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Dana
dana.carrier@gmail.com
770-265-6674
Jacksonville, FL 32203
CEO/Solution Architect/Project-Program Management
40 years experience W2
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A highly competent Project/Program Manager with more than 20 years of experience in providing leadership to deliver solutions that enhance and improve business processes and drive innovation. I have deep knowledge and experience in Oracle Financials, Health Care, Procurement, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, CRM, Custom Application development/implementation/support, System support and IT best practice. My organizational skills help me to manage my teams effectively to achieve quality delivery while also supporting and expanding my employee's skill levels and expertise. I develop business relationships quickly and pay attention to detail allowing me to become a trusted advisor to business leadership because I consistently deliver quality results. My extensive experience and knowledge coupled with my ability to think creatively allows me to design and deliver innovative and customized solutions to business problems meeting and often exceeding expectations. I am a natural leader, and look forward to finding a position in Jacksonville where I can apply my skills to bring tangible value to meet and exceed corporate objectives. QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
• 3+ years of Program/Project management experience delivering various Oracle EBS/Essbase modules such as HFM, iSupplier/iProcurement, Order-to-Cash (O2C) supporting components, Procure-to-Pay (P2P) bank automation/supporting components
• Deep experience in Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, Data Governance and Quality Assurance
• 25+ years Project/Program Management experience with a strong track record of delivering complex initiatives on time and within budget. Solid knowledge of SDLC Best Practice.
• 20+ years experience in assessing current state and defining innovative solutions that improve business process, expand business capabilities, and enhance employee loyalty and job satisfaction
• Provided Solutions Architect consulting to various companies for 25 years across many business sectors, particularly for their Finance, BI/DW, ERP and CRM systems
• 8+ years experience with various CRM product Implementations (Salesforce, Epiphany, Pivotal, Sugar)
• Possess a successful track record of Product Management for UK banking and IT development products
• Possess 6+ years experience in Telecommunications with 3 of those years in Wireless communications
• Possess 5+ years experience in Automotive for companies like Ford Racing, Ford of Europe and Manheim
• Delivered 8 successful End-to-End Data Warehouse Implementations for clients such as BellSouth, Emory Hospitals, Emory Clinic, West Bromwich Building Society, Whitbread Pub Partnership, and others
• Delivered 2 successful Financial Data Mart implementations for clients like Cingular and Recall
• Performed 11 Enterprise DW Assessments/Strategy Roadmaps, enhancing or streamlining DW projects for clients such as Ford of Europe, British Steel, EDS/Inland Revenue, Manheim, Nova/Elavon, Dunn & Bradstreet Rotterdam, SP Richards, and others
• Stabilized implementations of OBIEE out of box solutions - Oracle Financial Analytics (OFA) and Oracle Project Analytics (OPA) - with close business participation and a dedicated developer
• Possess 10+ years of experience in leading Business Objects implementations
• Was GABOUG Chair (Georgia Business Objects User Group) for 3 years which merged with ASUG
• Original Program Chair for newly created GBN Webi/Deski SIG (Global SAP/Business Objects Web Intelligence/Desktop Intelligence Special Interest Group) until merged with ASUG
• Am an IBM-trained JAD Facilitator
• Trained in Mainframe Systems Administration, Database Administration for various databases

Experience
Education
Mathematics & Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University
Certifications
Agile Business Intelligence - TDWI
Master Data Management - Gartner
Oracle OBIEE/ Oracle DBA
JAD Facilitation (IBM)
AS400/DB2 DBA, Systems Management
Skills
Project Management
2021
19
CEO
2022
13
Program Management
2021
13
Data Marts
2021
11
Database Design
2021
11
SQL Server
2021
11
Business Objects
2021
9
CRM
2021
9
ERP
2021
9
Solutions Architecture
2021
9
Program Management
2022
8
Vendor Management
2022
8
System Architecture
2010
6
Data Center
2021
4
Risk Management
2021
4
Account Management
2010
3
Data Warehousing
2012
3
Sales
2000
3
Software
2000
3
System Administration
1987
3
Warehouse
2000
3
Application Development
0
1
Audit
2012
1
Auditing
2012
1
Box
0
1
Budget Management
0
1
Business Development
2010
1
Business Intelligence
0
1
C-Level Management
2014
1
CIO
2014
1
Data Governance
0
1
DBA
0
1
MS SharePoint
2012
1
MS Visio
2012
1
OBIEE
0
1
Oracle
0
1
Product Management
0
1
Provisioning
2012
1
Quality Assurance
2012
1
SAP
0
1
SDLC
0
1
Telecommunications
0
1
Web Intelligence
0
1