Dianne Fecteau is a consultant with more than 25 years of consulting experience in project management, training, and communication working with commercial, federal, state, and nonprofit organizations.
She has extensive experience as an Information Technology Project Manager and possesses
outstanding planning and communication skills.
Project Management
Dianne has a solid track record of successfully
managing financial and marketing projects, including Oracle applications and custom development
projects in large and small commercial and manufacturing organizations, utilities,
and associations. She has also taught Project Management at universities and in the workplace. She is experienced with and has taught courses in the use of the Microsoft Project™ Software and in the Oracle Project Software.
Some of her successful projects include:
Leading over a dozen projects for system-wide replacement of financial systems including GL, AP, AR, FA, OM, AR, Inventory, and Project Accounting, using Oracle applications 10.7 through 11i. Projects included Business Process Reengineering, customization, conversion, and interfaces and involved planning, tracking, client management, and issue resolution.
Developing an overall hardware and software modernization plan, including overseeing
vendor negotiations, monitoring and reporting against a project plan (MS Project), Business Process Reengineering, implementation of the Oracle financial applications, and design and implementation of a sales tracking system for two regional theater chains.
Requirements and design for a project accounting and billing system for a $640 million manufacturing company.
Introducing of Information Engineering, training and mentoring in-house development staff,
and managing the design and implementation of the database and applications for a federal contractor at a multi-billion dollar nuclear facility.
Redirecting a failing systems effort to collect $600 million in annual premiums and establishing database requirements (where a contractor team had failed) for a major participant processing system for a governmental pension organization.
Presentation and Writing Skills
Dianne Fecteau also has extensive experience in preparing many forms of written communication. Her products have included:
Strategic and Annual Plans
Status Reports
Requests For Proposals
Published Articles
Training Manuals
Publicity Materials
A dynamic communicator, she has presented workshops at major conferences, including the Oracle International Users Group, the North American Feldenkrais Annual Conference, and others.
She has also briefed high-level executives, presented workshops and classes in workplaces, and has taught classes, both online and on-the-ground in technical and management topics.
She has effectively established and maintained communication during major projects
and delivered consistent status reports highlighting accomplishments, planned tasks, and open issues.
She enjoys non-fiction writing and, in addition to having participated in numerous writing courses and writers' workshops, has published
articles.
Organizational Effectiveness
Dianne has facilitated teams in defining objectives for projects and in determining how best to work together to achieve those objectives in a variety of commercial organizations.
She has pioneered the use of cutting edge methods and technologies for companies
especially in the area of structured techniques and design methodologies.
In her online work as an educator, she has also helped teams resolve conflict.
She has experience in start-up businesses. Dianne launched the Oracle Federal Applications
consulting practice (from zero to 16 consultants in 8 months), and Feldenkrais Centers in Washington, DC and Florida.
Dianne's team-building perspective has been influenced by her participation in Outward Bound;
Qi gong, for which she is an Institute of Integral Qigong & Tai Chi (IIQTC)™ Certified Facilitator; and her work in the Feldenkrais Method™ as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practioner™.
Dianne has a Master's degree in Accounting (M.S.) from the University of Hartford and substantial, additional graduate-level course work in Information Technology.