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ALAN MARK PAVLIK
1606 NORTH LAUREL AVENUE #342
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046
323.656.2371 323.314.5664


 

Senior Systems Manager with a wide range of experience in industries from aerospace to heavy manufacturing to healthcare. Proven record of solving complex and seemingly intractable problems, while building effective, highly motivated teams for major corporations such as Hughes and General Motors. Background includes project management of complex financial processes, management of the systems shop at locomotive plant and managing HR and payroll systems for several large organizations. Brings a wide range of solutions to any systems problem as well as extensive experience in staff training and development. A Masters degree from Duke University, and wide ranging knowledge of the world of art and literature complements management and technical depth.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PEROT SYSTEMS CORPORATION


CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE WEST, PASADENA CALIFORNIA

November 1999 - February 2003

PROJECT MANAGER, FINANCIAL PROCESSES

August 2002 - February 2003
Charged with forming and managing a project team to construct the interface of Perots DIAMOND 950 HMO management software to PacifiCares Oracle Financials Suite. PacifiCare cancelled its contract with Perot and project eliminated.

PROJECT MANAGER, FINANCIAL PROCESSES

April 2002 - August 2002
Charged with forming and managing a project team to reengineer and automate the I/T and telecommunications Accounts Payable processes and pass-through client billing for the Catholic Healthcare West account: forty eight hospitals in three states, along with ten administrative facilities.

REGIONAL MANAGER, BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

November 1999 - April 2001
Charged with supporting and maintaining the general financial applications of the eleven hospitals in the Southern California Region Payroll and Benefits, Human Resources, Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Fixed Assets.

Direct supervision of five systems analysts and two programmers in an AS400/RPG environment supporting the general financial systems and payroll production at eleven hospitals and various IPA and home healthcare entities, in liaison with local I/T and production organizations. Systems for which we provide production support and which are also integrated at the region by my department include Infinium, Siemens-SMS, McKesson (HBOC) and various materiel management applications.

Project Manager:
ˇ Implementation of a standard chart of accounts for eleven hospitals running separate general ledgers, accounts payable and fixed asset systems in three unique applications on four separate platforms
ˇ Implementation of a standard payroll for eleven hospitals running two unique applications, with appropriate modifications for interfaces to benefits vendors and other third parties, and revision of feeds to third-party productivity and budgeting systems
ˇ Implementation of a single materiel management system to replace each hospitals local system, with appropriate interfaces to a variety of local general ledger and accounts payable systems
ˇ Move of all financial systems from local data center to consolidated data center in Arizona
ˇ Implementation of technical split of HR-Payroll systems and general financials for three hospitals leaving the company, and for their migration to other platforms in FY2002
ˇ Migration of financial, materiel and HR-Payroll systems in this region to a common web-based system by FY2003 (in vendor selection and preliminary planning)
ˇ Various rehosting and migration efforts as AS400s are moved or decommissioned

Managed successful implementation of all Y2K remediation of current systems.



COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION

February 1995 - November 1999

SENIOR MANAGER, BUSINESS APPLICATIONS: I/T SUPPORT of GENERAL MOTORS DIESEL DIVISION, GENERAL MOTORS LOCOMOTIVE GROUP, LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA
May 1998 - November 1999
On foreign assignment supervising sixteen employees maintaining mainframe, midrange and LAN applications for GM locomotive and light armored vehicle manufacturing operations in Canada, Mexico and Long Island on an account CSC assumed from EDS. Built a Canadian staff of twenty-two to replace the bridge team of U.S. citizens. Applications environment was manufacturing AMAPS/MRP on mainframe (COBOL/IMS/CA7) and client-server (NT/VB), financial and HR on HP9000/UNIX/Oracle/Speedware, fifty-one key applications on LAN. Assumed responsibility for all DBA's and Operations, engineering applications and began development of I/T support for ERP at new plants in Australia and Russia. Supervised three major development multiplatform projects. Managed early stages of transitioning financial applications to SAP.

MANAGER, I/T SUPPORT of HUGHES ELECTRONICS CORPORATE HUMAN RESOURCES: HUMAN RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER, EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION SYSTEMS, PATENTS SYSTEMS, TREASURY SYSTEMS
December 1997 - May 1998
Supervised five employees on various systems ranging from SAS for MVS to various client-server systems; profit-loss responsibility for five consulting work packages and one maintenance effort. Managed the successful split of SAS Human Resources databases into respective Hughes and Raytheon components, including all Workers' Compensation liabilities, stock options and executive incentives and trademark/patent data.

TEAM LEADER, HUGHES CORPORATE INFORMATION CENTER
October 1996 - December 1997
Reporting to the Hughes Corporate HR Information Manager, reduced a backlog of several hundred ad hoc requests concerning the outsourcing of Hughes' Retirement Program. Supervised three full-time SAS programmers while introducing them to using the HR Data Warehouse. Eliminated all backlog of ad hoc reporting for HR and Legal issues. Maintained position as technical and user advisor to the HR Data Warehouse.

TRAINING MANAGER, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
April 1996 - October 1996
Established the account's first training department and budget, established policies and procedures to determine and control training costs. Redesigned the account's skills inventory system to link to the corporate system, saving $40,000 in internal development costs. Established an account-wide system of computer-based training, saving $200,000 in stand-up training costs and offering college credit and professional licensing to all employees.

COMPUTER SCIENTIST
February 1995 - April 1996
On contract to Hughes Aircraft, responsible for deployment of the enterprise-wide nation-wide client-server Human Resources Data Warehouse, including marketing, supervision of training, documentation and liaison with technical support. Advised, mentored and assisted in implementation of the CSC management methodology, Catalyst. Trained in Business System Analysis and Redesign, Project Management, Project Estimating along with other Catalyst methods.


HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY, EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA

October 1982 - February 1995

TEAM LEADER, APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT, HR SYSTEMS
CORPORATE HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER
September 1992 - February 1995
Represented HR/MIS on the technical team which established an enterprise-wide client-server Human Resources Data Warehouse (Data Mart) and SQL applications. Familiar with Sybase Open Client, TCP/IP protocols and DB2/MVS Data Warehousing. Led teams developing enterprise-wide distributed information systems, specifically PC/Macintosh/Network systems for compensation, benefits issues tracking, and Personnel EIS's, using FoxPro and Lotus Notes in a Novell/SQL environment.

MEMBER OF COMPUTER STAFF, III BUSINESS SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTORATE
July 1987 - September 1992
Designed and developed local systems to manage various HR activities: group-wide salary merit review, applicant tracking, AAP planning, Safety and Health databases. Provided PC and Network support (Novell and LAN Manager). Expert in most PC applications: spreadsheets, word processors, dBase, Foxbase/FoxPro, graphics applications. Certified Novell 3.11 System Manager. Substantial knowledge and experience with HP3000/MPE and telecommunication issues in a mixed PC/Network/Mini/Mainframe environment.

    HR Employee of the Year in 1991. Cost Improvement Award, 1989.

PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE, SENIOR
EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES
October 1982 - July 1987
- Created department's Systems Support area, automated operations, record keeping and needs analysis efforts;
- Designed, produced multimedia New Hire Orientation program; wrote, produced award-winning videotape;
- Developed Defense Business Management Course commended by Group President;
- Produced Matrix Management course used in four training programs;
- Presented numerous management training programs with uniformly high ratings.
- Certified Program Director by Development Dimensions International and Wilson Learning


NORTHROP CORPORATION, AIRCRAFT DIVISION, HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA

November 1981 - October 1982

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, SELECTIVE PROGRAMS for Management Development branch of Division's training organization, responsible for review of Division training requests and development of new courses or recommendation of training vendors; also responsible for refinement of ongoing programs.
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Note: Prior to 1981 ten years of teaching and administrative experience at New York private college preparatory school.
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EDUCATION
MA - English, Duke University, Durham, NC. Course work complete for PhD
BA - English, High Honors, Denison University, Granville OH

HONORS/AWARDS
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
NDEA Title IV Graduate Fellowship
Duke University Graduate Fellowship