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David Pascarelli

Colorado Springs,CO

Summary

With over 17 years of experience in the Information Technology sector, consistently delivering high-level results by seamlessly bridging the gap between business and technology. Track record includes developing creative solutions to streamline operations, harnessing technology to solve challenges, promote process improvements, and increase business efficiencies. Liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, possessing strong technical, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Solid understanding of software development methodologies and system design principles, along with familiarity in database management and data modeling.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Advisor

FedEx Corporation International and Offshore Division
07.2021 - 10.2024
  • Served as strategic Advisor for FedEx International and Offshore Division business domain, providing solutioning and influencing business leaders to help identify out-of-the-box opportunities, taking new ideas from concept to execution, and successfully communicating with leaders
  • Close collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Established and implemented processes improvements related to interaction with CBP to accelerate cross border clearance
  • Made proactive recommendations for on-going process improvement; identified potential control weaknesses and suggests solutions to strengthen controls
  • Assist in the development of business cases, financial analysis, and all aspects of costing and managing project financials
  • Worked with change management to look across the integrated roadmaps for reasonability and areas of concerns from timing and people impact perspectives
  • Draft and review documentation in compliance with Company's Enterprise-wide development process, and ensured all project deliverables were in compliance
  • Provided reporting and compiling updates; analyzing data and developing insights to maintain continuous visibility into program progress of large-scale and complex projects.

Product Owner/Program Manager

FedEx Corporation – IT Services
07.2018 - 11.2021
  • Lead a software development team in a multi-faceted and challenging product development akin to a startup utilizing Agile and XP programing to build software products that delivered meaningful value to the company
  • Worked with product collaborators to build software based on continuous input; maintaining full control of product direction, feature prioritization, and release timing
  • Ran weekly software demos to showcase weekly progress
  • Continuously kept product and business risk low by identifying risky assumptions and gathering and analyzing qualitative and qualitative data to help inform product decisions
  • Worked with databases, APIs, servers, networks and various programming languages
  • Mentored those in less senior positions.

Sr Application Analyst

First Data Corporation
04.2016 - 07.2018
  • Responsible for parts of implementation of Oracle Applications 11i (11.5.10) for US, European, and Asian operations
  • Led small team in Chennai, India as part of offshoring project Implementation/Go-Live support & Oracle knowledge transfer
  • Executed setups of creating users, assigning roles and responsibilities, assigning sub-inventories, profile options, defining teams and groups, Orgs, Business units, Set of Books, defining status transition and assigning rules, defining SR status and Task statuses
  • Collaborated on interfaces and data conversions, data warehouse from Legacy system to Oracle 11i
  • Responsible for collecting business requirements for new enhancements and converted into technical design documents
  • Developed SQL queries and provided dataset as per user requirements
  • Contributed to customization in various environments: Oracle Applications (R12), Oracle Applications (11.10.2), Oracle10g, Oracle Forms, Project Accounting, PO, GL, OM, INV, AR, XML Publisher
  • Led User Accepted Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing: sought sign off from Upper Management
  • Concurrent program configuration for data extraction to csv files to be loaded into the SFDC legacy data base by using UTL_FILE
  • Developed loader scripts from legacy system into Purchasing, Receivables and GL interface tables after validating data through a custom built Concurrent Programs
  • Active role in analyzing, testing and implementing interfaces
  • Led implementation of IBM Cognos Analytics robust reporting tool resulting in increased and efficient reporting.

Sr Tech Product Support Specialist

First Data Corporation
04.2015 - 04.2016
  • Provided Technical and Process support for all aspects tied to Month-end, Quarter-end, and Year-end closing activities on various Oracle 11i Modules
  • Oracle AME workflow customization per business requirements
  • Monitoring interfaces during closing period and resolving issues with minimal and/or ambiguous data
  • Identify and coordinate necessary patches and updates through various channels, i.e
  • Recommended Patches, Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts, etc
  • Discern errors found in log files leveraging Unix processes
  • Coordinate and perform routine Oracle maintenance outages
  • Oracle SOA files maintenance and troubleshooting
  • Implemented form personalization on Event entry form
  • Creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) reports
  • Provide resolutions and/or workaround to both technically and non-technically internal clients
  • Track Support issues through to closure upon complete agreement with Customers at all times
  • Developed an outbound interface to send PO information via XML of all internal suppliers’ information to Billing system.

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

First Data Corporation
07.2010 - 03.2015
  • Plan, develop, and deliver reporting packages for routine review by executive management to achieve performance objectives
  • Conceived, created, and coordinated intake process portal to centralize, vet, and prioritize all reporting requests; resulting in increased visibility and overall timeliness of reporting deliverables by roughly 30%
  • Designed, documented, and implemented new accounting development process that reduced month-end closing time by 25% expediting month-end closing of books producing labor reduction by 1 FTE
  • Planned, built, and managed database warehouse to facilitate reporting of and visibility to legacy records for all business units such as Tax, Finance, Audit/SOX Compliance, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and Legal increasing efficiency in record retrieval
  • Planned and led ERP migration project from initiation through implementation on time and within budget
  • Provided consultation and training to international colleagues to provide end-to-end report-building training to end-users as an SME in areas of Reporting/SQL Coding, Process Improving, Procurement and Accounting Processes
  • Vendor Optimization initiative project to increase company’s days payable outstanding resulting in increased cash-flow of $3.8M yearly
  • Estimated savings of over $2 million by planning, coordinating, and implementing seamless ordering process through online catalog strategy with the objective of streamlining operations and decreasing several FTEs
  • Directly managed consultants/contractors to perform specialized work on complex migration and outsourcing projects
  • Played key SME role in major conversion of ERP system from Ariba to Oracle R12
  • Coordinated with business partners to define requirements and design and implement appropriate solutions to offshore shared service operations for an estimated ~$10 million in annual savings.

Sr. Business/Data Analyst

First Data Corporation
09.2008 - 06.2010
  • Led small to medium-sized projects with budgets between $2-$5Million
  • Vetted reporting/metric requirements and designed effective data management and reporting solutions
  • Developed detail documentation manuals for business users
  • Created, maintained and managed on-line catalogs for eProcurement system
  • ERP/Oracle Support /Query Building/ Requirement Gathering
  • Provided Tier I and Tier II support for all aspects of the eProcurement application that included data staging/loading & file transfer, technical support for escalated issues
  • Authored project/system documentation, communications, etc
  • SQL Server 2000 & 2005, Oracle 10g & 11g
  • Routinely sought out and gained savings by quickly identifying issues and implementing viable solutions
  • Performed data analysis in preparation of company spin-off and divestiture of company.

Business Analyst

First Data Corporation
03.2003 - 09.2008
  • Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
  • Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
  • Created training documentation for handoff/lift-and-shift
  • Developed, configured, and maintained databases to support business and reporting needs
  • Developed QA measures and testing standards for Purchasing operations (Purchasing Cards, EDI files, uploads)
  • Facilitated reporting needs for various departments through Query building in Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2010.

Education

MBA - Operations/Decision Sciences

Bellevue University
01.2008

BS - Administrative Law

University of Colorado
01.2003

Skills

  • Product Owner
  • Project Management
  • Process Analysis/Improvement/Automation
  • Technical Support
  • User Training
  • Author Technical Documents
  • Knowledge of Agile
  • XP Style Software Development
  • Azure Data Studio/ Factory
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Gap Analysis
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Experience
  • System Migrations
  • Implementations
  • Data Mapping
  • Training Documents
  • Business / IT / User Needs Analysis
  • TOAD
  • SQL LOADER
  • Power BI Report Builder
  • Microsoft Visio
  • JIRA
  • Digitalai Agility

Certification

PMP Certification

Languages

Italian
Limited Working
Spanish
Professional Working

Timeline

Sr. Advisor

FedEx Corporation International and Offshore Division
07.2021 - 10.2024

Product Owner/Program Manager

FedEx Corporation – IT Services
07.2018 - 11.2021

Sr Application Analyst

First Data Corporation
04.2016 - 07.2018

Sr Tech Product Support Specialist

First Data Corporation
04.2015 - 04.2016

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

First Data Corporation
07.2010 - 03.2015

Sr. Business/Data Analyst

First Data Corporation
09.2008 - 06.2010

Business Analyst

First Data Corporation
03.2003 - 09.2008

BS - Administrative Law

University of Colorado

MBA - Operations/Decision Sciences

Bellevue University

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