Darden Restaurants - Darden Restaurants, Inc. is the largest casual dining restaurant company in the world. It operates more than 1,200 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze and Smokey Bones restaurants in North America, leading each of its market segments and employing more than 122,000 people.

Executive consultant direct to client as project manager and system functionality expert to oversee a team of Arthur Andersen consultants contracted to implement the suite of Oracle Financials, Manufacturing and Project Accounting applications for the real estate development and finance divisions.  Successful client satisfaction through resolution to all solution delivery gaps deemed outside the project scope by Arthur Andersen – including automation of over 200 nightly processes.  Functional team lead and expert on the Oracle Projects application including all points of integration with Inventory, Mfg, PO, AP, Assets, HR, and GL.  Retained individually after the departure of the Arthur Andersen resources to implement the suite of Financial applications and Project Accounting - including an interface between MS Project and Oracle Projects - for an additional business unit:  the IT division. An assignment typically requiring a full team of consultants to execute.