Brian Burnett

• Initiated and led e-business project for client of company to provide EDI transactions with customers
• Transactions included purchase orders, acknowledgements, shipping notifications, and invoices resulting in efficient processing of communications with company’s business customers.

• Initiated and led e-business projects for clients to enable donors to manage their donor activities online
• Involved replacing legacy systems with totally Internet-based software that automated all back-office functions, including donor relations, contributions and distributions, investments, finance, and accounting and then providing this information for donor-managed Internet access
• Clients included Christian foundations and large financial institutions.

• Initiated and led e-business project for large foundation to enable donors to manage their donor activities online
• Involved replacing legacy systems with totally Internet-based software that automated all back-office functions, including donor relations, contributions and distributions, investments, finance, and accounting and then providing this information for donor-managed Internet access
• Donor base grew from 1,000 to 7,000 accounts and from $350 million to $1 billion under management.

• Initiated and led IT outsourcing project for medium-sized financial services company for all legacy systems to be run on servers, networks, and Citrix technology thin clients via an Application Service Provider (ASP).

• Initiated and led e-business project for large multinational company to accept business transactions from over 100 countries, process them, and retransmit results back to submitting countries
• Initiated and led project for large multinational company to gather and share customer information from multiple systems resulting in central data mart that is a foundation for e-business efforts
• Required leadership to persuade cross-functional groups to cooperate with each other.

• Designed and constructed a financial data warehouse providing decision support information for company-wide consolidated financial information
• Modeled financial business processes and decision support information resulting in a 5-year plan of strategic financial systems projects
• Directed global business planning activities for corporate and functional information systems areas
• Served as member of strategic planning group for company CIO
• Installed and consulted on an integrated business management system running on IBM System 36 and AS/400 computers
• Involved coordinating IT activities among fully owned subsidiaries.

• Developed, led, and implemented accounting, personnel, and address systems for both international ships office and German headquarters office resulting in a 50% reduction of accounting and finance workers
• Job required cultural sensitivity and strong interpersonal and analytical skills
• Developed, led, and implemented system to consolidate financial information from 35 countries in 80 currencies resulting in improved control of worldwide finances.

• Analyzed and evaluated software companies for technical, financial, marketing, and strategic abilities by consulting with senior management of each company.

• Managed development team to create firm's commercial accounts receivable system for installation for clients.

• Worked with client teams specializing in international financial systems for clients in international paper wholesaling, oil, coal, and jewelry industries.