Results oriented higher education professional with over ten years of collaborative leadership. Student success advocate with passion for equitable access utilizing data and research for best practices.
Provide Reporting to facilitate executive level decision making in various formats
Strong analytical skills.
Effective communicator: Liaise across different business units to achieve organizational success.
Rapidly Adjust to new technologies.
Possess Expertise with the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), Microsoft Project.
Strong coordination ability.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, South
Orange, New Jersey, Campus ID
01.2011 - Current
Selected by leading Catholic University to reconcile departmental flex accounts while administering three systems used by Campus ID Office and serve as source of transactional and access data
Develop, document, implement, communicate, maintain, and enforce Campus ID operational procedure manual
Member of University crisis response team
Served as academic success coach for at-risk student population
University Liaison with off campus merchants
Managed departmental budget of over $400,000.00
Collaborated with various University departments including Health Services, Residence life, Undergraduate Admissions, EOF, Athletics, Business Affairs, Bursar, Student Life to provide student centered services involving disbursement of flex dollars
Manage the beginning and end of semester process of Blackboard Transact and Lenel access control to ensure successful start-up of the following semester
Communicate with IT the need for software updates, test software configurations, and provide feedback
Managing multiple project responsibilities
Served as liaison with vendors during upgrades to ensure compatibility with new systems
Optimal maintenance of system functionality to ensure data integrity
Obtain quotes from outside vendors and services for departmental projects
Evaluate and make recommendations based on findings
Confirm and send new merchant information to Transact (Off Campus Merchants) to be added in Pirate Gold Program (Flex dollars)
Collaborated with Student life to plan Freshman Orientations
Collaborated and implemented Graduate orientations for Medical School, Law School, and School of Health and Medical Sciences.
Senior Analyst
CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP
New York, New York
01.1999 - 01.2010
Selected by leading international law firm with 12 locations in major financial centers worldwide to produce reports, maintain jobs from Informix and SQL servers, develop, and format custom reports on partner request
Expertly coordinated Month End Reports through creation of log files for tracking cost and time loads
This drastically reduced incidences of missing time and cost files needed to complete month-end reporting process
Creation of custom ad-hoc finance reports that are ported to Excel spreadsheets for financial analysis using Informix SQL, SQL 2000 and SQL 2005
Extensive experience with the Financial Database Management System (Elite)
Served as liaison with vendors during upgrades to ensure compatibility with new systems
Instrumental in upgrading Elite Database (ERP System) hosted on Unix Platform to the Elite Database hosted on the SQL 2005 platform via performing major business analysis of existing legacy reports to define new reports
Managed the coordination of testing of new reports that were delivered to ensure that data integrity was maintained during the data extraction process
Instrumental in upgrading character-based Elite Reports to the Elite for Windows Report via performing major project managerial tasks that increased productivity and expedited reporting functions
Extensive experience developing Electronic Bills to LEDES 1998B and 2000 format
Maintenance of SQL 2005 SSIS packages that produce data utilized in other applications
Addition and modification of accounts into FRX system
Managing multiple project responsibilities
Tracking of various upgrade statuses during firm wide roll outs of software or hardware.
Programmer/Systems Analyst
MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP
Newark, New Jersey
01.1997 - 01.1998
Aided law firm with over 325 attorneys in serving national client base from seven locations through generating accounting reports based on legacy report analysis while fielding and fulfilling financial department requests
Tested Elite custom reports running on Windows NT platform
Expertly developed and formatted custom reports that included data from multiple tables that enabled prompting and input during runtime
This greatly streamlined reporting operations and accuracy
Creation of Windows based custom reports using Informix 4GL on Windows NT
Developed and formatted custom reports that included data from multiple tables which could be prompted for and input during runtime
Tested Elite [Financial Database Management System] custom reports which run on Windows NT.
Systems Analyst
GUARANTY TRUST BANK
Lagos
01.1993 - 01.1997
Served as analyst working closely with the technical director in designing technical solutions for clients
Developed and formatted custom reports extracting data from multiple tables and created custom vertical menus connecting forms, reports, SQL statements and other menus
Responsible for managing programming projects including testing and remodeling of accounting systems
Designing and maintaining databases
Successfully managed development of billing platform for major electricity generation firm that significantly improved and expedited billing processes
Skillfully maintained MS Access customer database serving over 100,000 customers
Supervision of junior tellers
Handling multiple project responsibilities.
Education
Education Leadership Management Policy
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Master of Science Degree - Management Information Systems
Kean University
Union, NJ
Bachelor of Science - Physics
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
Skills
Technical Expertiseundefined
Timeline
Manager
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, South
01.2011 - Current
Senior Analyst
CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP
01.1999 - 01.2010
Programmer/Systems Analyst
MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP
01.1997 - 01.1998
Systems Analyst
GUARANTY TRUST BANK
01.1993 - 01.1997
Education Leadership Management Policy
Seton Hall University
Master of Science Degree - Management Information Systems
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