Bill Sullivan

Experience

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  The Walt Disney Company

  Apr 1994 - now

  --Manage, lead, coach and mentor team of BI Product Managers.--Build and maintain strategic business relationships across the organization in order to understand the Business Intelligence needs of our business partners.--Lead product discovery sessions with the business and technology constituents to generate ideas for valuable, usable and feasible products.--Develop, groom and manage product road maps that outline the product implementation strategy and align to the overall product vision. Show less --Manage and mentor staff of Business Analysts on a daily basis.--Engage with the Product Owners (from the business) to provide context and project strategy. --Help Product Owners define vision and goals for the projects. --Create comprehensive and accurate project backlogs with the Product Owners and Business Analysts. --Collaborate with technology and business leaders to build product roadmaps and strategic application framework. --Road map includes deliverables and release milestones. --Work with application architects to ensure that the business deliverables will be met with the software solutions. --Thorough understanding of application framework and architecture – both BI and application development. Show less --Primary focus was to work on projects that supported application development and data warehouse/business intelligence initiatives. --Lead BA on complex BI initiative supporting ESPN Programming group. --Recorded user requirements for system functionality and reviewed with developers. --Prepared and maintain business and functional requirements, timeline and testing grid for approved projects. --Reviewed functionality, system integration and user requirements as well as ensure system quality standards. --Prepared unit and integration testing requirements for requests or projects. --Instructed users on application functionality. --Tracked user findings and report to developers. --Provided application and Business Objects training for new and existing functionality. --Created and maintained documentation for users and system. --Maintained group documentation standards. Show less --Directed workflow, counseled, developed, and hired staff of revenue analysts performing posting to general ledger, A/R, and revenue accounts. --Supervised activity of Advertising Sales Revenue group responsible for over $800 million in annual billings. --Conducted yearly performance reviews for staff. --Analyzed new lines of business to ensure efficient transition of revenue, A/R, and Ad Sales functions. --Coordinated month-end closing package for Domestic and International Ad Sales revenue.--Responsibilities included post-air auditing/reconciliation for ESPN/ABC studio logs on a daily basis. --Produced billing and revenue reports for broadcast closing cycle. --Processed and accounted for current and prior batch adjustments using Oracle A/R system. Show less

  • Associate Director Product Management - Business Intelligence

    Mar 2015 - now

  • Manager of Business Analysis and Product Management

    Jan 2010 - Mar 2015

  • Senior Business Analyst

    Jan 2000 - Dec 2009

  • Senior Accounting Analyst - Ad Sales Billing

    Sept 1997 - Jan 2000

  • Commercial Operations Coordinator

    Apr 1994 - Sept 1997