David Little

Savannah Distributing

Savannah, GA

Wholesale alcoholic beverage distributor.

Chief Technology Officer

• Define technology requirements for $30M per year corporation.
• Manage relationships with technology vendors.
• Set standards for technical environment.
• Design, implement and support Business Intelligence solutions using Crystal Reports Server XI.
• Direct contract programming staff.
• Lead requirements analysis and document short and long-term technology needs.
• Identify potential solution providers and evaluate technology offerings.
• Suggest and evaluate new product lines to increase market penetration and maximize gross profit.
• Work with state revenue regulatory authority to provide all tax reporting electronically.
• Designed and implemented automated tax and depletion reporting. Increased accuracy and eliminated 6-person days a month of manual processing.

 

david little consulting

Savannah, GA

Technology consulting for small and medium businesses.

President

• Provide strategic technology consulting to medium and small businesses; most with no internal IT staff.
• Assist clients in modernizing business-critical applications and hardware upgrades.
• Advise customers on new technology purchases. Evaluate potential solutions and implement selected solution.

 

SteeleTech

Savannah, GA

Information technology consulting and training.

Sr. Consultant

• Develop business-critical sales and financial reports.
• Provide website and application development to national customers.
• Teach technical training classes to national customers.
• Lead internal implementation of process improvements.

 

Chatham County Government

Savannah, GA

Information and Communication Services (ICS).

Sr. Systems Analyst

• Technical liaison for the Chatham County Board of Assessors (BOA) to the ICS Department.
• Technical point-of-contact between BOA and third party hardware/software vendors.
• Represent BOA on the Savannah Area GIS Technical Advisory Committee.
• Manage technical projects for BOA.
• Develop new solutions to help increase efficiencies within the BOA Appraisal staff.
• BOA web site webmaster (maintain web site, add new documents, troubleshoot technical issues, technical advisor on web enhancements, and assist public users of BOA web site)
• Administer BOA's SQLServer environment and database applications.
• Execute system programs to produce annual tax digest and tax commissioner's transfer files.
• Provide daily technical support to BOA and its appraisal staff.
• Provide copies of tax transfer file to parties requesting it via Georgia Open Records.
• Run ad hoc queries and special geographic information systems (GIS) mapping projects to support BOA and other local, county and state government agencies.
• Procure systems and services for BOA.

 

Onyx Software

Bellevue, WA

Business Development and Alliances.

Technical Alliance Manager

• Managed relationship with Onyx implementation partners in both United States and Canada.
• Improved partner's ability to successfully deploy solutions by providing solution design, Onyx configuration and integration advice. Provided advice both remotely and as integrated member of partner implementation team.
• Conducted periodic assessments of partner's training levels and critical skills.
• Participated in partner proposal generation by advising on levels of effort, implementation approach and team structure.
• Provided technical advice to implementation partners on Onyx architecture, integration solutions and product direction.
• Acted as third-tier escalation point for partner implementation teams relating to CRM process definition, Onyx architecture, configuration and integration issues.
• Provided project quality assurance for partner implementation projects.
• Assisted partners in developing training and skill development plans.
• Assisted Alliances team in identifying and evaluating new partner candidates.

 

kforce.com

Tampa, FL

kforce Consulting Principal Consultant.

kforce Consulting, Technical Lead, Projects and Billing V7.0

• Led technical implementation of both Projects and Billing modules for internal implementation of PeopleSoft.
• Managed customer legacy system remediation project and oversaw implementation of data warehouse for EDI detailed information.
• Documented interface requirements and created both inbound and outbound data mappings.
• Coordinated integration with new time and expense capture system.
• Responsible for designing, coding, and testing interfaces to Time and Expense and Billing systems.
• Supported legacy data conversions. Designed several automated interfaces between Microsoft Excel and PeopleSoft using VBA and EDI Manager.
• Helped develop and test production support methodologies.
• Provided both end-user and technical production support training.

 

Major Retail Drug Store Company, Program Manager, Payables V7.0

• Managed final stages of Payables implementation including managing schedule and resources, coordinating activities, customer management reviews, and team status meetings.
• Managed customer legacy system remediation project and oversaw implementation of data warehouse for EDI detailed information.
• Provided functional and technical direction.
• Designed and developed customizations of modules using Application Designer.
• Implemented AP Inquiry and Vendor Information panels over corporate Intranet using HTML and Java.
• Responsible for designing, coding, and testing interface to non-PeopleSoft General Ledger and other legacy systems.
• Supported legacy data conversions. Designed several automated interfaces between Microsoft Excel and PeopleSoft using VBA and EDI Manager.
• Helped develop and test production support methodologies.
• Provided both end-user and technical production support training.

 

kforce.com

Tampa, FL

Emerging Technologies Division.

National Director, PeopleSoft Practice

• Managed $10 million budget, with primary responsibility for setting strategic direction, overall profit and loss, new customer development, account management. The PeopleSoft Practice consistently led the Emerging Technologies (ET) organization in revenue generation and gross profit realization. Also responsible for cross marketing and coordinating project participation among ET consulting practices (BPI, Networking, Database Administration, and Education). Successfully built the PeopleSoft Practice from zero to 65 consultants in 14 months. Managed the Strategic Partner relationship with PeopleSoft Inc, developing new ways to broaden and deepen that relationship.
• Monitored and evaluated weekly economic performance of the practice. Identified potential corporate acquisitions and participated in due diligence activities. Responsible for transitioning the organization from a staff augmentation approach to a solution delivery model, establishing an organizational structure designed to promote and maintain rapid growth. Managed the professional development of the consulting staff.
• Led the development of the Romac Implementation Methodology, and the production of proposal generation, establishing format and content templates. Developed all recruiting and hiring processes for the practice.

 

Medaphis Corporation (now Per-Sé Technologies)

Atlanta, GA

Corporate Information Management.

Director of Production Services

• Built and managed production support organization for corporate business applications (especially PeopleSoft Financials and Human Resources).
• Implemented support, change control, application customization, and security administration standards and procedures for PeopleSoft support.
• Set direction for quality assurance practices in application enhancements and fixes.
• Led analysis and successful deployment of PeopleSoft Financials to Medaphis field locations.
• Acted as senior technical advisor and technical liaison for all corporate users.
• Proactively identified improvements to the supporting technical infrastructure.
• Developed and managed Service Level Agreements with corporate customers.
• Managed operational budget of over $6 million dollars.

 

Manager of Planning and Analysis

• Managed team of business systems analysts providing requirements definition, functional specifications, cost/benefits analysis, and post-implementation support for business critical applications.
• Responsible for identifying business requirements, evaluating potential solutions, developing cost/benefits analyses, proposing "best fit" solutions, leading system development and implementation, and providing life-cycle support.

 

Science Application International Corporation

McLean, VA

The largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in the United States.

Project Manager/Senior Systems Analyst

• Managed team of business process analysts and application designers for image-enabled records management system.
• Provided computer systems integration, application development, and technical infrastructure consulting to multiple federal government clients.
• Developed multiple information management systems for high-level Department of Defense agencies.
• Established SAIC's state and local office in Georgia.

 

Verity Corporation

Mt.View, CA

Intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Provided tailored, on-site support to Verity clients.
• Evaluated client requirements and implemented enhancements to current hardware and software configurations.
• Developed enhancements and customizations to existing versions of TOPIC, Verity's full-text retrieval application.
• Taught TOPIC Fundamentals, Database Administration, and Real-Time courses.

 

National Security Agency

Fort George G. Meade, MD

America's cryptologic organization.

Database Development Manager/Programmer/Analyst

• Managed teams of database developers and administrators.
• Developed and implemented applications using Unix tools to enhance organizational efforts.
• Foreign Assignment - England: led team of intelligence analysts in 24-hour Indications and Warning Center.
• Researched and evaluated new hardware and software products.
• Instructed analysts in use of computer systems and software.
• Analyzed organizational computing requirements.