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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?

* Working with smart, passionate and balanced people, to impact our world in a positive way, while advancing business objectives

Posted @ 01:12PM, August 20, 2008 by George Showah | Permalink
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Work history

GFS Consulting July 2006 to January 2008
Client Partner, Principle Architect

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How would you describe your time at GFS Consulting?

* Technology advisor on CRM product and vendor selection for system integration with ERP and medical IT
* Facilitated business process re-engineering and fit-gap analysis reviews with clinical, business and technology departments.
* Contribute to RFP creation documenting business and
technology requirements, including integration into existing medical IT infrastructure
* Led design stage for integration of CRM solution with ERP and backend medical IT infrastructure, including diagnostic and imaging.
* Provided technology thought leadership in technology, program management and change management
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Virtusa May 2004 to January 2006
Client partner

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How would you describe your time at Virtusa?

* Account management: Selling, negotiating and delivery of multi-year IT consulting contracts for US and UK-based clients
* P&L (profit & Loss) responsibility, forecasting and managing to budget, achieving 20% growth per-quarter for $5+ million accounts in annual recurring and new revenue,
with 40% improvements in account margins.
* Client relationship management, and turnaround of under-performing consulting programs
* Collaborate with Marketing and global delivery groups to develop service offerings
* Clients: Cisco (US, UK), VISTA (UK), FPI & I-many (US)
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Nikon Instruments March 2003 to January 2004
Senior business analyst, Program manager

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How would you describe your time at Nikon Instruments?

* Active in selling and proposal of CRM solution for Nikon instruments for N. America and Asia implementation
* Led business analysis for PeopleSoft 8.4, conducting fit gap analysis, business process re-engineering, methodology review, program plan and acceptance.
* Led the Change Management
team to understand obstacles to change, integrate solutions into the CRM program, build and conduct a training program to facilitate successful implementation.... read more
hp/Compaq May 2002 to March 2003
Principle Architect, Program Manager

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How would you describe your time at hp/Compaq?

* Architecture and delivery of HP & Compaq merger capabilities for eCommerce and customer support.
* Architect and Change Management for global PeopleSoft CRM 8.4 implementation and Informatica ETL, to enable M&A of HP/Compaq consumer product support.
* Solution achieved 50% of customer
retention, 70% operational cost savings, and 25% increases in consumer products sales... read more
Epiphany June 2000 to January 2002
Senior Architect, Program Manager

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How would you describe your time at Epiphany?

* Led implementation of E.piphany CRM and analytics, including integration with ERP Order Entry/Management (JD Edwards, Greatplains). Result: call center sales up by 60%, marketing campaign conversion up by 75%.
* Supported CRM sales and led response to RFP, resulting in increasing sales
during a challenging economy
* Collaborated with CRM product managers to identify, schedule and release product enhancements
* Clients: Nautilus Group, Mazda.
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ACCENTURE (formerly Andersen Consulting) June 1994 to January 2000
Technology Manager

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How would you describe your time at ACCENTURE (formerly Anderse...?

* Led and contributed to RFP from various clients, resulting in winning multi-year contracts for professional services in System Integration, strategy, change management, ERP, CRM and custom application delivery.
* Successfully delivered projects via effective program management, including
managing expectation, communication, and risk and issue mitigation.
* Managed global implementation projects of SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, J.D. Edwards and custom applications.
Sample Business Benefits Provided to Clients
* Fleet Mortgage ??? Implemented online loan application, thus reducing processing time by 85%
* Bank of America & HP, Geneva ??? Improved system performance of Siebel by 70% via implementation of Siebel/Oracle database design through data distribution, disk partitioning, hardware reconfiguration, etc.
* HP, France ??? program audit resulting in successful PeopleSoft Financials delivery
* Allied Signals ??? led system integration and data migration from OLTP for HR benefits portal and Kiosks.
* City of Milwaukee ??? migration of legacy systems to PeopleSoft Financials and HR modules
* Motorola - Consolidated 150 product web sites into a single product portal, integrated with Siebel CRM and SAP
* Pacific Gas and Electric ??? design and implementation of a multi-tier customer information system solution (nCIS)
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American Stock Exchange June 1993 to January 1994
Senior engineer

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How would you describe your time at American Stock Exchange?

* Automated AMEX options pricing and trading to enhance flexibility and speed of trades execution by replacing legacy options-pricing mainframe application with a 3-tier option-pricing system
* Integrated options pricing system with real-time equity, market volatility, interest rates and other
financial data, and deploying it on the trading floor.... read more
General data comm August 1992 to January 1993
Software engineer

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How would you describe your time at General data comm?

Network Management development
* Develop SNMP-based application, on SUN X-windows, for global network management

Education

University of Liverpool June 2008 to the present
MBA - part time
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA August 2007 to the present
Chartered Financial Planning
University of Connecticut (UConn) August 1988 to January 1991
Computer science and engineering

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