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QUALIFICATION TABLE |
| REQUIREMENT |
QUALIFICATION |
| APPLICATION DEVELOPER |
Application Programmer for 8 years. Developed OTS and customized financial applications including Balance Sheet / Income Statements, financial ratios, projection formulas, online help, manual documentation, and report formatting. Process included researching client needs, providing cost effective alternatives, design of expected output, possible repercussions from future versions, detailed mock-up for sign-off by client, programming, testing, refining with client, follow-up including summarizing for future enhancements and technical support. Also, designed application conversions from competitor's software. |
| FINANCIAL ANALYSIS KNOWLEDGE |
Majored in accounting (through advanced corporate accounting) with emphasis on taxation. Customized balance sheets, income statements, cash flow and cash management reports, ratios, and projection scenarios for banking software and Risk Assessment. |
| WEB-BASED DEVELOPMENT KNOWLEDGE |
Familiar with HTML Web Graphics, PhotoShop. Classes in Advanced Web Design, Java, Java Scripting and CGI. |
| TEAM ORIENTED |
Won the award for team leadership. Heading the team called "Teamwork" which created a survey to determine why the morale was low, analyzed results, provided top managers with possible solutions, helped to implement the solutions, final survey showed a 40% increase in morale. Built network of relationships within and across departments. Always accessible to colleagues and happy to share expertise. |
| PROBLEM SOLVER |
Sought opportunities to find cost effective/time saving solutions to cut costs and time by automating repeatable processes. Taught classes on how to cut down on repetitive tasks. |
| LIFE CYCLE EXPERIENCE |
Tracked each project from the request, through verbal estimate, internal commitment of program resources available, preparation of legal contracts, plotting of milestones, assigning, designing, coding, testing, scanning, final installing, shipping, invoicing, final call backs, summary documentation in preparation for future work. |
| FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATE EXPERIENCE |
Worked with financial statement conversions from foreign currency for comparison of financial statistics and cash flow purposes. Dealt with problems of countries needing variety of rates for one financial statement analysis due to inflation. |
| EUROPEAN, UK, & AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL STMTS |
Worked with the design and coding of a variety of financial statements due to country variations in reporting of assets, liabilities and net worth, keeping cash flow and cash management theories intact, customizing for country displays and definition differences. |
| CASH FLOW AND CASH MGMT ANALYSIS KNOWLEDGE |
Customized formulas for cash flow (including UCA, Direct Cash Flow and Indirect Cash Flow) to determine cash from sales, production costs, operating costs, financing costs, debt amortization, capital spending and external financing. Customized cash management analysis to correspond to bank's financial statements while retaining FASB requirements, using critical ratios, expected growth and management impact. |
| RISK ANALYSIS KNOWLEDGE |
Worked with reports that analyzed risk from 1) financial (profitability, liquidity, sales growth, capital structure), 2) management (performance, planning and integrity), 3) market (business environment, industry status, competitive environment). |
| QUALITY ASSURANCE EXPERIENCE |
Quality Assurance Manager for 2 years for financial analysis software. Set up validation testing and design for products, established and performed testing on standard and customized products, established library of test cases, initiated and implemented QA procedures throughout department, prepared, tracked and resolved bugs. Hired QA personnel. Proponent of black box testing to reduce changes to programs. |
| CONTRACT PREPARATION EXPERIENCE |
Worked with lawyers to design standardized contract for customized projects including addendums with variables allowing future contracts to be initiated and completed without legal intervention avoiding delays between client and company. Averaged 20 completed contracts per year. |
| CLIENT REQUEST ANALYZER |
Identified client requirements (conferring with client, analyzing needs, evaluation input and output requirements and format, identifying possible repercussions of request (in time and/or cost), providing alternatives to their end goal. |
| PROJECT ESTIMATOR |
Created over 1000 estimates (time and cost) for projects based on historical knowledge of similar requests and abilities of software. Averaged 145 estimates per year. Developed templates for tracking actual time spent against estimates and prepared variance report for modification of future estimates. |
| PROJECT SPECIFICATION AND ASSIGNMENT |
Analyzed specifications, using knowledge of previous and current customizations and program abilities, designed detailed specifications with client, mocking up results in spreadsheet or through customizer for client sign-off, working with competitors to define record layouts, working with source programmers to define source modifications needed. Prepared project assignment for programmers by gathering history of client, contract/change order, general specifications, previous files and summaries. |
| STATISTICAL AND ANALYTICAL REPORTER |
Provided information for 1) statistical analysis by collecting, analyzing and summarizing and reporting man-hours on projects for accounting, management and estimate predictions and trends, 2) customization tracking summary by maintaining database of historical records for estimate, contracts, invoices, status, 3) clients, RVPs and Hot Line by tracking, updating and summarizing customization modifications, 4) disseminated Intranet information by creating, maintaining and updating Web Page on Intranet to provide easy access to Department information. |
| SOFTWARE TRAINER |
Trained associates and clients on Customizer and customization process by composing lesson plans (identifying learning objective, selecting instructional methodology) and teaching. Act as knowledge resource person for all personnel in department. |
| TECHNICAL WRITER |
Wrote several booklets on "how to" customize software, convert data from competitor's programs for both internal programmers and clients. |
| CLIENT SUPPORTER |
Worked as "Hot Line" Responder for four years responding to user problems. Worked as upper tier respondent for three years responding to difficult user problems that could not be resolved by "Hot Line" personnel. Responsible for all questions concerning how to customize software. Tracked questions and responses, followed up on issues. |
| PROCEDURE INITIATOR AND DEVELOPER |
Identified improvements to existing processes, recommended use of tools when appropriate and documented procedures for standardization within department. |
| MUTLI-TASKING |
Able to be interrupted at any time without loosing focus on current projects. Handled up to 10 projects daily. Extremely flexible in shifting priorities and adapting to rapid change. |
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