professional experience
Dave Carlson has over 40 years of professional experience in information technology. The following are simply the highlights from his extensive career.
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Recent Assignment- Prior to Dave's arrival, the Company had not been able to produce bills and disbursement for its clients within the contractually required seven business days for several months. Dave used his business process engineering skills to investigate and document all aspects of the complicated process. Dave then focused on reducing the "disconnects" and improving the manual processes to improve the overall performance.

Within six weeks the process was improved to the extent that the Company was able to consistently meet its obligations. Changes were also made to the Great Plains financial system and the various sub-systems that fed billing information to it. Dave was also asked to manage accounts receivable and collections.

During this time he also recruited new leadership for the group. Overseeing internal audit activities and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance was also part of Dave's responsibilities. Planning to consolidate a small division headquartered in Philadelphia into San Diego was also completed.

NextWave- Dave was retained to oversee its installation of Oracle 11i and create its initial program to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for an impending public offering.

Certance / Quantum- Dave was brought into Certance to stabilize its installation of Oracle 11.5.9 and replace its entire infrastructure. Stabilization was achieved within 10 weeks and a completely new global infrastructure was installed in six months. After Certance was acquired by Quantum, Dave managed the Global software group and the conversion of the Certance Oracle 11.5.9 and the Quantum 11.5.8 onto a new Oracle 11.5.10 platform. Overseeing IT controls for Sarbanes-Oxley was also part of Dave's responsibilities

Kmart- In a ten year period, Dave and his organization flawlessly installed 50,000 lanes of symbol scanning registers connected to 4,000 redundant point of sale controllers; 2,000 back office Unix systems; the world's largest VSAT private satellite environment; 2,000 layaway systems; 1,500 pharmacy systems and the industry's leading merchandising systems. Kmart was also the first chain to install wireless scanning devices (from Symbol Technologies) in all stores. This application allowed several people in each Kmart store to perform tasks on the selling floor rather than in the store office thereby significantly improving customer service. This application of technology earned Dave and Kmart the highest award for technology implementation that the Smithsonian Institution provides. All technology was installed below budget and within original schedules.

Ingram Micro - During a little less than three years Dave managed the installation of the company's IMpulse system in several countries in Europe, Peru, Argentina, China, India, Australia and New Zealand. He also managed the creation of a web site that was receiving five million hits per day. He also continued Ingram's transition to client/server and web-based technology.

Sagence Systems - During an intense development period of 18 months, Dave and a small group of extremely competent web technology designers and developers created a highly innovative tool (J4) for rapid web development using Java and Enterprise Java Beans. Two systems (one for time entry and one for asset tracking) built with J4 were put into production at Firstsource Corp during the first quarter of 2001. See also www.sagencesystems.com for a description of the toolset and the applications.