7 Brayton Meadow ● East Greenwich, RI 02818 ● (843) 810-5965 ● michael.dow@gmail.com

Michael Dow

Overview Experienced, ethical and organized IT, Project and Business Manager with over

fifteen years of success building businesses, managing teams, building financial

management systems and deploying software solutions through leading edge

technologies to include Cloud-based data-driven software development, Oracle, Citrix,

Cisco, VMware & Microsoft technologies, SQL, the LAMP stack, SharePoint, Oracle

Hyperion Essbase and Hyperion Planning. Creative, enthusiastic, and customer focused

with a proven ability to identify, analyze and define business solutions through

expertise in:

  · Agile IT Project Management

  · Full lifecycle SDLC based Software

Design & Development

  · Disaster recovery planning

  · Database development and ETL

  · Big Data & Business Intelligence

Experience 6/2014 to Present

  · EPM & Financial Management

Systems

  · ERP Implementations

  · Data analytics and reporting

  · Data warehouse and data mining

Quest Specialty Chemicals /

Valspar

Director of IT Enterprise Software

  § Lead and manage Enterprise Software platform development initiatives including

Roadmap planning, budgeting, contract negotiation, Project Planning, and Project

Implementations with an emphasis on Project Performance Measurement, Budgeting,

Vendor Management & Governance

  § Serve as Senior Project Manager of BI Project Team in design and implementation of

Qlikview Business Intelligence / Data warehouse platform to include KPI Dashboards for

Sales, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain Management

  § Serve as Senior IT Project Manager for Hyperion Financials Consolidation and Reporting

platform that involves eight different business units of a multinational company during

strategic sale of company to Valspar

  § Utilize Agile and SDLC based project methodologies, with an emphasis on frequency and

consistency to deliver bite-sized 2-week “Sprints” in which design, develop, and test

repetitions are conducted allowing the project team to touch and feel the results of their

decisions with core Project Teams sizes ranging from 8 to 20

  § Responsible for EPM program strategy, design, delivery and ownership

  § Plan, Execute and Manage the Program of Hyperion Projects including implementation

of Financial Data Quality Management, Hyperion Essbase, Planning, Data Relationship

Management. SmartView, Financial Reporting, FR Studio, Interactive Reporting, and

Oracle Data Integrator

  § Performance measurement utilizing the Hyperion Suite and the Oracle Business

Intelligence Enterprise Edition to provide analysis of Key Performance Indicators

  § Communication on performance of all projects with budget, time line and risk metrics

  § Provide process analysis and design, business and functional requirements analysis, use

case analysis, data analysis, system design, development, testing, and implementation

Provide technical architecture and application design based on industry best practices

  § Provide expertise on data integration between Hyperion, Infor BAAN, BI Tools, data

warehouse, and various legacy systems

  § Led Project Team for Infor BAAN 4C4 ERP Implementation

  § Led Implementation of Financial Consolidation and Budgeting system providing Balance

Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flows for each entity as well as a consolidated

Boston, MA

7 Brayton Meadow ● East Greenwich, RI 02818 ● (843) 810-5965 ● michael.dow@gmail.com

Michael Dow

Financial Statement

  § Analysis, development, testing documentation of application software tool Accushade™

utilizing JIRA as primary development and bug tracking tool

  § Utilized Sharepoint as secure facing Project Management Portal as well as BaseCamp

and Microsoft Project for Project organization

  § Led Infor BAAN Warehouse Mobility Project Implementation, replacing outdated RF

Mobile Scanner integrated warehouse platform utilized by Materials Handlers and

Warehouse

  § Worked with company’s Human Resource leadership to maximize the functionality of

ADP Workforce Now through the addition of company policies, learning materials, and

onboarding processes

  § Workday HCM implementation

  § Oracle ERP migration

  § Mimecast implementation

  § Upon Valspar acquisition of Quest: Writing of Integration Road Map, IT Integration

Playbook and leading the Quest/Valspar IT Integration Project Team

  § Upon Valspar acquisition of Quest: Project Manager of Sarbanes Oxley Quest IT Audit

7/2013 to 6/2014

Benefitfocus

Payroll Systems Integration Manager

  § Led Integration Projects during critical period of Company’s highly successful IPO

  § Led hybrid Agile/Waterfall based Implementation project teams for clients over 10,000+

employees

  § Participated on Agile Scrum/SDLC development teams on Evolution of the Benefitfocus

SAAS platform utilizing JIRA as primary development and bug tracking platform

  § Utilized Sharepoint as secure client facing Project Management Client Facing Portal as

well as SalesForce Project Management Module for Project organization

  § Responsible for all phases of Project Implementation for new data integrations from

Discovery, Requirements Documentation, Configuration, Engineering, Change

Management, and Testing for leading cloud-based Software as a Service benefits

solution company with over 25 million users

  § Participated in implementation of a cross-functional manufacturing escalation system

that addressed quality, logistical, process and design issues, data for process

measurement and improvement

  § Created BOOMI AtomSphere ETL transformation processes helping to decrease

Company’s time to Integration Go Live with Industry’s leading Insurance Carriers

  § Developed data warehouse standards

  § Managed SSO implementations leveraging technologies to include SAML 2.0 Cloud

Single Sign-On integrated with Active Directory, LDAP, OpenID, Shibboleth, WS-Fed, and

OAuth

  § Established standards and procedures that enable integration with top Payroll and

Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) providers including ADP (Enterprise /

PayForce / Workforce Now / Vantage), Ceridian Dayforce, Great Plains, Lawson ,

PeopleSoft, SAP / SuccessFactors, SunGard, WageWorks, UltiPro, WorkDay

2/2009 to 7/2013

Monroe Technical Consulting Group

Charlotte, NC

Charleston, SC

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Michael Dow

Senior Project Manager & Oracle Practice Manager (2011 – 7/2013)

  § Managed EPM Implementations, focused on Oracle Hyperion HFM, Essbase & Planning

installations and upgrades for Budgeting, Forecasting, Reporting, & Planning

  § Developed companywide reporting systems including key performance indicators data

mining and metrics.

  § Developed sales forecast models, FX translations, intercompany transaction eliminations

  § Advised on best solutions to accommodate client requirements and offered analysis on the

advantages and disadvantages of various approaches

  § Deployed data warehouse solutions and custom BI Dashboards based on Oracle

Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

  § Advised clients on financial planning & analysis best practices, developed plans from

business drivers, improved accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, & optimized planning efforts,

performance measurement

  § Utilized Sharepoint as secure client facing Project Management Client Facing Portal as well

as Microsoft Project for Project organization

  § Served as lead Solution Architect for analysis of “As Is, To Be, Should Be” of client

systems and processes concerning Budgeting, Forecasting, Reporting systems and

development metrics.

  § Featured clients: Led Project implementation at Harris Corporation and worked as lead

Application Consultant at General Mills

Application Consultant & Project Manager, Oracle Practice (2009 – 3/2011)

  § Worked with Financial Planning and Analysis as a Senior Consultant for the Hyperion

practice with a focus on Budgeting, Forecasting, Reporting, Change Management and

Performance Management

  § Remedied technical errors with Hyperion Essbase, Planning & their related components

  § Refined existing Hyperion reports, developed new reports, mapped accounts for

reports, reviewed financial compliance regulations and advised on process controls

  § Data ETL extraction, cleansing & reconciliation to integrate data from multiple

application source systems using middleware to include FDQM, FDM, & Boomi

  § Data Warehouse implementation and reporting based on Oracle Business Intelligence

platform enable effective data mining solutions for clients

  § Acted as Business Analyst in discovery and implementation of technical transition

strategies based on an “As Is, To Be, Should Be” analysis of client EPM, Financial

Management, and Financial Planning Systems and processes including staff, hardware,

software, and interfaces with other systems enabling client to more efficiently handle

reporting, development metrics, planning and analysis

  § Provided technical support in managing clients’ Oracle Hyperion infrastructures,

including working with vendors and technical groups, keeping systems current with

technical patches, ensuring secure data exchange, and resolving various technical issues

  § Featured clients: Led Project implementation at the Putnam Investments and worked

as lead Application Consultant/Business Analyst at Senior Care Centers

5/1999 to 2/2009

New Horizons Computer Learning Center

Buffalo, NY

7 Brayton Meadow ● East Greenwich, RI 02818 ● (843) 810-5965 ● michael.dow@gmail.com

Michael Dow

General Manager

  § Planned, designed, equipped, staffed and opened new 200 seat, 8 classroom

franchise location in upstate New York for global training company

  § Directed the overall operation of the computer learning center to deliver IT

certification training for Oracle, Citrix, Information Security, Adobe, Business

Objects, Project Management, Citrix, Cisco, VMware, and Microsoft

  § Designed, deployed, and maintained Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2003 and

Microsoft Exchange to serve as the training center Infrastructure

  § Designed, customized and deployed SharePoint Server as an internal collaboration

and training material archival system

  § Designed and deployed custom Microsoft CRM system for the sales team

  § Selected, developed and delivered curriculum to support Webmaster Training

Education Bryant University

Bachelors of Science in Finance

Minor in Computer Information Systems

Certificates Project Management Professional (2007 - 2010), ITIL (2008), Microsoft Certified

Professional, Google Analytics, HIPAA Compliance

Technical

Skills

Software Application Development

Software needs discovery, requirements

documentation, configuration, design,

engineering, implementation, and

testing, Agile software development,

Agile Scrum, (SOA) Service-Oriented

Architecture, Software/System

Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Software Development Technologies

PHP, MySQL, HTML, DHTML, XHTML,

JavaScript, AJAX, CAML, XML, ASP.NET,

Perl/CGI, CSS, Dreamweaver, Python,

APIs, VBScript, Visual Studio 2.0, C#,

Apache, iOS & Android development,

JIRA, Clarity, Microsoft Team Foundation

Server

Content Management Systems

Custom CMS development, Ruby,

Magento, Word Press, Drupal, Joomla

Graphic & Multimedia Development

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Action

Script, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks,

Animated GIFs, Adobe Soundbooth,

Premier Pro, After Effects, Visio

Enterprise Resource Planning

Marketing Development

Search Engine Optimization (SEO),

Marketing (SEM), Social Media,

Online advertising

Ecommerce Solutions

OS Commerce, 3rd party payment

integration, Secure Sockets Layer

(SSL)

Training and Development

Learning Management Systems (LMS),

Talent Management Systems, Taleo

Portals & CRM

SharePoint/Designer, Microsoft CRM,

SalesForce

Database Development

Microsoft SQL 2005/2008, MySQL,

Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c

Project Management & Methodology

Microsoft Project (ITIL) IT

Infrastructure Library, PMI PMP

HRIS and Payroll Integrations

ADP Enterprise/ PayForce, JD

Edwards, Ceridian Dayforce, Great

Plains, Lawson , MEDITECH, Oracle

Smithfield, RI

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Michael Dow

BAAN 4C4, Sage 200, Oracle ERP

Insurance Carrier EDI Integrations

Aetna, Allstate, Anthem, CareFirst, ING,

Mercer, MetLife , BCBS (Blue Cross Blue

Shield) of Massachusetts, BCBS of Rhode

Island, BCBS of California, Wellmark

Oracle Hyperion Implementation

Oracle 11g, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion

Financial Data Management, SmartView,

Financial Reporting Studio, Workspace,

Hyperion Planning, Apache Web Server,

Windows Server, Solaris 10, ETL

HCM & PeopleSoft, SAP /

SuccessFactors, SunGard,

WageWorks, UltiPro, WorkDay,

Concur

Big Data and Business Intelligence

Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense, Oracle

Business Intelligence

Cloud Technologies

Rackspace, Amazon Web Services

(AWS), Microsoft Azure, Boomi

AtomSphere, MimeCast

Suites

Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint,

Project, Excel, Access, Publisher,

Onenote, Outlook, OneDrive, Google

Apps, WordPerfect, Quattro Pro,

Presentations