professional experience
Dave Carlson has over 40 years
of professional experience in information technology. The following are
simply the highlights from his extensive career.
Click Here to view Dave's complete resume.
Dave Carlson has over 40 years
of professional experience in information technology. The following are
simply the highlights from his extensive career. Click Here to view Dave's complete resume.
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.
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.