PROJECT MANAGER

Areas of Expertise

• Oracle, Munis, Lawson, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint

Confidential

Project Manager/Systems Analyst

Manage projects and reengineering activities for business areas, manage PMO and lines of business project managers within technology service areas, lead project resources and manage scope.

• Manage project manager activity through PMO. Report activity and gaps in expected performance with visual management reporting.
• Manage customer relationship with business areas of finance, procurement/purchasing, human resources, and administration. Conduct regular communication meetings and manage budgetary and project requirements.
• Define strategic needs of departments requiring reengineering, process modifications and automation.
• Develop communication and risk mitigation plans.
• Identify business requirements, deliverables, outcomes and budget.
• Develop project charter, plan and schedule, roles and responsibilities and points of integration.
• Conduct user gap analysis between preferred and actual functionality.
• Identify technology that will enable preferred and reduce gaps in performance.
• Learn system or use subject matter experts to develop training.
• Develop user manuals, training documents and standard operating procedures for implementation and transition.
• Develop and implement transition plans to maintenance.

Confidential

Senior Buyer and Functional Technology Expert /Project Manager

Functional Purchasing Lead for Lawson ERP System managing all user requirements for procurement permissions and utilization.

• Managed Lawson Punch-out Application Implementation in multi-facility organization integrating custom features for each site and systems
• Mapped manual purchasing inventory control, and warehouse to ERP modules
• Created user scripts, performed technical and user testing, organization creation, and implementation of Punch-Out and EDI, etc.
• Performed on-site support, training and coaching for ERP upgrade
• Oversight of purchasing of lab and medical capital equipment, service contracts for lab equipment, patient transportation, environmental services, landscaping
• Executed purchasing and managing version control and modifications of over 500 forms. Managed vendors.
• Managed vendor recall process.
• Represented Karmanos at DMC MEDVAT and Cardinal Valuelink meetings

• Managed operations, purchasing and infrastructure: lifecycle management, materials management, document storage and removal
• Reengineered purchasing process postage to save 1,500 per month 18,000 annually , improved procurement of office supply products resulting in an annual savings of 131,000, and additional savings in printer/multi-functional device consumables of 41,000, streamlined ordering 31,000 streamlined inventory of product within our Materials Management area 10,000, Security System at affiliate location 12,000, deflected EVS price increase 28,800, Two Autoclaves 22,300 savings, Lab Device Washer 11,450 savings, IT Archival products: 15,000 savings and Pheresis Kits 154,000.
• Renegotiated document storage and shredding services resulting in over 100,000 annual savings.

Senior Business Systems Analyst/Project Manager

• Successfully served as Intra-Office Consultant between Purchasing and IT. Supported the Purchasing Business areas in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and worked with the business to identify opportunities to improve their business systems to better suit their needs. Reviewed upcoming business modes, identified system gaps, wrote functional specs to address gaps in terms of development items, required reports, or enhancements to current processes, etc., and configured Oracle Purchasing module according to required business models.
• Process redesigned Store Returns process by rewriting machine logic and saving 500,000 annually.
• Automated Manual Order Fulfillment process saving twelve hours of labor per week.
• Managed line of business relationship and vendor in U.K. Oracle integration projects. Wrote functional specs, performed unit testing, facilitated user testing and acceptance of development items, enhancements and reports. Mapped and configured Oracle 11i Purchasing module per business model. Provided on-site U.K. business and systems support and training to twenty-four purchasing users. Oracle integration projects were delivered on time and the business is now enjoying positive overall order fill rates of over 94 , an increase of 14 .

Confidential

• Became subject matter expert of newly introduced Supply Chain Planning purchasing tool and Oracle Purchasing. Achieved overall 1st year 89 order fill rate, then 2nd year improved to 94 .
• Managed warehouse and purchasing departments for category management business by improving and maintaining the highest product order fill rates, maintaining warehouse efficiency goals purchasing replenishment goods for two ADC's automated distribution centers . Managed replenishment of 40,000 active SKU's across two ADCs. Negotiated and managed suppliers necessary to the procurement of goods to support merchandising programs. Trained and developed direct reports, provided business support and training to the United States and Canadian offices during Oracle and Supply Chain Planning implementation.
• Accounted for 55 of all U.S. product purchases during tenure which represented more than 947,000,000, and delivered 132,000,000 to the bottom line.
• Simultaneously served as Inventory Control Manager until someone was hired to assume the position. This saved the company a salary and benefits for nearly a year.
• Introduced and developed two direct reports. Both were promoted in less than two years' time.

Confidential

• Established annual/monthly ADC inventory values to meet warehouse efficiency goals for fiscal years 2004, 2005 and 2006. Handled ongoing communication tracking inventory levels trends toward goals to ADC and Purchasing. Managed and performed quarterly Inventory Reserve Analysis which included recommending non-returnable SKU markdowns, liquidations, and destructions. Identified supplier returns from ADC, and managed automated Accusort machine which handled all store returns that directed goods to either pick locations or to debits. Maintained contract/relationships with Liquidators. Negotiated early supplier returns with suppliers. Worked with Product Managers and ReBuying group to schedule delivery of goods to better meet our ADC inventory requirements.
• Engaged company statistician to cooperatively develop a supplier returns tool microsoft access to deliver more efficient financial recommendations that better considered weeks of supply, supplier return penalties, recent purchase discounts, etc. Also enhanced Accusort logic to make similar recommendatinos. Reduced annual supplier penalties 100 or 1,628,000 annually while processing 148,000,000 in supplier returns.
• Reduced ADC inventory value from 91,000,000 to 71,500,000 during the final quarter of fiscal 2004-05, which enabled HDL to make its warehouse efficiency goals of 8.3 turns annually.
• Negotiated and extended current contract with Liquidator who wanted a better cost 1 per unit reduction by negotiating product bids from other liquidator contacts. We ended up maintaining the per unit cost, with the same liquidator, in a down market which produced 425,000 of incremental value.
• Simultaneously took the position of Manager Rebuying, utilizing excellent time and resource management skills in the process. This saved the company an extra salary and benefits.

Product Manager

• Subject Matter Expert for Oracle implementation of Merchandising, Procurement, Inventory Management, Catalog and Operations.
• Managed purchasing and distribution to mass merchant customers 4,000 stores . Selected new items across all genres for online customers Kmart, JC Penney, MTV
• Negotiated discounts with suppliers
• Facilitated funding and participation of customer's merchandising programs with suppliers.
• Developed direct reports, and maintained catalog integrity, ADC in-stock position on more than 20,000 on-line exclusive items.
• Effectively used industry knowledge resulting in achieving product manager best new release SKU sell off rate of 67 . These efforts maintained HDL market share for country genre 23 within a shrinking music industry.
• Implemented cancelable purchase orders for new release SKU's. By spreading the purchase risk across more than one purchase order, we could carry less at our ADC at any given time, but also maintain our position in the purchase order queue with suppliers. These efforts decreased risk and HDL liability while directly contributing to achieving warehouse efficiency goal of 8.6 turns.
• Identified presale trend for our on-line customers. Rescheduled our SKU set up timeline to make new release SKU's visible to consumers as early as possible before street date. On-line orders could accumulate before street date to take advantage of demand visibility thereby boosting sales 18.7 from previous year and also achieving better customer fill rates of 99.6 .