• Accurate and thorough analysis of requirements necessary for successful projects including selection, prototyping, implementation, operation, and support.

• Objective and analytical assessment of proposed alternatives.

• Effective communication, team leading, and training.

• Capable of directing projects to keep them on time and on budget.

• Open to giving and receiving positive feedback and constructive criticism.

• Creative, methodical, and successful troubleshooting.

• Facilitation of full spectrum of business operations and management.

• 20 years of consultative, sales, and implementation experience involving financial systems.

• Plus 12 years as CFO or Controller, implementing systems across multiple industries.

• Strategic and technical hands-on and management experience with integrating systems across minicomputers, wide area networks, and local area networks.

• Large project implementations brought to completion as both an internal and external project manager.

• Hands-on work and management of personnel providing needs assessment for financial and management information systems, specification and completion of custom development, training, project management, and consultation for transitions and implementations.

• Multiple industries; multi-national implementations; multi-company implementations; and company acquisition, merger, startup, IPO, and bankruptcy experience.

• Clients with previously failed implementations well regard my ability to bring their implementation in on time and on budget because of prototype project simulations and project plan forecasting.

• Full spectrum of business operations and management which facilitates my relationship with my clients and increases my understanding of business challenges.

• Implementation of startup with Microsoft Dynamics GP and Batchmaster process control manufacturing software. Ported Batchmaster data over to Dynamics manufacturing 4 years later. Assisted company with meeting DOD and FDA requirements during 400% growth phase over 4 years, acquisition of two companies, downsizing of one company, and implementation of Dynamics CRM.

• Implementation of Microsoft Great Plains for a large private investment and property management group. 3,200,000 lines of data were retrieved from JD Edwards for 50 companies. Two licenses of Great Plains were involved of 8 users each; one installation involved 5 companies; the second installation involved 45 companies. Modules included General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation, Fixed Assets, Analytical Accounting, Modifier, Integration Manager, and FRx.

• Implementation of a 10-user system of Microsoft Great Plains for a tribal casino. Two years of data were retrieved from a legacy UNIX system for integration into Great Plains. Modules included General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Purchase Order Processing, Modifier, and Integration Manager.

• Implementation of a 10-user system of Microsoft Great Plains for a tribal casino. Two years of data were retrieved from a legacy Btrieve system for integration into Great Plains. Modules included General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation, Inventory, Purchase Order Processing, Requisition Management, Business Portal, Fixed Assets, Modifier, and Integration Manager.

• Implementation of a 25-user Microsoft Great Plains Edition system in a tribal government including System Manager, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Account Level Security, Multidimensional Analysis, FRx Financial Reporting, Timeline Financial Analyst, Purchase Order Processing, Encumbrancement Management, Control Account Management, Interfund Management, MICR Check Encoding, Excel-Based Budgeting, Transaction-Based Budgeting, Organization Levels, Fixed Assets, and Integration Manager.

• Implementation of a 55-user Microsoft Great Plains eEnterprise system in a tribal casino after the initial implementation failure by another VAR. Brought the project in on time and on budget with systems for System Manager, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, and Bank Reconciliation.

• System design and specification for a custom apparel manufacturing, inventory, purchasing, and sales system interfacing to a financial and payroll system.

• Implementation of Human Resources and Payroll for an 85-person company currently utilizing Great Plains Edition.

• Twelve year relationship with a 54-location, privately-owned, pub, brewery, and hospitality chain in the Pacific Northwest owned by 3 corporations. Responsible for design of payables processing to manage 30,000 monthly payables transactions at company headquarters. Successfully deployed Great Plains for use by five of the larger remote locations. Wrote specifications for and successfully deployed the complex custom inter-database, inter-segment, inter-company posting and consolidation process. Over the years, we migrated this company from Great Plains on Macintosh, to Dynamics on Windows and Btrieve, to Microsoft Dynamics GP. Under direction from different CFO’s, we consolidated all data within one SQL database, separated it into 5 databases, and re-consolidated it into one SQL database, while retaining all historical payables and general ledger data.

• Microsoft Great Plains Certified Professional:

  • Financial Series

  • Distribution Series

  • Report Writer

  • FRx Financial Report Writer

  • Certified Installation Specialist

  • Certified for Software Tools – Modifier and Integration Manager

  • Human Resources and Payroll

• Certified Trainer, Great Plains Software, 1993

• Portland State University, B.S., Business Administration, 1984

• Certified Management Accountant (CMA), 1984

• 1993 – Current: Computeration, Inc., founder, owner, and president.

• 1990 – 1992: Computer Information and Accounting Systems, Inc., founder, owner, and president.

• 1988 – 1989: Associated Chemists, Inc., Controller.

• 1987 – 1988: E-machines, Inc., Controller.

• 1984 – 1985: Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, et al, Controller.

• 1979 – 1984: Oregon Software, Inc., CFO.

• 1978 – 1979: Williams Energy dba Doxol Propane, Accounting Manager

• 2006-07 President, Institute of Management Accountants Portland Chapter

• 2005-06 Treasurer, Institute of Management Accountants Portland Chapter

• Volunteer work with Oregon Food Bank

• Software Association of Oregon, 2009 member

• Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network, 2009 member

• Better Business Bureau, 2009-10 member

• Three daughters who have all left the home nest

• Touring national parks

• Keep koi

Gloria J. Braunschweig
gloria@computeration.net
Phone 503 968 7964 +206