Ralph Shields

Throughout my professional career, I have always focused on Enterprise Performance Management. My functional area responsibilities have traversed IT Development, Business and Applications Consulting, Software Presales Support, Budgeting & Planning and OLAP Sales Strategies, Training Development, Product Roll-out, Marketing, and Sales. BUSINESS / APPLICATIONS CONSULTING: I have led and been a team member on dozens of Enterprise Performance Management and Datawarehousing projects. SALES STRATEGIES: I have successfully developed and deployed Sales Strategies for two merging North American field sales organizations. PRODUCT ROLL-OUT: I have successfully launched new software products with cross-functional teams with representation from Sales, Marketing, Product Development, and Support. SALES / BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: I have opened new sales territories to successfully execute geographical and product line expansion objectives. Post acquisition, I have maintained customer relationships though advisory consulting and hands-on delivery of implementation services. Specialties: EPM / BPM / CPM / Budgeting / Consolidations / OLAP / Dashboards / EIS / DSS / Data and Application Integration