danette adams

I worked very closely with the Amadeus team in Nice, France doing analytical work to compare the United Airlines Global Distribution System (GDS) to theirs. We were working towards migrating the UA GDS within the Amadeus GDS and needed to determine what gaps or functionality was not available or would have to be built to accommodate United Airlines requirements. Provided business analyst support towards the Horizon Project. This project was an attempt by United Airlines to move their existing Apollo System to the Amadeus System in France With Amadeus contract failure, primary focus became the data center re-location to Atlanta. Data center re-location included migration of mainframe, test, and production systems, as well as web services and all network components. Worked with the data center host/ partner service providers and multiple internal application and infrastructure organizations.

As a Resource manager, I managed my group's work, ensuring all developers had sufficient work, I coach and guiding them, kept them informed for what our directions were not only within our web development group but as a company. I held one on one's and help build each of the employees career paths and next steps. Kept track of resource allocations and project funding. Managed 8 to 18 desktop, .net, web services, and java developers in multiple product areas. This included but was not limited to: personal development plans, training plans, resource performance, and resource allocations. Created product team communication plans, communicated with senior management, marketing, project stakeholders, and product teams through recurring meetings and detailed status reports. Responsible for IBM corporate travel Internet travel platform. Platform deployed to 8 countries.

I coordinated and streamlined the implementation of all of the fares loads that were done as new fares were updated and loaded to the Apollo Global Distributions Service (GDS). This would entail fare changes and also schedule changes that are quite prevalent in the airline industry. Managed implementations for multi-million dollar revenue-generating projects via multi-phase implementations applicable to Apollo and Galileo HOST systems. Coordinated internal resources across functional areas, including Applications Configuration, IT Operations, Telecommunications, Product Development, and Certification Testing to deliver products/services on time, within budget, and with a high degree of quality. Reduced Fares implementation timelines by 20%