louise johnson

bruton, somerset, united kingdom

About

I am a proactive and committed professional with over 25 years experience and industry expertise gained in the Retail, HM Government, Manufacturing and Service business sectors as a Project Manager and Consultant. I pride myself on being an articulate and confident individual whose experience working across Europe and North America has honed my diplomatic and problem solving skills, ensuring cultural and language differences translate into satisfactory project solutions to all my clients, as well as delivering best-in-class software implementations. As a freelance Contractor, I welcome enquires from anyone to whom I may be of assistance in problem solving or facilitating systems implementations.

Country

united kingdom

City

bruton

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

erp, oracle applications, business analysis, oracle, oracle e business suite, project management, business process, business process improvement, oracle discoverer, crm, solution architecture, requirements analysis, change management, business intelligence, program management, data warehousing, pl/sql, sql, order management, project delivery, purchasing, oracle hr, enterprise resource planning, procure to pay, data migration, software project management, project planning, ms project, supply chain management, inventory management, consulting, technical support, pmo, inventory analysis, mrpii, navision, personnel management, development and delivery of training, data analytics, software documentation, oracle erp, cloud applications

Experience

owner and senior principal consultant

expertstream

2002-1 - Present · 24 yrs 9 mos

Currently welcoming enquires from anyone to whom I may be of assistance in solution design, problem solving or facilitating systems implementations.

senior manager, oracle alliance partner manager

hitachi consulting

2016-6 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

senior principal consultant

united states steel corporation

2007-10 - 2015-1 · 7 yrs 4 mos

I have been working here as a Consultant on a miriad of diverse projects for US Steel in their Tubular Products division, over the last 8 years; my work has run the gamut from being SME for Payables, support manager for PTP and Financials issues, OBIEE project advisor, R12 data conversion specialist of legacy systems, change management lead on centralising Procurement, PM for on-boarding of acquired satellite plants, and general advisor on the Oracle EBS suite of applications.

consultant business analyst

walgreens boots alliance

2005-1 - 2006-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

This engagement was a departure from the norm for me as I was brought on board the project to advise, design and create a bespoke Procurement solution to enhance the Microsoft Dynamics Navision system being implemented.

project manager

highways agency

2002-12 - 2005-8 · 2 yrs 9 mos

On this project I enjoyed great success in designing and delivering training and support solutions to some 700 users across the Highways Agency, and completed my tenure there as the support manager for all the Oracle Procurement issues.

client relations manager

hencie consulting

2000-4 - 2002-10 · 2 yrs 7 mos

This role saw me taking my first foray into the world of Business Development as a client manager, as well as heading up the project team for several full ERP implementations

project manager

lone star steel

2000-1 - 2002-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

By far the largest Project I had managed to date, and a great experience implementing the full EBS suite on Oracle R11, with many bespoke customisations required to fit the complex business needs; my team consisted of fellow consultants, client special projects personal and several outside contractors.

senior consultant

tsc

1997-11 - 2000-4 · 2 yrs 6 mos

At TSC I worked on various projects utilising my expertise in the Oracle EBS applications, in the areas of Order Management, Inventory, Manufacturing, Purchasing, workflow, HR, Payables and Receivables. I also created and delivered training programs.

consultant

oracle

1995-9 - 1997-11 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Working for Oracle, I was lucky enough to be placed on projects that were cutting edge implementations. I was part of the first Multi-org European implementation; I enjoyed influencing development of the Order Management module for a client's need, visiting developers in Redwood to share the requirements; Testing and assisting beta versions of Oracle Service and R11i Order Management, well ahead of the curve.