Our service includes a comprehensive consultation to help identify gaps and opportunities, a comprehensive report that includes a project plan with timelines and milestones, a cost analysis, and a schedule.
Highly experienced Professional with a focus in business operation, process management and software engineering. Strong management experience performing and supporting higher level management functions such as VP, COO, CFO, CEO, and Executive Directors. Keen analytical abilities and superior troubleshooting skills create value at all levels of the organization.
Examples of support we have provided past clients:
- Forensic Accounting. Reviewed clients accounting system identifying and fixing entry errors that were making their books unmanageable, including showing them owing over $1 million in line of credit that was actually only 200K.
- Software Team allocation model to balance development and support time for multiple teams allowing user to determine number of teams required based on customer projects in acquired and supported
- Project Managed RFI for survey tool provider search, contacted, filtered and coordinated with over 40 international providers of survey tools and support.
- General consulting on Small Business Setup, Quicken/QuickBooks use and reporting, information governance and excel formula optimizations for multiple customers.
- Developed a mathematical model to allow for valuation of one commodity in the price of other commodities as they are traded across multiple exchanges in many different national currencies.
- Built financial planning and tracking spread sheet that will allow users to track all income and expenses in Google Sheets, including both planned and unplanned transactions. The tool will help them see their current and future balances along with a date they will drop below a personally set threshold.
- Led the deployment of Blue Prism scripts for Finance Billing reconciliation, GTR customer on boarding and Underwriting security issuance processing
- Managed infrastructure to create Development, Test and Production hardware environments including specifications, testing and configuring tools
- Created budget and staffing reports
- Coordinated with product managers and vice presidents to create budget forecasts and reported on performance to current budgets
- Improved processes to reduce effort on monthly capitalization review from 100 labor hours a month to only 4 labor hours a month.
- Created training program to include new Agile/Scrum processes
- Oversaw process quality review team using offshore resources
- Streamlined project audits from 200 steps to 50 steps by reducing repetitive verifications and access each document only once.
- Reduced audit review time from 40 hours to 16 hours per project
- Monthly status reporting provided to all management in application development; Tuned monthly reporting process to increase consistency and reduced production time from 150 to 90 labor hours each month
- Created and managed training program for a class of 20 to 30 staff every month; each month was a unique syllabus; Created training program using PowerPoint; 10 different courses to train all development staff from entry level developer through product managers and vice presidents; Covered the development process, CMMI, tools oversight (HP PPM, ClearQuest, budget reports) and project management.
- Created Budget Model using Excel that simplified annual budgeting; reducing time to create initial budgets from 6 weeks to 2; saving over 400 labor hours each year. Process was adopted across entire IT organization saving over a labor year of effort each year.
- Managed Kill a Stupid Rule program identifying 120 annoying process functions and resolving 75 of them to either improve or remove from the process within 6 months
- Support CMMI level 3 recertification
- Oversaw software development process adherence for 150 developers
- Responsible for advising, mentoring and training 17 project managers and 12 business analysts
- Project manager over legacy system migration from VMS, TMX Pascal and C to AIX, Java and Oracle. Generated in excess of 1 million lines of code and cost $21 Million to complete
- Managed issues and risks across program with reporting of status and budget position
- Worked with product managers to review and reduce daily reports from 180 to 100
- Created new process that packaged computer system support as a combined service putting hardware, software and technical support into a single monthly fee streaming costs for clients and generating a predictable revenue steam for the company.
- Reviewed customer needs and requirements, developed action plans, estimated cost and implemented. These include installs, upgrades, backup/recovery, performance optimization and break/fix functions.
- Supported Army audit, SEC, FED and IRS audits along with FCC, Patent and other regulatory filings and reviews.
- Managed and oversaw 26 staff doing accounting, consulting, development, marketing, test, business development and customer support.
- Expert on the Army’s CCTT combat simulator. Original designer and systems engineer overseeing support of almost 3 million lines of code
- Provided models, papers and consultation on Damage Assessment modeling for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps training. Spoke at symposium in Aberdeen, VA for Naval Air Warfare managers.
- Migrated billing data from one proprietary system to new system using Oracle, Excel and Access tool sets. Data needed to be extracted, converted, reformatted and then loaded into new Oracle system.
- Team Lead over seeing 35 developers and testers
- Software Engineer – Real Time programming using ADA, Vax VMS and AIX
- Quality Control Engineer
- Field Service and Technical Support