B. Diane Blackwood

Business Intelligence Management and Salesforce Administration

BendixKing

Apr 2017 to

present

·         Delivering Tableau analytics based on MySQL datamart.

·         Salesforce.com administrator

·

Project Manager

Senior Consultant – Business Process Management

Senior Consultant –

Business Intelligence/

Corporate  Performance Management

Strafford Technology

May 2008 to

Aprg 2017

Full cycle project management specializing in Business Intelligence implementations completing projects on time and within budget. Process engineering with JAD principles and Agile project management.

·         Delivered ten successful new full cycle Business Intelligence software implementations and seven upgrades including customizations and additions of functionality.

·         Achieved three successful data warehouse designs and implementations including one with a unique calendar-weeks-in-month reporting calendar.

·         Guided four fiscal year conversions; and implemented complicated automated load and consolidation processes including designing formulas with custom drivers for five companies.

·         For one subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, developed custom sales reporting with automated distribution resulting in sales figures emailed out to international sales staff one hour after final daily figures reported.

·         Increased visibility into patient care, prescribing patterns and profitability for two hospitals and a clinic using QlikView as the front end delivery for custom data warehouses combining data from multiple source systems.

Manager

CFO Advisory Services-National Consulting of

RSM McGladrey, Inc.

Aug 2005 to

May 2008

Full cycle project management specializing in Corporate Performance Management Consolidation and Reporting implementations for industries ranging from micro-electronics to heavy equipment manufacturing, insurance, medical & health care, legal, and retail sales industries. Leading teams from planning to implementation.

·         Helping a client resolve a significant reconciliation issue between their transaction system and General Ledger by identifying and quantifying the issues, fixing the problem, and putting the controls in place to ensure the errors would not happen again.

·         Rescued a client implement of a CPM package after the client had tried and failed twice previously without assistance. Instrumental in understanding why the previous implementations had failed, developed a more reasonable approach, and utilization of the software for the client implementation to be successful.

Programmer/Analyst

Kirkland & Ellis LLP,

Oct 1999 to

Aug  2005

Beginning technology career as an AS/400 programmer/analyst quickly progressing in responsibilities and contributions while branching out to multiple technology solutions and integrations to support company initiatives.

·         Realized the Chief Financial Officer’s vision of a Management Dashboard opening with four quadrants leading to detailed information – first person to integrate Comshare and SharePoint websites to realize this vision.

• Created and maintained accounting and financial analysis programs including identifying and correcting Y2K potential issues before they became problems.
• Implemented a programmatic data consolidation and extraction for the annual partnership contribution reporting reducing the report preparation time from three weeks to three hours.
• Recognized gaps in processes and designed solutions then persuaded stakeholders to adopt those solutions becoming the ad-hoc systems integration specialist. Integrated Microsoft applications, Lotus Notes/Domino, intranet applications, SQL Server and iSeries (AS/400).