Working hard on Fusion Apps

Hi. I am working hard on completing my project here at ADT Canada. We are implementing Oracle Financials for Canada (GL, mostly) and PeopleSoft Human Resourcs/ Payroll. The project has been very demanding and we are in the final few weeks of going live.

I am excited about this next year. I am serving as the Chairman of the Oracle Fusion Council for OAUG, which should give me some needed exposure; I am taking the Advanced Project Management Course at Stanford in June, 2009; I am studying for the Certified Financial Analyst exam; I continue to work as a Director in The Hackett Group's Technology Practice.

Here is my resume:
PAUL KIRCH
175 Bluxome Street, #305
San Francisco, California 94107

SUMMARY
Big 5 and Tier 1 Management Consulting experience; Senior Manager/ Director with subject matter expertise in supply chain, international finance and accounting, Oracle Release 12 and 11.5.10.2, PeopleSoft HR and Payroll Release 8.9 and 9.0; JD Edwards One World; Chairman, OAUG Fusion Council; expertise in program office/ project management and large-scale systems implementations involving multi-site, multi-client projects; consulting sales and delivery to Fortune 500 clients; experience with outsourcing and off-shoring (India)

EXPERIENCE
The Hackett Group (previously Answerthink) March, 2007 –Present
Director, Management Consultant, Hackett Technology Services (HTS)
· Procure-to-Pay Practice Lead for Oracle (includes Hyperion, Peoplesoft and JD Edwards). Responsible for administrative management of 15 consultants, including mentoring, goal setting and counseling.
· Solution Architect/ Manager, Oracle financials in business process transformation project at ADT/ Tyco. $4 million project delivered on time, on budget. Basis for ADT North America Shared Service on Oracle/ PS.
· Solution Architect, Project Manager, Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Markview Imaging and Fixed Assets Project for Thomas Weisel Partners. Completed project in 3 months, on-time, and on-budget.
· Responsible for selling multi-national, multi-site, international managing management consulting projects involving Oracle applications with a focus on global financials, supply chain and business transformation.

Qualcomm March, 2006 –March, 2007
Senior Manager, Supply Chain IT
Implemented Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, iSupplier in 12 month period. Managed project team of 10. Responsible for all areas of planning, solutions design and project delivery. Implemented EDI solution using Oracle EDI Gateway in 9 month period. Project considered a showcase for successful Oracle implementations.

Paul Kirch, Inc. Managing Consultant January, 2005- March, 2006
Clients included the following companies:
Cisco Systems, San Jose and Milpitas, California. P2P Sox Compliance and Supplier Validation Process Design
FEI Company, Portland, Oregon, Brono, the Czech Republic, and Eindhoven, Netherlands, European major economies

KLA-Tencor April, 2003 – December, 2004
Senior Manager, Finance IT
· Managed implementation of Oracle Financials 11.5.9 in Asia Pacific and Europe, established worldwide help desk support processes using outsourced helpdesk vendor; negotiated contract and P&L responsibility for help desk operations. Implemented Citibank cash disbursements system (IMPS) in Europe.
· IT Finance lead for worldwide implementation of SAP FI/CO and BW modules (version 4.7 Enterprise Unicode version). Managed team of 15 employees and consultants in 2-year project to deploy SAP 4.7.
· Responsible for all areas of project including Development, Reports, Interfaces, Configuration Management, and Management Reporting. Project completed on-time and on-budget. First successful implementation of the Sabrix Global Tax Engine in an SAP environment. First successful cross regional implementation of the Citibank CFS cash disbursements system in a global basis.
· Managed KT’s Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and SoD compliance efforts, which included maintaining communication with internal/external auditors, selecting software compliance tools, documenting control environment, etc. Documented internal controls matrix which included developing a risk assessment, identifying controls and developing risk mitigation plans to address specific audit control weaknesses.

Oracle Consultant October, 2001 – April, 2003
Clients included the following companies:
Cisco Systems,, General Electric Aircraft Engines and General Electric Power Systems, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Ariba, Product Manager Ariba Buyer and T&E March, 2000 – October, 2001
Developed and delivered product roadmap to existing and prospective clients at Ariba Live! events
Developed high level functional and detailed technical specs for Ariba Contracts, Invoices, and Euro functionality.
Managed a team of 5 Ariba developers and developed UML use case scenarios for use by Java and UI developers.

Oracle Corporation January 1995- July 1999
Practice Manager, Oracle One Global Consulting,
· Managed implementation of full suite of Oracle Financials, Manufacturing and Human Resources modules (Release 11i) at Comverse Technologies, a Fortune 500 telecommunications company. Team of 20, comprised of Israeli and American consultants, completed 12-month $5 million project on time, on budget.
· Managed team of 10 consultants during implementation of Oracle Accounts Payable, Purchasing, General Ledger (Release 10.7) at CSX Corporation, a $14 billion Fortune 100-transportation company, over initial nine-month first phase of the project. Implementation included Oracle’s e-commerce applications, such as Web Requisitions, Suppliers and Store. Analyzed CSX’s EDI requirements and supervised implementation of Oracle’s EDI Gateway. Developed proposal to form CSX-Conrail Joint-management Company.
· Managed team of 5 consultants during implementation of Oracle AR on $35 million consulting engagement.
Oracle Corporation, Senior Financial Sales Consultant, Latin American Division
· Spearheaded effort on a number of multi-million consulting and financial applications opportunities to Latin American companies. Consistently exceeded 100% of $5 million quota in engaging with clients.

Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouse Coopers) January 1992- January 1995
Manager, Coopers & Lybrand Consultores
· Managed $5 million major project at Pemex Petroquimica, part of Pemex Group of companies.

Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) January, 1990- January 1992
Senior Consultant, Mainline Consulting Practice

CERTIFICATION AND EDUCATION

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Executive MBA Program, Global Supply Chain Management (Summer 2006) and Advanced Project Management Course (beginning June, 2009).

George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Masters in Business Administration (MBA), with concentration in International Finance and Accounting.
Cumulative GPA: 3.6, in major: 3.8. Additional courses in International Economics completed at Georgetown University.

University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, and University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Post-graduate degree in European Studies. Topic of Study: Economic Integration of the European Union (EU).

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Spanish and Economics. Cumulative GPA: 3.2, in major: 3.8. High honors at graduation.

Certified Financial Analyst Program (Level 1) in process
Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP in process
APICS, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) 2008
Project Management Institute (PMI), Project Management Professional (PMP) 2008
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Maryland 1990

OTHER, INCLUDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

Chairman, OAUG Fusion Council. Communicate features and functions of Oracle’s upcoming Fusion Applications Release.
Founder, Latin America CFO Forum. Non-for-profit organization of 50 Latin American regional CFOs and Controllers of Fortune 500 companies with Latin American regional headquarters in Miami. Founded group, managed monthly meetings, invited speakers.

Software, Hardware and Operating Systems:
Unix (Sun Solaris), Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office. SAP 4.7 Enterprise (FI (GL, AR, AP, and FA), CO, and BW experience). Oracle Financials Applications 11i and R12 (G/L, AR, AP, OE, PO, OFA, FA, iSupplier, iProcurment, iExpense), Oracle10g and 11g. Internet applications and protocols: TCP/IP, Java, Java Script, HTML, and C++. Oracle PL/SQL. PeopleSoft HR and Payroll. BPEL, SOA, and Oracle Fusion Applications exposure at Chairman, OAUG Fusion Council

Foreign Languages:
Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese; conversational in French; basic German. Currently studying Chinese (Mandarin).

Reference available upon request.