Bruce Wood

Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States Contact Info
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Having been in the Information Technology world for years, I have a reputation of being a…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Assistant / Music Director

    St. Thomas of Villanova Church - Palatine, Illinois

    - Present 16 years 6 months

    I volunteered as contemporary worship director in the music ministry from 2008-2019. I lead a team of 10-12 musicians and singers as the CHORALE to bring contemporary worship to the community, with ages from 11 to 69. Play guitar and lead the worship. In COVID 2020, I became music director of a virtual service, led by the retired pastor. In 2023, I was able to assist in bringing in a new Music Director, Mary Pietro, and sing in the choir and play with the new ENSEMBLE to this day.

  • Musician

    St. Francis de Sales Church - Lake Zurich, IL

    - 5 years 6 months

    I play guitar for the Life-Teen Band, as part of the youth ministry at the church. Lead the services when the director is away. Encourage teens in their singing and team building. A great place for ministry but the service was cancelled when the pandemic started and has not yet started back up.

  • Musician

    St Mary's Parish Church - Buffalo Grove, IL

    - 9 years 1 month

    I volunteered as a guitarist and singer for the ENSEMBLE contemporary worship band at St. Mary's in Buffalo Grove, IL

  • Musician

    St. Alphonsus Catholic Church - Wheeling, IL

    - 2 years 6 months

    I volunteered as a guitarist and singer for the ENSEMBLE contemporary worship band at St. Alphonsus Ligouri in Wheeling, IL.

Projects

  • Model N Upgrade to RMaaS

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    Provided Model N knowledge to the client and vendor teams, led major projects that interfaced with the new cloud application, and also led migrations of Databricks, Redshift, and ServiceNow during this time.

  • Model N Analytics Support - Gilead Sciences

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    Worked with Model N and Analytics teams to ensure accuracy and valuable metrics for Sales, Contracting and Revenue.

  • Model N RMaaS Application Support - Gilead Sciences

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    Lead a Model N RMaaS Support team at Gilead Sciences after the upgrade from v5.6. Working in the Accenture ASO, I lead a team of offshore resources, and triage solutions with Gilead, Model N and other vendors.

  • Model N 5.6 Upgrade / B.I. Implementation - Gilead Sciences

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    Upgrade Model N Revenue Management application with 9 modules from ver 5.2.2 to ver 5.6.2 for Gilead Sciences in California.

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  • Model N 5.6 Upgrade - Merck Pharmaceuticals

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    Participate as Model N administrator, test data preparer, test case preparer and problem solver for an upgrade to Model N 5.6 at Merck Pharmaceuticals in Pennsylvania.

  • Model N 5.4 Upgrade - Astellas Pharma US

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    Upgrade Model N Revenue Management application with 9 modules from Version 5.2.2 to Version 5.4.1 at Astellas Pharma US. Led the Model N Support team for 3 years after the Go-Live, reducing tickets 90% using the Lean Methodology, and participating in many releases and problem solving with the Model N team.

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  • Presentation at Model N Rainmaker Conference

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    Presented a seminar on "Automated Testing of Model N using QTP" at the Model N Rainmaker conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Using Quality Center, I co-presented with Stacy Varghese.

  • Presentations at the International Oracle Users Group Conferences

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    Presentations at IOUG conferences at Orlando, Denver, San Francisco, Toronto and Philadelphia
    LEADERSHIP presentation at Toronto in 2004 received the 2nd highest attendee score.
    Technical presentations: HTML via Oracle Web Server, EDI using HTMLDB, Database Tuning, and External Tables in Oracle.

  • Presentation at Oracle Openworld, Los Angeles

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    EDI Applications with Oracle Web Server to show functionality and technical prowess of a new Oracle technology.

Test Scores

  • Scaled Agile - SAFe 5 Practitioner Exam

    Score: 84%

  • EXIN - ITIL Foundations in Service Management

    Score: 93%

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