
- Managed Web-based custom development projects for Longs Drugs and Morgan Stanley . The projects included Internet-based user interface, application server development, integration with back-end systems. Mentored staff in Java development and object-oriented analysis and design.
- Managed successful delivery of Enterprise application integration projects for major clients ( Morgan Stanley, Nike, Boeing Space & Communications, Longs Drugs, etc.). Responsible for assessment of appropriate technologies, solution designs, and vendor selections development of business and technical requirements, ROI analysis, technical architecture, development, testing and deployment management. Managed integration effort among custom applications (Web front-end systems, trade settlement systems), back office packages (ERP, CRM, supply chain management), and business partner systems (fulfillment house, manufacturing subcontractor, etc.).
- State Farm Insurance Companies. Bloomington, IL. Technology manager on the largest PeopleSoft implementation. Responsible for technology architecture, production support, and performance measurement. Managed several sub-teams (30 people). Served as a technical expert to client executives helping them understand technical implications of business decisions. Developed and managed the implementation of Data Warehouse for expense allocation tracking. Following the project I provided assistance to various PeopleSoft projects in the areas of performance tuning, deployment, batch scheduling and other technical areas.
- The GAP, San Bruno, CA . Data Warehouse project. I managed extraction, transformation and load (ETL) team to identify data sources, perform transformation and load into the data warehouse. Worked with business partners to define data elements, transformation rules, and business logic. Integrated extraction routines with OLAP tool requirements.
- As technology delivery manager responsible for successful implementation of application development and infrastructure projects at Bank of America, Kaiser Permanente, and GE Nuclear Energy. Integrated OO design with traditional work plans and methodology. Educated client management on costs, benefits, and drawbacks of object-oriented development. Mentored less experienced developers, and assisted in driving the development and adoption of object-oriented methodology throughout the technology organization and other supported business groups.
I was laid off on September 10, 2001 by office manager Jamie Watkins
Andersen Consulting. Los Angeles, CA. Information Systems Analyst . 1994 � 1995
- Pacific Gas & Electric. San Francisco, CA . Developed, maintained, and enhanced proprietary multi-platform client/server C++ class architecture � Universal Construction Toolkit (UCT).
- Wallace Computer Services, Chicago, IL; Irvine, CA . Technical architect in starting software development (electronic forms package) for a major paper forms manufacturer. Drafted responsibilities for R&D, technical support, and engineering departments; selecting development software (language, compilers, libraries, etc.);
Software development positions with Toshiba America Information Systems, Candle Corp. and Symantec/Peter Norton Group 1991 - 1994
Education
| 1982 - 1989 | M.S., Riga Technical University. Riga, Latvia. Major: Computer Science; Minor: Mathematics. |
| 1998 | PeopleSoft Education: General Ledger, PeopleTools, FastTrack methodology. |
| 2002 | Hyperion Solutions Technical training: Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Reports, Analyzer |