Candidates About

Charles S. Runkle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CarTech, Reading, PA                                                                                  6/2016 – Present

Business Analyst– Defined and Designed new EDI process for CarTech.  Called-out the need for EDI and became the EDI Lead as there was no in-house EDI process.  Coordinated off-shore resources during FUT Testing for the P2P (Procure-to-Pay) Team.  Drove the design of Functional Specifications for the P2P Team.  Purchase Orders (PO), Request for Quotation (RFQ), RFQ Rejection, Purchase Requisitions (PR), Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Expedite/Reminder Forms, Supplier Evaluation, Consignment Reporting, Conflict Minerals Report.  Expertise was loaned to the S2S Team to assist FUT Testing which was behind schedule.  Recognized by Project Team Management and CarTech CIO as a valuable asset.

PPR, Newtown Square, PA                                                                          7/2015 – 3/2016

Business Analyst– Confidant and Consultant to the three business partners.  Working very closely with the PMO.  Collecting necessary information from all seats in the business.  Charged with taking this company from spreadsheets and QuickBooks to an ERP system which will define PPR as an industry leader.  Managing outside vendors to arrange demonstrations of varied software which was to serve as the company’s business backbone.  Lead project expectations and change management to an on-schedule and under budget conclusion.  Was relied on for other opportunities because of my business experience.

Insight Global, Conshohocken, PA                                                                         1/2015 – 5/2015

Client – Airgas

Business Analyst/Project Manager – Digital Integration Team charged with driving national and international meetings between customers, purchasing platforms and sales force.  Collecting necessary information from each to create specifications for item catalogs.  SAP SRM 7.0 Front End, ECC 6.0 Backend, PTP – Procurement To Pay, Data Mapping, Data Migration. Was relied on by many on project to break down barriers standing in the way of progress.  Proficient in all Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio etc)

Symphony Teleca Inc., King of Prussia, PA                                                 9/2013 - 8/2014

Client – hibu, Inc

Business Analyst/Project Manager– Catalyst Project PMO Business Analyst charged with driving requirements to completion.   Attended Business Planning Workshops for Financial, General Ledger, Treasury, Controlling, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable and HR.  SAP SRM 7.0 Front End, ECC 6.0 Backend, PTP – Procurement To Pay, RTR – Record To Report, Vendor Master Data, Customer Master Data, Data Mapping, Data Migration, Cost Centers/Profit Centers, Credit Card Integration with PCI Compliance, Contract Management, Travel Management. Worked closely with and reported to the two co-chairmen of the project.  Was relied on by many on project to break down barriers standing in the way of progress.  Developed a process which saved man-weeks of effort to create Cost-Centers.  Volunteered to take-on driving of PTP process when Head of U.S. Procurement took a position with another company.  Drove semi-weekly Global PTP meetings with US, UK and Argentina.  Designed automated Credit Card processing system.  Designed PTP Work Plan to be used as scorecard for design phase.  Proficient in all Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio etc)

Computer Aid Inc., Allentown, PA                                                                1/2012 – 5/2013

Client – PP&L

Contract Business Analyst– Liaison between Operations Team and IT Production Support Staff.  Created collaboration between the functional operations team and the technical team.   Training and mentoring of Operations Team members.  Analysis and redesign of existing business processes to increase process efficiency and apply best business practices and documentation of new systems.  Excellent communication and interviewing skills at every level of the business including the written and spoken word.  Demonstrated ability to follow existing standards or create new standards.  Development tools included Oracle PL/SQL, Excel, Word, Visio and PowerPoint.

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BlueCloud Consultants, Reading, PA                                                            1/2009 – 12/2011

Business Analyst/Project Manager – Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities including Gas and Electricity, Warehouse Management and Materials Management and Entertainment Industry.  Point of Sale system design including Hardware, Software, Installation, Testing and Training. .Dynamic, engaging speaking style and stage presence.  Have made presentations to audience numbers as large as a full theater. Responsibilities included New Business Development, Vendor & Customer Relations, Translating business needs into Hardware, Software and Process Systems Design and Analysis, Liaison between Functional and Technical Stakeholders, Analysis and Definition of existing business processes leading to Gap Analysis, Development of Training Courses and Presentation of Training to CEO Level through Hourly Employees.  Design of Marketing Materials.  Network Analysis, VoIP Phone system design and installation.  Analysis tools included Microsoft Office products Excel, Word, Visio and PowerPoint.

Accenture Technical Solutions, Philadelphia, PA                           

Client – Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pharmaceuticals                                                            1/2008 – 12/2008

SAP SD, MM, WM, FI Support, Order To Cash, ABAP United States Technical Project Lead

Maintained coordination with Delivery Centers in in the U.S., San Paulo, Brazil and Manila., Philippines.  Managed relationships between functional groups, technical teams and testing teams communicating expectations, progress and results throughout the systems development life cycle.  Functional Requirements gathering and Technical Specification writing.  Project Management duties included setting goals for team, managing full Systems Development Life Cycle, schedule management and time reporting, resource planning and forecasting.  Analyzed requests for ABAP work and assigned work according to skill level and workload.  Business Analyst – Identified data flow responsibilities from EDI to SAP Systems. Gap Analysis. SAP Implementation - Coordinated analysis for batch job scheduling requirements during SAP upgrade.  Served in War Room during SAP Implementation Week analyzing work orders for error tickets.

Client – DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY (DLA), U.S. Government                        10/2005 – 12/2007

IT1 and IT2 SECURITY CLEARANCE, ABAP TECHNICAL LEAD, Business Analyst

SAP SD, MM, WM, FI Support, Order To Cash – Full SDLC

Acting Team Lead during a four month absence of an assigned Team Lead. Led Functional Requirements gathering.  Defined Technical Specifications from Functional Requirements. Project Management included creating and managing project plans, setting team goals and time/scope reporting.  Managed full Systems Development Life Cycle including the team’s implementation schedule.  Mentor for DLA employees.  Taught DLA employees ABAP coding skills and assisted them during development of ABAP programs.   Created a positive atmosphere for DLA employees who became engaged and productive in their work with the hybrid employee/consultant team.  Improved team morale.  Analyzed requests for R/3 ABAP work and advised DLA Manager.  Worked with DLA Manager to identify R/3 ABAP requirements and assigned work according to skill level and workload.  Analyzed weekly status updates to identify schedule risks/issues.  SAP Implementation – Wrote functional and technical specifications.  Assigned work to team members.  Coordinated testing of programs. Lead peer reviews to inspect code and technical documents. Trained users. 

Dopaco, Downingtown, PA                                                                            3/2005 – 9/2005
Contract EDI/Analyst

SAP FI, SAP Conversion project developed Inbound (856) advanced ship notice map

Board Of Pensions, Philadelphia, PA                                                            10/2004 – 2/2005
Contract Business Analyst

Gap Analysis – Designed and developed methods for remote computer operations for LAWSON and PEOPLESOFT daily jobs.  Met with Information Technology staff to learn batch processing schedule. Wrote specifications and designed an automated and remotely controlled batch job processing system.  Tested remotely controlled batch job processing prototype and successfully proved the concept.

B/Braun, Bethlehem, PA                                                                               3/2004 – 7/2004
Contract EDI/Analyst
SAP 3.1H TO SAP 4.6 conversion project where EDI interfaces were developed, map changes made and tested, gap analysis and design while collecting business practices from user community. SAP Implementation

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GPU/FirstEnergy, Reading, PA                                                                     1/1996 – 12/2003
Employee Senior Analyst & Contract Programmer/Analyst

SAP SD, MM, WM, FI, CCS Support

Administered all aspects of EDI including but not limited to implementations, upgrades, maintenance and changes for new and existing trading partners/vendors solutions and code. Played key role on three-person EDI team building cutting-edge solutions and leveraging EDI tools along with web technologies. Programmer/analyst mainframe-Cobol for interfaces with Gentran Basic for MVS. EDI mapping using Gentran MVS. Standard transactions 810, 850, 855 Plus 820 remit payment transactions.
Demonstrated Project Management skills while balancing scheduled timelines with new requests. Weekly progress reporting and business strategy meetings. Monitored and supported financial systems: A/P, A/R, G/L, Fixed Assets, Invoicing, Payroll

SAP R/3 - ABAP programming for CCS Module during Project Enterprise. Maintained ALE communication interface with GENTRAN and SAP . Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving all document processing errors with trading partners and with in-house applications and interfaces. Consulted with business unit management and personnel to identify and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements.
Interfaced with systems analysts and programmers to design and develop EDI processes to be used with applications supported by internal staff.

Information Technology Career                                                                              1978 - 1996

Started my career as a Programmer on an IBM 360 using 80 column punched cards and a DOS Operating System.  Consistently sought to improve and expand my professional experiences with different Operating Systems, Databases and Programming Languages.  Realized that I had an aptitude for analysis, observing existing systems and the ability to identify where they needed to be and how to get there.  Developed a mentoring style of management through my love of teaching.  Developed systems in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Human Resources, Product Line Tracking, Treasury, Inventory Management.  Business experiences included Luden’s Inc, Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the Cabot Corporation.  Worked for 21 years with an Associates in Specialized Business Degree from Thompson Institute before completing my Bachelor of Science Degree at Albright College, graduating with Honors in 2003.

EDUCATION

ALBRIGHT COLLEGE, Reading, PA
Bachelor of Science / Information systems

THOMPSON INSTITUTE, Harrisburg, PA
Associate in Specialized Business (ASB) / Executive Data Management

SAP TRAINING:  CA210 EDI Interface, BC400 Introduction to the ABAP Workbench, BC400-03 Delta ABAP Workbench, BC404 Object-Oriented Programming in R/3, BC420 Interfaces for Data Transfer, BC430 ABAP Dictionary, BC620 SAP IDOC Interface

Accenture Project Management School

Dale Carnegie – Leadership Training for Supervisors

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES SAP R/3 ABAP, EDI, UNIX SCRIPTS, SAP R/3 ABAP, COBOL II, DB2/SQL, MICROFOCUS COBOL, EASYTRIEVE, VISUAL BASIC, TRAINED IN JAVA JDK 1.2
METHODOLOGIES PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PMBOK), BUSINESS ANALYSIS (BABOK), SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE (SDLC), TRAINED IN OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOP), Unified Modeling Language (UML)

DATABASES DB2, IMS, ACCESS, ORACLE 10
HARDWARE HP UNIX SERVERS, IBM MAINFRAME 360/30, 370/125, 370/148, 4331, 4341, 30XX, IBM PC, DOS/VS, DOS/VSE, OS/MVS, PC DOS, OS2, WINDOWS
SERVICES & TOOLS GENTRAN Server for UNIX HP and AIX, GENTRAN/NT and GENTRAN Basic,
EDI, Visio, Brio, MS Project, MS Power Point, MS Word, Excel Spreadsheets, ADF, CICS, TSO/ISPF, BMS, Shadow, Xpediter, Cobtest, Exceed, Hummingbird