Title: Director, ERP Applications
Company: University of Pittsburgh
Membership Type: User
What makes the OATUG mission meaningful to you?
What makes the mission of the OATUG meaningful to me is being the voice for Oracle application users by representing their interests and collective priorities to Oracle to influence future development and enhancement of the Oracle products, as well as bringing users together in a forum where they can share ideas, experiences and solutions.
Please list your previous and current OATUG volunteer roles, COLLABORATE experience, and other volunteer or leadership experience with other organizations:
I currently serve as a member of the OATUG Board of Directors, where I served as the OATUG Forum Online Conference Chair for 2020.
o OATUG Governance Committee, previously served as the election monitor
o OATUG Customer Support Council member and Board Liaison
o OATUG Analytics and BI Special Interest Group, secretary
o Oracle Ambassador for my organization
o Previous member OATUG Nominating Committee
o Contributed numerous presentations and participated in panel discussions at various OATUG and Oracle events, including Collaborate, Oracle OpenWorld, as well as at BIWA/Data Analytics Summit, and Higher Ed User Group Alliance conference.
o Member of the Oracle Global Analytics Leader 2020, Higher Ed User Group and Pittsburgh Oracle Application User group.
Why are you running for the board, and what skills, connections, resources, and expertise do you have to offer to the organization?
I am running for the OATUG Board of Directors for the opportunity to continue to be an advocate and voice for Oracle Application users and to effectively communicate issues and priorities to Oracle, drawing on over 20 years of experience with Oracle EBusiness Suite, primarily Financial, HCM and Purchasing applications. As a user and leader of many projects and implementations of Oracle applications and solutions, I believe my experience with various applications, both on premises and in Cloud, and user perspective will enable me to represent interests of Oracle Applications users. Based on my involvement with the OATUG Board over the last two years, as well as with many different users' groups, both product and industry based, I believe I can continue to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas, experiences and solutions among Oracle application users.
Tell us about your current professional role and what Oracle products you are using and/or supporting.
In my role as Director of ERP Applications at the University of Pittsburgh, I have management responsibility and oversight for software implementations and upgrades; system assessments; audit and controls; customer support and training; and, hardware architectural design to support the E-Business environment. Oracle products include Oracle EBusiness Suite (GL, Purchasing, Payables, HR, Payroll, Benefits, T&L) Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle PAAS. Currently implementing Oracle HCM Cloud.