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MICHAEL S. VINARSKI
205 Gander Dr.
Wexford, PA 15090
Tel: (724) 933 - 6231, (412) 260 - 2638 (cell)
Email: mvc7312c@westpost.net;
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvinarski
Resume Highlights
Summary of qualifications (skills and abilities):
* 10+ years of project lead/project management experience in Information Technol
ogy (IT) with practical understanding of IT role in organization, especially dur
ing the transition and/or redesign of business processes.
* Total 15+ years of system analysis and programming experience including 10+ ye
ars of experience using Oracle RDBMS. Strong technical knowledge in a wide rang
e of technologies including web application integration.
* Very good working knowledge and skills related to aspects of project managemen
t, new technical initiatives, and identification of technical opportunities, ind
ustry standards and best practices for project development.
* Customers and Business oriented IT Project Lead and Techno Functional expert w
ith project management experience and skills. Experienced in wide range of appli
cation integration and implementation projects including developing conversion s
trategies, gap analysis and schedules, identifying and managing resources, analy
zing and managing risk, and working with cross-functional teams and management
* Both Technical Project Management (traditional Requirements, Design, Code, Tes
t, Deploy) and Business Project Management (Training, Communications, Metrics, B
usiness Requirements, etc) experience
* Strong organizational, analytical, statistical and technical skills with abili
ty to translate business requirements into effective application designs/customi
zations and to explain comprehensive technical concepts in terms understandable
by business customers
* Ability to work independently and as a cooperative team member or team leader,
and to effectively communicate with all management levels
* Ability to work concurrently on multiple IT issues spanning across business ar
eas, environments, or technologies. Ability to learn new key technology quickly
* Completed all PMI requirements for certification and currently preparing for P
roject Manager Professional (PMP) certification exam
Professional Experience
Duferco/NLMK Corporation
May 2010 - Sep 2010,
Enterprise IT Manager - Special Projects
Full end-to-end delivery of special IT projects and portfolios to Duferco's busi
ness units. Accountability for on-time, on budget delivery of the approved proje
cts assigned to project management team. Responsibilities include scope definiti
on and management, task and resource scheduling, cost and price budgeting, quali
ty review and assurance, and cross functional project teams management. Responsi
ble for implementation and support of the following IT projects portfolio:
* Oracle Financials and Oracle Manufacturing applications upgrade from release 1
1.5.10.2 to new 12.1. 1
* Implementation of Oracle UPK (User Productivity Kit) tool for Corporate Shared
Services division
* Oracle Business Intelligence Views and Oracle Discoverer solutions implementat
ion
* Implementation of Oracle Discrete Manufacturing rollout for Beta Steel plant o
f NLMK. Modules including: Oracle Order Management, Shipping, Advanced Pricing,
Inventory, Account Receivables, BOM, WIP, Costing, Quality.
* Research and implementation of Prepackaged OBIEE's Financial Business Analyti
cs Warehouse and OBIEE repository for Oracle E-Business Suite
Work closely with leadership (IT, Finance, Engineering, and Quality), technical,
functional, and management level business users in Duferco's operating units to
determine their business requirements and achieve fast resolution for variety o
f applications conversion, post-conversion, and customization issues. Responsib
ilities include utilizing appropriate management, coordination and communication
techniques when working with diverse internal and external technical and profes
sional groups and acting as the manager for project participants, consultants an
d outside entities.
Research existing technologies, tools, and solutions against customer expectatio
ns and made recommendations to the leadership on high impact issues.
Create, implement, and maintain project management documentation and procedures.
Education, training, support and analytic performance monitoring and coordinati
on
MGR, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 2009 - May 2010,
Principal Consultant (Vinacom, Inc.)
Lead cross-functional team to evaluate, plan, implement, support, and manage th
e deployment of GE's Centricity EMR/PM - Oracle based patient record system for
electronic data capture, storage, analysis and reporting:
* Conduct and maintain the EMR project plan and all related tasks.
* Coordinate task, time, scope, resources and budget management.
* Educate and train clinicians and staff on EMR applications.
* Facilitate on-going training support.
* Collect necessary input from end users on different or new scope requirements.
* Conduct product demonstrations, clinic walkthroughs, and other support activit
ies.
* Initiate clinical activities required to implement and sustain EMR systems.
* Consult and assist with process evaluations and workflow redesign efforts
* Coordinate clinical content customization
* Deliver training to end-users.
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, PA
May 2002 - Jun 2009,
Consulting Project Manager/Lead (Ciber, Inc.)
At the world's largest aluminum company gained comprehensive understanding of th
e business operations, contributed and participated in the development and imple
mentation of custom solutions, global Oracle data warehousing, reporting, and d
ecision support (daily business intelligence) systems for Requisition To Pay and
Order To Cash Alcoa Inc. tracks:
As a Project Manager and Project Lead was responsible for implementation and sup
port of the projects portfolio that either achieve a common business goal or cus
tom with very specific objective. Some projects examples are listed below
A. Development of first Alcoa Financials Data Warehouse (2003) with further tra
nsformation into robust Alcoa Global Data warehouse and Business intelligent sys
tem.
B. Development of customizable business flows, reporting, and interfacing module
s capable of presenting a comprehensive and integrated daily summary of a compan
y's business in the following areas:
* ERP: General Ledger, Account Payables, Purchasing (RTP Track), Projects
* SCM: Order Management (OTC Track), Manufacturing
C. Development of robust Business Intelligence System for Discrete and Process M
anufacturing applications for the Alcoa Word Alumina (San Ciprian, Spain) and No
rth America Primary Metals operating units. They are accessible through the por
tals, Oracle's Self Service web applications, and Discoverer tool (4g). The sys
tem has an external links to AR - Receivables, FND - Application Object Library,
INV - Inventory, JTF - CRM Foundation, ONT - Order Management, PER - Human Res
ources, and to PO - Purchasing for comprehensive reporting
D. Requisition To Pay, Oracle Projects, Order To Cash reporting implementations
with the scope of more than 100 reports and interfaces based on GL, Purchasing,
Payables, Receivables, Inventory, Order Management, Manufacturing and many other
s schemas
E. Implementation and coordination of the security solutions and setups (includi
ng custom projects) involving analyzing the operating units structure, building
the organizational hierarchies, setting the reporting responsibilities and secur
ity profiles to ensure the appropriate data scope for each responsibility level
F. Design and implementation of very specific Howmet (one of Alcoa's business u
nits) alloy certification process that involves multiple systems working togethe
r: Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Oracle Order Management Appl
ication, custom application and reports, Interconnect application
G. Many other implementation, customization, custom development, and reporting p
rojects in Alcoa's Purchasing, Inventory, Account Payables, Account Receivables
, Order Management, and Manufacturing areas of business that span organizations
geographies, and technologies
As project lead of original Alcoa Business Intelligence and Datawarehouse team
was responsible for the development and maintenance of original first Alcoa Data
Warehouse for Financials Track (Financials Data warehouse). The core responsibi
lities were focused on:
* Managing financials data warehouse including end user support and batch loads
as per agreed upon SLA
* Developing, testing, and releasing enhancements into the data warehouse and us
er interfaces
* Designing logical and physical multi-dimensional, relational, and hybrid datab
ases
* Developing and deploying ETL batch jobs
* Following Project Governance process
* Following SDLC lifecycle and methodologies
Core Oracle: Oracle Warehouse Builder 9.0.2, Oracle Discoverer 4g, Oracle Self
Service Web Applications, Oracle Workflow (v2.0.3, v2.5), Oracle RDBMS (v7.3/v8/
v8i, v9i), Oracle Application Server (v3.0/v4.0), Oracle 6i Development Tools (F
orms 4.5/5.0/6i, Reports 2.5/3.0/6i), Oracle Designer (2.2, 6.0, 6i), WEBDB 2.2,
Oracle Portal 3.0, PL-SQL v2.x, SQL* PLUS v3.2/3.3, SQL* Loader (Import, Export
)
Windows-based software: Visual Basic 4,5,6, Access, MS SQL, MS Office, SourceSaf
e, PVCS, Web browsers, HTML, Front Page,
MS Project
Operating Systems: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System, UNIX, DOS
Special Oracle Applications Area of Expertise:
Functional and Technical Experience in the following Oracle Applications (12R, 1
1i, 11.03, 10.7SC)
* Oracle HRMS (HR/Payroll)
* Oracle General Ledger
* Oracle Purchasing
* Oracle Payables and Oracle Receivables
* Oracle Fixed Assets
* Oracle Inventory
* Oracle Order Management
* Oracle Projects
* Oracle Engineering and Bills Of Material
* Oracle Cost Management
Applications coding Standards, Application Object Library, Custom Library, API U
ser's Hooks (Release 11i), API's. Extending Oracle Applications functionality u
sing Oracle 6i Development Tools, database triggers, packaged procedures and fun
ctions, Concurrent Management, concurrent programs setup
Life Cycle Expertise, Requirements Analysis, E-R Data Modeling, Logical Database
Design, Custom Development, Testing, Data Warehousing, Data Conversion and Inte
rface Development
Education:
Ph.D. In Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering
Central R&D Institute of Diesel Engines (CNIDI), St. Petersburg, Russia
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute", Kharkov, Ukraine
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute", Kharkov, Ukraine