Ken Kennedy

Experience

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  Martin-Brower Company

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1992

  Programmer & Systems Analyst

  •Reduced monthly Accounts Payable batch processing cycle by 5 hours. •Achieved better service levels by making the online system availability exceed the acceptable standard. •Saved $12,960 per year, improved client satisfaction and reduced AP backlogs.•Created a new Purchase Order History system. •Gathered the requirements; designed, coded, tested and implemented the system; then trained the end users. The new system provided faster responses to vendor inquiries, and also improved response time in the Accounts Payable System. Show less

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  J.T. Ryerson & Son, Inc.

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1993

  Senior Systems Analyst

  •Streamlined the Accounts Payable processes. •Uncovered bottlenecks, improved efficiencies of processes, added edits to prevent problems and added 56 custom enhancements to the A/P system. •Improved service levels by making the online system availability exceed the acceptable standard by 3 hours per day. •Added functionality, improved customer/vendor satisfaction, and cut labor expense by $93,600 per year.

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  Spiegel Catalog

  Sept 1993 - Jun 1998

  Project Specialist

  Information Technology Project Specialist in Finance Applications. Mainly worked on vendor, GEAC (formerly M&D and Dunn & Bradstreet), software. Upgrading, installing, testing, and enhancing finance software and reports.•Reduced A/P history purge run time from 8 hours to 1.5 hours.•Led several financial software upgrade projects. •Planned the projects using the full System Design Life Cycle methodology.•Distributed assignments, communicated project updates to clients and senior management. Show less

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  Spiegel

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2005

  Project Manager

  •Successfully led small to large teams of technical professionals in many complex and high-profile projects involving legacy custom software and vendor packaged software •Exceeded 2003 objective to reduce problem tickets by 25% and exceeded 2002 objective to reduce problem tickets by 42%. •Formed a new QA team •Communicated monthly release dates and projected installs, obtained approvals and managed the team. •Wrote production support guidelines, secured senior management approval, and presented the new procedures to Business System Support. Achieved quicker problem resolutions and established an organized, repeatable process.•Coached three associates to improve their performance problems. Provided expectations, encouragement, motivation, a sounding board, understanding, guidance, insight and training. Improved the effectiveness of these below standard performers to promoted and outstanding associates. Show less

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  Spiegel Group

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2005

  Project Manager

  Same as above. I have added this to be connected to others in LinkedIn who used Spiegel Group instead of Spiegel, Inc.

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  Spiegel/Eddie Bauer/New Port News

  Jun 1998 - Feb 2005

  IT Applications Development Project Manager

  I was a Project Manager for 7 years with Spiegel. Spiegel owned Eddie Bauer and New Port News (also called NNI). Due to chapter 11 for Spiegel, the company and NNI were sold leaving only Eddie Bauer. I accepted a shift in position to Technical Specialist to stay with Eddie Bauer. From June 2004 until February 2005 I was also a Transition Project Manager to transition all Merchandising, Finance, and Factory EDI Systems to new ownership. This was completed 3 ½ months ahead of schedule.

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  Eddie Bauer Holdings

  Feb 2005 - Feb 2009

  Technical Specialist

  •Designed & developed legacy custom software & enhancements for Finance, Retail, E-commerce, Merchandising, Order Entry, & Logistics Systems.•Implemented SOX Compliance Processes.•Worked with external auditors to understand & document processes, identify gaps (SOD – Segregation of Duties), & resolve issues.•Masked bankcard & social security numbers on online screens & reports for PCI (Payment Card Industry) Compliance.•Automated the addition and deletion of new and terminated employees for 9 application security systems by role id.•Created SQL and SSIS Packages using MS SQL Server 2005.•Enhanced product and items feeds to the company website as an E-commerce Team Member.•Completed Major Vendor Software Financial System Upgrade. Planned, designed, added custom code, tested, & implemented over 3,000 members to upgrade to Infor (formerly GEAC) Millennium 3.50.50, M:Edit, SDT, PCLink, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Capital Projects, & Purchase Order Systems. Show less

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  New England Financial

  May 2010 - Mar 2011

  Financial Representative

  Licensed for Life, Accident, and Health insurance - received Producer's License. Series 7 test and Series 63 certified. Prospected, discovered client needs, recommended products, closed sales of insurance and investment products.

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  Integrated IT Solutions

  Mar 2011 - Dec 2012

  Independent IT Consultant

  IT Consultant Integrated IT Solutions Madison, WI• Consulting at TDS Telecom. Mainframe Replatforming Project - Using MVS JCL, Focus, COBOL, and Oracle SQL. Testing and analysis skills. Review and Approve/Reject authority for test results of output files and reports. Trouble shooting JCL, WebFocus, and Oracle SQL problems on a LINUX platform.-

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  NTT DATA

  May 2013 - Nov 2013

  Senior Consultant / Implementation Lead

  Consulting at State Farm in Bloomington, IL as an Implementation Lead for multiple ETL projects.Lead CAB meetingsTrain and guide Implementation Coordinators, review their work for quality and accuracyCreated roadmap for ETL projects from the Build Phase through Post Implementation to use as a repeatable process and a timeline guide.

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  NTT DATA Americas

  Dec 2013 - Aug 2014

  Project Manager

  Completed SOWCompleted Project PlanCompleted Project ScheduleTracked Asset RecoveriesPublished Daily Executive Summary ReportWeekly Executive Project Status PresentationsCoordinated all aspects of the Hardware Refresh ProjectWeekly PMO Meetings

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  Packaging Corporation of America

  Sept 2014 - now

  SR. P/A

  Financial Systems, Accounts Receivable, Sales Reporting and Analysis, General Ledger.