More than 15 years business / industry experience managing project managers, programs and portfolio methodologies and tools (includes MS Project, Nexus, Clarity and various company-proprietary software).

Intimately involved with and managed IS outsourcing off / on since 1998. Managed multi-facility international sites (people and projects), and worked with diverse multi-cultural corporate cultures: Mexico, Germany, India, and China.

PMP certified (last 3 years), Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, a Masters of Science Degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Began career with IBM as IT Manager for their manufacturing facility in Charlotte, NC. That facility / operation was acquired in 1998 by (confidential). Joined (confidential) until 2007 when that company was acquired by (confidential) who laid off / downsized in 09 and when he lost that job. Took some time off and did a lot of volunteer work, continued his training in the PM/PMO area, and then took a CONSULTING position with (confidential.

In search of a full-time position with a large international company where he can utilize his experience and see the opportunity for career path growth.

Areas of expertise include

Portfolio/Project Management

Information Technology

Acquisition/Merger Integration

Team Development

Risk Management/ANALYSIS

Strategic Planning/Budgeting

Outsourcing/Shared SERVICES

SOX Compliance

Customer Service

Enterprise Resource Planning

Operations Management

Cost Savings Programs

Most recently as Chief Development Officer and Sr. EVP Software Product Line at SIMtone Corporation, Kurt defined the platform and using innovative approaches developed, packaged and delivered SIMtone’s comprehensive cloud computing network and SERVICES software platform for service providers (Telcos) within 9 months from the platform inception. This SIMtone platform dynamically provides brokered, authenticated, secure, encrypted and automatically provisioned connections from stateless zero-client and thin-client terminals to virtual desktop and real desktops and SERVICES.

Prior to SIMtone, Kurt served as EVP Marketing & Development and subsequently as CEO at ASPEED Software, a high performance computing software additive used by top Wall Street firms for Risk and Pricing applications to parallelize computationally intensive financial applications. ASPEED was acquired by SIMtone. Prior to ASPEED, Kurt was EVP Application Performance Management at Precise Software (PRSE) acquired by VERITAS (VRTS) where he drove software and professional SERVICES sales in the US and Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand). Prior to Precise Kurt was CEO and Founder eBSure, Inc., a Web user experience metrics software monitor provider that was acquired by Precise.

Prior to eBSure, Kurt drove consumer, web, server, network, mainframe, file and data base security software products through three consecutive M&As, beginning at AbirtNet, Ltd. As AbirNet CEO, Kurt introduced a novel intrusion detection product, SessionWall, and drove worldwide growth until the company was acquired by MEMCO (MEMCF), a UNIX server protection, access control and SSO software provider. Within two months of the acquisition by MEMCO, Platinum Technology (PLAT) and MEMCO signed a definitive agreement this resulted in Kurt becoming CEO of MEMCO US and acting GM for Platinum Security Product line directing a team of 455 MEMCO and Platinum folks, driving the security software revenue growth to $150M over the transition period. Upon completion of the MEMCO and Platinum merger, Computer Associates (CA) acquired Platinum. Kurt managed the transition and became the CA SVP Security Product line merging the combined companies’ 50 security software products under the “eTrust” brand with a $1B revenue target, achieving $250M in the first quarter of roll out.

Additional Experience

VP Product Management and Marketing, NetManage (NETM) an Internet applications pioneer

CEO / President, SYZYGY Communications an Internet multi-media streaming company VP Product Management and Marketing, Phaser Systems an IBM mainframe LAN integration company

Multiple positions at IBM:

Director, New Business Development and Venture Group

Systems Architect

VM Program Director

Complex Systems Consultant

Data Center SERVICES Manager (IT)

Systems Engineer

Financial SERVICES and Business Systems Manager Diagnostic Engineer

Network SERVICES Architecture, Design and Control Manager

Education

M.S. Managing Technology, American University, Washington, DC

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Kurt is a frequent speaker at cloud computing, grid computing, performance and security forums and has published three books on integrating and applying distributed systems as well as numerous articles and numerous papers, and articles bulletins on service level planning and management.

Results-Driven Technical Manager with extensive systems ANALYSIS and development, project management and leadership experience.

Proven success in leading major and complex systems efforts and projects. Significant IBM mainframe and distributed computing large project development.

Expertise includes working abroad, managing globally dispersed teams, strategic and tactical project planning, budgeting and multiple project coordination throughout all phases of the system development lifecycle.

Business Domain Experience

Group, Annuities and Individual Life Insurance • Property and Liability Insurance • Mutual Funds • Retail

Software, Language and Data Management Expertise

MS Project • MS Visio • MS PowerPoint • MS Excel • MS Access • MS Front Page • MS Visual Basic • MS SharePoint • MS Word • WIKI • COBOL • DB2 • QMF • SPUFI • CICS • TELON • VSAM • JCL • TSO • CA-7 • STROBE • ENDEVOR • PL/1 • File Aid • XPEDITER • EZTRIEVE • IMS-DLI • UNIX • Shell Script • Oracle • PL/SQL • Decision Suite (Data Warehousing) • RPG • PASCAL

Accomplishments include

Information Technology Team Manager

Delivered excellent customer service as the “face to the customer” throughout multiple team management assignments as a mainframe and distributed system owner; earning seven Star Awards. Reduced ongoing application support costs by 33% by combining or relocating work functions.

Project Manager

Completed the Variable Annuity Hedging (Phase II) effort, a $600K project, on-time and more than $100K under budget; enabling the company to hedge variable annuity product risks.

Established the India Service Center Individual Mainframe Production Support team, this team was hailed as the most successful and productive of the teams (client name confidential) first established in India.

Completed a Boston University Graduate Project Management Course 1Q2010 with a 4.0 GPA.

ANALYSIS and Development

Increased reserving accuracy and eliminated time-consuming monthly manual efforts by automating the interface between the Transcend variable annuity administrative system and the Triton actuarial reserving system, providing all account and sub-account data required to calculate reserves.

Re-engineered the VA batch cycle, increasing online availability and reducing system resource usage by a third and run time by more than 50% for CPU and storage costs savings of more than $10K/year.

Several years finance/accounting experience with Hyperion Enterprise as a Financial Systems developer. Team lead, project, and management experience.

SOX PMO specialist experience. Shared SERVICES reporting analyst

Master's degree. PPMC/PMI certification. Project Orange & Blue Belt certification.

Positions include Director, Programs; Senior Manager, PMO; Programs / Operations Management; Portfolio Management; Project Manager and Senior Business Analyst.

Multi-national/cultural/facility experienced (France, Germany, Italy and Mexico).

Director of Information Systems at a Fortune 200 company in St. Petersburg, FL., the VP and CIO at (company confidential) in Tampa,FL., and the VP and CIO at (company confidential), where he built all the PMO processes: requirements definition, technical documentation, test processes, change management, governance, prioritization scenarios and criteria to enable project alignment with strategic objectives, project and program review processes, etc. Also at (Fortune 200 company), he directed the development of the first Strategic Information Systems Plan, which became the corporate-wide model.

Built the first PMO at (Fortune 200 company) as IT Manager and PMO for a $4 billion business unit. The PMO consisted of 55 consultants and project managers to define requirements for large aerospace programs. While at (company confidential), he was sent overseas to Turkey where he lived for a year and supervised in-country project managers, technical personnel and administrative staff. He was also sent to Seoul, Korea to put final touches on and present a systems plan to and for the (client confidential).

While at another Fortune 200 company, he managed all the IT and PM requirements for four business units which represented approximately $2B dollars revenue from Military/Defense clients and commercial clients.

Has led and managed staff throughout the U.S., in Turkey, the U.K., India, Malaysia, China, Hungary, Scotland, Brazil and Mexico. His experience in India was with (company confidential) as VP of Software Development and PMO. The company outsourced software development and data base administration client SERVICES to India and he led that project, including revision of all PM and service delivery processes.

A proven information technology architect and leader with big-picture experience and executive presence, able to combine process engineering and information technology expertise in high technology, business SERVICES and manufacturing enterprises in multiple locations at home and abroad.

Experience starting up new functions or getting lagging functions refocused and has led the implementation of innovative solutions to solve business problems by applying vision, business sense, and experience to turn strategy into practice.

Senior level executive with more than 20 years experience in software development and concepts through product launch (Agile, Scrum, Water Fall, SDLC and others used in combinations depending on the type of software product being worked on);

Software systems developed for internal company use and customized, re-engineered for commercial market clients.

Responsibilities include installations, support and follow on maintenance with internal and external clients both in the U.S. and abroad with install periods ranging from 6 to 12+ months.

10+ years of senior management experience (VP, Senior Director) with cross functional teams which consisted of Architects, QA, Project Management and development staff. Has managed over 150 staff at one time. Also involved in outsourcing and working with groups internationally;

Has worked with MICROSOFT products for the past 8+ years: MCSD for VB.net and ASP.net.

Understands and has built many products with the .NET framework, and worked with SQL Server more than 8 years.

A dynamic strategist with a track history of adding significant value to a broad range of organizations by developing and managing new software projects and forging key alliances;

Motivational leader with expertise in leading cross-functional teams to deliver large, complex projects on time and within budget;

Keen analyst, adept at assessing organizational needs within several business industry disciplines. Determining product requirements, and implementing to provide effective business solutions;

A professional with superior communication / presentation skills and persuasive vendor negotiation talents;

Profit-focused business partner with proven ability to manage and allocate multi-million dollar budgets while holding full P&L authority;

Dedicated to contributing to both short- and long-term business goals and growth objectives within a challenging economy.

A senior-level technologist, with almost 15 years experience in the fields of Business Intelligence and Data ANALYSIS.

Eperience spans multiple database systems and business verticals, with the constant motivation to deliver well-conceived intelligent solutions for internal and external clients.

Has been responsible for data flow from source systems through ETL processes into target databases, and out to enduser reporting tools and other applications.

Has managed teams of up to 5 direct reports while being a customer facing hands-on resource for SQL, ETL, and BI development and ANALYSIS.

Technology tools

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform

MICROSOFT Business Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Some Cognos and BusinessObjects

Ascential/IBM DataStage

Informatica

Sagent ETL

Strong analytical SQL ANALYSIS.

Some UNIX shell scripting

Oracle 9i

SQL Server (through 2008)

Teradata

DB2 databases

MICROSOFT Office, MICROSOFT Visio, MICROSOFT FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Quark Xpress, and Adobe Photoshop.

An experienced and accomplished Information Technology professional with almost 20 years of effective application development and system deployment experience.

Strong technical and functional expertise with Oracle Hyperion technologies including Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Enterprise (through version 6.x), Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDM) including prior releases and the more current versions System 9 and System 11 Fusion Edition.

Highly experienced in all phases of the application development life cycle including requirements gathering, development, testing and deployment.

Broad technical background which also includes various MICROSOFT technologies such as Visual Basic, MICROSOFT SQL Server, MICROSOFT Access and other core development, database and infrastructural technologies.

Very strong written and verbal communication skills successfully leveraged in project documentation and end-user training scenarios.

A highly motivated proactive self-starter with strong inter-personal and organizational skills.

Hyperion software includes

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) 4.x/Hyperion System 9/System 11 Financial Management Consolidation System, Hyperion Enterprise versions 1.8 to 6.x, Hyperion Reporting including Web integration and reporting products, Hyperion Studio, Hyperion Workspace, Hyperion Analyzer/Hyperion Analytic SERVICES for the Web, Hyperion Retrieve/SmartView, and Hyperion Shared SERVICES central security components. Oracle/Hyperion FDM Data Collection and Transformation product suite for remote/field location data collection, validation and submission.

Effective IT leader of Business Intelligence applications, conscientious and detailed oriented, with deep experience in three industries.

MBA

Past roles: Manager, BI Applications; Manager Information & ANALYSIS Systems; Manager Enterprise & Information Architecture; Director Business ANALYSIS; Director Business ANALYSIS Information Systems; Senior Business Analyst.

Worked with business unit executives and functional leaders to guide conception and define requirements, design approach, and manage development of executive level BI/decision support applications, with global scope and implementation.

Recognized by peers and managers for setting appropriate strategic direction and driving performance toward established goals. Core competencies include:

Data Warehousing

SAP Business Intelligence

Requirements formulation at all levels

Process Improvement

Six Sigma DMAIC Model

Facilitating JAD Sessions

Setting Strategic Direction

Project Management

Process Re-engineering

Team Building

Planning and Budgeting

IT Governance

An Essbase application development professional with fourteen years of full-cycle financial systems development in software, hardware, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, telecom & semiconductor industries; twelve years of financial ANALYSIS, forecasting and reporting experience, and a strong understanding of accounting practices.

Award winning hands-on team leader with proven results in process improvement in conjunction with creating optimized applications to produce timely, accurate, organized information, from the straightforward to the highly complex.

Technical Skills

Oracle Essbase (OLAP software, Versions 3.1 through 11.1.1.3) on Unix and Windows platforms, Complex Essbase calc scripting for custom applications, Esscmd Language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Basic, Lotus Approach Relational Databases, Financial & Variance ANALYSIS, Project and Program management, ETL from Oracle, Peoplesoft and SQL Server

Primary experience has been working with accounting and reporting systems in the commercial real estate investment management or commercial mortgage segments of the financial SERVICES industry.

Positions include: IT Manager – Sales & Marketing Data Warehouse Program; Project Manager/Business Analyst; Project Manager - Servicing & Reporting; Data Quality Analyst, and more.

Technology tools include: MS Office 2007/Vista (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Business Objects XI R2, Remedy, TIDAL Enterprise Scheduler, Actuate, Informatica PowerCenter, ServiceNow, BEA Weblogic, TOAD, CA Autosys, CA Clarity, Open Workbench, GENTRAN, SQL 7.0, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Outlook, WebTrends, Lotus (Notes, 1-2-3, Word Pro), Paradox, Impromptu, Brio, Crystal Reports, McCracken Strategy, Yardi Voyager

BI / BPM professional with business, technical and project management expertise, specializing in Business Performance Management.

Effectively partner with senior management to provide financial systems solutions, and recognized with progressive increases in management responsibility and technical leadership.

MBA with a career foundation in finance & accounting.

Possess a unique balance of business application and technical development skills utilizing Hyperion System 9.x Essbase and Planning, TM1, MICROSOFT Reporting SERVICES, SAP, relational and OLAP DBMS,PL/SQL, Visual Basic and Excel.

Knowledge of Hyperion HFM through coursework.

Positions include: Manager of Financial Data Intelligence, Essbase Systems Administrator & Developer, and Manager of Finance & MIS.

Oracle certified Hyperion Essbase Developer. Ten years experience in financial, operational, and statistical ANALYSIS. Five years hands-on experience in Hyperion development including Essbase, Planning and HFM.

Seven years experience developing reports in Financial Reporting, Smartview and the Excel Add-In.Proven project manager on multi person team Hyperion projects. Consistently delivered on-time and on-budget.

Managed 20+ person department.Experienced Technical Trainer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS Oracle Hyperion including Essbase, Planning, Hyperion Financial Management, Shared SERVICES, Analytic Administration, Web ANALYSIS, Strategic Finance, Crystal Ball and Financial Reporting. Advanced knowledge of Cognos and Business Objects. Experienced statistician using SAS and SPSS.

10 years of experience in Data Warehouse development and Business Intelligence design using Oracle/Hyperion EPM tools.

Technical expertise is in Essbase (v4.5, 6.5, 7.1, 9.3), Financial Reports, ESSCMD, MAXL, Web ANALYSIS, SQL, Excel Add-in (Essbase), Hyperion Security administration, Data Relationship Management (MDM), and Planning (including HAL development).

Strong people skills, worked at all levels and comfortable working at the highest levels of management.

Has been a team leader and team member, in requirements gathering during the SDLC many times.

Solving daily issues and answering user concerns.

Training of application software being rolled out to users on a nation-wide scope.

Hyperion developer and administrator (about 5 years with the Hyperion tools). Hyperion Essbase Analytics 9.3 Developer Certified Expert, and Hyperion Planning 9.3 Administrator Certified Expert

Hyperion- Hyperion Planning 9.3, Hyperion Planning 11.1.1 Essbase, Hyperion Reports, Hyperion Analyzer, Essbase Administration SERVICES and Oracle Data Integrator, Essbase Excel Add-in, Smart View

Senior Business Intelligence / Hyperion professional in search of full-time position: Project Management, Lead, Developer.

Essbase, Planning, HFM, Analyzer, Reports, pre and post System 9. Oracle Project Manager certified. Hyperion certified. PMI certification. Essbase Trainer certification.

Full SDLC. Extensive BI background, installs, migrations. Multiple industries, variety of platforms and applications (budgeting, planning, sales & marketing ANALYSIS, sales force automation, financial consolidation & reporting).

MBA. Excellent communication, management, leadership and client relationship skills.

Successfully contributed over the last 14 years through project management, development and the implementation of various business intelligence solutions for Corporate Finance, Planning, and PC divisions using Oracle/Hyperion ESSBASE and associated tools.

Known for excellence in project management, embracing new technology, analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.

Skillfully led many key IT projects, comprised of cross functional and global teams, reducing cost and improving performance.

AREAS OF PROFICIENCY

Hyperion/Oracle Essbase System9

Project management involving cross functional and global teams

OLAP model design and optimization

System ANALYSIS and IT architecture

Cognos tm1, AIX, Window OS,DB2

Product Vendor Relationship Management

Technical training and mentoring

Tool and process evaluation/recommendations Systems support

Cost benefit ANALYSIS

Excel, VB, access, Star Analytics

System documentation and user training

Familiar with Hyperion Planning

Global work and multicultural experience

Results-oriented IT professional with expertise in Information Systems Administration. In addition to 5 years COGNOS products expertise, has 20 years full project lifecycle development experience including requirements, ANALYSIS, design, coding, testing, configuration, implementation, and release management.

Successful and equally comfortable as a Developer, Project Lead, and Systems Analyst.

Responsibilities have required heavy client interface as well as working with development teams both onshore and offshore.

• Exceptional combination of project leadership and technical experience.

• Raise productivity levels by complex problem solving methodologies and innovative solutions.

• Proven ability to build strong relationships with staff and clients using negotiation talent, persuasion and demonstrated commitment.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

COGNOS BI 8 Products Experience

Report Studio Versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4: Dashboard and Scorecard Development, List Reports, Cross Tab Reports, Drill Through Parameter Driven Reports, Interactive Prompting, Prompt Pages, Merged Queries (Unions, Joins, Master/Detail). Framework Manager Versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4: Designing Metadata Models Transformer Versions 8.3, 8.4: Designing OLAP Models and Building Cubes Query Studio Versions 8.2, 8.3, 8.4: Ad-Hoc Reporting and data investigation.

Data Modeling

Perform Dimensional Modeling for both Relational and DMR models utilizing Star Schemas.

Set up the metadata models using Framework Manager and build data cubes using BI Transformer.

Other Mid Range Software Experience

DB2 Command Center, Advanced Query Tool/DB2, Toad/Oracle, Perl, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports

Mainframe Software Experience

Cobol II, CICS, Ramis, Focus, SAS, Fortran, MVS-JCL, Endeavor, Librarian, SCLM, SPUFI/QMF, File Aid

Databases

DB2, VSAM, Oracle Operating Systems MVS/TSO, AIX/UNIX, Windows

A talented and results-oriented financial professional with diverse experience in accounting, forecasting, ANALYSIS, operations support, and financial systems.

Proven ability to utilize complex technical and analytical concepts to create winning business solutions and achieve business objectives.

Roles include Financial Systems Analyst, Senior BPM Systems Analyst,and Manager Financial Operations.

Has eight (8) years of in-depth experience in implementing Role-Based and Position-Based SAP Security for both R/3 & Enterprise Core Components (ECC) platform that includes Security ANALYSIS & Design and Role creation & maintenance thru Profile Generator.

Has five (5) years of SAP HR Security implementation experience that includes HR Security Role ANALYSIS, creation and maintenance as well as implementation of Structural Authorizations.

Has hands-on experience with User and Security Role Administration for Enterprise Portal 6.0 & 7.0

Extensive hands-on experience on User Provisioning, usage of Central User Administration (CUA), ECC Security Upgrades from R/3, and Production Support for HR and Non-HR modules.

Exposure on SAP GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) solutions using Virsa's Firefighter and Calibrator Compliance modules.

Vast experience in conducting SAP R/3 System Audits, Risk and Controls Assessments, Segregation of Duties (SOD) ANALYSIS and Application Controls Reviews for SAP R/3 Financials and HR modules.

Senior BI Analyst / Business Analyst / Process Management Analyst.

7 years experience in the effective design and deployment of BI, data warehousing, and business process reengineering projects (multiple industries, global companies).

Expertise in the use of SDLC. Skilled BA with ability to determine business requirements, requirements ANALYSIS, and translate to technical specifications.

Excellent communicator and team player. Expertise in customer experience, process improvement and business analytics. Strong technical background in BI solutions.

Hyperion, Cognos, Informatica, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Crystal Reports, Windows, Mac (more). Masters in Information Systems.

A detail oriented, analytical Hyperion developer/ administrator, with excellent interpersonal skills and over 6 years of successful banking and accounting experience in a corporate environment, using various accounting and ANALYSIS softwares.

In-depth knowledge of systems operations, business intelligence, ANALYSIS of strategic markets, and problem resolution, in order to meet daily and monthly deadlines.

While developing an accounting skill set, a technological background was simultaneously acquired, including over six years of technical CONSULTING experience involving UNIX scripting, network/hardware/software troubleshooting, and part-time network/ multidimensional database administration and development.

Hyperion Essbase/ Financial Reporting/ Web ANALYSIS/SmartView/Planning Administration and Development, Business rules/ Calc Scripts/ Maxl/Esscmd

SAP, PeopleSoft, MICROSOFT SQL Server, Visual Basic, Linux/UNIX, and MICROSOFT Windows

A results-oriented BI professional with over 10 years of IT experience as a Business Intelligence Analyst & Developer, performing activities such as gathering requirements, designing, and developing relational and OLAP reporting solutions. Particularly enjoys customer interaction, working with the business/functional users to gather requirements and transform those requirements into technical solutions.

Hyperion Essbase 5.x/6.x/7.x/9.x, Clarity Reporting, Clarity Performance Management, Clarity Consolidations, Essbase EssCmd, Essbase MaxL, Essbase API, Hyperion EIS, Essbase Excel Add-in, Hyperion Financial Reporting, Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Business Objects

PeopleSoft Financials, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS ANALYSIS SERVICES, and MS Access, VB, VBA, VBscript, PL/SQL developer, Oracle SQL *Plus, Toad, Oracle PL/SQL

Stong financial analyst background, Essbase developer, business ANALYSIS experience, some Hyperion Planning experience. Essbase 9.3 Certified with Administrator experience. BA and MBA.

Accomplished senior level IT professional in the EPM / BI technologies. Extensive track record of success in applying BI/BPM solutions to improve business performance, and extensive experience with the Hyperion suite of products specializing in Hyperion Essbase and Hyperion Planning (8 years). Adept at technical application development, facilitating sessions, defining user requirements, and solid technical and functional experience to bridge both functional users and IT requirements successfully.

Hyperion Essbase (6-9.x); Hyperion Planning (4.x, 9.x, 11.x), load rules, dimension build rules, calc scripts, report scripts, task lists, smart lists, menus, dynamic calc scripts, shared SERVICES, ODI, star analytics/integration server; maxl, etc.