Kara Beck

• Project manager for the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations administering Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
• Works closely with agency leadership to analyze and coordinate responses to USDOL guidance, resolve issues, and design and implement business process enhancements.
• Leads cross-functional teams responsible for developing innovative solutions for complex problems.
• Coordinate resources across multiple departments and teams, as needed, for successful completion of projects.
• Manage ongoing production efforts while working with the agency to prioritize and implement new initiatives.
• Manage all aspects of testing, including business testing, end-to-end testing, and performance testing phases.
• Plan for system cutover and managing stakeholder communications
• Collaborate closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
• Liaise with external agencies, including Hawaii Child Support Enforcement Agency, The Department of Accounting and General Services, Budget & Finance, First Hawaiian Bank, as well as private vendors and contractors.

• Project manager and solution architect of the Hawaii Department of Taxation's $85M Tax System Modernization project
• Reviewed and approved final configurations and subsystem integrations to the production environment
• Managed a team of 25 developers
• Created, tracked and delivered development items
• Ensure applicable knowledge transfer is planned and performed
• Coordinating with developers on open issues and inter-team dependencies
• Reviewing decision requests related to new development or modification of site-specific code
• Provide oversight of the inventory of site-specific code
• Quality assurance and control of environment migrations and updates.
• Transitioned the agency and the project team into production support activities
• Managed the prioritization and supervision of support activities, production operation management, monitoring, system tuning, and the issue resolution process
• Worked with agency executive management to plan and execute high impact change initiatives

Multi-million-dollar ISV specializing in software for national, state and municipal governments. Served in numerous roles in a start-up environment during company growth from 100 to over 2,600 employees.

• Team manager and architect for advanced fraud detection and identity-confirmation functionality built into software product
• Responsibilities included designing, building, and automating a predictive modeling tool to provide scoring criteria to fraud indicators
• Assisted agencies to compile, organize, and process large sets of current and historical data for use in predictive modeling and fraud identification

• Team manager and financial architect for the Royal Malaysian Customs Department’s Goods and Service Tax (MyGST) project
• Responsibilities included analyzing business processes, gathering user requirements, recommending changes to the goods and service tax bill before it became law, and leading a team in the configuration and implementation of the goods and service tax
• Led a project team of six agency developers, Malaysian contractors, and FAST implementation consultants
• Actively engaged with multiple departments and external contractors to assist the government in transitioning from a cash-based revenue model to accrual accounting

• Team manager and architect for the Colorado Integrated Tax Architecture (CITA) project at the Colorado Department of Revenue
• Liaised between multiple revenue departments, analyzed current business processes, gathered user requirements, executed product demonstrations, and led a development team
• Managed system enhancements, design changes, communicated with active vendors, and mitigated project risk brought on by change requests
• Ensured the production cutover did not negatively affect the live system, conducted production support, and conducted performance tuning

• Implementation consultant on an upgrade project for the New Mexico’s Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD) project
• Specialized in enhancing the audit, revenue accounting, payment, and remote field-auditing functions

• Core code developer and site implementation consultant while working at the FAST Development Center
• Her responsibilities included the enhancement of various FastCore functions, including returns, payments, collections, audit, revenue accounting, and financials
• While in the development center, she co-developed Treasury Offset Program (TOP) functions in FastCore and traveled to four different projects to assist site developers in the implementation of TOP
• The TOP functionality interfaces with the U.S
• Federal government to collect federal refunds from delinquent taxpayers

• Provided short-term implementation expertise at the Alabama Department of Revenue
• Assisted with the development and analysis of the initial revenue accounting model for several tax types

• Energy analyst intern assisted with market research and strategy development and providing modeling support for price forecasting and options analysis
• Worked closely with 20 individuals on litigation, power market research, portfolio evaluation, and asset valuation