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Bill D. Helton

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

·         Exceptional in senior stakeholder management and demonstrated skills to foster communication to multiple CIO’s and company presidents.

·         Over 8 years direct line management experience resulting in high employee retention and carrying over into aligned job changes.

·         Proven abilities in project and team management, architecture, analysis, design and development.

·         Experienced in all phases of the project life cycle: planning, analysis, design, development, testing, rollout, post-rollout support and process improvement.

·         Skilled in both package implementation and custom development projects.

·         Diverse industry background including public sector retail, manufacturing and agriculture.

·         Consistently promoted to new levels of responsibilities including managing consultants, direct reports and project members.

 

 

 

 

 

RELEVANT SKILLS

·         Schedule coordination; resource allocation; team building and leading; project tracking.

·         Task prioritizing; task assignment and monitoring; multitasking.

·         Time management; meeting deadlines; client relations; interpersonal relations and communications.

·         Software/System Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Joint Application Design (JAD).

·         Data Flow Analysis; Data Flow Diagrams (DFD); Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD).

·         Requirements analysis; process modeling; data modeling; data flow modeling; data analysis; Foreign Systems Interfaces (FSI).

·         System, interface and program module design; Database logical and physical model design.

 

 

 

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·         JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.12 – 9.2, World A7.3, B7.33, Mapics II, Mapics XA 6,

Workflow 8-0-4 (Flotiva).

·         Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Project 98/2000; Web Browsers; Access; Visio.

·         SQL; HTML; Pascal; RPG, ILE, Free; Documentum, Turnover, Hawkeye, DBU, Robot Scheduler.

·         Exposure to C++; Java; EJB; Visual Basic; HDML; XML; Basic; FORTRAN; COBOL; MQ Series.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Manager of Application Development                                                                       2017 - 2018

Smithfield Foods (HPD) LLP                                                                                           Warsaw, NC

 

Managed the development activities at Smithfield HPD including the JD Edwards ERP system and other custom applications designed to support their unique business needs.

 

Smithfield HPD is a division of Smithfield foods that is responsible for the growth, diet and genetics for the production protein (pork) supplied to Smithfield Corporation for their retail and wholesale products.

 

·         Suggested process improvements for development request and execution.

·         Analyzed existing enterprise system for corrective and maintenance activities that had not been addressed since the implementation of the 9.1 JD Edwards system two years ago.

·         Corrected security issues that had limited their effectiveness and operability since implementation.

·         Developed statistic plans to measure and add accountability to developer’s efforts and activities.

·         Planned organizational changes to effectively address growing business areas that had support gaps and deficiencies.

·         Worked with analysts and project teams to offer suggestions on how to better utilize our resources and talents.

 

Director Enterprise Applications                                                                              2015 to 2017

J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc.                                                                                              Houston, TX

 

Responsible for the success of a 30-million-dollar project to implement JD Edwards across 7 business units and corporate.

 

J.B. Poindexter & CO., Inc. a holding company with annual revenues of over one billion dollars. The corporation includes business units ranging from expanded foam products; oil related machining, service vehicles and truck bodies. 

 

·         Managed internal and external project team members.

·         Tracked cost and proposed cost cutting measures to reduce overall expenses.

·         Negotiated beneficial vendor agreements and maintained productive relationships.

·         Coordinated schedules with business units to minimize impact to daily operations.

·         Developed communication plans and maintained working relationships with executive teams.

·         Provided strategic vision and operational plans for all project related activities.

·         Effectively utilized time and resources to achieve project deliverables.

·         Proficiently mitigated risks and issues that might affect project success.

·         Created executive reports for bi-weekly financial project status as well as monthly steering committee presentations on project.

·         Delivered initial phase of project on-time and under-budget by 12%.

 

Manager of Strategic Planning and Development                                                  2008 to 2015

RiceTec Inc.                                                                                                                 Clear Lake, TX

 

RiceTec is a leading hybrid rice seed producer with over $300 million in annual sales supplying the Mid-South rice industry as well as Rice Select, a retail product which offers the consumer high-end rice and pasta mixes sold in major retail outlets.

 

·         Efficiently managed all ERP related upgrades and software development which supported 2 separate business units.

·         Successfully guided a team of consultant developers, CNC architects and business analysts.

·         Developed project plan for system upgrade from 8.12 to 9.0 tools 9.1.4.1.

·         Spearheaded tools release upgrade in developing mobile functionality for outside sales representatives by providing e-signatures via iPads.

·         Provided functionality to approve large purchase requests via iPhones by company executives.

·         Managed internal and external resources for A.D., system support and 3^rd party integration.

·         Consistently and effectively delivered in response to ERP service deck tickets and work requests completing in a timely manner.

·         Selected tools and procedures to maximize team effectiveness and deliverables.

·         Designed documentation used to capture requirements and costs from the customer for budgetary considerations. (Governance)

·         Built reputation for proactively taking on new projects and shepherding them to success.

 

Senior Business Analyst/Programmer                                                                    2004 to 2008

Goodman Manufacturing LLP                                                                                         Houston, TX

 

·         Developed software on the AS400 using RPG and RPG ILE.

·         Installed and configured 3^rd party application for Mapics to manage workflow processes for creating and managing new item creation. (Flotiva)

·         Created new processes to improve end-user application updates and installations.

·         Documented customer requirements and followed up on project deliverables.

·         Produced new methodologies to support customer.

·         Conducted requirement review sessions and formal walk-throughs of deliverables with clients.

·         Monitored actual results as compared to project projections including time-lines and adjusted for changes caused by both internal and external factors.

 

Senior Business Analyst (Consultant)                                                                    2001 to 2003

Sprint PCS                                                                                                            Overland Park, KS

 

·         Designed interfaces for the ODL group to communicate to all back-end and 3^rd party systems.

·         Collaborated with external business areas to capture and document all project related requirements.

·         Assisted with the project to transition from Convergys to Amdocs Customer Care and Billing system called “Ensemble.”

·         Created AOW, FRS and FDS documents as deliverables for all work related tasks.

·         Performed quality assurance audits on information entered into document repository. (Documentum)

·         Supported unit testing by creating test case scenarios prior to implementation.

 

Senior Business Analyst                                                                                           1999 to 2000

Outboard Marine Corporation                                                                                        Waukegan, IL

 

·         Supervised the development of all JD Edwards modifications.

·         Developed customizations in the A7.3 and B7.33 systems.

·         Created custom utility applications for the AS400.

·         Generated development guidelines for development and coding standards.

 

Director of IT                                                                                                                   1997-1999

Lowe Boats (Outboard Marine Corporation)                                                                   Lebanon, MO

 

·         Oversaw the daily activities for system maintenance and software development.

·         Supported the migration of the Mapics II systems’ data to the Four Winns ERP system.

·         Recruited and trained new AS400 developers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Education:                Columbia College, Columbia Mo.

                                 Bachelor of Science, (MIS). Management Information Systems.

 

 

Certifications:            Project Management for IT Projects (Business Management Consultants)

                                 Principles & Techniques of Project Management (University of Houston)

                                 JD Edwards Advanced programming concepts and skills.

                                 JD Edwards Technical foundations for World Software.

                                 JD Edwards One World CNC Foundations.

                                 JD Edwards One World System Administration.

                                 JD Edwards One World Deploying Modifications

                                 BPCS AS/SET IWS Workshop.

                                 Hewlett Packard MPE/IX System Management.

                                 Hewlett Packard MPE/IX System Administration & Operation for Application Users.

                                 Novell C.N.A. NetWare 4.11