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Realized a dramatic improvement in HP’s internal network
management by creating more effective network traffic reports.
Invented and tested network congestion hypotheses together with
network engineers, determined key statistics, and designed a
system to pre-calculate and store those key statistics, which led
to a 90% reduction in the time required to produce network traffic
reports.
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Managed migration of HP’s company-wide global general ledger data
into replacement system. Ensured data integrity, migration of
maintenance scripts, accuracy of financial reporting to executive
management, shareholders, IRS and SEC. Delivered results on
schedule and on budget.
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Managed data integrity for Agilent’s employee stock option benefit
system. Created offline databases and data translation scripts
to enable on-time data migration for two large acquisitions and
one large divestiture.
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Cut 2 weeks out of implementation time by including
multi-functional participation at earlier phase of vendor
outsourcing process for Agilent’s employee retirement benefits.
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Saved $40k/year by designing and implementing a batch job
monitoring system, which notified support engineers when batch
jobs had runtime errors and reduced the investigation required
when a job failed.
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Designed and implemented a patch panel system to connect
terminals in HP’s customer training center classrooms to
computers in the data center. Eliminated 90% of classroom
interruptions from accidental disconnections, and reduced
setup time by 75%.
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Researched and revised the DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) for
Agilent’s stock option administration system. Discovered
incorrect procedures which prevented restoration of the
database from backup tapes. Analyzed the problem, fixed the
procedures, tested the DRP, and restored the database. This
allowed us to pass an internal audit as well as preparing for
a disaster.
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Created and delivered a training curriculum for outsourced
24 x 7 helpdesk personnel to use internally developed calling
card administration system.
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Negotiated a more beneficial service level agreement with the
data center while writing a comprehensive departmental computer
security plan which also allowed the department to pass an
internal audit.
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Reduced HP’s monthly financial close cycle by one full day
across the entire company globally, by replacing the general
ledger application. Completed replacement general ledger
application on-time and on-budget in multi-functional,
geographically dispersed team.
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Closed the financial books on time every month during phased
development of a replacement financial reporting system for HP
Consulting, while providing 24 x 7 deep support of the monthly
financial close activities.
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Cut 2 full days from HP Consulting’s monthly financial close
cycle by creating a consolidated global financial reporting
system with regional data capture. The system greatly enhanced
the level of detail available in global financial reports by
allowing analysts to “drill-down” from global summaries into
detailed regional data.
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Created administration system for HP’s employee calling cards.
Reduced department’s intra-corporate billing transactions by
25% and reduced administration effort by 50%, allowing
redeployment of 2 full-time positions.
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Designed and implemented a batch job monitoring system which
was in continuous daily use for 5 years with no failures, no
revisions, and no enhancement requests.
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Created test plans, consulted on data model, conducted code
walkthroughs and tested a networked client-server application
that allowed the General Conference of the United Methodist
Church to carry 20,000 petitions through their legislative
process. My volunteer efforts caught several
significant issues early enough in the design effort to allow
rapid corrections, and got the application delivered on time.
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Saved HP $300k/year by gracefully decommissioning old general
ledger system after migrating to replacement system. Ensured
legal and regulatory compliance as well as data integrity
between old and new systems.
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Managed the creation of a source code version control library
for HP’s Corporate Financial Reporting department. I
recognized the need, championed the idea, gained management
approval, researched tools, selected “rcs”, implemented the
library, added the source code, and trained other developers
on check-out and check-in procedures. This eliminated
version-related rework that the team had experienced.
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Leveraged organizational metadata from a financial reporting
application into rapid development of a consulting engagement
management system.
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