Tim McKenzie_Project_Manager_2014 resume

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Tim McKenzie
timmck321@gmail.com Project Coordinator/Process Improvement Manager Cell (720) 470-4209
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
I am looking for an opportunity to drive the translation of Business Vision into a Business Intelligence (BI) layer, integrating
business resources into a highly functional team to provide the capability to quickly respond to, and merge, updated cor-porate
strategy with desired objectives.
The challenge is to integrate technical requirements that are the world of IT personnel, with the business language and
knowledge that is the business world. This is my passion.
Expertise includes team management, team building, financial analysis, claims accounting process analysis, SOX re-quirements
analysis and implementation of required processes to meet SOX guidelines, finance budgeting and planning,
defining updated business processes for implementation by IT support groups, data analysis, trend analysis, root cause
analysis, customer support, database implementation and maintenance, end user training.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Claims Accounting Software: Xcelys, QCare
Software: SAP Business, Planning, Consolidation tool (BPC), Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC), Hyperion Essbase,
ADP payroll, Workscape Merit and Compensation Planners, Employease HR systems Oracle Reports, Crystal Reports,
Toad, Apache, Tomcat, MS Visio, Access, Excel
Languages: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Perl, PL/SQL, SQL, HTML, shell scripting
Databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, LINUX
Methodology: Agile Project Management
PROFES S IONAL HI S TORY
Kaiser Permanente – Denver, CO Sep 2013 – Current
Consultant/Process Manager/Claims Accounting Department
♦ Molded the staff of the Claims Accounting department to function as a team, which resulted in a 200% increase
in team check reconciliation performance after 3 months, as measured by posted revenue. This performance
trend has continued over 8 months.
♦ Designed and implemented several processes for the Claims Accounting (CA) Department that successfully ad-dressed
multiple SOX control requirements.
♦ Developed an updated financial reconciliation process for the CA Department to validate recording of posted da-ta
entries.
♦ Designed a new format for addressing reconciliation of CA Department records requiring manual general ledger
entries.
Whole Foods Market– Boulder, CO April 2013 – Sep 2013
Consultant/Business Analyst in Finance/Accounting Department
♦ Developed ad hoc Financial reports for sales and gross profit out of multiple data sources including the SAP
Business, Planning, Consolidation (BPC) tool, Hyperion Essbase, and the in house Data Ops data warehouse.
♦ Validated monthly financial data – data came in from two different data sources at different levels of granularity
(weekly vs month or period) and needed to be reconciled.
♦ Developed ad hoc reports in BPC for reconciliation of updated plan data for the yearly plan process.
♦ Performed root cause analysis to identify data issues within both the yearly plan process and the monthly Finan-cial
close process.
♦ Wrote applications using Visual Basic for Applications to automate monthly reports run out of shared network re-sources.

2. Ceregenics - Denver, CO Oct 2011 – Dec 2012
Consultant
Data Warehouse Project for Canadian National Railroad
♦ Interviewed project owners to determine business requirements, generated data and business process models to
resolve near term strategic objectives, and provided architectural support utilizing Agile methodology. The pro-ject
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focus was for a performance tracking Data-Mart
♦ Provided guidance to the data warehouse team for data modeling with a focus on a flexible design that could
adapt to changes in data sources. Proposed alternate database design utilizing Data Vault (3 data types, often
referred to as “Hyper-normalized” technology)
Qwest Communications/Century Link - Denver, CO 2005 – Sep 2011
Lead Business/Finance Analyst
♦ Managed day to day operations of the SAP “Budgeting, Planning and Consolidation” (BPC) application for the
Finance department.
➢ Validated monthly data input for data sources, validated and tested new/upgraded functionality for the
budgeting tool, coordinated and participated in all levels of Tier support for the tool during monthly fi-nance
reporting and during upgrades of BPC
♦ Led development team to merge two existing BPC systems from Qwest and Century Link into one consolidated
system due to the acquisition of Qwest by Century Link. The team effort was focused on the Expense reconcilia-tion
module
♦ Project lead on the Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC) system,
➢ Monitored and tracked sales account ownership monthly changes within OIC to verify that sales reps re-ceived
appropriate payments for account management.
♦ Delivered Sales Compensation monthly reconciliation report on $600 million in revenue using OIC.
♦ Provided Ad hoc queries, data analysis and reporting in Finance, Finance/BPC, Financial Planning & Analysis
(FP&A), HR, Payroll and Sales Compensation.
Regis University - Denver, CO 2001 – 2005
Affiliate Faculty Professor -- Masters in Computer IT Program (part time, classes nights and weekends)
♦ Taught 30 project management courses for the MSCIT program over a 5 year period
♦ Acted as Faculty Thesis Advisor to ~ 300 MSCIT graduate students over a 5 year period
♦ Evaluated, analyzed and redesigned requirements and class modules, for the Masters of Science Computer In-formation
Technologies (MSCIT) Thesis Program. Created new class modules, deliverables and a new thesis
approval program
FORMAL EDUCAT ION
Masters of Science Degree – Computer Information Systems
Specializing in Oracle Database Technologies
Regis University - Denver, CO
Bachelor of Science Degree - Biology
University of Colorado – Boulder, CO
Technical Training
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)