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Work History

• Florida Coastal School of Law
• Applications Manager - IT
• May 2010 to Present

• Florida Virtual School
• Business Analyst
• April 2008 to March 2010

• Performed duties associated with the design, development, documentation, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of back office applications for Florida Virtual School, a leading virtual K-12 education solution for students around the world.

  • Researched and provided executive-level recommendations for current and future business systems functionality that could improve productivity and/or reduce operating cost.
  • Analyzed and documented business requirements for use in both custom and third party technology solutions
  • Worked directly with stakeholders in business units to identify challenges and then meet those challenges with the best solution

• PSS World Medical
• Tool Development Analyst
• November 2006 to April 2008

• Designed, developed, and implemented applications to solve centralized purchasing workflow issues for a national
  distributor of medical supplies and equipment with annual revenue in excess of $1.7 billion.

  • Collaborated with users to improve business processes and based on need
  • Leveraged open source and existing systems to automate manual jobs and provide users with a more robust application environment
  • Formulated projects to reduce costs via supply chain and warehousing level balancing
  • Performed ad hoc analysis and financial reporting on departmental and team initiatives

• VyStar Credit Union
• Lending Systems Analyst

• Led project teams for development, testing and implementation of new applications, existing application upgrades and releases for the lending systems of a $3 billion credit union.

  • Evaluated business requirements and proposed optimal solutions – "build or buy" – directly to upper management
  • Analyzed, developed, and wrote functional specifications for complex application systems supporting credit union business processes
  • Created custom reports for management and end users of proprietary systems
  • Provided 3rd tier problem resolution assistance for bugs and coordinated the prompt diagnosis and resolution of application system issues impacting production environments
  • Represented the credit union’s Lending Systems Team at annual vendor conferences
  • Maintained application performance and integrity during development, modification and support processes
  • Developed testing requirements for new applications before deployment

• Citistreet LLC
• Implementation Analyst

• Responsible for quality assurance for a proprietary benefits administration system built on a large-scale Sybase relational database for a Fortune 1000 corporate client.

Education

• University of Florida
• Decision & Information Sciences, Information Systems, Journalism
• 1997 - 2001